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Basel_CH
April 29th, 2006, 10:36 AM
German
Swiss German (native language)
English
French
Swedish (a little bit), men jag älskar svenska!! :-)

Slodi
April 29th, 2006, 07:35 PM
Polish - native, English - business, Spanish - pleasure

gigi28
May 4th, 2006, 06:24 PM
English
Russian
Polish
German

Emirati_Girl
May 4th, 2006, 07:05 PM
Arabic
English..

cladiv
May 4th, 2006, 08:02 PM
English
Italian
French
Geman

Plus can understand spanish and know some basic chinese

pavle051
May 4th, 2006, 08:13 PM
I can speak: serbian (my native language), croatian & english ... and I can understand most of other slavic languages, while I'm still learning german.

Kuwait4Ever
May 4th, 2006, 10:21 PM
Arabic(native)
English(Fluent)
German,French,Polish(understand)

Liwwadden
May 4th, 2006, 11:15 PM
Dutch, English, and a bit French, German & Frisian

Kurdistani
May 5th, 2006, 12:59 AM
Kurdish & English :)

lennart
May 8th, 2006, 06:15 PM
Fluent:
Swedish (native)
English

Understands:
Norweigian
Danish
French
Spanish

Sergei
May 8th, 2006, 06:37 PM
Native: Russian
Fluent: Ukrainian, English, French

I also know a bit of German, and can understand and read Polish.

Modernization
May 9th, 2006, 05:27 AM
Fluent: Vietnamese and English
Intermediate: Mandarine, Japanese, some Taiwanese
a little bit of Spanish

Æsahættr
May 9th, 2006, 05:30 AM
Native: English, Visayan
Intermediate: Tagalog, French, and 閩南語

Pourqoi? Tu vas dans la fille...
Pourqoi? Tu parles mon prof...
Pourqoi? Tu etudies en Vandredi...
I swear I heard a song that said those exact lyrics somehwere

Modernization
May 9th, 2006, 05:35 AM
Native: English, Visayan
Intermediate: Tagalog, French, and 閩南語

Pourqoi? Tu vas dans la fille...
Pourqoi? Tu parles mon prof...
Pourqoi? Tu etudies en Vandredi...
I swear I heard a song that said those exact lyrics somehwere
What country speaks Tagalog and Visayan?

-Corey-
May 9th, 2006, 06:47 AM
I can speak and write Spanish and English
Yo puedo hablar y escribir espanol e ingles

Culiat
May 9th, 2006, 06:49 AM
What country speaks Tagalog and Visayan?
the Philippines

grzes
May 10th, 2006, 04:32 AM
Fluent : English
Well known : French, Polish (can read and speak, but am horrible at writing)
Learning : German, possibly Turkish

Novak
May 10th, 2006, 08:40 PM
Native: Finnish
Fluent: English, Swedish, German
Learning: French

eastman
May 10th, 2006, 09:00 PM
Native: Turkish
Fluent: English, German
Beginner: Spanish

canada_poland
May 16th, 2006, 05:18 AM
Native: Polish, French
Fluent:English
Want: Spanish, maybe German, Chineese;)
(I'm only 14:D)

porcelain
May 16th, 2006, 12:11 PM
Lithuanian
Polish
Russian
English
German

PanaManiac
May 17th, 2006, 02:28 AM
Spanish/English with a limited vocabulary in the following languages:

Portuguese
French
Italian
Russian
Mandarin
Arameic (Just kiddin', Mel) :hahaha:
Latin

Danish_guy
May 21st, 2006, 12:11 AM
mothertongue:
Danish

Fluent:
English
German

I understand and speak a few words in:
Spanish
French
Italian

Edit: thinking about studing spanish... and im only 15 so lots of time to learn more:)

DonQui
May 21st, 2006, 12:28 AM
Mother tongue: English

Mostly Fluent: Spanish

Steadily decreasing fluency in French. :gaah:

DrJoe
May 21st, 2006, 12:36 AM
I speak English et Francais tres faible (was that right? lol)

Satsi
May 23rd, 2006, 06:40 AM
Arameic (Just kiddin', Mel) :hahaha:Where you making mocking reference to the language spoken by the characters in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ?

