How many languages can you speak?

How many languages can you speak?

Deliberately awkward.

I can speak English but also learned German to AS level and French to A-level standard. Since that is a few years ago now I don't speak them that well anymore. I've practically forgotten German but since I go to France now and again, I remember a fair bit.

On balance, my answer would be that I speak 1.83 languages.

Deliberately awkwared - I can speak English. My Korean needs a bit working on, but I can understand most things. Japanese is something I'm learning easily. Its those damn kanji that kills me.

Basically you should only vote for a whole number if you can speak one or multiple languages flawlessly. I don't expect many here to be able to do that.

I think the whole poll is a sham because no-one really thought this through until the poll was posted and thus we have a poll that represents multiple options that don't suit anyone and doesn't take into account that there is a very happy middle ground that keeps everyone happy (more or less).

That middle ground should be a facility to take into account languages that are partially spoken.



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You're right, I also forgot to take into account those nations that pretend to have English as their national language. Yes, I'm looking at you Australia. Though not USA because they might be listening.:ph34r:

So basically you're saying that there should be a 0.25 option for Aussies :unsure:

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Originally Posted by MCHeshPants420

You're right, I also forgot to take into account those nations that pretend to have English as their national language. Yes, I'm looking at you Australia. Though not USA because they might be listening.:ph34r:

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*blatant fishing rod* :P
I use the Oxford concise for me engerlish, have a smattering of high school French and can even remember a bit of sign language.

I've gone for the awkward option as well because of the point manker raised.
There is a saying that applies.... a jack of all trades but master of none.

I can get by in French, German, and a my Spanish is being worked on. I have smatterings in several other languages but not conversational standards....able to order food, drink or look for hotels etc. (tourist guide phrases almost).
The biggest problem I have apart from local dialects, accents and the speed at which people talk is using the correct order the words should "in sentence be a"

I only voted one, cause even though I understand a lot of spanish, I cannot speak any of it properly..... well with that in mind, maybe I should have voted 0 because even my English isn't considered proper :blink:

You can go around the entire world and feel safe to know that
toilet graffitti is the same as is men to men talks about women
*points*
*thumbs up*

love, greed, pain, anger etc etc has no "borders"
and a smile is understood by all

French (of course), English (with a thick french accent), German (with a thick French accent) and a bit of spanish (with a thick French accent and a dictionary). :01:

I cant even speak English. :lol:
The only place I have heard English spoken is in Inverness. Most other places in the UK, English is spoken with an accent you could cut with a knife. :)

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(with a thick French accent) and a bit of spanish (with a thick French accent and a dictionary).

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@ Guillaume, If you take the dictionary out off your mouth maybe you could speak fluent Spanish. :) I was going to make another comment but Entente Cordiale and all that. :lol: :lol:

I believe in doing one thing, but doing it well.

Sorry .... meant to say .... awkward answer + explainaition.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

I believe in doing one thing, but doing it well.

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You do excel at being dull :rolleyes:

9 years of taking french in school and still i can only speak english.

English
Portuguese
French
Spanish
German

^ All I need in this well, untill I decided to go on vacation further then my hometown.

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Originally Posted by rossco

9 years of taking french in school and still i can only speak english.

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Wow. :lol:

I can speak English and Armenian. I took a semister of Spanish, failed it, and quit. :lookaroun

English

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Originally Posted by vidcc

You do excel at being dull :rolleyes:

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Only in English, unlike yourself.

I only speak English fluently. I used to speak French, but years of not using it have left me rusty at it. I also speak a fair bit of Polish, to be able to converse with my grandmother, as she rarely speaks English anymore, but it's more a half Polish, half English butchering, with lots of gesturing to get the point across.

English - primarily

French, because i have to learn a foreign language at my highschool.

3

English (kinda)
Norfolk bumpkin
Fisherman

:01:

Jonno :cool:

does geordie and english count as two? lol

i can speak english, macedonian, croatian, serbian, greek, russian, bulgarian
thats 7....some are similar others i have learnt from spending some time in each of the countries

and atm., learning french and italian....would be great to know 10 languages...but u have to keep practising otherwise they will disappear very quickly

English, French, and some Spanish.

english, french, hindi

english only speak can i

Two. German and English.

Two,

Norwegian and English.

I have my errors I'm sure, but I can certainly hold a conversation and understand most written english.

I speak English and sign sign language.. or do I also speak sign? :unsure:

I can sort of speak/understand English, as a 2nd language.. :unsure:

I can also understand quite a lot of spoken Swedish/Norwegian, if they speak slowly... as most of the Geordie Dielect originates in Scandinavia :ph34r:

Two English and French ,I know alot of swear words in Chinese tho does that count as three ?




Edit : Can't spell worth a shit in either , but I get my point across . :)

I can speak finnish,english,swedish and a little german. :)

only one: english
but i wan't to learn spanish

2 languages'. English is my second but i speak it better than my first

Dutch (100%)
German / English fluently and understandable for a pretty good conversation. To speak is a lot more easy as write (85%)
I can make conversations in french... but it's not the best, good enough for my work tough (60%)

Italian, Spanish are not enough to make great conversations but enough to survive the holidays (30% or so)

isnt dutch german?

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Originally Posted by twisterX

isnt dutch german?

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:lookaroun

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Originally Posted by twisterX

isnt dutch german?

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Depends on how much you've had to drink. Please tell me this is a roddage attempt. :blink: