How many languages do you speak?
By auburndreams
@auburndreams (838)
United States
December 11, 2006 6:51pm CST
I was just reading about a young man that already speaks 10 languages. And I got to thinking, how many languages do other people speak? This forum seems like a good place to ask, so here I go.
How many languages do you speak? Do you write them or can you have a conversation? Give yourself five stars if you speak them well enough to do a talk show and rate how good you are at each languange.
Sadly I can only put down English*****
AND Spanish*
I'd like to get better.
9 responses
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
15 Dec 06
I must be boring, as I can only speak one language, and that is English. But, I can say some sentences in Spanish and Jewish. But not anymore than that, just basic conversational questions.
@funfreak2k2 (1734)
• India
13 Dec 06
i can speak four languages. Urdu, telugu, hindi and english. Except Urdu, i am good at all the three in writing also.
@craftwave (1338)
• United States
12 Dec 06
English, some Spanish**, a bit of French and am learning some Vietmanese. My youngest married a vietmanese man who is now an American citizen.
@eventualist (819)
• Canada
13 Dec 06
Well, english is my first language so ***** for that one.
I also studied French in school, so I'm about a ** or *** at that one, not enough to be able to speak it so well, but I can understand most of what is going on when I'm reading it, and quite a bit from listening to in.
I've also done a lot of study into Japanese, and I'm probably at about ** or *** at that one as well if we are counting the speaking or listening of it. I can also read a bunch of the characters to know what the sound is, but not for understanding so well yet, I have a long ways to go for that part.
@yarntales (639)
• United States
12 Dec 06
Just one, English.
I took French in High School and my first year of college.
I wanted to be an interpreter. Unfortunately, I ended up transferring to a different college that only offered beginning French classes. So I had to change my major.
Now 20+ years later, I remember only a little French and less Spanish.