How many languages can you speak and what are they?

China
June 4, 2010 6:47am CST
I study English as my major in university. And my second languages are Japanese French and I teach myself a little bit Latin. So how many languages can you speak? And How do you study it.
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11 responses
• Spain
12 Jun 10
I am fluent in English, Spanish, and French. but I would love to learn more languages. a school could never teach you a language. If you want to become fluent in french go to Canada, Haiti, France... etc for about 6-12 months depending on your learning capability. you get a lot more from an environment that only speaks that language.
• United States
9 Jun 10
English is my first language. I can speak moderate Japanese, a little French, Mandarin, and German, almost no Spanish, and I'm trying to learn Korean and Finnish. I'll also be taking Latin for the first time in the fall. I'm excited to finally learn it! The class was initially offered by my college last year but was canceled due to low enrollment. Most of the languages I've learned/am learning have been taught to me in school. However, Korean and Finnish I've taken on myself since there are no places around here that teach them. I have some Finnish ancestry and would love to visit the country, so I really want to learn the language. It's probably the most difficult language for me since it's different than the Asian, Latin, and Germanic languages I'm used to.
@Alderica (100)
• Germany
5 Jun 10
My native language is English, but I speak German fluently as I have been living in Germany for 15 years. I also speak some French and Italian, and would like to be able to speak Russian. I'm hopeless at learning grammar and vocabulary though; I learn better if I hear the language being spoken and can pick it up colloquially.
4 Jun 10
My main language is English though I can speak pretty good Spanish from when I learnt it at school and then continued to teach myself after. Already I have started teaching my two year old a few spanish words! I learnt a little bit of German and French at school though not really enough to speak it or understand it well at all. I would love to learn Japanese though I never find the time to learn it these days
• United States
5 Jun 10
My main language is English. I've been speaking English since I was little. My second is Tagalog. My parents speak Ilocano and I can speak it enough to relay information. I can speak basic French and Spanish. I learned French for a year in high school and I took two trimesters of Spanish in college.
@hamid14 (79)
• Canada
4 Jun 10
I can speak English and Urdu, so I can speak 2 languages. Never studied Urdu, did study English, since it is drilled into our minds in Canada, USA and many other parts of the world. Urdu was more of a natural thing I learnt from people around me, mostly family of course.
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
4 Jun 10
Hi, fangshubin1986. Welcome to myLot! I can only speak English. I am very fluent in this language. I have been speaking it all of my life. I do know of a little bit of French but not a whole lot of it though. I have studied English from how I was taught it as I was growing up.
@kharlav (1669)
• Philippines
4 Jun 10
Aside from my native languages (Filipino and Cebuano)I can also speak English, since we use English in school since I was in the kindergarten. I also know a little Korean, because I am currently an English tutor to a Korean; and a little bit of Japanese since I have a Japanese blood and my relatives are in Japan.
• Philippines
4 Jun 10
I can speak Filipino and English quite fluently..I've been taught these languages since I was in nursery up to now..I also know a little Spanish, Latin, and Chinese..I studied Chinese for 6 years when I was in elementary; Spanish for 1 year when I in high school; and Latin for 1 year also when I was in high school..
@ronz30 (275)
• Philippines
4 Jun 10
Nei hao ma??? LOL ! I can speak a litlle bit in cantonese .. I have books of it ! I also know how to speak in English .. ofcourse ! haha .. and our language which is Filipino and I have one dialect which is Ilocano !! so possibly I have 4 languages ..
• Zimbabwe
4 Jun 10
I can speak Shona and English. I want to learn Ndebele which is a language spoken in the second largest city in Zimbabwe.