What other languages, if any, do people here speak?
Just out of curiousity really, wondered if people knew other languages or had tried to learn them previously before coming to Spanish.
I tried to learn Russian before, but was quite hard because I was trying to teach myself and didn't have the kind of support Spanishdict provides. Only came to Spanish because I still wanted to learn a language and my Uni didn't offer Russian as an elective option. I'm really glad I was sent towards it!
What about everyone else?
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Yo soy de Polonia y ahora estoy estudiando íngles, español, alemán y latino. Estudiar 4 idiomas es muy difícil para mi pero me gusta 
So, I guess you might as well hear from someone else. I speak English, French, and Spanish. USA Midwest English is my native language. French was my first love (never clicked with the many years of Latin), but Spanish was the first one I studied. So I say that I am fluent only in English (the only language in which I can conceptualise the phrase: I need a torque wrench to tighten the brake spanners), and dare to babble on in French and Spanish with native speakers knowing they are laughing a little at my usage.
Thanks for asking the question.
Merci pour poser le question.
Gracias por la pregunta.
Well, I have to admit I began taking Spanish lessons a little before French lessons at the age of 10. French came soon after. I was first taught Spanish by a native from Barcelona but my French was taught by native English people.
I have learnt some Brazilian Portuguese with a native speaker from Sao Paolo, Brazil who used to be the Youth Pastor of our church in England. Where possible I would recommend using native speakers especially if you desire to develop an authentic/a credible accent like a native.Non-native teachers seem to be just as good, and sometimes better at teaching the grammar but when it comes to knowing the current idioms and pronouncing the words with a Spanish or Mexican accent for example I would say you are usually better off learning with a native speaker.I am also slowly developing my ability to speak Italian but am only at beginners level..
I use various websites to develop my language skills Spanish Dict still has the best community atmosphere around today where people support each other through troubled times, celebrate successes and truly value people as individuals and while much of that is obviously due to teamwork, Heidi and her capable team of administartors should take credit for their part in encouraging this 
Other websites include Busuu.com, Live Mocha, and loMas TV which is good for listening to natives speak Spanish on videos recordings at different speeds with subtitles. Yabla.com provides a similar service in French. Many of our SpanishDict members are fluently bilingual eg Heidi and Julian and Gekkosan while others speak several languages to diffferent levels of ability eg Pesta, Izan and Samdie.There are many others who do so, of course; these are just a few of them.
I am currently developing my skills in Spanish and French. I usually help a girl from Seville with her English and she helps me with my Spanish She lives locally but is on holiday now. A lady who I know from church is helping me with my French. She has a degree in French and is married to a native French man.. I have regular chats with her husband in French.
Thank you for this question. Thanks to Jubilado, it has opened up a new world to me. That of brake spanners. There I was, thinking myself bilingual in Swedish and English... Now I find I have no idea how to translate 'brake spanner' from one to the other. I understand it's some kind of spanner , to do with brakes, or maybe a spanner to slow down another spanner.. Do spanners go that fast? It's most interesting, I have missed a lot in my life and cleary I'm non -lingual in this matter. I'm also lost for this word in Spanish: "llave inglésa para los frenos?' or in French ( ¿clé a molette pour les freines? , a language I find understandable, but very difficult to write in, even before we appoach the spanners. As for German, I don't even remember enough to get started and Italian I started so recently I decided to abandon it due to further verb-endings fluttering around in my mind at night, like bats. Gfreed will very soon post an excellent link telling us all about brake spanners. I won't read it, I shall send for a mechanico, or his equivalent, in whatever language.
I grew up speaking Hungarian at home, and living in the USA, speaking English everywhere else. These were the last two languages I learned that took no effort on my part (I was very young).
I studied Spanish in high school and forgot most of it. I studied German in college and gained a beginner's level. I forgot much of that, but not all. I studied Italian on my own to prepare to visit Italy, and reached a survival-level proficiency.
Now that I'm planning much more travel in Latin-American countries, I've been back to Spanish for about two years now, much helped by this great website and its members. It's the first time my language study is really fun.
I speak Thai and know a little bit in mandarin Chinese
I know English and Korean, speaking, reading, listening, and writing them both fluently. I have no particular "accent" that non-native speakers are supposed to have because I've put in hours and hours of time correcting it. ^-^
Now I'm studying Spanish, but I'm not so great at it.... yet. However, I'm quite determined to improve and later make a contribution to this wonderful site in the near future. I also know minimal Japanese, but not enough to actually communicate fluently.
So... in sum I would say I know 2 1/2+1/2 languages. XD
Y ustedes?
I also speak Japanese, and after learning that, Spanish is a piece of cake. I also took a semester of French in college, but it was somehow obliterated from my mind and I could now not have a conversation past, "Je m'appelle"... Funny how that happens.
Someday I'd like to live in a Spanish speaking country to really improve at the language. I've realized slowly that you'll never actually speak a language until you really go about speaking it!
And if I were to decide to study another language, it would probably be Russian, or maybe French, Italian, or Portuguese. Or maybe all of them... Languages are fun! 
I can only manage to learn one at a time...and I chose Spanish. 
My mother tongue is Mandarin Chinese, and I speak the Chinese dialect of Hokkien as well. The business language in my country is English and I speak that too.
Spanish is the first foreign language I am trying to develop fluency in.
In the past I have picked up simple words like salutations, numbers, hi and bye, in many languages (Japanese, Korean, Malay, Tagalog, Cantonese, Thai) but the effort doesn't seem to propagate into the desire to learn it thoroughly.
I took french for 4 years in elementary school and am currently taing Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish....I love languages....I am hoping to start back with french next year when I will be a freshman in highscool...
I can speak a bit of Korean. I live here!
I have studied English, German, and Spanish, but I can't speak any of them very well. I am trying to concentrate on Spanish now. I gave up on English long ago.
I have studied English and German! Now I am trying to learn Spanish! Maybe I will start studying another language too...Maybe Portuguese... And of course I know how to speak Greek!! It's my mother tongue! Oh, and in school I studied Latin and Ancient Greek, but I am not sure they count!
I was born in Argentina so my first language was Spanish then I moved to Nice where I learnt French. I learnt Italian at home in Nice due to my brother wanting to teach me before the big family reunion in Trentino. When I turned 8 yrs old I was moved to an aunt in Pretoria, South Africa where I was taught Afrikaans. About 6 months later I decided to learn Greek at school. My teacher would tell me I'm trying to move too fast with my Greek and said I'd fail if I didn't slow down but she was wrong and I learnt so fast that I knew the whole language in 7 months. When I was about 10 I moved to New Zealand where it was inevitable that I'd learn English according to my brother but I found that there was another language which was native to the country and dare to its people and so I learnt it - its Maori. While learning Maori I realized that languages from the pacific islands were very similar to theirs so I learnt Samoan, Rarotongan, Tongan and Hawaiian Eventually my brother decided to go 'total immersion' on me and sent me to Ireland to a cousin who was an English teacher but I learnt Gaelic instead (haha) I've only just become confident in my English as I'm only 18 and I have been learning for 3 years. I'm also trying to learn Russian as my partner happens to be from Russia.