PanaManiac
May 23rd, 2006, 07:24 AM
Where you making mocking reference to the language spoken by the characters in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ?Ahh, yes. You should be on Jeopardy!

Kashmiri84
May 23rd, 2006, 07:30 AM
Kashmiri, English, Arabic, some French, some Urdu, some Farsi

VIRUS
May 27th, 2006, 12:42 AM
Mother tongue- Spanish ( español)

English - Because school, SSC, i can read, write and understand it.

Portuguese - I can read to some extend, as long as is similar to spanish.

That's all... in this part of the world you just listen english or spanish...

Kurd_Kerkûkî
May 29th, 2006, 05:52 PM
Kurdish 100%
Dutch 99%
English 75%
German 70%
French 50%
Arabic 10%

Kurd_Kerkûkî
May 29th, 2006, 05:52 PM
Kashmiri,

Kashmiri isn't the same as Pakistani, is it?

ricz
May 30th, 2006, 01:49 AM
OMG!!! everyone is so multi-lingual

me:
mothertouge: Cantonese/ English
fluent: Mandarin, French
moderately: German, spanish

Verso
June 10th, 2006, 12:41 AM
^^ The same - OMG!!! I never thought you people speak so maaany languages! Me:
- mother tongue: Slovenian
- fluently: English, Croatian, Serbian
- passively: German
- understand: Bosnian, Montenegrin :laugh:

Des
June 10th, 2006, 12:06 PM
Dutch
English
German

and a little bit of French, Spanish and Indonesian

kellysensei
June 12th, 2006, 02:35 AM
Native - English
Intermediate - Japanese
Limited - German and Russian

I'm always torn between starting to learn new languages I'm interested in and trying to advance in the ones I already know...

anglade
June 13th, 2006, 10:21 AM
I speak

Spanish- native
English- good( language that i use every day)
Swedish- basic although I'm learning quite fast and I hope I could talk soon :)
Catalan- just read, not really be able to speak.

lffıs
June 13th, 2006, 11:07 AM
* Dutch (native)
* English
* Afrikaans (because it's almost the same as Dutch :))
* And, ehrm, a little bit of German. Well, at least I can read and understand it, but I can't have a good converstation in German. Although I had a lot of German lessons in the past :(

-Corey-
June 15th, 2006, 11:16 PM
Spanish and ENglish.. :) both very well. cuz i live in the United States :)

Brad
June 15th, 2006, 11:32 PM
English is enough :)
When the Russian and Chineese presidents meet they are probably obliged to speak English :)
Certainly you have to speek the local language. If English is not your native language you have to improve it constantly instead of learning other ones :)
Russian - native. English, Spanish and Cuban :) - advanced. French - limited. Ukranian and Belorussian - understand 70%, but don't speak :)

grachtengordeldier
June 16th, 2006, 02:06 AM
Never knew Cuba had another language than Spanish ;-)

Brad
June 16th, 2006, 02:50 AM
Never knew Cuba had another language than Spanish ;-)Soon we'll probably get an American-English dictionary.
The Cuban-Spanish one exists already :)

Slodi
June 16th, 2006, 06:38 AM
English is enough :)
When the Russian and Chineese presidents meet they are probably obliged to speak English :)
Certainly you have to speek the local language. If English is not your native language you have to improve it constantly instead of learning other ones :)
Russian - native. English, Spanish and Cuban :) - advanced. French - limited. Ukranian and Belorussian - understand 70%, but don't speak :)
Cuban??? I thought they speak Spanish there unless it is some local language :)

Arans
June 16th, 2006, 10:38 AM
Polish-mother tongue
English-intermediate
Italian-elementary
Rusian-intermediate

Arans
June 16th, 2006, 10:40 AM
Polish-mother tongue
English-intermediate
Italian-elementary
Russian-intermediate

Krasna Sreča
June 17th, 2006, 05:21 AM
Color Key
High/ 70-110%: llllllllllllllllllll
Intermidiate/ 35-70%: llllllllllllllllllll
Low/ 0-35%: llllllllllllllllllll

