You also lose the ability to enjoy the following joke:
Declension fail!
On the plus side, speaking both English and Latin allows you to appreciate semper ubi sub ubi.
And I wish the poll were public. Would be kind of neat to know who the other 8 Portuguese speakers are (though I know most of them from PT/BR-related threads anyway).
It would be very cool to have such a list where you could go to find folks who speak a language, without having to post a “Who speaks High Pig Latin?” thread first.
English native speaker (being born in Georgia will pretty much guarantee that) and took 5 years of Latin in school.
I can also write in Quenya Sindarin.
Does that count?
aiya Nolmendil (Greetings, friends of Knowledge)
I thought I’d be really cool and post the 15 different computer languages I know, but apparently that joke has already been done to death.
<insert sticking-out-tongue emoticon here>
Eh, go for it! I wouldn’t call it a “joke,” exactly–I’m always curious to see what computer languages people have programmed in.
Side note: For a second, I read your post as saying that you were going to post “Greetings, friends of Knowledge” in 15 different computer languages, and I was going to ask if “Hello, World!” wasn’t more of the standard. 
Really? You’d think Russian or Armenian would be more popular.
Or Georgian.
Jab main Hindustan men thi.
Voh ek lambi kahani hai, mujh se mat pucho.
I heard this recently…
The word for someone who speaks three languages is: “trilingual.”
The word for someone who speaks two languages is: “bilingual.”
The word for someone who speaks only one language is: “American.”
I’ll ask anyway - sorry . Did you go there specifically to study or can you pick up a language simply by being exposed to it for a bit?
My five best are English, Russian, Swedish, French, and Italian. But the rust spots are showing. I’ve also studied Arabic, Basque, Esperanto, Greek, German, Japanese, Latin, Spanish, Turkish, and Yiddish (these are languages I currently have books and materials in) with varying degrees of fluency and comprehension. I’ve also flirted with Albanian, Georgian, Hungarian, and Welsh.
Given where I am now, I think I ought to consider trying Kurdish and Amharic.
Dammit, I knew there was another language I’d played around with: Old English. Category II - still got all the books from the course at Georgetown.
No, I went there for other reasons, but good old immersion did the trick.
Other.
Besides a halting command of Spanish, I can speak childish Icelandic, a little Street Japanese, The basic tourist pack of Cantonese, and can understand Church Slavonic.