<p>I can fluently speak English (of course) and my first language was actually Mandarin, but I can’t write it. I’m learning French (3rd year), know a bit of Spanish, and I know some phrases in Chinese dialects. I hope to one day learn another Asian language like Korean or Japanese.</p>
<p>English-Native
Local dialect of English-Fluent
French-proficient
Greek-Learning</p>
<p>English-Fluent
French- Near Fluent
Portuguese- Conversational
Spanish- Basic
German- Want to Learn</p>
<p>For people who do not live in homes where the language spoken is not English and have not lived abroad, and who’s parents have not recently immigrated, how many languages do you speak?</p>
<p>English-native</p>
<p>-French- I might be able to get by (I’ll have been in French classes for five years by the end of 10th grade, and am currently going into French III)</p>
<p>-I want to learn another language possibly arabic, Chinese, German, or Spanish. Whatever is most useful… (Spanish is my last choice)</p>
<p>Some of you guys know a lot of languages!</p>
<p>I only know English and some Spanish. I really want to learn Hebrew and Russian, though :D</p>
<p>English.
I took one year of Spanish, but we didn’t learn past tense so I really can’t even have a conversation with it.</p>
<p>English and Cuban Spanish. I also speak basic Brazilian Portuguese.</p>
<p>I’m fluent in English and German, speak intermediate Arabic, and basic Russian.</p>
<p>English and American Sign Language. My Spanish used to be okay, but it sucks now because I haven’t taken a class in 3 years.</p>
<p>English-native</p>
<p>French-I’ve taken 3 years of it and like it a lot. I think I’m pretty good at writing, reading, and even speaking it, but I’m not great at understanding it. This summer I’ve been writing s journal in French, so I’ve become pretty intensive in learning it. </p>
<p>Portuguese (BR)-I know a good amount of vocab but not many verbs or expressions. I’ve just been doing what i can do babbel without paying. </p>
<p>German—I intend on taking it this year (sophomore). however, my school has changed its foreign language problem a bit, and starting German late may be impossible. If I can’t take German, I will become more intensive with Portuguese (as in get a subscription for Babbel). </p>
<p>I also want to learn Esperanto, Arabic, and maybe even Irish (lang of my heritage, although i am the 3rd american-born generation on my mom’s side and 4th on my dads)</p>
<p>Native level : Cantonese (I am from Macau and Hong Kong)
Fluency : English and Mandarin (Start leanring in Elementary school)
Competent : Portuguese and Spanish (Start learning portuguese in Preschool but cease learning them in upper elementary and switch to spanish in high school, mostly practice on skype now)
Beginner : German (only a few words and phrases, i use it to write to my german friend online), Arabic (so far, the toughest language for me)</p>
<p>Future Plan:</p>
<p>Russian (I want a eastern european wife !!!)</p>
<p>Portuguese is pretty easy to learn on your own once you understand what is going on… </p>
<p>I have a facebook class with a Brazillian friend, care to join ?</p>
<p>-I speak English (big accomplishment…).
-I’m reasonably fluent in Hebrew (can read and understand very well and I can speak reasonably fluently to Hebrew speakers, though I don’t know about Israelis cuz man, they talk FAST!).
-I just started ASL and I am in LUUURV.
-I tried Arabic once and while I think my Hebrew background could help me learn it more easily than if not, I just lost patience after a while of trying to read squiggles (pot calling the kettle black?).
-I also took two years of dummy Spanish.
-If I could learn any language, it would either be finishing Spanish (useful and pretty cool), maybe Arabic or Chinese, or especially Yiddish, because it’s a big part of my heritage and it’s incredibly expressive, which is something I value in a language. My grandfather is starting an immersion program with me where he speaks it exclusively to me, but I’m not really catching on very well.</p>
<p>Well, my mother tongue is English. I also would consider myself semi-fluent in French (semi-fluent because I have some troubles with understanding people speaking French, but I can read and write fluently). I also have taken German for half a year so I guess I can hold a basic, basic conversation German :)</p>
<p>The only language I am fluent in is English. Though my Hebrew is fairly good, I was in Israel this past summer and was able to communicate in Hebrew when I needed to. I also speak some Spanish, but my Spanish is horrible compared to my English and Hebrew. I plan to reach fluency (no idea if that is right) in Hebrew during college and also plan to study Latin in college.</p>
<p>ArtsyGirl- Really? You went to Israel this summer? You’re so lucky! I’ve been once, and I couldn’t even understand them when they spoke in English :). Then again I was in fifth grade, so that might have accounted for something…
I do have an Israeli teacher who speaks in Hebrew and I can usually understand her, but I think she dumbs it down a bit :).</p>
<p>English, and can speak somewhat good Spanish…</p>
<p>-English
-Some phrases from Hindi/Urdu since my mom speaks it. Just hi/bye/what/how are you…my spanish is better.
-Like 10 words of Arabic- again from my mom haha
- Horrible “Hola, Como Esta” gringo spanish from Spanish I</p>
<p>English (suprise suprise)
I can understand a speak alot of Mandarin but my writing and reading is not as good
I remember like 3 spanish words from middle school
I know several phrases and one name really well in Korean</p>
<p>3!
Hebrew (mostly fluent, hebrew day school for 9 years)
English (obviously)
French (a lot, but not fluent)</p>