How many languages do you speak fluently ?

[Pat "5mph"]

I can only speak English

Scottish, you mean?
Could be that you speak English too, but I've never heard you speaking it

 

[All uphill]

English and Dutch.

I can sort of get by in French and I'm working on improving that.

If you're interested in how we deal with two languages "The Bilingual Brain" by Albert Costa is a great book.

 

[Ripple]

Lithuanian - native. Russian - fluent. English - fluent. All 3 languages are completely different (very often I'm asked if Lithuanian and Russian are similar).
I won't count other languages I understand or speak a bit.

 

[C R]

Galician, native, Spanish and English fluent. Can communicate in Portuguese with different levels of ease depending on the accent of the other party.

 

[Moon bunny]

English, Gaeilg Uladh (Ulster Irish.)

 

[HLaB]

None or nane to be precise. I do have bit of pigeon german or taube Deutsch having learnt it in college before a placement in Bochum.

 

[scragend]

In all honesty I can only claim the one.

I should be better at languages than I am; it was always my strength at school and I find languages interesting. I just don't have the time/opportunity/perseverance to learn them properly.

I was reasonable at French but pretty rusty now. I can still do the sentence structure but I forget the words. For the last few years I've been dabbling at learning Dutch, and I can do a bit, but probably not to the level where I could hold a conversation in it. Doesn't help that the buggers insist on speaking English because their English is way better than my Dutch! I was told by a Dutchman (in Berlin, somewhat ironically) last year that my Dutch was passable. "You have a bit of an accent but it's understandable". I'll take that as a win.

I've never learned German other than a few words, but I find that learning Dutch has scuppered any attempts I might make to speak German, because I can't help but pronounce the words Dutchly.

My strengths in foreign languages are I would say, in descending order, reading, speaking, writing, listening. I feel like with full immersion in the language I would get better at the listening but with only occasional exposure to it I struggle. I've tried watching TV in those languages but again I don't have the perseverance I'm afraid.

Oh and I can say "my hovercraft is full of eels" in Hungarian.

 

[Emanresu]

Was in Valais, the French speaking part of Switzerland with my daughter this summer. When we got to the hotel to book in, they didn't speak English so I lapsed into French. My daughter was amazed. "French - and sentences too...." It's been years since I used it and like most skills, you need to constantly refresh them.

I have been using this site on and off. The guy that runs it isn't a linguist but has a knack of analysing any language he turns his mind to. Well worth having a dip into a few of the first parts of your language of choice - or music. It's an odd way of looking at it, but it seems to work for some.

https://soundcloud.com/languagetransfer

 

[Jameshow]

0000000!

 

[Venod]

Yorkshire with a little bit of English.

 

[stephec]

Three - English, bad, and foul.

 

[DCLane]

I get away with mixed English peppered with a variety of bits collected over the years (Nottinghamshire / Ulster twang/ Smoggie / Yorkshire) and abysmal attempts at the local language wherever I'm going. My experience of this in French is that I usually get responses of "thanks, but please stop. You're ruining our language".

 

[Accy cyclist]

Oh and I speak and write a bit of Japanese. 🧐

ドラゴは女々しい男だ!!
Dorago wa memeshī otokoda! !

 

[All uphill]

In all honesty I can only claim the one.

I should be better at languages than I am; it was always my strength at school and I find languages interesting. I just don't have the time/opportunity/perseverance to learn them properly.

I was reasonable at French but pretty rusty now. I can still do the sentence structure but I forget the words. For the last few years I've been dabbling at learning Dutch, and I can do a bit, but probably not to the level where I could hold a conversation in it. Doesn't help that the buggers insist on speaking English because their English is way better than my Dutch! I was told by a Dutchman (in Berlin, somewhat ironically) last year that my Dutch was passable. "You have a bit of an accent but it's understandable". I'll take that as a win.

I've never learned German other than a few words, but I find that learning Dutch has scuppered any attempts I might make to speak German, because I can't help but pronounce the words Dutchly.

My strengths in foreign languages are I would say, in descending order, reading, speaking, writing, listening. I feel like with full immersion in the language I would get better at the listening but with only occasional exposure to it I struggle. I've tried watching TV in those languages but again I don't have the perseverance I'm afraid.

Oh and I can say "my hovercraft is full of eels" in Hungarian.

Easy Dutch is a great free YouTube channel that you might enjoy

 

[Ming the Merciless]

0000000!

Ah, fluent in the language of numbers. Not many are…