What other Languages do you know besides your native?

Enough French to buy a crepe in Paris, and a little Polish to buy a beer.

 

I've been trying to learn Japanese for a while. It's been on hold though...

 

My native language is Spanish, Sencondary English beisdes that I know a little of Japanese & Italian, the enought to survive

 

I've learned some Hindi from watching Bollywood movies over the years

 

That I speak fluently or have an understanding of?

French and Latin I've taken classes for, but I was one of those students after graduation that couldn't speak it very well, nor was I good at really writing it (Latin will be the death of you if you try it).

Broken wise, I know/understand a little bit of Spanish and Arabic. With context clues, Spanish is fine for me (Spanglish is common in my place now) and I know a few phrases and words in Arabic. None of it would really get me by if I spent a day in a place that spoke it, but a short conversation is something I might survive.

 

Let's put it this way: I have to slap myself every now and then to remember EC's monolingual policy.

I took both French and Spanish in my schooling at the secondary and university level. I really enjoy both of them. Finding outlets to speak French is not so easy. As far as Spanish goes, I could find someone to talk to every single day! I just spoke Spanish to someone in a restaurant this afternoon. I started in English and when I switched over to Spanish to make it easier for her, she sort of lit up.

I grew up in a multilingual household, so this sort of awareness was encouraged.

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Interesting. I'm surprised you said Spanish instead of Castilian. I was in Catalunya once and was speaking to a local couple when walking in a park near the port. The lady said that I spoke well. I thanked her and told her I had studied Spanish in the U.S. She didn't seem happy about that and mused "Espanol, Espanol, hmmm ... " Then, I understood what I had implied on a political level. I thought to myself, "Lady, be happy that I cared enough to learn a language you speak. Take it up with my university and all the others in the U.S. that the courses are all prefixed with SP for Spanish and not C* for Castilian."

Most people who learn Spanish in the U.S. speak standard South American Spanish and not continental Spanish.

 

My family speaks Chinese as a native language however I grew up in Canada so actually I'm most fluent in English, far more than Chinese

So I guess languages I use pretty well include English, Chinese-

I know bits and pieces of French too because I learned it for a few years

 

I have this problem too and I just say "I learned the Spanish from Venezuela and Puerto Rico, not Spain". And I'd be happy to chat with you in Spanish (not here though).

 

my native is english, i took french in middle school and failed (lol) now i'm taking latin. i know a little bit of german, i really want to get better at it once i'm done with latin this year.

 

My native language is Spanish, but I speak English better since I've lived in Canada most of my life. I'm also learning French in school.

 

If I just consider only English as my native, then I also know ASL (although I learned them both at the same time, so would they both be my native languages? idk).

 

1337 sp3@k.

 

I'm English and only know a tiny bit of German and Spanish

 

Body language

 

Native, Korean
Second, English
Third, Spanish

Almost perfectly bilingual in Korean and English. Korean is more of a family language to me, and English is reserved for school.

 

I can fluently speak Portuguese (my mom is Portuguese), and have a pretty good knowledge of Spanish and French.

 

Creole (fluently speak)
French (a little...still learning)
Spanish (like the basics)
English (my main)
One word in Chinese----> ko ni chi wa
XD (!)(!)

 

English almost on the same level as my native language.
Russian pretty well. Vocabulary is a bit empty since I haven't used that extensively for quite a few years now.
Had a year of French in university, but didn't learn enough to call myself competent.

 

My main language is English but I know a hint of German and Japanese(but I don't know a lot of those languages) better at German than Japanese as I failed Japanese in High school.