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  • I speak just my native language.

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  • I speak one additional language beyond my native tongue.

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  • I speak 3 different languages.

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  • I can speak up to 4 different languages.

    31 20.39%
  • I can speak 5 or more languages.

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    How many languages do you speak? (OP)


    Including your native tongue, how many languages do you speak well enough to read a newspaper or have a conversation with another person in that language?
    (Please consider multiple dialects of the same language that can be mutually understood as one language, whereas those that cannot be mutually understood -- such as Cantonese and Mandarin -- count as two languages.)
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

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    I speak only English as a second language, and slightly German. I would want to learn Arabic, Russian, and Japanese also..One from west, one from south , one from north and one from east.
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Mikayeel View Post


    I speak 3 my self, dutch, arabic, english.

    Uncle woodrow what made u learn the maroccan accent, out of all the arabic accents? Not that there is anything wrong with maroccan way but am just curious


    I used to live in Maroc and attended the University of Rabat for the purpose of learning conversational Arabic.
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    Turkish , Dutch and English , And like to learn Arabic, Japanese and Malay
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    Bugti's talking original Arabic

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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Proudly_Muslim View Post
    I can speak, read and write 2 languages, English and Afrikaans

    I can read and write arabic but understand very little of it
    I assume you can also read Dutch.
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    ^And why is that ?
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    Arabic....read, write and converse

    English....read, write and converse

    Japanese.....still in my way, can start a very basic converse, although I can read hiragana characters perfectly so far alhumdulilah
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Güven View Post
    ^And why is that ?
    Aafrikans and Dutch are heavily related.
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    format_quote Originally Posted by zAk View Post
    3 for me. English, Urdu and Hindi.
    But when it comes to reading, add Arabic to the list And a bit of gujarati and Telugu[local language]
    Yeah but isn't spoken Urdu and Hindi basically the same? I mean speakers of both can perfectly understand each other.
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Amatul Wadud View Post
    AssalamuAlaykum

    English - Read, write, converse

    Urdu - Read, write, converse

    Gujrati - Read, write, can understand spoken Gujrati but cant converse too well.

    Arabic - Read, write, can converse a litte but very basic.

    WassalamuAlaykum

    P.S Bangla is on the list insha'Allah soon
    Wow... I wish I could say that. I can for English and Arabic (read, write and converse very basically). And Urdu- conversing only. How can you read Urdu? It's impossible! Can't do it without harakaat (as you have in Arabic).
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Whatsthepoint View Post
    Aafrikans and Dutch are heavily related.
    true but afrikaans has some (way)different grammar as dutch
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    format_quote Originally Posted by *Yasmin* View Post
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    Arabic,English and Hebrew
    You can speak Hebrew? I suppose it's not that different from Arabic?
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?



    I assume you can also read Dutch.
    Dutch is quite similar to afrikaans so yeah im sure I'd be able to read it, haven't tried though
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Banu_Hashim View Post
    You can speak Hebrew?
    yeah ,i can

    I suppose it's not that different from Arabic
    not exactly,but there is so many words that similar to that in Arabic cause both of em semitic lang.
    btw, Hebrew is easy to learn begin from its vecabulary to its grammar.
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    My first language is Penangite (it's like a Malay language + English + Hokkien + Arabic + Tamil)... and it's considered as a dialect of Malaysian Language....

    I also can speak and write in English and Arabic (but my English is way better than my Arabic)...

    I also have no problem with Indonesian Language, the differences between Malaysian and Indonesian is like between Italian and Spanish...

    so... it's 4?
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    I would say 3, English, Gujrati and Urdu
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    Re: How many languages do you speak?

    Arabic- my native language
    French- I use it more than arabic (all my courses are in french).
    English
    Italian ( not as fluently as english and french)
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