Can speak/understand/write:

-Bosnian (Native) - (Fluent)
-Serbian (Native) - (Fluent)
-Croatian (Native) - (Fluent)
^^(essentially the same languages)
-English (Fully Fluent)
-Spanish (Excellent)
-Japanese (Excellent)
-Chinese Mandarin (Native) - (Fluent)
-Slovenian (Excellent)
-German (Fluent)

Can understand to a limit:
(Limits: Writing, Grammar, Listening)
-Russian (Limit at writing/grammar)
-Czech (Limit at grammar)
-Polish (Limit at writing/grammar)
-Slovak (Limit at grammar)

Wanting to learn/learning:
-Cantonese Chinese (Learning)
-Italian (Want to Learn)
-Korean (Want to Learn)

I remember when I first started I swear I was gona kill my self, but as I went along it became fun and so I wanted to learn more (Plus I can say so many things that no one even knows :D).

PS. Sorry I'm a neat freak, everything has to be perfect in my posts unless I'm in a huge hurry.:lol:

bubach_hlubach
June 18th, 2006, 02:25 AM
Croatian and Slovenian.

Also used to know German pretty good, but it's gotten rusty - lack of practice :(

:cheers:

lumpia
June 18th, 2006, 04:00 AM
i prefer to use the percent way :D the percent represent speaking, writing, reading, listening, confidence (pretty much everything) fyi: i have no 100% level.. it aint fair on people whose skills are way better than mine :D

English 95%
Tagalog 80%
Arabic: 60%
Japanese: 50%
Cebuano/Visayan: 40%
Spanish: 35%
Bahasa Melayu/Indonesia: 30%
German: 30%
French: 10%
Hausa: 5%
Cantonese: 2%
Urdu/Punjabi: 1%

@: areteixion: そうですか?どこで日本語を勉強していましたか?個人趣味ですか学校で勉強したか?私は日本語の学位二年生ですけど、日本語も全部をまだ知らないだと思います!あれの訳には日本語に50%だけ書きました。漢字も文法とかレベルとかが多勢だと思いますね!どのぐらい日本語を話すのはペラペラになったと思いますか?

PedroGabriel
February 23rd, 2007, 05:14 PM
Portuguese 100%
Galician 94% (Portuguese grammar with some Spanish words and writing)
English 90%
Spanish 90%
Italian 65%
Catalan 62%
French 60%
Greek 6%
German 4%

ZOHAR
February 23rd, 2007, 05:45 PM
mothertouge: hebrew
fluent: russian
moderately: turkish,english
can understand:ukranian,belarussian,azeri,arabic

nandoferuru
February 23rd, 2007, 07:53 PM
Spanish
English
Portugesse
Italian

schmidt
February 23rd, 2007, 10:52 PM
Heh it's pretty interesting what happens in the Latin group. Speaking Portuguese or Spanish you get to understand basically 100% of each other, Galician AND also most of written Catalan.

tayser
February 24th, 2007, 11:06 AM
anglais only.

PedroGabriel
February 24th, 2007, 04:11 PM
Heh it's pretty interesting what happens in the Latin group. Speaking Portuguese or Spanish you get to understand basically 100% of each other, Galician AND also most of written Catalan.
As a Portuguese speaker you'll understand spoken Catalan better than written, believe me, its sounds closer to Portuguese than Spanish, although Spanish is closer in fact. the writing system of Catalan is a little too weird, possibly in order to make it more distant in relation to Spanish.

BTW, not all Spanish dialects are easy to Portuguese speakers, Latin American Spanish dialects are very easy, but Madrid's no.

PedroGabriel
February 24th, 2007, 04:13 PM
anglais only.
that's horrible! You should learn a couple of languages. English is not that universal as you might think.

Unravel
February 25th, 2007, 11:38 PM
As a Portuguese speaker you'll understand spoken Catalan better than written, believe me, its sounds closer to Portuguese than Spanish, although Spanish is closer in fact. the writing system of Catalan is a little too weird, possibly in order to make it more distant in relation to Spanish.

BTW, not all Spanish dialects are easy to Portuguese speakers, Latin American Spanish dialects are very easy, but Madrid's no.

