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What language are you very fluent at other than English?

Asked by illusionslies (586points) November 5th, 2013

Like, totally fluent.

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Smitha's avatar

Malayalam, Hindi,Tamil.

ragingloli's avatar

German. I wonder why.

muppetish's avatar

None. I studied French at university and Spanish in high school, but I would not even label myself as intermediate in either language (though my French is WAY better than my Spanish and I technically took and passed Intermediate French Literature..)

Valerie111's avatar

None but I would love to speak fluently in Spanish and Italian.

whitenoise's avatar

Dutch and German.

However… I admit that is cheating, since German is actually just a dialect of Dutch.

flip86's avatar

Klingon.

ragingloli's avatar

@whitenoise
Nonsense, Dutch is just bad German.

whitenoise's avatar

@ragingloli

Are you not confusing language with football? ;-)

‘Bad German’ is a tautology ;-)

Seek's avatar

I’m loving this German/Dutch exchange!

Nothing really, unless you count pig latin.

I’ve got about a kindergartener’s vocabulary in American Sign Language. I took three years of high school Spanish which allows me to read basic Spanish, but understanding the spoken language is beyond my ability. It’s just about enough to get by comfortably as a tourist.

I know some Elvish, too – Quenya and Sindarin – but they aren’t anything close to complete languages as far as vocabulary, and the grammar isn’t particularly standardised.

Pachy's avatar

Like, cat talk.

Rickomg's avatar

American Sign Language

thorninmud's avatar

My French was very good, having lived and worked there for many years, but I’ve had little occasion to use it in the 20+ years I’ve been back in the States. I had assumed that whatever fluency I once had was now gone, but we recently had a French house guest and I was surprised to discover that it’s actually all still there. My mouth was the bottleneck; I had lost a little of the tongue and lip agility, so my mouth had a hard time keeping up with my mental language formation.

BerlinRose's avatar

Just German. Wish to speak English fluently.

I learned english and french at school, lived in Mexico when I was a kid, but don’t speak a word of spanish. Lol.
I’m now living in England, but we’ll go back to Germany in summer.
I don’t know if I’ll go back to England when I’m ready with school, maybe, maybe not. But if I do, I’ll probably speak English and German fluently :)

And I cannot speak or understand dutch, so I don’t think it’s a dialect…

hearkat's avatar

None. I have taken classes in French, German and American Sign Language, and been exposed to Swiss-German from birth; but I have never been good at using language and I wish that I were multilingual. Oddly, I have a good ear for accents and pronunciation, it is the language aspect that hinders me.

janbb's avatar

Not fluent but I have some knowledge of French.

longgone's avatar

German, and sadly, that’s it.

@BerlinRose Your English is very good, considering you’re only 15. @ragingloli and @whitenoise were joking. @whitenoise, at least. I don’t think Loli ever jokes.

ragingloli's avatar

Of course I never joke. I am German.

Kropotkin's avatar

Polish—and I’m nervous with all these Germans here.

janbb's avatar

@ragingloli was finally funny!

Cupcake's avatar

I meow at my cats pretty well.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Still learning “Southern”, I have the drawl right for some of the southern US states but not all.

Dr_Lawrence's avatar

My French is very strong, having grown up and worked in Quebec. My maternal family lineage all spoke French before they spoke English. Living where I do in Western Canada, my opportunities to use that language are very limited.

whitenoise's avatar

@ragingloli

One more of these ‘jokes’ and we will have to take your passport.

Blondesjon's avatar

@illusionslies . . . I’m flattered and maybe even a little curious but I have a loving wife and three beautiful children here at home.

yankeetooter's avatar

Java, C++...

Skylight's avatar

I could get by in Paris. However, I would have to say the language I am most fluent in, is the language of looooooooove.

bob_'s avatar

Español e italiano.

mattbrowne's avatar

Pascal, Lisp and C++.

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