How many languages do you speak?

[zurich]

And by 'speak,' I mean 'can get by' if you had to live there.

Me? 2.5ish. English (native), French (pretty strong - 14 years + immersion), and kinda/sorta/depends German (took it throughout University, some exposure to it).

 

[StefanS]

German (native), English, French and Japanese. However, my Japanese is only good enough for basic survival....

 

[MPI]

Well, three then. Swedish(native), english and german.

My german is in a terrible state of atrophy though ATM. I used to be able to keep casual conversation going at one point in time. But I think a lot would come back if I spent a few weeks/months in a german speaking country.

Tried to learn a bit of japanese before... the speaking part was easy enough, given the effort I put into it(not a lot). The reading and writing part was where I finally gave up.

 

[jvd]

Hmm , english , vulcan , klingon , elven (sp?) and ebonics .

How is that for a list !

 

[digitalwanderer]

One, I'm pretty hopelessly monolinguistic.

But since I only speak one language, I try me hardest to speak it extry goodly.

 

[rabidrabbit]

Finnish, english, swedish, german
Though my german is not too good. I used to read it three years in school, but I've forgotten most of it.

 

[epicstruggle]

at one time or another i could speak (or currently can):
portugese
gujarati
english
french
latin
german

took french, latin, and german in highschool. 4years of french, and 3 years of latin and 2 years of german.

I wish my highschool had offered japanese i would have taken that at a drop of hat instead of german.

 

[Gollum]

I grew up bilingual with german and english and later also learned french at school. My french is a little rusty, but my my recent experiences in France convinced me that I could pick it up again pretty fast. I can get by in spanish speaking countries and Italy too, but I wouldn't count that as actually speaking the language. As a number 2.75 would be fair I guess, so lets call it 3...

 

[Sage]

I wish I had ever had the opportunity to go to a school that taught anything other than Mexican (aka Spanish, but not really Spanish...) for more than a year. I had 1 year of German in 4th grade, but that was only 30 minutes once every two weeks.

 

[Leto]

What language do you think in?

I think a lot in English, I even prepare sentences in English in my head then say them in Danish. It must be the heavy influence from englishspeaking culture.

 

[Clashman]

I speaketh the English, and can get by pretty well in Spanish, (although I'm a bit out of practice). I'm currently learning Chinese, (self taught, it's a pain though), and would eventually like to learn German and French.

So I'm realistically probably about 1.65 + .1.

 

[epicstruggle]

What language do you think in?

I think a lot in English, I even prepare sentences in English in my head then say them in Danish. It must be the heavy influence from englishspeaking culture.

i often think of this. I grew up on portugese, at about 11 i started my transition to english. I cannot remember when i stopped dreaming in portugese and started doing it in english.

epic

 

[Humus]

What language do you think in?

I think a lot in English, I even prepare sentences in English in my head then say them in Danish. It must be the heavy influence from englishspeaking culture.

For me it's about 50/50 now between thinking in Swedish and English.

Except Swedish and English I also know some German. I'm not sure I'd survive long in Germany though.

 

[Natoma]

I used to be fluent in French. I spoke it for 13 years from when I was 6 years old until I was 19, but I haven't spoken it since. I could probably "get it back" if I stayed in France for a month or two though.

So if you count that, 2 for me.

 

[bloodbob]

does java count?

 

[cloudscapes]

I can only *speak* two languages (perfectly fluent in both spoken and written french and english) but I understand some written german, written portuguese/spanish and spoken japanese.

 

[Rune]

Apart from Danish, I speak English, German and French. I also understand Swedish and Norwegian, but that doesn't really count.

 

[[maven]]

German (native), English, French and Japanese. However, my Japanese is only good enough for basic survival....

My Japanese is only good for sounding like a 14 year-old girl.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Java
Javascript
C
C++
Managed C++
C#
PHP
ASP.NET
VB6
VB.NET
SQL
Basic ASM
HTML

...and some other minor scripting languages which I have forgotten about.

 

[rabidrabbit]

You don't speak in programming languages, do you?
The poll was spoken languages.