How many languages do you speak?

Including your mother tongue, how many languages do you speak?

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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.)
 
Peace, Gene!

5 - Albanian, Swedish, Finnish, English and German.

How many do you speak yourself?
 
Al-Zaara said:
Peace, Gene!

5 - Albanian, Swedish, Finnish, English and German.

How many do you speak yourself?
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I just speak 2: English and Spanish. But I hope to make it 3 by summer; I'm working hard on Turkish for a trip to Turkey to visit my daughter. I can also read Koine Greek, but nobody actually speaks it anymore.
 
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I just speak 2: English and Spanish. But I hope to make it 3 by summer; I'm working hard on Turkish for a trip to Turkey to visit my daughter. I can also read Koine Greek, but nobody actually speaks it anymore.
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Wow! Admirable. I like it how other people can speak "dead" languages, but wouldn't have the patience or motivation to learn one myself.

I hope you'll make it to visit your daugther! It's also easier when people around you speak just that language and you have no other choice than to learn it. But these days quite a lot of people know enough English, especially in Turkey?
 
hmmm

3 very fluently AlhamdulillAh...Arabic(native tongue), french and english!
 
I speak Urdu, English, French, Hindi, Punjabi, and a little philippnes.
 
Although I speak quite a few languages I am only listing the 5 I am most comfortable in carrying on a conversation in. Although I do not write very well in any language.

English, Moroccan Arabic, Russian, Cajun French, Tex-Mex Spanish
 
:sl: Somali, English, Swahili.

I can't write in Swahili though, used to be able to read and write in Arabic.
 
i can only speak arabic and english .. but as a child i learned french and then i didnt continue studyin it and i wish i had .. cuz i forgot everythin :(
 
English, Pashto and Urdu.

zAk said:
3 for me. English, Urdu and Hindi.
But when it comes to reading, add Arabic to the list :ermm: And a bit of gujarati and Telugu[local language]
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Urdu and Hindi is the same! Btw, I always thought you were Gujarati?
 
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
 
I can speak, read and write 2 languages, English and Afrikaans

I can read and write arabic but understand very little of it
 
Woodrow said:
Although I speak quite a few languages I am only listing the 5 I am most comfortable in carrying on a conversation in. Although I do not write very well in any language.

English, Moroccan Arabic, Russian, Cajun French, Tex-Mex Spanish
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:sl: :)

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 :)
 
English and still learning Arabic.. I'm bored with English. I need to dedicate more time learning Arabic so I can start speaking it
 
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