What other languages do you speak?

[Zwhaler]

I was rather surprised when a search for this subject resulted in nothing. Since, as a few of you may know, I am currently in Mexico studying Spanish, I thought it would be cool if I made a poll about what other languages the folks here at MacRumors speak. When I say speak, you don't have to speak fluently, but just enough so you could get by in the country in which the language is spoken. Also, I picked the top 20 most popular languages in the world, so if your second language is not up there, I apologize, please vote in the "other" category. And of course if you don't speak a second language, that option is there as well. I would make the poll public, except I figured if you speak another language and want everyone to know, you can post.

I think that it is safe to say that I can speak Spanish; I don't know a ton of spanish but I can carry on a conversation quite well in a few tenses. Have at it!

 

[christopher3071]

Spanish, working on Italian and Cocoa

 

[ArmyKnight12]

I'm taking Arabic now but it's not going well.

 

[Mammoth]

Swedish, and I'm learning Mandarin. (Still learning Swedish but I'm quite good)

 

[TEG]

As an American, I speak American/Canadian.

However, I also can speak;

English
Español - Spanish (usually with Spanish pronunciations, but when I think about it I will do Mexican pronunciations.)
Françias - French
Deutsch - German
日本語 - Japanese
'Ōlelo Hawai‘i - Hawai'ian
tlhIngan Hol - Klingon

TEG

 

[Zwhaler]

The poll is up Shoot, I should have put Hawaiian and Swedish there, but it is too late. Finnish too! Ahh...

 

[kretzy]

I had to choose 'other', because Ukrainian wasn't an option, its pretty similar to Russian though. I also did German all through high school but that's not so good anymore after not speaking it for 2+ years.

 

[aethelbert]

English, German, Portugese, Hawaiian, and Spanish. I lived in Hawaii as a kid, learned Spanish in High school which allowed me to quickly pick up Portugese, and I had to learn German to work for Lufthansa.

 

[jb60606]

Where's "ebonics"

 

[WildCowboy]

Just wanted to link to recent previous discussion on this topic, but I'll leave this one open since it has a nice poll.

 

[CalBoy]

I felt the poll didn't fully address me because it assumes that we can only be bilingual. Suppose you know 3 languages?

Nonetheless, I chose French because it's the one I can communicate the next best in after English.

Apprenez le français et vous allez savoir la langue d'amour.

 

[riscy]

In order of fluency:
French
Italian
Spanish
Chinese
Russian

 

[Abstract]

Some of you are really smart.

Where's "ebonics"

Yeah, that's me. I'm also Hooked On Phonics.

 

[sysiphus]

French, Danish.

 

[c-Row]

I think the "None - I only speak english" option should be slightly changed to "English" only to include those who don't speak english as their native but secondary (or whatever) language.

Oh, and - german, english, french.

 

[Kamera RAWr]

I have dabbled in quite a few languages as I'm quite the language buff. I've studied everything from Spanish, German, Arabic, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Russian, Georgian, Hindi, Punjabi to Vietnamese (probably forgetting a few too). To be perfectly honest, I don't speak much of those anymore because with so much work and so little practice it goes away, not that I spoke much of a few of those to begin with. I'd love to get back to it though, I miss it immensely.

As far as languages that I can currently reasonably communicate in, the are (listed by ability): English, German, Spanish, Arabic, Icelandic.

 

[DeSnousa]

Portuguese is the language of my family, and I've studied French for 2 years now

I also can understand Spanish to some degree but can't speak it, plan to in the future though.

 

[Ish]

I ticked other because I've been learning Turkish for a while, though I don't get any practice now. I can talk with people but can't pick out very much when native speakers talk to each other, it's much too fast.

Oh, and I can swear in Icelandic; does that count?

 

[doubleohseven]

I can speak Italian, and that's about it.

I would love to learn to speak Japanese- it sounds cool!

 

[ricky90]

Portuguese, since I'm Brazilian, also I can understand Spanish, can't speak fluently though...

But I wanna learn a new language, i don't know which one yet, maybe french or german...

 

[whooleytoo]

(Apart from English), Irish and Spanish and iffy French, learning Portuguese & Polish, just starting Italian.

Waaay, waaay down the road I'm hoping to learn Mandarin and Arabic.

 

[Melrose]

I have a familiarity with German, but not a second language in any sense.

I speak British English, American English, and Canadian English. Very fluent in each, eh.

When I was little I actually asked my parents what country they spoke pig latin in... kids are so naive...

 

[heehee]

I speak Chinese, I was born in Hong Kong.

 

[iSamurai]

Hello
你好
Bonjour
Guten Tag
Goeie Dag
こんにちは

Now let's keep it in English.
Hello all. If you want me to speak American English, that's fine (although I really find US grammar shocking), and I keep my English and grammar British. I can do Aussi English as well, mate.

btw, American English is probably one of the biggest oxymorons out there.

I speak fluent Chinese and English, intermediate French, German and Afrikaans.

Afrikaans is 'n taal wat mens in Suid Afrika praat.

There's also Japanese which I'd like to learn a few phrases.

 

[Karstan]

English, Spanish, and I am currently learning French (which for some reason I can't get the proper pronunciation)

Next on my list is Italian...maybe in 20 years!