What languages do you speak?

Question

What language do you speak? ¿Cuales son los idiomas que hablas? I speak English and learn spanish, and you are probably the same; but do you speak any other languages?

• Great avatar, EJClaire! - mountaingirl Nov 15, 2009
• muchas gracias, me gusta los gatitos muy mucho :) - EJClaire Apr 20, 2010

Answer 1

I speak Texan, New Jersey, Brooklyn, Louisianan, Valley (Northern L.A. County) and a couple others. I almost speak Spanish too but I don't understand it all that well.

Answer 2

I have studied German, Arabic, Dari, Spanish and Scottish Gaelic. I haven't talked German in years, but I imagine with a little practice I could pick it back up. Spanish is the easiest and Gàidhlig is the funnest. I only took Aranbic and Dari because I had to. I had no interest in learning them. I did hold a conversation in Spanish the other night at work. I was suprised at how much I actually knew.

• Cool that you were able to use Spanish. - webdunce Nov 15, 2009
• I have never heard the word "funnest" - "funest" is in the dictionary but I have never heard that either. - ian-hill Apr 19, 2010
• I hear it a lot these days Ian. I would say 'funniest'! - galsally Apr 20, 2010
• Oh, but funnest actually mean 'most enjoyable' eh, not most funny! - galsally Apr 21, 2010

Answer 3

I can read Spanish, French and Italian. I can teach my martial arts class in Korean, and have a smattering of German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.

• Wow, that must involve a lot of hard work!!! - EJClaire Nov 16, 2009

Answer 4

Dutch is my native language, I speak advanced to fluent English, my French, German and Spanish are reasonable, I can understand some Greek and know how to read and pronounce it but have very little practise speaking it and can roughly understand Norwegian and can speak some Norwegian at beginners' level. I have bought self-study books for Mandarin but haven't had time to sit down and try it yet.

Answer 5

My native language is Slovak (or Slovakian?) but I also speak English (few years of learning). Ich kann auch Deutsch sprechen, aber nur ein bisschen! Y un poquito español. A domluvím se taky česky.

• hala - EJClaire Apr 21, 2010
• Hee hee! Me too! We could be language twins if you swapped Slovak for Irish - rabbitwho Mar 10, 2011

Answer 6

Hablo Inglés nativamente, español bastante bien, Vietnamita bastante para pedir comida, instruir taxistas, y coquetear con chicas

Tambien hablo un poco Francés (je n'aime pas parle francais, a mi es una idioma no muy versátil) y unas palabras de chino y coreano. O, tambien hablo unas palabaras de Catalan y voy a empezar estudiar ruso en una semana.

I speak English natively, Spanish well enough, Vietnamese well enough to order food, instruct taxi drivers, and flirt with girls

I also speak a little French (I don't like to speak French, IMO it is not a very versatile language) and a few words of Chinese and Korean. Oh, I also know a few words of Catalan and am going to start studying Russian in a week.

• Corregid mi espanol por favor! - Morethan3wor Apr 20, 2010
• Wonderful! - Fidalguinho Apr 23, 2010

Answer 7

I speak English, some French, "music" and "medicine". But all of my focus is on Spanish for now.

Answer 8

I'm English by birth and upbringing and I'm slowly learning to speak American although it hurts my brain. I lived in Argentina and in Chile for some years and was then fluent in Spanish; it comes back after a day or two in Spain. Apart from that I am rusty in French but given encouragement I can just about hold a conversation. Portuguese is perfectly readable although a tad more difficult to speak and understand. My German is a (bad) joke.

For the record may I recommend that you rephrase your original question, perhaps to "cuales son los idiomas que hablas?". My experience with Spanish speakers always showed a much more common use of "idioma" than "lengua". It's also very common in Spanish to leave out the pronoun and rely on the case of the verb to indicate who it is you're addressing.

Answer 9

Inglés, japonés, and a little bit of español.

Answer 10

Mi idioma nativa es ingles y hablo un poco esapnol tambien!!!

Answer 11

I know mainly English and Spanish, but i also know a little Italian, French, and German.

Answer 12

Swedish, English, Spanish. Had a go at Russian earlier today, bit tricky. I like language.

• Yo también. Me gustan las lenguas. - webdunce Nov 15, 2009
• I love how Russian sounds. - webdunce Nov 15, 2009

Answer 13

I speak fluent english. I will be lucky if I can become fluent in spanish. It takes alot of exposure to it.

Answer 14

Hablo inglés y español y - si estoy bien descansada y fuerte - algo de holandés...muy poquito...bastante para comunicarme con unos amigos holandeses que me perdonan los millones de errores!

Pero, tenemos que admitirlo, que no son las palabras de decimos, sino la manera de decirlas - el tono de voz, los gestos, la cara que ponemos, etc.

Answer 15

I speak Khmer (native), Thai (enough to understand films or news on TV but I never speak it), English and French (mon français est à peu près le même niveau que l'anglais, je dirais le niveau avancé ) Spanish I just start learning about 2 months, so I'm a complete beginner. I also used to learned Japanese about a year but It's too hard for me especially the Kanji caracters, It's a shame because I really love Japanese. Spanish is a lot easier compare to Japanese.