How many languages do you speak???

@ronita34 (3922)
Canada
January 17, 2007 10:38am CST
How many languages can you speak?? Can you only speak one language or perhaps multiple languages?? I am a Native American and i am from a Cree background and i speak my Native tongue. Although English is my first and most used language!
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@Dolcerina (3376)
• Hungary
17 Jan 07
Wow good! -beszélek magyarul -i speak english -io parlo pocco italiano -je parle un peu france -kleine deutsch -malenkij russki :) I think that's all. I would like to understand romanian and serbian too, because these countries are the nearest to my home.
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• Serbia And Montenegro
31 Jan 07
WOW!! You speak quite a number of languages! Are you a translator or something?
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
This is amazing and i must say you are definately talented to be able too speak so many languages!! Congratulations with trying to also learn Romanian and Serbian and good luck!!
17 Jan 07
I speak 2, English and French but I understand most of Spanish and can speak some. My 4yo speaks English and Spanish, sometimes in the same sentence which is pretty common where I live, lol.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
17 Jan 07
LOL ... That is great! I truly believe that spanish is the language of love! It is amazing when you think of all of the languages that our world actually holds!
• United States
17 Jan 07
i agree spansih is the language of love....*smile*
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@oarnamav (2708)
• India
31 Jan 07
I can speak six languages in all. I am an Indian, I can only one foreign language & that's english, but I speak five indian languages they are Marathi the mother tongue, Hindi being the national language, Telgu being spoken at my birth place, Gujrathi My hostel roommate taught me. Rajasthani My neighbour speaks. I think 6 is not bad no?
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
That is amazing!!! I would love to be able to know and comprehend six languages!! Pat yourself on the back because that is an awesome job!!!!
• United States
31 Jan 07
English is my native language and I speak it fluently, most of the time... lol I know enough German to ask directions or order at a resturant. I lived there for a couple of years in the Army, but I'm not good at speaking it.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
That is great too know! I think that any other language can and will always come in handy!!!
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• India
31 Jan 07
Being an Indian, I can speak my native tongue "Hindi" very well. Apart from that I can speak English which is a universal language. But here in India we do have different languages for different cultures. If you could add to that, I can speak 3/4 out of them.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
That is awesome and i am glad that you know 3 of the 4 and you are right that English is a universal language also!!!
• Malaysia
31 Jan 07
I am a Malaysian and I can currently speak seven languages,icluding native language. I speak(from the most fluent to less fluent): 1.Malayan 2.English 3.German 4.Japanese 5.Korean 6.Mandarin 7.Arabic I am going to master all of them before proceeding to other languages.It is very fun to learn strange languages and know how they functions.
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@ondo1015 (1884)
• Philippines
31 Jan 07
Only three languages, English, Tagalog and Visayan
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
Only three??? I think that knowing three languages is amazing!!!
@not4me (1711)
• United States
31 Jan 07
Well my attention span keep me from finishing what I start in regards to other languages, but I speak intermediate French and I can speak, read and write basic Japanese. Watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu! (I speak a little Japanese)lol. I spent 4 years in Japan and I should know a lot more than I do. :_( But I do hope to study Japanese in a school setting some time in the future.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
That is awesome and you sound very talented as well! Japenese seems like it would be a very interesting language to learn! Personally i do not know if i would be up for the challenge as Japenese seems like it would be hard to get the right pronouciation but awesome job you did!!!!
@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I only speak English well. I can read French though, and I have a smattering of Portuguese that gets me through holidays there.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
Thats kool and as long as it is enough to get you through your holidays spent there than that sounds like enough to know!!!
• Portugal
31 Jan 07
I speak Portuguese and English, both fluently.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
That is kool and i think that another language is both interesting and informative!!!
• Canada
18 Jan 07
I can speak,right and read both French and english. I am slowly learning some SPanish from my co-workers. I would love to learn portugeuse
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
kool...I for one would love to learn spanish and learning some french would be nice also!!
@darckj (885)
• Philippines
31 Jan 07
i am, and i speak filipino -
i am a filipino.. philippines is an archipelago, the reason why every region in here speaks differently.. our official language is called filipino, the majority of us speaks tagalog and most filipinos [luckily] can speak and understand english, although some are not that good.. as i have said, every region speaks differently than the other.. in our place, the dialect we are using is called 'hiligaynon' which can be akeanon, ilonggo, kinaray-a.. i speak kinaray-a, that is my primary dialect.. i speak ilonggo as well, tagalog, and english.. ey, i can speak a very little of italian, too! "parlo solo un poco italiano...."
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
This is nice to know and thank you for being so informative in your way of explaining this!
@amiepuri (134)
• India
18 Jan 07
I speak 3 languages; ENGLISH, HINDI, PUNJABI.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
That is awesome that you can speak three languages!!!
• United States
30 Jan 07
I am an American, and I was born and raised speaking English. I started to learn French when I was 11, but I don't speak it as much anymore. I took up learning Japanese when I was 18, and that is my favorite language thusfar. Since I don't know anyone that speaks it, I just think to myself in Japanese at times. That is the hardest part about foreign languages for me -- finding someone to practice with.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
I agree that it is hard when you know such a wonderful language and you can not speak it. I guess that would be what would make it that much better is actually getting to use this skill!
• India
31 Jan 07
well i speak 3 languages i.e. English, Hindi And Urdu, and i most widely speak hindi as its my native language
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• India
18 Jan 07
2 english urdu ( ma mother tongue )
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
That is awesome!! So english would be your second language than right?
@MusicOnly (328)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
31 Jan 07
I am from Croatia and i can only speak Croatian and English! I would like to learn more languages but i dont have time to do that. I learned dutch in school but i dont know a word!
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@dustyrusy (173)
• United States
17 Jan 07
i speak english and spanish....my spanish might not be 100% perfect....but almost there....heheheheh
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
LOL...Well i am sure that you will get there soon enough. I am glad that you also agree that spanish is the language of love also!!
@elyes7 (97)
• France
17 Jan 07
I speak French, a little English, a little german, a very little spanish
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
That is kool at least you have a selection of four different languages going on that is wicked!!!
@sensesfail (2251)
• India
31 Jan 07
I speak three languages.One of them is french.
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