I'm relatively new to Cunning Linguists, and would like to get to know the regulars here a little bit better. Just list the languages you speak, with your level of proficiency.

First Language: English

Second Languages: Japanese (fluent, self-taught). Spanish (proficient, I'm Guatemalan, so I feel obligated to speak it).

I plan on being a translator/intepreter after college, I also have a natural gift for languages. I'm currently teaching myself Arabic and Korean as well.

Fluent in Spanish.

Can read/write/speak/understand French, though not fluently. I can watch a movie in french without subtitles and still understand most of it.

Am teaching myself Russian and Arabic. I lost interest in Japanese right around the time I started liking Mandarin. That's my future target. This would make me proficient 6 UN official languages, coincidentally, and I'm almost halfway there.

First Language : English (fluent)

Second Languages: French (above average), Arabic (fluent)

Learning : Russian 2%, Japanese 2% :- P

My dad's from North Africa and my mom's from south east asia precisely Filipino : - P , when I was a kid I could speak Tagalog fluently but as the time passed by I forgot it due to my parents getting separated and me staying with dad whom I would communicate with either in english or arabic .

I always like to learn new languages, anything that sounds different from english is acceptable accept french which I hate because of the grammar thing

First language: American English (fluent)

Second Language: German (decent level)

Learning Russian so I can get into Ukranian, so I can visit Ukraine; I still don't know why I want to :|

I should probably learn French as I am French, but from what I hear the French are complete douchebags to you if you can't speak proper French. I wanted to learn some Korean and Arabic but the dialects made Arabic a tad useless for me and I've heard most Koreans would rather practice their English than speak Korean. I might learn some Mandarin and visit China.

First language: Dutch

Fluent in english, proficient in german. I can mutter a few words in french, although I was forced to take it 3 years in highschool.

Second Languages: Japanese (fluent, self-taught).

そうですか。　私は７年間で日本語を勉強した。　でも、今は昨年より日本語はよくない。高校三年生の日本語 を勉強したけど、昨年、高校は終わったからです。 日本に行った事がありますか？　:) .. or, to compliment the script: >_< or however the hell they do them.

:) .. or, to compliment the script: >_< or however the hell they do them.

Demo sa, ore no computer ga kana wo misenai. Ma, amari no kanji yomimasen, ore wa.

:-(
I can only read about 100.

just install the encoding thing in my computer under your language settings :) and then if you have trouble with your kanji, www.popjisyo.com is your friend.
Im assuming your better than me if your fluent, so why do you use ore and not watashi?
Have you ever been to japan? I have, its fun :)
By the way:
English as a first language
Japanese to an intermediate level.

english, chinese.

both native.

just install the encoding thing in my computer under your language settings :) and then if you have trouble with your kanji, www.popjisyo.com is your friend.
Im assuming your better than me if your fluent, so why do you use ore and not watashi?
Have you ever been to japan? I have, its fun :)
By the way:
English as a first language
Japanese to an intermediate level.

Because traditionally, "boku" and "ore" are used by men, "watashi" by women.

Fluent - Spanish(native) and English
Second- French
Learning: Portuguese and Italian

Danish and English. I can also communicate perfectly well with swedes and norwegians, but I take it that doesn't count.

Norwegian and English. I can also communicate perfectly well with swedes and danes, but I take it that doesn't count.

This.
Also some Polish.

First Language: English

Other Languages:

German (proficient)

Japanese (intermediate)
I know a decent bit of vocabulary and I've mastered hiragana and I can recognize/write around 30 kanji so far.

Cantonese (beginner)
I can only make simple conversation and recognize a few more hanzi than I know from Japanese, though some of the common characters do differ slightly. Different characters are used for some of the same words.

Mandarin (beginner)

Arabic (beginner)
When I was kid because my dad taught me it, but I can remember very little after never really having an opportunity to speak it as I grew up.

I plan to have all these languages mastered in the future.

Primary Language: English
Second Language: German, Some Spanish, Some Russian

First: Canadian English (fluent)
Second: Spanish (passable, but continuing to study)

English: native language, fluent

spanish: intermediate, about as far as you can get with two years of high school classes.

german: beginner, self-teaching with pimsleur.

ukrainian: beginner, taking classes at my university.