Madrid's dialect? :nuts: :nuts: :nuts: What is that?

samsonyuen
February 25th, 2007, 11:57 PM
English
Chinese (Cantonese)
French

Spanish (sort of)

PedroGabriel
February 26th, 2007, 03:36 AM
Madrid's dialect? :nuts: :nuts: :nuts: What is that?
is the way people speak there. :wallbash:

schmidt
February 26th, 2007, 04:00 AM
BTW, not all Spanish dialects are easy to Portuguese speakers, Latin American Spanish dialects are very easy, but Madrid's no.

I don't know, but I took a guided tour in the Royal Palace in Madrid and the woman's Spanish sounded pretty good to me. And I didn't have any communication problems at all in Madrid (together with Toledo, the only places I've been in Spain). Also, I had more difficulties in Buenos Aires than in Madrid. Rioplatense sounds very, but VERY weird hahah. (but I got used to it!)

null
February 26th, 2007, 07:02 AM
Chinese,native

English,okey

Japanese,basic

FK
February 26th, 2007, 08:48 AM
Just Urdu and English

Trying to learn Italian though ..

Fede_Milan
February 26th, 2007, 11:27 PM
I think I can speak English, French and German rather well. Of course I can speak Italian :) and I also know some basic Spanish and Swedish.

cesco_82
February 27th, 2007, 12:53 AM
mother tongue: italian
high level spoken and understood: spanish and english

catalan-->i can read it and understand it in a medium way. just say something.
french-->studying it right now.
portuguese-->can read it. understand only if it's spoken VEEEEEERY slow. can't speak it.

mariano90_arg
February 27th, 2007, 03:16 AM
Spanish: Native Language
English: High level.
Italian: I understand it, buy it is quiet difficult for me to speak it.
German: I am studying.

wcgokul
February 27th, 2007, 04:26 PM
hindi, english,tamil,telugu

basic german and french........

Tiaren
February 27th, 2007, 08:30 PM
German (my native language)
English
French (basics)
Japanese (just a bit)

Tetwani
December 13th, 2008, 09:19 PM
Moroccan -mother tongue
Spanish -fluent
French -fluent
English -fluent
Arabic -fluent

and a little Berber

Nenek Genit
December 14th, 2008, 07:57 AM
Indonesian (bahasa)
Javanese
English

Geborgenheit
December 14th, 2008, 09:48 AM
I laugh. :lol: The majority of you overestimate your language abilities. I bet, that 90% of those, who are "fluent in German", aren't fluent in this language at all.
About me:
English- satisfactory
French- beginner
German- good
Latvian- good
Russian- good

seven13
December 14th, 2008, 01:57 PM
Tagalog
English
Fookien
Mandarin-little bit

AZBaKuCiTy
December 14th, 2008, 02:12 PM
i speak, read & write

*Azeri
*English
*Turc
*German
*French
*Russian

Timon91
December 14th, 2008, 02:44 PM
German - ok
French - ok
English - ok
Dutch - fluent

~MELVINDONESIA~
December 14th, 2008, 02:49 PM
Indonesian..of course...
'Saya bisa berbahasa Indonesia'
'I can speak Indonesian'

English...
Zhong Wen (Chinesse)

and,Sunda ( Local Indonesian language')

l'eau
December 14th, 2008, 04:11 PM
english
dutch
turkish
and also can read greek.

next year i'll learn french, german and maybe russian.

MexiQuebecois
December 15th, 2008, 03:18 AM
I'm Fluent in French, English and Spanish

And since I can speak 2 romance languages fluently, I can also somewhat understand Portuguese and Italian,

Artavazd
December 15th, 2008, 06:30 AM
Ես Հայերեն Կը խոսիմ (Armenian)
Ez kurmadji qezi dekem (Kurdish)
Ez Zazaki kalkena (Zazaki old Persian)
Je parle Français (French)
Ik spreek Nederlands (Flemish)

K14N
December 15th, 2008, 06:31 AM
Indonesian
English

A lil' bit of:

