do you know any kind of language apart your mother tongue?

Apart from my mother language which is hindi i know little bit of urdu ans sanskrit as well and offcourse English it also i know and speak.

Aside from my native tongue, of course I have English as a second language. I took up extra units of French from College and I have basics for that. I dont always use French, but I try to practice once in a while so that I will not put the knowledge to waste. I also know Turkish now and I use Turkish everyday because my husband is Turkish.

I am from India! India is famous for having maximum number of languages! Including the dialectics we have about 850 languages! We have about 30 states and almost each state does have its own language! Basically India is having two types of languages One group is called Aryan languages which are spoken in the northern part of the country and another is called Dravidian languages, these languages are spoken by the four states of southern India. The Dravidian languages are most ancient languages known to history so far in the World! Now,I belong to southern part of India so I know 'Telugu' that is my mother tongue. I have completed my education ,right from the Nursery to Post graduation in English Medium so naturally, I know English, I stayed in Maharashtra right from my childhood till the completion of my education,a state situated in western part of India, so I know the language 'Marathi' which is the regional language there! 'Hindi' our national language was my second language in my school so I know that language too and this is most widely used language in northern parts of India so I use it a lot! My wife is from Eastern part of the country that is from the state of West Bengal, so I learnt Bengali from her and today I can talk and write 'Bengali' too! Now apart from these languages I can understand and manage with some languages like Tamil which is again a Dravidian language as I got my education south Indian education society which was run by a Tamil group, so I have many Tamil friends and i can follow Tamil but can speak less of it! Similarly I can follow 'Punjabi' as I am staying in northern part of India along with 'Haryanvi'! 'Urdu' is a language which I am desperately trying to learn but it is not an easy language as it needs lot of practice and reading habit in Urdu1 But still I am at it and soon I will try to learn the languages! So now I will leave it to you to count how many languages I know and judge for yourself! Thanks for the interesting discussion! I liked participating in it!

My mother tongue (that is such a silly term)is English, but I took German in junior high and high school. German is not a common language here in the United States, and class opportunities are getting cut out of some schools because of budget cuts, but we had SO much fun in German class! Both of my brothers took it and they said the same thing. Now I am not fluent in the language, but I do know some important basics. I also know basic sign language. Many people do not think of sign language as a "language", but it is the language of hearing impaired individuals. I use the basics for individuals and students I work with who are non-verbal. But sign language is fun too, and maybe someday I will become more fluent.

I've always said the only power I would dream for myself is the ability to speak and read all languages. I'm middle aged and stuck in a "can't teach an old dog new tricks" stage so I doubt I'll be becoming fluent in anything else in my lifetime. I can't even claim to be fluent in English most of the time (I write better than I speak, for instance). Now if your talking about a passing ability to survive an encounter with someone who is calmly speaking another language, I am non-fluent in all West European languages plus Japanese. I even studied Spanish for four years, but I would not be comfortable dropped into Spain to fend for myself, let alone Latin America. Foreign language skills are my only regret, which is sad because I was told I had a nice acccent in Spanish. -The Multilingual Rat

Aside from my native Filipino language, I am good in conversational english having worked in a call center industry for 8 years but it seems that my grammar is still off. I still have to work on the writing part of it. I am also currently in the process of learning Korean and Japanese so that I can watch their shows without the need for a subtitle. I like watching korean drama and for the Japanese thing - I like watching their AV.

My mother tongue is Telugu, an Indian language. I know Hindi, the national language of India and English.[b][/b]

Hi ya alilin28 Well my mother tongue is English so obviously I use it every day as I live in England. I also speak French as I really enjoyed the subject at school and then lived in the French speaking part of Switzerland in Geneva. I married an arab so I speak and read a very little bit of arabic but as I no longer use it I have forgotten a lot of it. Oh and also I know some sign language too!

My mother tongue is English and that is the only language that I am fluent in. I attribute this very much to the fact that when I was in school the first exposure that we had to a second language wasn't until I was in the seventh grade. I did, however take Spanish in grades 7-10, so four years of Spanish. That isn't nearly enough to be fluent in the language, but I can understand most of a conversation and I can pretty much hold my own when carrying on a conversation.

I know a few on German. My native language is Filipino, Tagalog in peticular. My second language is English.

Although my culture is Puerto Rican, I was born and raised in the US. I do speak both English and Spanish very fluently and have no issues with grammar. When both of my kids were little I only spoke Spanish to them. Upon them entering school neither one spoke and or understood English. I did this intentionally as I knew they would pick up English right away. Which they did. They both are very fluently in both languages with no problems and can write it fluently too. Even now they prefer to speak to me in English and I more times then not I respond in Spanish. Languages must be routinely spoken when learning as the more you use it the better it gets.

Hola! My mother tongue is Filipino (sometimes referred to as Tagalog) and I also speak English. As of the moment, I am currently taking an introductory course on Spanish.

My native Language is Filipino or Tagalog. Second would be English,as most of us. But I also studied Japanese Language, I even took JLPT exams. It was quite an achievement being able to converse with other people using their language.

I was born in Australia but English is actually my second language as I learnt Vietnamese first as a child. At school, I was also taught Japanese but it's a bit rusty now. It's good to know a diverse range of languages, especially if you live in Australia as you can communicate to more people who aren't too good with their English.

There are two languages that i'm still trying to learn and get the hang of. If I didn't tell you this before, i'll tell you now. Ever since I was 14, and since I had a love of all things Japan, especially anime, manga, their almost-futuristic technology, the bright lights and the food, it's what made me study Japanese. I can read Hiragana and Katagana, but the complex, Chinese-like Kanji pictographs are a tough one. It's all based on familiarity. There are some Kanji that I can remember, but all the others...BTW, last I heard there's over 1,945 of those, but I can stick to what i'm familiar with. Also, this year i've been learning Russian, starting with their alphabet. Unlike Japanese which took me since up to 1999 to learn, Russian was a bit easier. I can definitely read their language, although slowly so I don't go too fast, but I can't translate it yet. There are small pieces that I can, but overall, i'm still getting used to it.

It is so amazing how there are so many languages spoken around the world. I travel quite often on my business trips to different parts of the world, and it is of course very helpful for the business if I can speak the language of the country there. I tried, but have not got very far yet. I can speak some basics in German and Thai languages.

My mother tongue is Mandarin, and English is a second language. Since I live in Singapore, where so many dialects and languages are spoken here, I may understand a bit of this or that, but hardly enough to speak a complete sentence. It is hard for us to learn English too. The structure of English is entirely different from Chinese. You can hardly find a student who is good in both languages. Most probably, the students are good in one language, and passable in another language.

All the language I know are Filipino (my mother language) and English, our national language. I don't wanna learn anymore languages unless I'm required to. It's pretty hard learning a new one since it'll be like starting from scratch again. Plus, it can get frustrating when you know what you have to say but you can't say it.

i am pakistani and my mother language is "urdu". and i love my language and i use it daily and other then it i know english very well. ant some of the local languages.

Yep! It's sad though coz I'm not that fluent in speaking it. I'm ethnically Chinese but I was born elsewhere and my parents never really taught me their language. Everything I learned, I learned at school and from watching Chinese films. I can carry on a nice conversation quite easily but I still feel conscious whenever I speak the language :( I have always wanted to speak Spanish! Do you happen to know this song by MC Magic titled Sexy Lady? Well he was singing certain parts in spanish and when I first heard it I was like WOW Spanish is sexy! lol so yeah that's when I first wanted to learn the language. I do have a background in it since I can also speak Filipino which has its roots on the Spanish language so yay me! :)