how many language do you speak

@kathy77 (7486)
Australia
January 14, 2007 2:05pm CST
Hi I would like to know how many people on mylot speak other languages beside their mother tongue?? I speak English which is my mother tongue but languages have always fasinated me and I speak about 20 languages how many others do you speak??
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18 responses
• India
4 Mar 07
I speak my mother tongue Malayalam and English
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@weemam (13372)
4 Mar 07
I speak English ( well Scottish really lol ) and a little french that I remember from school . I would love to have learned more , well done you though for knowing so many , I take my hat off to you xx
@jelaichie (475)
• Philippines
4 Mar 07
i just sPoke few of our Languages heRe in the phiL my friend., about 5-6 LanguagEs heRe in phil., thEn eNgLish chinEse... and a littLe french... hehehe muahx
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@decimus785 (1419)
• Aruba
4 Mar 07
I can speak english,spanish,dutch and our own language papiamento.
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• India
4 Mar 07
i dont speak so much butit will be around 10 languages which i can speak.hindi is my mother tongue..and in others i can speak phillipino,urdu,and many other regional languages..and english ofcourse..its compulsory for us..
@ganwn071 (1116)
• Singapore
4 Mar 07
I speak 3 languages - English, Mandarin (Cantonese) and a bit of Malay.
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@sandie61 (2359)
• United States
27 Feb 07
wow! 20 languages is awesome. I only know one and that is english. I think it would be good to learn a few other languages. how did you learn so many?
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
14 Jan 07
Wow! I am impressed. I do not speak any other language. I can do a little bit of Signing Exact English, if that counts, but do not follow fast enough to "listen" to it. If I had the time and funds, I would study sign language interpretation I would also like to learn Spanish. I took two years of Latin in high school.
@qouniq (1966)
• Malaysia
2 Mar 07
i only speak 2 languages,..malay which is my mother tongue and english,..our second language in my country. I have learn japanese when i did my 1st degree before and don't really remember how to speak in japanese language...my spouse can speak up to 10 languages...i just wonder how you guys can speak that much language....
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• United States
3 Mar 07
I speak fluent english. I know basic spanish. I knew more a few years ago but I got away from speaking it. I am learning more albanian. It's a fun language to speak. Not real hard either. All the words are short. I also love different languages. If I had more patience I'd speak fluent Spanish and Albanian. Plus a few more. That's amazing that you can speak 20 languages. What are they? I know a little girl about 5 years old. She speaks English, Albanian, Macedonian, and Spanish. That's truly amazing.
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15 Jan 07
I only speak English. However, I would love to learn Gaelic. I just wish I had brought over all my tapes. They can be a bit spendy to replace them all. I took 2 years of Spanish when I was in high school, bu that was a long time ago now.
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@hopeful28 (1439)
• Singapore
27 Feb 07
Wow, no kidding! I take my hat off to you. I can only speak English and Chinese plus a little bit of some dialects. How did you manage to learn so many languages? I guess you really must have a gift for it. Good for you. It really must be an asset.
• United States
25 Jan 07
I only speak english, I have a terrible time learning other languages even though I took 2 years each of Spanish and French in high school. I also am bad with math and music, which is supposedly all processed in the same area of your brain, so maybe that section of my brain is defective. ...or maybe I just haven't really applied myself...;-)
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@Rexy_leigh (1189)
• Philippines
2 Mar 07
Wow! I salute you for having such a commendable talent and skills. Not many people have that...and that's really difficult, I guess...speaking 20 languages..oh man..i'd go crazy on that... so clever of you, kathy..well, i only get to speak 3 languages pretty fluently... cebuano (my mother tongue), filipino or tagalog (our national language here in the philippines), and english...but i was learning to speak a little korean and spanish...not practicing that much now though..lol
@gittabest (1946)
• Iceland
14 Jan 07
My mother tongue is Icelandic but other than that I can speak: English, Dansih, Swedish and German Have a nice day
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
14 Jan 07
Well Kathy I only speak 2 which is English and I also speak German Crikey 20 Languages that is so clever I would get mixed up lol
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• United States
14 Jan 07
i can speak english and 4 different kind chinese languages and little bit spanish
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@lastwish (779)
• India
14 Jan 07
20 i cant believe!!!! i can speak abt 5 languages