how many languages are you using
By marianne
@ckciasigurl (2081)
Italy
May 12, 2011 10:22am CST
hi mylotter i am using a 5 different languages i am from Philippines and here in the Philippines we are using a Language called "tagalog" this is our common dialect and also i am using ENGLISH language if am in the school same with tagalog also , if i am at home i am talking to my relatives, auntie, grandfather , grandmother we are using our language in our provinces because we are from Baguio we are using an Ilocano and "kankanaey" for provinces , we usually used this one because we are more comfortable , and proud that we are using this dialect now a days. I am also using Italian when i am talking to my sisster and my family because my sister grew up in the Italy and she doesnt know how to speak in our language we need to teach her first, I am proud that i know how to speak different languages to be able to communicate with others and to make some friends also ,How many dialects do you know? Are you proud that you have many languages that you know?
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22 responses
@ptower76 (1616)
• United States
12 May 11
Good for you that you can speak 5 languages. Language is a part of cultural and national identity and it just goes to show how culturally diverse you are. I speak two languages fluently English and Spanish and for me, it helps me to interact with more people than I would otherwise. It also to helps to keep me in touch with my past cultural identity.
@ckciasigurl (2081)
• Italy
14 May 11
english is the most common language , so we are all lucky if we know how to speak in english
@renxcez (21)
• Philippines
13 May 11
hey, i'm a "kababayan" in filipino language, to translate that it would be fellow countrymen, well i'm from the Philippines i speak, Filipino, English, our own dialect Ilocano, a bit of Japanese i learned Japanese from watching anime and all, actually i never thought many mylotters are filipino. :) i hope i would have the chance to meet my fellow countrymen. :)
@ckciasigurl (2081)
• Italy
14 May 11
hello renxcez! actually there are many Filipino and Filipina here try to visit the Philippines most of the topic are all about Filipinos hope you can find it
@DoctorDidi (7018)
• India
12 May 11
I am an Indian and you know India is a multilingual country where English and Hindi get the top priority. I know both of these two languages and being a Bengali, I also know that language. I salute your masterly command over five different languages, it is no doubt very unique of you.
@ramshz (21)
• Spain
12 May 11
yeah, in indian you have some sort of "advantage", because if you want to do tourism, even in India, you will have to speak english. That is pretty good as well, because you will ahve more leve of english than, spanish (like me) for example. Nowadays people is realzing how important is having a second language, but at a very low rate i have to say...
@rog0322 (2829)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
13 May 11
Hi ckc,
I can speak and write in maybe three languages: English, Tagalog and Visayan. The rest, well, a Porta Inferi, y busco mi Perdido Eden... (from the Gates of Hell, and I looked for my Lost Paradise!).
How is that?
@Burningice (35)
• Philippines
13 May 11
Wow, that's amazing! How I wish I could speak more languages, too. I can speak fairly in Ilocano, Tagalog and English and I can understand a little bit of Kankana-ey. :) But if I had my way I wish to study French, Spanish, German, Mandarin, Korean, Italian and Japanese. However, I think that's a long shot! Lol.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
13 May 11
i can never found anyone a Filipino can beat Jose Rizal in terms of Plentiful of Languages learned.....
That makes Jose Rizal the national hero because he knows very many of the languages but he keeps on forcing us to learn only one language and that's Tagalog.....
@jingrade (20)
• Philippines
13 May 11
wow thats so nice... am also from the philippines i speak a little english but in the philippine language i can speak tagalog, cebuano & ilongo thats from Luzon, visayas & mindanao languages. And alittle of bahasa malay also. my husband speaks local languages also, he knows maranao, maguindanao, ilocano,cebuano, ilongo & little english. i wish ican learn more foreign languages... its nice to learn more to better understand our cultures. God bless!
@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
13 May 11
It's good for you my dear.How I wish I could speak and understand other language too because it will be an advantage if you can speak several languages just like a linguist.I also know and speak little english,a little cebuano and of coarse tagalog.In my college years we have units in spanish but I was not able to learn to speak it.
@aeiou78 (3445)
• Malaysia
14 May 11
For me, it is not so important to so someone who know about the number of languages.
