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How many languages do you speak?

Asked by robdamel (791points) December 13th, 2011

I’m looking for a spanish speaker to exchange e-mails, like a penpal. I am interested in practicing my spanish!

I speak portuguese fluently if anyone is interested in practicing portuguese.

PM if you are interested in simply exchanging emails in spanish!

How many languages do you speak?

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janbb's avatar

English, some French, a little Yiddish and a little Hebrew

JLeslie's avatar

Two. English and Spanish. My Spanish is good not great.

Ayesha's avatar

3½ languages.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

Two: English and Russian

Keep_on_running's avatar

One. I’ve found learning another language to be way too difficult and time consuming. Others may disagree.

tedd's avatar

Fluently? One, english (of the American variety).

I could muddle my way through in German if need be.

lemming's avatar

English and I’m learning French.

Facade's avatar

Just one, and I can’t even roll my Rs. Thanks, America… Oh, I speak a little French.

disenchanted_poisongirl's avatar

Greek, English, German, and I’m also trying to learn Finnish

bob_'s avatar

Spanish, English, Italian and a very rusty German.

CaptainHarley's avatar

4… English [ native tongue ], Vietnamese, Spanish, Japanese [ very rusty now ]

Mamradpivo's avatar

Mother tongue is English. I speak rather proficient French: I can conduct business, travel with no problem and hold pretty involved conversations, though I am by no means fluent. And I’m learning Dutch.
So far I’m ‘business-proficient,’ which means I can do a lot of things on a business level, but I have no social Dutch. Talking about the weather scares me, but I can handle shipment information. I’m terrified to order a sandwich (broodje) because I don’t know enough food terms. But I’m learning every single day and making a lot of progress.
As a corollary, als iemand met mij oefenen Nederlands wilt, stuur mij een bericht!

linguaphile's avatar

English and I’m fluent in American Sign Language and am learning British Sign Language right now. I also know a few phrases from Japanese, Italian and Russian Sign Languages and can have a basic conversation with Mexican and Puerto Rican Sign Language users. I can read and write basic spoken Spanish.

For those that aren’t aware, the sign language version of each language does not follow the spoken version; they’re independent languages. Also American and British sign languages not the same at all; they are not even a dialect of each other.

CaptainHarley's avatar

Actually, I speak every language except Greek. Ask me to speak something in a language.

prasad's avatar

Three.
Marathi, Hindi, English.
If you say only speak, then “Urdu” also, because Urdu and Hindi are almost same when spoken, but quite disparate in writing.
I studied Sanskrit, but have forgotten most of it. Learned German for a month or so. Very little “Kannada” as it is a neighboring state.

the_overthinker's avatar

One plus half, and half…. You figure it out.

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