First Language: Urdu (Pakistan)

Second Language: English (also Official Language)

Local Language: Punjabi

Languages queued up for learning:
Chinese and Italian.

English: native language, fluent

spanish: intermediate, about as far as you can get with two years of high school classes.

german: beginner, self-teaching with pimsleur.

ukrainian: beginner, taking classes at my university.
Two years of high school classes do not make you intermediate. More less an advanced beginner.

Fluent english and spanish
Bit of french from not paying attention to 3 years of french class (yes, i know, stupid me)
Tad bit of German. Took classes in the summer
Learning chinese. I'd be better if I could remember every word I am thought.

One. English.

I speak spanish decently, though not that well considering i've taken it in school for many many years

and i speaky the english

theres a few languages i know a bit of, but not really worth mentioning

I'm Fluent in - Farsi ( Persian), English
Very good in french, but I wouldn't say fluent because of the fact that I prefer speaking English over French ( I Live in Montreal, Quebec). I went to a French high school, English college/university.

First language : american english
Second language: german(fluent)


I am currently learning russian through Rosetta Stone(it works,try it) though. Hopefully will have it mastered within a year or so time.

My mother tongue is English however I am proficient in the German language.

just one

First language English, conversational Spanish, and I am currently trying to learn Arabic.

Fluently, just English.

I took French for six years and did the French immersion program, but ask me to write in French and you'll be horrified. I do have a good accent, though, and I can still converse to some degree -- that ability is going away quickly. It's not hard to find resources for learning French in Canada at all, thankfully, and I'll be taking advantage of that next semester.

I've been studying Spanish for 5 months. I have a decent knowledge of the language. I have a really good accent; I have a gift when it comes to accents, that's always been the easiest aspect of language courses for me. Quite frankly, however, I'm not interested in the language or culture at all. Taking Spanish was really just the result of not being able to take the French classes I wanted to, so in that respect I've hit a brick wall.

I'm studying in Montreal next year, so I really want to work on getting my French skills up to par. I'd like to study German somewhere down the line as well.

Fluently, just English.

I took French for six years and did the French immersion program, but ask me to write in French and you'll be horrified. I do have a good accent, though, and I can still converse to some degree -- that ability is going away quickly. It's not hard to find resources for learning French in Canada at all, thankfully, and I'll be taking advantage of that next semester.

I've been studying Spanish for 5 months. I have a decent knowledge of the language. I have a really good accent; I have a gift when it comes to accents, that's always been the easiest aspect of language courses for me. Quite frankly, however, I'm not interested in the language or culture at all. Taking Spanish was really just the result of not being able to take the French classes I wanted to, so in that respect I've hit a brick wall.

I'm studying in Montreal next year, so I really want to work on getting my French skills up to par. I'd like to study German somewhere down the line as well.

I recommend taking a French class at your university when you're here. People speak French here, but...if you're living downtown then it's really easy to just speak English all the time.

I recommend taking a French class at your university when you're here. People speak French here, but...if you're living downtown then it's really easy to just speak English all the time.

Yeah, that's what I'm planning on doing.

English is my primary language. But I can speak Portuguese quite well.

My mom is Brazilian and I learned it from her. I'd say my Spanish is decent mostly just studied in High School and had a job where I had to speak it on a regular basis.

Language one: Australian English, fluent

Language two: French, advanced although not quite fluent.
My grammar is excellent, strong vocabulary, but not so good at speaking.

Language three: Italian, intermediate.
I can have conversations, my grammar is okay, a little rusty as I stopped the language last year.

Language four: Not really a language but I understand egyptian hieroglyphs fluently (self taught).

I would love to be fluent in French, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Indonesian, Spanish and Irish.

I natively speak American English. Other languages rated on an arbitrary percentage scale:
50% Latin (I know, not a spoken language, but whatever)
30% German
20% Russian
5% French, Spanish, Mandarin
And I taught myself the arabic and hebrew scripts but can say fuck all using them. I could read to a blind person who speaks them though :)

I speak the language of your only quality is the ability to make uninspired threads french.

First: English
Second: Serbian

First Language: Korean

Second Language: English, fluent

Third Language: French (proficient)

Planned to self-teach: Japanese (sister's second language), thought about another European language but think French has got me covered.

