Foreign languages

[Darkmage]

I'm a high school student, and at my school, there are three big things: religion, music, and languages. We're kind of small, so we only have three: Latin and German, of which I have a little experience, and Spanish. I have some friends in other schools who take French. My dad knows German, and my mom knows Norwegian.

Sometimes I think about all the languages we have in this world, and I sometimes want those thoughts out in the open. So... I guess this is the place where you would talk about it. So I guess, long story short,

1) How many languages can you speak (basic grasp counts) and what are they, and
2) Which is your favorite? (for example, I think German pretty much rocks)

[NeoTifa]

english, my french sux, and my spanish is even worse. we have spanish and french at our school. we suck.

[tidus_rox]

I only know english an french. I am good in french... semi-fluent.

I am going to Japan for a year in a year as an exchange student, though!!! EEK!!!

[Vermachtnis]

I've been told I speak well in English. My Spanish and German are acceptible at best. French sucks.

[Bahamut2000X]

I'm fluent in English. I took Italian and Spanish when I was in high school. During those times though I also studied Japanese and German on my own, mostly from a dictionary and various websites. Of all of them I'm best at Japanese and am functional enough that I could express some needs, but not pretty or much beyond basic ideas.

[Kirobaito]

English and Spanish. I can speak enough Spanish to get by, though I'm pretty out of practice.

English is my favorite language.

[Ramza Beoulve]

I can speak fluent English and Spanish, being both my mother tongues. I can speak some French, Italian, Nahuatl and German (a few words sadly, I have lost practice in all of them).

Spanish is my favorite language.

I want to learn Latin.

[Clouded Sky]

I used to have a pretty good command of Spanish after taking it in high school. Now I can hardly speak at all but I can understand most things just fine.

My best (foreign) language right now is Japanese. I've taken it for two years at college, both language and nearly exclusively related classes. The language classes here are fairly accelerated, even for college, so I'm doing pretty well. I plan on majoring in Japanese literature, so I need to be able to speak it well. I'm studying at Waseda University for the entirety of next year so I expect my language skills to improve immensely. They did when I was only there for two months.

I was actually discussing this today with my friend who is going with me and we're hoping to have passed the JLPT2 by the end of the year. By the time I graduate, or perhaps the year after I want to get the JLPT1 under my belt.

[Heath]

1. English, a decent amount of German and a very basic amount of Welsh.

2. I suppose English, but I do quite like German as a language.

[Big D]

I'm a native English speaker, and I've got a bachelor's degree in German though that one's grown rusty through disuse. I know a few words of Maori, Russian, and various other tongues too.

[rubah]

I speak english, passable french, but lately, my mind has taking to phrasing sentences in spanish. I don't know why; I only took one year of it two years ago. . . I kinda want to go back. Or learn esperanto.

[Jiro]

I speak English, and just finished my first semester of Japanese. I did Italian and Spanish in school, but it was very limited.

My favourite is definitely Japanese. Despite knowing only a small amount, it makes so much more sense when compared to English

[Krelian]

I can speak fluent German, kind of fluent English, some Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian. I want to learn Japanese, but I'm not sure when or how to accomplish that. My favorite isn't easy to pick. I love languages in general. I like English very much, but lately Indonesian has grown on me. Though I'm not nearly as fluent in Indonesian as in English.

Ah, right, I still speak a tiny bit of French, since I learned it in school. But I've hardly ever used it, so I forgot almost everything =(

[Breine]

I'm fluent in Danish (my mother language) and English. I'm good at German too, and I took Spanish for two years in High School so I know some of that - enough to understand basics and carry a simple conversation. Other than that I understand a little bit of French, and I fully understand Swedish and Norwegian (well, almost fully).

My favourite is probably French. I wish I knew how to speak it.

[Rantz]

I speak Swedish and English fluently, Swedish being my native language. I took French classes for four years but didn't get very much out of it. Norwegian isn't very different from Swedish, so it's pretty easy to understand. Danish, on the other hand... I can read it fairly well, but I can almost never hear what they're saying.

Outside that, I have a pretty good sense of linguistics, so I can often navigate myself through some phrases from most Indo-European languages by analyzing them word by word. For that reason and others, I would like to learn Latin or Spanish, both being so largely connected to a barrage of languages.