How many languages can you speak?

I can speak English, dudes. I can speak an 1/8th of the Spanish language. And can recognize bits of conversational Japanese.

You?

I'm only fluent in english. I used to be semi-fluent in french because I had to take french courses in school (in grades 4-9). I forgot most of what I learned, though. I know how to ask where a bathroom is, as well as a few cuss words (in french).

I know English only, although I can convince high schoolers that I can speak Spanish. I've somehow retained almost all of that.

And then probably a dozen programming languages :-P

I'm American, so really only fluent in English 😅. I do know some Spanish, and I have been working on getting better since my kids started at a dual immersion school.

I can use google translate, all of them.

When you shout it in their face repeatedly, practically one of them.

Do you speak other languages? Because I do.

Portuguese, English, Spanish.

Used to be good with French but somehow my brain (almost) completely erased it.

I used to be able to speak 2, but now I think I'd struggle with my French. I haven't used it in over a decade, really, since I was in French Immersion. If someone spoke it to me slowly, I could understand, but in speaking it back to them, I'd be taking a while in my own head thinking, "What's the word for what I want to get across, again?"

Does it count if you speak programming language code out loud?

Only in my native language is English but over the years, I have gotten better at Japanese language due to me watching Animes in subs.

English and German.

I studied Japanese (Nihongo) for 6 months and I loved it. I am too lazy to study it further though.

It counts! Are you programming by dictation?

English and Swedish.

A little bit of Spanish.

Zwei. Two.

English and Arabic.

Im Lebanese and Australian.

Spanish, English, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese.

The japanese is just conversational though not completely fluent.

I can with Dragon NaturallySpeaking on my Aptiva

I speak, like, really good Californian, brah.

And pretty OK English.

@mrbojangles25: I have no idea why I find their pronunciation to be so satisfying.

I have watched all the Californian sketches, I don't even think they are funny. I just really enjoy the way they speak. Specially when they say words of places that were originally in Spanish.

It's like pronuncing Spanish while chewing pebbles and clock gears. It's oddly satisfying.

Since most of SNL is from the east coast and you are Californian yourself, do you find that dialect to be truthful? If so, what level of truth at 1-10 do you think their portrayal is accurate?

lol it's a 1 out of 10.

What they really nailed however is the way we talk about traffic, or at least how Southern Californians talk about traffic.

Native Serbian and English. Some basic Spanish and very basic Hungarian (by very basic I mean greetings and curse words).

@mrbojangles25: no wonder when I went to los Angeles people were not half as cool as this. Very disappointing...

Oh ya, I hate LA. People are people, but where they're from can alter and warp them and I'd say LA takes a serious toll on one's mental health. Traffic, cost of living, smog, way too many people per square mile, etc..

One of the happiest days of my life is when my sister, brother in law, niece, and nephew left LA and moved to Northern California near where I am. Mostly because they're less than an hour away, of course...but also because it meant I would never have to set foot in LA ever again.

I would never in a million years tell people visiting the United States to set foot anywhere further south than Santa Barbara (in California, at least). The exception would have been San Diego but I heard that's sort of losing its charm as well.

If you want an "accurate stereotype" (if that can even exist) of what people from LA or the LA area are like, watch Insecure or Barry. Both are great series, both really encapsulate Southern California "culture" well (though their focus is narrowed on struggling artists).

*sorry I know that is a hot take, people can be shitty from anywhere, not saying if you're from LA that makes you bad. I just don't like the city and general area.

@mrbojangles25: hahaha I was just joking. I didn't get a bad impression of people from la.

Actually, my impression when I was there, was that most people I was interacting were themselves also not American or at least from other places of the US.

To be honest the only negative impression I got (which was the same as Dallas, the only other place I have visited from that country), is not enough public transportation (moving was just too expensive for a tourist), and big drug problem (a lot of people looked in a really bad state, even young people).

The people were mostly nice. I did get the impression there were less nice If they heard me speak Spanish, but I am not sure if that was just a false impression or a correct read.

Hey if you speak Serbian, you can get by in a ton of Eastern European languages. I used to mispronounce Polish words all the time and my girlfriend would go, "That's Serbian!".

One well, and 3 very poorly.. lol

I do want to learn Latin, but it's a dead language so there isn't much of a point.

Well the further the country the less we understand each other. Like, I can understand a lot of Russian words but very often I have no idea what they're trying to say.

@PfizersaurusRex: the language similarities are quite crazy.

A couple of months ago I realized I could understand a lot of Moldovian simply because of how weirdly close to Spanish it is.

I didn't expect that from Moldovian that's for sure.

@nirgal: That's wild.

Part of my old job involved translating financial statements on the franco-italian line.

One day I turned up to work to find a load of Romanian financial reports in my queue. Thought it was a mistake until I took a look, and it turns out it's basically funny Italian, lol.

Incidentally, my Italian sucks, but it's that similar to French that you can still understand a lot of the written language if you understand French.

Ich spreche Deutsch und Englisch, aber meine muttersprache ist Englisch. Mein Deutsch ist nicht perfekt, aber es ist sehr gut.

Greek and English. Also studied Korean a couple of years back but I've forgotten most of it.

@sancho_panzer: yes, as far I understand Moldovian and Romanian are kind of the same as well.

As far as latin languages, I think other than french, they are all so close your can kind of understand all of them just by knowing one. Of course not everything, but a lot.

French though has the most unusual pronunciation, but written is more similar.

English, I understand a little bit of Spanish though never used it in middle and high school. Took Spanish in college and never used it. Wish I did speak Spanish as I think I would be able to do it. It's just going from English to Spanish and thinking of the words as Spanish has male and female nouns compared to English.

English and Spanish.

English, Spanish and I am learning Portuguese.

Ich spreche zwei Sprachen, aber Englisch viel besser. Deutsch ist meine Mutter Sprache.

See? I've been speaking English so much that I couldn't even remember "mother language" is one word, like so many conjunctions.

Norwegian and English... Had French in school but forgotten most of it.

Just English.

English and Spanish