How many language do you speak and what are they?

Question

My question is how many of language do you speak and what kind of language are they and why you choose to learn them, besides your language.....

Answer 1

Four,
English - The U.S. variety is 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

English - native language
French - Had to learn it at school but was very useful afterwards
Lithuanian - I live and work here and now speak fluently
Russian - a smattering to get by
I like languages as long as they are indo european as I can understand the structure. I also teach english so that helps.

Answer 3

I speak English as my native language. I also speak German. I had to take four semesters of a foreign language in order to get my Bachelor's degree, and I chose German because I had studied it for one year in high school. I'm currently learning Italian, and I'm teaching myself Latin.

Answer 4

English - born in America
(grew up bilingual)
Korean - I myself am Korean-American

Spanish - 6 years of (junior) high school studies, but I wish I would've taken French in it's stead.

American Sign Language - I thought it would be interesting, and it was offered at my high school (4 years)

Japanese - why not keep going? it was offered at my school, once again (2 years)

On top of these, I know a smattering of French (self study), Chinese(written from Japanese kanji/mom and spoken form friends), and Esperanto (self-study/internet). But I don't consider myself to "know" any these languages because I can't converse in them.

Answer 5

Spanish (mother tongue), English (because I learned at school as a mandatory subject and I like it), I can read fairly well in Italian (my dad spoke it and I acquired some), and I've studied survival French (because it's very nice and elegant) German (it's logical and orderly) and Russian (it's convenient to know some in order to chat with beautiful "dievushki")

Answer 6

I speak Mandarin, Teochew (Chinese dialect), Hokkien (Chinese dialect), Cantonese (Chinese dialect), Malay, Japanese and English.

Living in Singapore exposes you to many different races and cultures and being Chinese means that it is not just Mandarin you grew up speaking. Also, schooling with other races also pushed me to pick up Malay. Took up Japanese in uni as I had wanted to better communicate with my housemates.

English because it is the language of instruction in schools. All students also have to learn a second language for at least 10 years. This translates to a majority of Singaporeans being bilingual with Mandarin, Malay or Tamil as their second language.

Answer 7

English, because I was raised learning English (I know this one best)
Japanese, because it's a really fun, easy lanugage (This is my second best)
French, because my school teaches it (third best)
Spanish, because I'm spanish and I should really know the language (I know this language the least)

Answer 8

Chinese,vietnamese,german,englisch

Answer 9

Russian, English, French, German

Answer 10

I speak English, Urdu, Spanish, Arabic, French, Chinese and Latin too.