How many languages can you speak?
By liquorcs
@liquorcs (194)
Malaysia
October 28, 2008 6:06pm CST
Learning languages is hard. You can either learn them from your school as an extra subject or learn from the locals of a new place where they speak different language from your mother tongue.
As for myself, I can speak 3 languages; Malay, Indonesian, and English. Being a student in East Java, Indonesia, I'm trying to learn and speak Sundanese.
How many languages can you speak and where did you learn them? Did you practice them frequently?
7 responses
@octavian (200)
• Romania
2 Dec 08
Hello! I was born in Romania so I speak Romanian. Living in a city at the border with Hungary, and having a lot of Hungarian friends i learned Hungarian too even since i was a small child. At school I learned English for seven years and French for ten. Unfortunately because the lack of practice, I am unable to speak fluent French because I`m having difficulties with finding the words but as for the understanding, I have no real problem with that if the ones who are talking are not speaking fast as they are used to :D. I've learned German from my grandma because she is German. I also learned Italian from the TV because the Italian language is very much like the Romanian.
@oyenkai (4394)
• Philippines
2 Dec 08
I can speak English, Filipino, and basic Japanese.
I also have another dialect which is Kapampangan - the national language in the Philippines is Tagalog (a.k.a Filipino), but my parents spoke Kapampangan which is a dialect that their parents spoke (though everyone speaks Tagalog and English).
I would like to better my Japanese - just because I think I can :)
@PRIYANK1992 (1677)
• India
2 Dec 08
I know just English and Hindi.Sometimes I speak Gujrati also.Gujrati and urdhu are also good languages.I would like to speak english also because english is a international language.Everybody knows it.
@aisaellis22 (6445)
• United States
27 Nov 08
I can speak Kamayo, Visayan, Tagalog and English. I learned English from school and from my husband while Kamayo, Visayan and Tagalog are my native languages. I want to learn German language. It seems like very interesting to learn the language because it's quiet different from English.
@princessmel (670)
• Canada
29 Oct 08
the main language i speak is english. i'm also fluent in american sign language, which is used to communicate with Deaf people. in high school, i took spanish. i forget alot of it now though. a couple of years ago, i was teaching myself ukrainian. i bought a book that teaches it. i forget how to speak and write that language as well now.
@sankata (236)
• Estonia
29 Oct 08
I can speak estonian, because I am an estonian.
Then ofcourse I can speak english, because I have learned it for a long time, and no one can live without english nowadays.
I can also speak german. I can speak it , because I have lived one year in Germany. It comes quite handy sometimes, and I like german.
And I can speak little bit Finnish, I've learned it for 2 years.
@green_peace (110)
• Philippines
3 Nov 08
I can speak english, filipino, a little bit of chinese. And of course, our native language in our province "ibanag and ilokano". It's fun conversing in different kind of languages and dialects.