What languages do you speak?

[oro!]

Since I saw we have such a diverse forum with people from different countries I wondered this.
Me, I know some phrases from:Afrikaans, French, German, Japanese, Setswana, and Swahili.
I am reallly studyin' Spanish and can have an intelligent conversation in it on some things.
Of course, I know English the most, but a few things are very mysterious to me, like all those long words in the college dictionary. ]
I would like to hear what y'all know.

[CDLviking]

To varying degrees I know: English, Latin, American Sign Language, French, Spanish, and the little bit of Japanese that I've managed to pick up from anime and Kurosawa movies.

[JesusFreak84]

English, some Spanish, some German. Japaneese is beyond me.

[shooraijin]

Fluently, English and Spanish. Reading: German and (way down the list) a bit of French and Italian. I can handle some Japanese and even read a bit of kanji.

[Azier the Swordsman]

Aside from my native langauge of English, I'm making progress with learning Japanese.

The 漢字 (Kanji) are probably the funnest part, if not most challenging part of learning the language.

If you're looking for a great place to study Japanese, see my sig.

[PrincessZelda]

I speak some French...

[Debitt]

I speak English (obviously) and I'm also studying Japanese. I can hold my own if I want to watch unsubbed anime, but conversations overwhelm me.

[Kai Nobuyuki]

I speak Engilsh (go figure), Japanese, German, Russian (very little), some spanish, some French, a little Latin, I've written a love letter in Italian, Sign Language...and I'm planning on learning Gaelic and Arabic.

[EireWolf]

Entiendo un poquito de Espanol.

[panegryst]

I speak English and I am learning Japanese. I have a low conversational level.

[b0redx3]

english and chinese... i should know italian. <- but i'm not fluent. Takes me a while to answer back.. hahaha xD

[agasfas]

I took 2 1/2 yrs of spanish in middle school and didn't learn much. I know some phrases and can pick up on some conversations by picking out key words. But I am some what fluent in Sign language (a bit rusty but still know it). Beyond that, I dont know much more. But i want to learn Japanese.

[SManBeyond]

Obviously English.

While I would not say that I am fluent in Spanish, I have studied it for five years and can read it pretty well. I can't speak or understand other people speaking it extremely quickly, but I can do both when the rate is a slow one.

My parents both speak different Indian languages, but I only know a few words in each...yeah I'm a disgrace...

[uc pseudonym]

I'm afraid I'm hardly a philiologist. Self-evidently, I know English very well. Though I would not consider myself fluent in Spanish, I know it to the degree where I can hold a conversation with someone willing to speak slowly (or about very limited topics).

My household has a broad variety of languages, so I have picked up extremely minor amounts of French, German, Haitian and Japanese. These, however, are nothing but phrases; I don't know even the basics of verb conjugation.

[Golden_Griff]

Ahh, me hablo ingles mas que espanol. Pero se solo un poco de espanol. A veces, yo se hablar muy bueno. Soy una estudiante ahora. Estoy en mi segunda ano de estudios en espanol. Pero tengo que estudiar mucho...

...No se que escribo...

[ShiroiHikari]

hablo un poco de espanol...it's been a long time and I'm way out of practice.

nihongo ga sukoshi dekimasu. I'm still bad at creating my own sentences; word order other than the basic subject-object-verb eludes me. I can sing in Japanese better than I can speak it, haha.

I also know tidbits of French and Italian.

[Ashley]

Sum partim facio verbum in lingua latina.
[I can partially speak latin]

It's been a while and I was never the best at it, (mostly me translating the sentence word for word and then throwing the sentence into different combinations knowing one *had* to be right) but I was pretty good with the vocabulary and very invovled in high school. When I graduated I was the only one enrolled in latin 4 in the entire school, so that was pretty nifty.

Oddly enough, everyone thinks I'm catholic.

[agasfas]

Ahh, me hablo ingles mas que espanol. Pero se solo un poco de espanol. A veces, yo se hablar muy bueno. Soy una estudiante ahora. Estoy en mi segunda ano de estudios en espanol. Pero tengo que estudiar mucho...

All i got from reading this is that you speak english and something about liking to speak and learn spanish. Am i close or way off? See this is two years of spanish at work.

Oddly enough, everyone thinks I'm catholic.

everyone thinks your catholic because you know latin? that's odd, why is that?

Anyways back to the topic:
Latin has it's history. Latin is pretty cool and isn't true that most languages derived itself from latin orgins? Though i heard it's considered a "dead" language now. But i know it's used largely in the medical field. Also, whenever i see the kids in the spelling bee contests they always ask for the root and orgins of the word (usually latin).

Anyways i also know a few phrases/words of japanese. Not much, like maybe 7words. It's not enough to get around Japan, but at least it's something

[uc pseudonym]

All i got from reading this is that you speak english and something about liking to speak and learn spanish. Am i close or way off? See this is two years of spanish at work.

She said she speaks English more than Spanish. The second sentence I'm less sure about, it ends with single a little Spanish. Sometimes, she can speak very well. She is a student now. She is in her second year of Spanish Studies. But she has to study a lot...

...she doesn't know what she writes..

[HikariChan]

I speak Good English, Bad English, German, and i am curently learning japanese in school:P

[agasfas]

Ahh thanks for the translation uc pseudonym. As you can see i'm not the best at it

[Dante]

English and Japanese!

[Golden_Griff]

She said she speaks English more than Spanish. The second sentence I'm less sure about, it ends with single a little Spanish. Sometimes, she can speak very well. She is a student now. She is in her second year of Spanish Studies. But she has to study a lot...

...she doesn't know what she writes..

i Muy Bien Senor pseudonym!

In that second sentence I was trying to say that I speak a little bit of Spanish.

I took two years of Spanish in highschool but that doesn't really count since I know close to nothing from that time. I'm in my second year (or semester rather) of Spanish courses in college. I can read it very well, I can fairly speak it, but I have a really hard time listening to it. And when I write I get confused over sentence structure.

I want to learn other languages, especially Japanese and Sign Language.

Oh yeah, I know a little bit of Sim too

"Fwah fwah escargo eh dewy neenay..."

[Yojimbo]

I know some Spanish from 4 years of it, but I'm still not very good at speaking it. I would like to learn Arabic, Farsi, Korean, and Taiwanese for future reasons.

[agasfas]

Actually i also want to learn Korean. My grandfather about 1 1/2 ago was a pastor for a korean baptist church; at least the english service. Now he's retired. And all the Bibles were translated in both english and korean. I think the writing style looks really cool.
I really look up to my grandfather, he even refused getting paid to do it. He said was doing it for the love of God and the scripture.

[CDLviking]

Before I'm ordained (God willing) I'll have to go through a Spanish immersion program in Guatamala.

And I can understand why people would think you were Catholic Ashley. Even when I was at the Community College, most of my fellow students were Catholics. I guess other people usually don't see much of a point to it unless they're going into some scientific field.

[shooraijin]

> English and Japanese!

Pascal-san, doko de naraimashita ka?

[oro!]

Entiendo un poquito de Espanol.

A mi tambien.

[ThaKladd]

I speak Norwegian(Swedish and Danish too, thy are very alike), Finnish, English and German(not so good, but understand what I read at least)

[dareiq s'an]

Enlish and some espanol... I'm trying to learn burmese...