I figure that these 4 languages will grant me leverage/versatility in a business career pretty much anywhere in the world.

first language is english

fluent in french,german and mandarin

learning arabic and spanish, should be fluent in both at the end of 2009

First language: Serbo-Croatian

Fluent in: English, Dutch, French

Basic knowledge of German.

Because traditionally, "boku" and "ore" are used by men, "watashi" by women.

Did you learn Japanese by watching anime....?

Did you learn Japanese by watching anime....?

Is there any other way?

Is there any other way?

Haha.

Well it's funny because "watashi", is not just used by only women, it's a normal/formal way of referring to yourself. I thought it was strange for someone fluent to claim that "boku" and "ore" are what is expected to be used by men, especially when written, until I realised that's what it's like in Anime.

English : mother tongue
French : competent intermediate...
Russian : bit better than french
Japanese : fluent

I learnt them in that order, which is why the french and russian fade despite my efforts to use them from time to time.

For Japanese, you will find some great knowledge at www.language-global.com/lglbbs/

French: First language
English: Fluent
Spanish: A few bits
Japanese: Beginning to learn.

I speak american and fluent in West coast

First Language: English

Other Languages:

German (proficient)

Japanese (intermediate)
I know a decent bit of vocabulary and I've mastered hiragana and I can recognize/write around 30 kanji so far.

Cantonese (beginner)
I can only make simple conversation and recognize a few more hanzi than I know from Japanese, though some of the common characters do differ slightly. Different characters are used for some of the same words.

Mandarin (beginner)

Arabic (beginner)
When I was kid because my dad taught me it, but I can remember very little after never really having an opportunity to speak it as I grew up.

I plan to have all these languages mastered in the future.

There is no way you are intermediate in Japanese if you can only recognize 30 kanji... I can probably recognize over 200 and I don't even study Japanese.

English (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
Mandarin (just started)

American English (Native Language)
Japanese (in progress)
Romanian (in progress)
Spanish (Spanish I, Spanish II next year)
Korean (I can read it, but not speak it)
Russian (in progress)

I speak both English and Spanish fluently.

Yo puedo hablar Ingles y Espanol muy bien.

Right now, just English fluently, and intermediate Spanish. I plan on learning German and French, and hopefully a language with another alphabet, such as Russian.


I'm studying in Montreal next year, so I really want to work on getting my French skills up to par. I'd like to study German somewhere down the line as well.

Are you going to McGill, off chance? I'm from the United States, but I'm thinking of heading up there to attend that University. I'm not really sure about it yet, though.

Fluent: English
Slovak (first language)
French

Not so great at: Polish
Russian

As a Chinese living in Communist China [Hail Comrade Mao], I speaks only ONE language. Chinese.

But I type many-many languages tho....as long as my crtl-c/crtl-v keys and babel-fishes work...:)

English- Native and fluent.

Spanish- Native and fluent.

French- Taken courses for 5 years.

German- Taken courses for 2.

I've lately been considering picking up either Russian or Danish. Don't know which is more useful, since Russian used to be an official language throughout Eastern Europe, and both Norwegian and Swedish are fairly understandable to Danish speakers, at least I've heard...

Im canadian and I speak english and french. My knowledge of arabic, russian, spanish, korean and latin are all self-thought. I only know one language game and that is pig-latin.

English natively, and French semi-fluently; my written French is fairly terrible though. When speaking though, i've gone a few days speaking it, and it really comes back and just comes out without me thinking...

Russian, English - fluent
Can understand Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Spanish.
Want to learn Hindi

English (first language)
Russian (kinda first language, grew up in a Russian-American family)
French (studying in college) .. want to learn Spanish next.

My mother tongue- some motherfucking Gookenese that you don't need to know about :mad:. I speak it fluently.
My second language - English. I can communicate with native speakers reasonably well however there is still much room for improvement.

I also know like lil tidbits about other languages however I am fully aware that this doesn't count as knowing how to speak them: I can count from one to ten in Japanese, say "i love you" in Korean, know a few words in German and French and Spanish and Italian.

I would love to learn German one day however its grammar is very daunting.

My mother tongue- some motherfucking Gookenese that you don't need to know about :mad:. I speak it fluently.

This and your constant glamorizing of "whites" leads me to believe you have one hell of an inferiority complex.

english and a little bit of spanish

This and your constant glamorizing of "whites" leads me to believe you have one hell of an inferiority complex.

Whatever makes you sleep well at night, hun