Language poll: How many and which languages to you speak, read and write on a basic level of fluency?

Question

This means able to hold conversations, read some news and write letters.

Please identify your country or geogrpahic region.

I am an American and am fluent on a level in Russian and sunderstand a bit of French.

Answer 1

I've lived in Mexico for moe than 25 years. My native is Spanish. I speak English and Esperanto and currently I am learning Norwegian.
I can read Portuguese, Ido, some French, Italian and German.

Answer 2

Fluent in English. Can converse and understand a fair amount of French, Hebrew, and Persian. Can speak/understand/read a basic amount of Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, German, Latin, Laotian, and Mandarin.

Answer 3

My first language is English. I can hold conversations in Japanese (with a little help form my dictionary), can read some newspapers, but am very good at writing letters. I hope to improve my skills greatly, as I want to be completely fluent in Japanese. That would be awesome, and I'll make it happen!

Answer 4

I'm an American.
Basic fluency in speaking, reading, writing: Hungarian
Basic fluency in reading: Shoshoni, Comanche, Timbisha, Latin, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, French, German

Answer 5

I was born in Eastern Europe, i live in New York

I am fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, English, German.
I understand, speak and read Polish. I can talk in Hebrew, Arabic and Spanish. I curse in many more :)

Answer 6

^^^ Tavio is impressive...

I was born in Colombia but currently live in Grand Rapids, MI... I am fluent in Spanish and English, but I also know ASL (American Sign Language) not perfect but enough to hold a simple conversation.

Answer 7

My native language is Portuguese (I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), but I also learned English (quite fluent), German (better at speaking and reading) and Spanish (quite fluent too).

Answer 8

English as a first language.
Fluent in Spanish.
Good reading/fair spoken German and French.
Can order a beer in Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese.

Answer 9

the following in South Texas, there's a dialect coined TexMex , we communicate English yet throw in Spanish information in our each day conversations, that's demanding to describe yet exciting ...after I heard myself talking at the same time as travelling huge apple. My friends and that i stuck out! We also do say Y'ALL and Y'all's. (Ex. Y'all's order is waiting) in assessment to up North East the position they say 'yous men' or 'youses' ...also Ain't ,Naw and double negatives are immediately ahead. ( Double negatives are immediately ahead because in Spanish that's the striking way, and many people the following had English as their 2d language) rather of 'for' we are saying 'fer' and a similar for 'or' and 'er'. we are saying this er that. We type and textual content commonplace English of direction, yet we communicate in yet otherwise. The note To is 'tuh'. Like elephant tusks, tuh . And The is 'thuh' We also call any soda coke. Ex. choose a soda? Yeah. What style? Dr Pepper. Haha kinda stupid yet it is how that's. i'm hoping this helps, I promise you we are not hill billys haha!

Answer 10

I'm from Kenya- East Africa. (but live in Florida)

English (my 3rd language)- Fluent, read and write very well
Swahili (my 2nd) - Fluent, read and write very well
Kamba(my 1st) - my mother tongue.....Fluent, can read and write a little. (It was never taught in schools while growing up b/c it's a native language).