How many languages do you speak ?

[Mikey]

I can understand why most American's only speak English.

We really don't need to speak anything else because our neighbors and most of our allies speak English.

For most non English countries speaking English is a benefit ...

For English speaking countries speaking another language is more of a hobby.

I'm guessing because we all basically live in our own little world called the Anglosphere.

I dunno .... just thinking out loud

[Gorn Captain]

When my buddy and I are together, our wives say we speak "toy".
We're going on about 1/6, articulation, retro cloth, MOC, and they can't understand a word we're saying...

[Shanester]

I speak English and French (my two oldest sons have dual citizenship), Jive and a little German.

[Mikey]

Back in the 1900's my family came from Galicia Austria-Hungary

They spoke a weird mix of Polish and Ukrainian

Not even sure if it's an official language today

[Bruce Banner]

Spent a few years in Quebec as a small child and was starting to become pretty fluent in French, but then we moved to Ontario and I forgot most of it as I grew older.

But I can still read the dual language boxes on my Kenner Canada SW toys.

[Rallygirl]

Ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch. Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht, aber verstehe Ich Deutsch weil Deutsche Leute sprecht langsam. Sprechst du schnell und verstehe ich nichts...

German is much harder IMO. The grammar is really tough (and archaic). That's why I prefer more user-friendly languages.
There are many Flemish dialects as well. Drive 30 miles to the West (from Ghent to Bruges), and somebody will be speaking a dialect you'll have a hard time understanding.

All of my great grandparents and some of my grandparents spoke Dutch, and all spoke varying dialects of Dutch. Because of that and the genealogy research that I do which crosses Dutch and German borders, I can read quite a bit of both, and get the general gist when both are spoken. I get that basic drift above that he can speak German, but poorly. He understands it when spoken slowly? but speak too fast and he doesn't understand. Right? I think I could carry on a basic conversation much better in German than in Dutch. It is funny, I know more German vocabulary and grammar, but have an easier time vocalizing Dutch,...maybe because I live in a community of folks where almost everyone has a Dutch surnames like Kornoelje, Groenewoude, Jongekrijg, Matthysse, Ouderslijs, Vanaanaholde, VanderKoij, VanEenenaam, Vanstaaldijnen and more. Then there are the names like Nagelhout, which requires an extra special amount of phlegm to pronounce correctly. LOL Don't worry, we balance it all out with lots of Mulders and Jansens.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Does the language of "love" count?

English only, I have to say now. Back in school, I took 7 years worth of Spanish, but just never kept up after College. These days, if someone is speaking, I can recognize the sounds, but my mind, just doesn't do that "instant flip" anymore - where you know the meaning and you do not have to think about it. I took a year of Russian in my Sr. year, but that is all completely gone now. Amazing what 20+ years of inactivity will do

[alex]

Just polish for me.

Good joke here

What do U call a person who speaks 2 languages ? - Bilingual

What do U call a person who speaks 3 languages ? - Trilingual


and what do U call a person who speaks one language ?-------------------------------------- English

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

English, I can get by in Japanese, I can hear French but my pronunciation is horrible. I used to be able to get by in Hindi, but I don't remember so much any more. (It's been 10 years since I last spoke it.) If I have my notebook I can kinda read Egyptian Heiroglyphs too. (I don't remember all the particles and determinants.)

Don C.

[Gorn Captain]

Is Dutch and German almost the same ?

I know they're both "Germanic" .... but so is German and English but they're totally different

German is much harder IMO. The grammar is really tough (and archaic). That's why I prefer more user-friendly languages.
There are many Flemish dialects as well. Drive 30 miles to the West (from Ghent to Bruges), and somebody will be speaking a dialect you'll have a hard time understanding.

[Cosmicman]

English, German & I'm currently studying Italian.

[Merlyn1976]

English and some sign language...only picked that up because my sister went to school to be a sign language interrupter...

[Brad]

English and some Hebrew.

[Mikey]

Same here...

Is Dutch and German almost the same ?

I know they're both "Germanic" .... but so is German and English but they're totally different

[Gorn Captain]

Dutch, French, English and a bit of German and Spanish

Same here...