Anyone speak more than two languages

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

A minor moment of triumph for me occurred early in my career at Guns & Ammo. I was going up to the Petersen Ranch to test a light machine gun with an engineer from Fabrique Nationale. The


MAAG?

 

[binge]

I learned to speak Jive by watching "Airplane" many times.

My other dozen or so languages are only written.

 

[Cordwinder]

English, Japanese.

 

[Obbi]

English, Mandarin (Cantonese & Hokkien) French, Malay.

 

[Geoff Gander]

English and French, took German for 7 years.

 

[globetrotter]

my wife is actually fluent in 4, and can do pretty well in 2-3 others, inlcuding site reading (and understanting) latin and ancient greek.

I have 2 fluently, and can get by in a taxi in 3 others. I use a lot of nouns, you put enough nouns together, people will understand you, even without verbs.

 

[ZackyBoy]

I am fluent in English, French, and Italian...written and spoken. By the time I am done university I will be fluent in Arabic.

 

[GQgeek]

2 and a quarter. I speak english and french and I'm working on spanish.

 

[Seanallen]

First language was Spanish. Then English came along when I started elementary school, at the moment I'm working at French.

 

[Class54]

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

i speak spanish, english, and though i studied both italian and french, i've lost them due to lack of use.


I have this same problem. Over the years, I've picked up quite a few languages, including Classical Latin, Amharic, various dialects of Farsi, Levantine Arabic, Brazilian Portugese, and even a little Russian.

I can usually learn them pretty quickly, but without consistent use I forget them just as fast. I can't even speak Spanish or French, both of which I've known since elementary/middle school.

 

[sho'nuff]

i speak english and korean

 

[adfan]

I speak English and Korean.

I may try taking Japanese again. Japanese is so similar to Korean - levels of speaking, tone, etc.

My wife says that I speak Kong-Lish = screwed up Korean / English blend.


Regards

 

[mintyfresh]

English and French

 

[Mr. Moo]

English, Russian, Hebrew, bit of Spanish.

 

[Lucky Strike]

Being Norwegian, I also understand Swedish and Danish quite well, the Scandinavian languages are quite close.

Most Scandinavians are supposedly quite fluent in English. Much of the reason for this is that the Scandiavian languages are too small to have television and films dubbed, so you get the original languages, with subtitles in your own. Portugal, for example, has the same situation WRT dubbing, apparently, whereas Germany/France/Italy/Spain does not. The Portuguese generally speak English very well, the Spanish, not so much.

Also, I speak some German and a very little French.