How many languages are you fluent in?

In My Humble Opinion
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And by “fluent,” I mean you can speak, understand, read and write well enough to converse with a native speaker. No pidgins.

My list:

  1. English.
2

Almost nearlee won.

3

I hear your English and Raise you Hebrew :slight_smile:

(for a total of 2)

ETA: In response to the OP

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  1. English
  2. Español
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  1. English

  2. Japanese (but not reading and writing).

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Speaking, Reading & writing:

  1. English
  2. Hindi

In addition to the above, speaking only:

  1. Punjabi
  2. Urdu
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English and Korean, I guess, although my Korean is not as good as my English (I have no trouble with the language, but I’d rather not have to read/write anything in it that’s more complex than the average novel or newspaper article).

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I’m so lame. Let’s see, there’s English, and, uh, English. My French is only slightly better than tourist French. I can say, but not write, a couple of curses in Russian. Can I count programming languages? Actually, I’m not that good at any of those either. Well, if anyone needs me, I’ll be studying.

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I’m fully fluent in:

  1. English
  2. Español

I’m conversational (two semesters in college and lots of practice with my ex) in:

  1. Français
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2: English and Esperanto. I’m working on French, and would very much like to take Japanese.

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  1. English
  2. Portuguese

and a distant

  1. Spanish

Last summer I had the opportunity to speak at a church in Brazil, in front of a few hundred folks, in Portuguese. As I mentioned in the public speaking thread, that pretty much pegged my scary-public-speaking meter, but it was a very satisfying achievement :slight_smile: .

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  1. English
  2. Norwegian

I can fake my way through a conversation with a Swedish or Danish speaker most of the time, but I’ll speak Norwegian the whole way through. Some dialects are much easier than others, and some Swedish/Danish speakers are better at understanding Norsk than others, too, so the success of this method varies widely!

13

Just English. At my age I doubt I will ever be fluent in Spanish.

Paging Nava!

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Arguably none, but I’m best at English.
I fervently wish I were fluent in another language. One of my heroes is explorer Richard F. Burton, who mastered many. I’ve spent years studying Polish, Latin, Spanish, and Japanese, with little luck.

I speak Japanese at the Shogun level. That means I speak it as well as I would if, instead of studying it, I merely watched the DVDs of the miniseries Shogun.

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Two: Swedish and English. I would like to brush up on my Spanish; I know enough to get around but not enough to stop wishing the other guy spoke English.

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People who speak three languages are known as trilingual, those who speak two are bilingual.

Those who speak only one are called Americans.

What?

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  1. English
  2. French

A handful of stupid phrases in Finnish.

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I can read English, German and Swedish.

I can write English.

I can speak damn near nothing.

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  1. Spanish
  2. German
  3. English
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  1. English.
  2. Lunda - a Bantu language spoken in Zambia, Angola and the DRC
  3. Tuber
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