How many languages can you speak?

One, fluently...English. I will borrow from another answer of mine... I have seriously studied German, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic. I have tried to teach myself French.

Bottom line, despite a love of languages, several years of academic devotion to the field of linguistics, I find I am barely fluent in English. If I were to grade my current fluency in these languages, I would say: A - English B - Hebrew (Modern Israeli Hebrew and a smattering of Biblical Hebrew) C - German D - Spanish F - Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic) As for my interests, I wish I spoke Mandarin Chinese. But, there are 4 other languages above I need to shore up first.

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Well I can sort speak English and a tiny bit of ASL and a itty bit of Spanish and I can count to five in German LOL .

I can say greetings in five languages I can shop in seven languages. I worked for American Airlines for 25 years so salutations were memorized as well as safety instructions. At home I speak English and I speak mom; what did I say?

Pick that up? I won't tell you again. I also speak grandma; who's the cutest best baby in the world?

Do you want some ice cream? I'll hold you.

1 I'm just lucky I can speak English, and sometimes not that well! .

I'm just lucky I can speak English, and sometimes not that well!

Three mostly English, Punjabi.. I can speak some Urdu and understand some German ( easier to read it, bad at speaking it). Sources: opinion .

I speak English beautifully (and teach ESL) I've studied Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Arabic and ASL ...but the answer is 3, maybe 4. I don't really speak the last ones very well.

Three - English, French, and Spanish I'm a native English speaker, learned French in high school, and Spanish at work in California where I needed it for communication. I also understand Italian and Portguese.

What do you think/feel about so many languages being lost...

I speak English , Malay (because I'm Malaysian), Mandarin, Cantonese , a little bit of Japanese. So 5? Or if I discount the Japanese, 4!

English is my native language. There is no reason for that. One doesn't choose one's mother, or one's mother tongue, but it was a fortunate choice in many ways.

You can travel over the world, or do business almost anywhere in English. However, I think it is also a choice that made me lazy about language learning. Most people in the world have much more incentive to learn a second language.

I learned smatterings of a few languages: Spanish, German, Russian, but I think I can only claim to speak Chinese, and even that is a limited kind of speaking. I can converse, but I don't understand every word I hear, and I often express myself awkwardly. I started studying Chinese, because I had many Chinese co-workers, and I just wanted to say a few words to be polite.

Later, I got interested in learning Chinese for its own sake. I still strive to improve, but I started late and I don't live in a Chinese environment. So, I will probably never achieve a native speaker's full capability.

I speak five languages. My next choice would be French, but if I could learn them all, I would :) Why? It's an aspect of affluence.

I speak English because it's the language we speak at home, work, etc. I also speak Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language) as that is the national language of the country. We learn both languages at school until high school with an emphasis on the national language. However, for those who pursue private colleges, the medium of instruction is English and for those who opt to enrol in public universities, the medium of instruction is the Malay languages.

I did try to learn Spanish from the Spanish serials which were shown on television a long time back but never mastered speaking that language.

Well, I speak English, Tagalog, Spanish and some Malay. I speak Tagalog because my father is a Filipino. I actually learned Spanish by myself.So, all I can speak 4.

:D.

I speak English and Malay (I'm Malaysian! )I can also speak little Japanese because I was born there. And I'm learning French :D because I love languages.

I can speak English, Bengali, Urdu and Arabic. I could also pronounce a word or two of French and German - at least the very little that I can remember from school days.

I speak the King's English because I learned it as a baby and never bothered expanding my horizons. Sheer laziness. I would like to learn Spanish and eventually French and German.

Suppose I will add those to my Bucket List.

I am fluent in two languages. I have a basic knowledge of two more.

Only one, though I am conversational in three others. Fluency is extremely difficult to achieve if you haven't been hearing it from birth and speaking it from the start, and if you aren't fully immersed in the culture from which that language arose.

As many as you can learn before 12 years old. 10, 20, 30... After 13, then you're done. Your brain changes.

Unless you're one of the rare few that can learn languages after 13. Oh, I have a joke: What do you call someone that speaks 3 languages? Tri-lingual How about 2 languages?

Bilingual! And only 1 language? American!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.