How many languages do you know how to speak?

Question

how old were you when you learned? was it hard? and how did you learned?

I am trying to learn to speak Greek and Italian.

I currently speak fluent Spanish, and English (obviously).

Well Spanish I learned when I was toddler as well as English. I had to learned both since my mother is Cuban and my father is African-American.

Answer 1

Four,

English - Born in the U.S., it's my native language.

Esperanto - I learned it as a language learning experiment, because I wanted to find out if I could learn a foreign language.

Spanish - Because I failed it in High School, leading me to believe for many years that I couldn't learn a language, and it became a vendetta. I had to master it before I could go on.

German - because it is an ancestral language of mine.

Esperanto surprised me quite a bit. When I began learning it, I had the same opinion about it most of us in the U.S. have. I thought that since it was a "made up" language, nobody spoke it and it was practically useless, but once I had learned it, I was pleasantly surprised that it is spoken by people all over the world, an estimated 2 million people. I've had conversations in it with people I would never have met were it not for Esperanto. I've read literature and listened to music in it that I would never have been exposed to had I not taken the few months it took to learn. Learning Esperanto has been the most enriching Language experience I've had yet. But I'm not finished yet.

In the future I would like to learn:

Mandarin - because I would like to travel in Asia, and Mandarin would be a very handy language to know for this travel.

American Sign Language - Just because it interests me.

Answer 2

between 3 and 6 and sometimes 12 (depending how fluent I have to be)

English - grew up around the Yankee Creole version (American English). Learned British English when I moved here in my twenties.

French - started when I was sixteen. Flunked it badly in school, but went to France for a year and read a lot of plays, went to lots of films and now I'm fluent. Hard until I started watching films in French and made some French friends.

Welsh - Started at about 27. Can speak to children with it, but often resort to English if it's anything serious. Took night school and forced myself to read books with it. Also did Link Word course. Very Hard.

Italian and Spanish - learned a bit at school. Never got great at them, can understand and be understood. Easy, but maybe that's because I haven't gotten that far yet. Latin languages are very similar (except for French), and one can help with another.

Portuguese - visited the country many times since I was little, always had a limited vocabulary, but only started learning it properly in my twenties. I talk to old Portuguese people who don't speak English. Easy because it is just for social reasons, no pressure. But very slow progress over decades.

The other six I'm not great at, but can read.

In boca al lupo!

Answer 3

I speak Spanish, it's my native language and I speak English, but not a lot, I'm learning.
I know some words in Italian, but that's all
i learned Spanish when I was year, and I started learn English when I was 13, two years ago


Kisses for you,
from Chic@ m@l@

Answer 4

I speak Mandarin, 3 Chinese dialects (learnt outside of school), Malay, Japanese and English. Teochew (Chinese dialect and mother tongue) and English were spoken while growing up. Malay was picked up from friends and I took up Japanese in university.

In Singapore, all school children are taught at least two languages from primary (7 - 12 years old) to secondary (13 - 16/17) and college (17 - 18).

The medium of instruction for all subjects is English, except when it comes to your mother tongue or second language.

You can choose Mandarin, Malay or Tamil as your second language which will be taught from primary right up till college level. This means that all school children will have spent at least 10 years learning a second language.

If the child happens to be "gifted" or smarter, he or she can opt for a third language in secondary school; Japanese, French or German.

Answer 5

I know Spanish and English since i was like born, and i also know french learned at 13 and i know Portuguese also at 13

Answer 6

My native language is Spanish, I learned English when I came to live to U.S., I was 18 years old. I would like to learn more languages like French, Chinese or Vietnamese.

Answer 7

6 including English. The others are Cherokee, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and a bit of Japanese.

Answer 8

"and how did you learned?"

I think you should work on your English a bit more (just messing with you).

Anyway, I speak English and Romanian.

English: I think I was about 1 year old, it came pretty naturally, I just copied my parents, my brother, my childminder, and various other children.

Romanian: I was 23, it was fairly challenging, I just borrowed a book from the library for a few months and copied it out by hand twice. Then, as if by magic, I knew Romanian.

Foarte bine, nu crezi?

Answer 9

I speak English and German. English is my native language and I started learning German when I was 37.

Answer 10

I speak two. English and Spanish (English is my strongpoint; I grew up with it). I was thirteen when I learned Spanish.