Mandarin
Hokkien

ENRIQUE DANIEL
December 15th, 2008, 07:26 AM
SPANISH,ENGLISH, AND LITTLE ITALIAN.

corredor06
December 15th, 2008, 07:58 AM
I am fluent in Spanish and English.

sindrom
December 15th, 2008, 08:33 AM
Well, what language do you speak?
Very usefull if you are traveling is to have the knowledge of multiple languages.
I speak:
-Dutch
-English
-Arabic
-French
-German
-Spanish(I'm still learning, I'm just a beginner)

I speak my own language "BAHASA" but would love to learn another language such as korea or north korea slang;

Xabi
December 15th, 2008, 10:40 AM
- Spanish.
- Basque language.
- English.

LeB.Fr
December 15th, 2008, 02:27 PM
I speak:
-French
-English
-Arabic
-Spanish

(and since i'm fluent in both French and Spanish, I can easily understand/learn Italian)

Aere
December 15th, 2008, 02:42 PM
I can speak:
- Dutch
- French
- English
- German (understand most of it, can speak the basics)
And I can ask "Where is the bathroom?" in Spanish! :D Actually quite funny "los banjos" :P Because everytime someone says it I have to think about the instrument.

v-sun
December 15th, 2008, 05:35 PM
Punten ah Aing mah ngomong pake Bahasa Indonesia weh jeung Basa Sunda.
English ngan ngarti saeutik..hahaha..:D
peace ah ka sadayana!!

provinciano
December 15th, 2008, 06:38 PM
-Portuguese(natural)
-Spanish(fluently)
-English(fluently)

Russia(very poorly)
Arab(poorly)

Quintana
December 15th, 2008, 06:39 PM
Nür Niederländisch

flesh_is_weak
December 15th, 2008, 09:23 PM
- Cebuano
- Filipino (Tagalog)
- English

currently studying
- Korean
- Japanese
- French
- Italian

schmidt
December 15th, 2008, 09:46 PM
Nur Niederländisch

Es scheint, dass ihr Holländer die deutsche Sprache liebt! :D

Cymro Mawr
December 17th, 2008, 02:04 PM
Welsh (native)
English (like practically everyone else in Wales)
French
German
Latin (A-level)
Spanish (enough to read El Pais)
Breton (enough to read simple texts)
+ able to understand most germanic and romance languages when written, to a greater or lesser extent

sneyton
December 17th, 2008, 09:27 PM
English (native)
German

Can read Dutch

Attempting to learn:
- Dutch
- Swedish

Gave up on the latin languages a long time ago.

Quintana
December 19th, 2008, 10:37 AM
Es scheint, dass ihr Holländer die deutsche Sprache liebt! :D

Es ist unseres favoriten Dialect (you'll notice that my German is very rusty these days).

Deanb
December 20th, 2008, 03:57 PM
how come u all speak so many languages?!

I speak Hebrew fluently and am almost fluent in English

some very basic French and that's about it!

MARACUCHisimo
December 20th, 2008, 07:18 PM
I speak English and Spanish, I also have knowledges in French and Italian.

:)

Lonesome Traveler
December 21st, 2008, 06:05 AM
Portuguese
Some English
I can read Spanish
I can't speak fluent Spanish
I can read Italian
I can't speak Italian

LS.

Slodi
December 21st, 2008, 10:14 AM
Polish - native, English - business, Spanish - pleasure

Portuguese - business

christos-greece
December 21st, 2008, 01:56 PM
I speak English and a lot of French... Knowledge of some Italian and Spanish words also :)
And of course Greek :lol:

Galandar
December 21st, 2008, 03:43 PM
I speak azerbaijani, russian, english, turkish and german

Arpels
December 21st, 2008, 04:57 PM
Portuguese
I read an speak English (not writh)
I can read and speak Spanish
I can read and speak Frensh
I can read Italian

Federicoft
December 21st, 2008, 05:09 PM
We must admit Romance languages have been a great invention. :P
If you master one, you can read most of the others. With two things become even easier.

okete7
December 21st, 2008, 06:34 PM
Catalan and spanish mother tongues, fluent in french, italian, english and japanese. Kind of sepak German ans understand portuguese ans swedish