It is more important to judge how well a person knows about a language.
In Malaysia as me, most of us know to speak and to write in at least than three languages.
The three major languages are Bahasa Malaysia (Melayu), English, and Mandarin.
Other than these three languages, I can speak the Chinese dialects like Fujian and Cantonese. For the dialect hakka, I just can understand.
Other than these languages, I know about computer languages as Fortran and Assembly languages.
ha! ha!
I am multi-lingual in human-being languages and machine languages.
@RamRes (1723)
• Argentina
14 May 11
Great that you know so many languages, that gives a great chance to talk with anyone!!
For me, Spanish, my native language, English for here and some other computer things mainly, and a little of Portuguese too, but not really understand it quite well. I generally like to write in English but can't speak it very well, and for real speaking I have only Spanish though.
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
12 May 11
That's awesome!
I am fluent in English, I can both speak, write and read. I cam fluent in Vietnamese just speaking, reading just a little but and I cannot write. I took 3 years of Spanish in Highschool, I can speak, write, read just a little like a preschooler level, lol!
@valleyofberaca (299)
• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
14 May 11
I'm using 4 different languages and 4 dialects. But here in our province there are 66 dialects.
I'm using tagalog and english in our office,while in our house it depends upon the visitors. My cousins speak bisaya, while my in laws speak Ilocano. My uncle is a cuyuno (a dialect here in our province).
If we have guests from Germany, I can speak duetsch, if Italian and spanish, I speak the same.
Yes, I'm proud that I know how to speak different languages.
@katieh (151)
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12 May 11
I'm always impressed with how many languages some people can speak.
I'm English so I use English most of the time. However, I work for a company which has offices in France, so I speak French with them, and also my brother lives in Austria so when we go over there I speak German. My French is still very much better than my German, but I'm working on it :)
That probably doesn't sound like many languages to you, but it's 3 times as many as most of the English people I know.
@ckciasigurl (2081)
• Italy
14 May 11
huwaw! you know how to speak in french hope my sisster will teach me in french :)
@Qawzerty (34)
• Belgium
13 May 11
I am from Belgium, a little country in the middle of Europe. Since the country exists out of two major parts, Flanders and Wallonia, I speak Dutch (not Deutsch = German) and French. English is also a language I speak and I'm taking lessons Spanish in school now. I understand a little bit of German but I can't really speak it. And I can read Greek but I don't understand it (just the alphabet).
@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
13 May 11
Hi there I think is so good to know and speak other languages! I grew up in a multicultural environment...grandparents Italians...grandmothers Portuguese...but I grew up speaking Spanish! because I grew up in South America...so now I live in Australia and I speak English as well! I mostly forgot my Italian and Portuguese because I have not practiced it for years....but I can still read and mostly understand those languages.
@ET28LV (1890)
• Latvia
12 May 11
Hey,
First of all I need to congrat you for that you are so smart and interesting person that knows so much languages. In my place people there usually talk in three languages and the four is only in the one place. I am talking in Latvian language in my home in school I am talking Latvian too, but in lessons I am trying to learn English and Russian languages. The older people in our country talk in the four language It is Latgalic and this language now only some people. And I am talking in Vidzemes Augszemes dialect. In the future I would like to learn Spanish, Italian, and portugese languages. 
@ritzz07 (788)
• India
12 May 11
ya dear i m also linguistic person coz i can speak many languages i can speak 7-8 languages.i m an indian and in india there are many languages,i can speak marathi coz i was born and brought up in maharashtra,,i can speak hindi as this is most popular language in india.i can speak english and sanskrit.sanskrit is an ancient language of india.i learn tamil from ma friends as i have lot of tamil friends,also i can speak,read and write bangla and gujarthi marathi hindi english.and my mother tounge is rajasthani(marwadi)also i can speak sindhi and punjabi.and now a days i m learning spanish.
@sun284 (30)
• India
13 May 11
now a days it is common to know many languagues because of cosmos politan cities you live,intercaste marraiges,transfers,nature of jobs,job area.people speak one language with wife,one language in office,one language with clients,one language with parents,local language where they live like that.
