Only one |
37.9% (159) | |
Two |
33.8% (142) | |
Three |
15.5% (65) | |
Four |
5.7% (24) | |
Five |
1.7% (7) | |
Six or more |
1% (4) | |
All 1066 |
2.4% (10) | |
None |
1.9% (8) |
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When I saw your post, I thought of this.... | |
English is my first language, I used to do French but I still remember some of it. Same goes for German, and I'm currently studding Spanish for GCSE. I also learnt Hebrew at my Jewish sunday school, although I barely use it now that I have finished my Bar Mitzvah (although that was also due to the fact that I find Hebrew incredibly difficult because of my dyslexia.) As well, I know a few words from other languages like Italian and Japanese. | |
Wow, just 1.4% can match my five? | |
I speak Norwegian and English fluently which means I also speakSwedish and Danish, but I'd count those as a single language rather than 3 since they are more or less the same. I speak enough German to hold a conversation. | |
One, english, and a bit of german | |
I can speak 3, understand a bit of German, quite a lot of Italian, a small amount of French, and can make out single words in Japanese. Fluent Polish and English, I've studied the former for the past 20 years and latter for... 15 or 16, don't remember. 4th year of Spanish, very intensive classes of language, history, geography and literature. I can use it on a fairly advanced level, though nowhere near my mother tongue or English. | |
Native: English | |
Basically three: Greek, English and French. Also I know a little German, but only reading, not speaking. | |
Well, yeah. When you can speak one of them, you can almost speak the other 2 as well. | |
English being my native tongue. I can also butcher German. | |
I only speak English, ironically enough I think you probably speak more Welsh than I do, I just struggle with it, most sentences are backwards, there are mutations, and, my welsh teachers can't speak fluent welsh themselves. | |
Finnish (Native) I would call my English average. Everyone from my family to my teachers keep saying I have "special English skills" but..Meh, I think they're simply easily impressed | |
Yeah, same here is the US. By the time I got any sort of comprehensive course work in another language (Spanish) I was 14, which sets obne back a bit. Still, I live in California, so I've soaked up a bit of Spanish just from being here, though I'm very far from fluent, or feeling comfortable holding a conversation in it. I also taught myself a little Russian because I was bored, but that's even less accessible here. | |
Dutch - native | |
I am from england, speak poor german, but enough to get by, and and doing french now. | |
I speak English, and a basic understanding of German. | |
German (native) | |
14? Wow that's even worse than the UK. We normally begin learning a foreign language at about 9, usually French, (and at my school at least, either German or Spanish from 11), but until Key Stage 4/GCSE level (which begins at 14 and is when you choose which subjects to take until the end of compulsory education at 16, when you receive an overall grade for each subject based on all the exams and coursework you do until then), it's all just basic nouns and phrases based on certain subjects, you don't really learn much grammar or tenses or anything. | |
And this: Danish. Bah! | |
Being a Canadian citizen living in the capital city and so close the french speaking province I speak English and a fairly large amount of French. I wouldn't call myself fluent in French because since the mandatory classes stopped in my first year of High-school I haven't really needed to use the language and it's gotten worse over time. However, if I were to start learning it again I could easily be fluent within a short period. | |
I've voted 4, but that really breaks down as: | |
Apart from a few phrases from other languages it shames me to say i can only speak English =[ If they let us choose what language we learn here in Scotland i'd probably have enjoyed it but as it was i got stuck learning French and i couldn't stand it. It seemed like all the most evil and sadistic teachers congregated towards French and so desired to make my life a living hell =[ | |
I can speak English, and a decent amount of Italian. | |
Good for you. How exactly does it "pay"? The languages I know are useless for all but bragging rights, and I don't tend to brag. | |
It pays to have the knack because that made it easy for me to learn several different languages. Japanese is just great since I love anime and manga, but not very useful in my daily life I admit :P | |
I can only speak english, but I can mostly/sort of understand/get the gist of french writing. Broken would be an underestimate of me trying to speak/type in it. I put down just one though, maintaining a conversation for up to 5 sentences doesn't really count. | |
I speak Swedish, Finnish and English fluently | |
Sounds like good old 'Merica. I know a few phrases of Spanish and can get the gist of a sentence if I have enough time to read it (from my time living along the Mexico border), but cannot hold a conversation in Spanish. That's why I'm majoring in English; because if I'm only going to speak one language, I figure I should speak it well. | |
I really struggle with languages (dyslexia), so I can only just about manage English and that's it. I've lived aboard twice and didn't pick up the local language either time. My time in China means I have a very basic grasp of the language and can say a little, but I wouldn't class myself as a speaker of Chinese. And during my time in the Netherlands I learnt exactly zero Dutch, there was little point as the the Netherlands is effectively an English speaking country! I also had enough Japanese to get myself around Japan when travelling, but again like my Chinese it is very basic and I wouldn't really consider it speaking the language. | |
I can speak English and Swedish, but listening to Rammstein has taught me a bit of german as well XD I wish I knew Japanese, since I consume a lot of japanese culture, like anime and visual novels. | |
You say ironically, but I'm welsh as well, I should know more really. | |
All I can speak is English. I know a few words in other languages. Mostly Spanish. However, I can speak in Ubbi-Dubbi rather fluently, if that helps, any. | |
I can only speak English unfortunately. I am a bit rubbish with languages, though I do love English and some of its eccentricities. For about 3 years in high school I took Latin and though I as dreadful at it, I loved learning about the culture and mythology and it certainly heightened my understanding of my native language. =) | |
5- And sometimes I dabble in Klingoneese. | |
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Swedish is my native, so I understand Norwegian and Danish (I'm from Skåne so it's no big difference at all) I studied French for a couple of years and can get by on it.
Obviously fluent in English and I'm going to study Latin this fall (I'm also slowly learning more and more Elvish)... So I clicked 3.