what country do you come from, and how many languages do you know?

Question

i am english and i can only speak english

what about you


xxx vici

Answer 1

I am from Scotland and sadly like most folks of my generation can only speak English .
It is embarrassing when you come across people from many other countries who as well as there own language can speak English fluently and probably 2 or 3 other languages as well
The younger element of our society seem to be more keyed up on this important area m and admittedly they get more opportunity to expose themselves to other cultures through school trips and foreign holidays . But we should still be doing more to learn other languages and not just expect others to speak English to us.
Good Question I thought., will be interested to see what the response is.
PS
Surprisingly I can still remember a bit of the French I was taught many years ago , but it seemed such a waste of time back then

Answer 2

I'm an Indian living in India and I obviously know and speak English. I'm learning French, though I can't really speak French, and I'm not that great at it.
I know Hindi ( national language of India ) and can sort of understan spoken Punjabi ( another Indian language, regional) if it's not spoken too fast. It's written form is like a maze though! I also understand some amount of Marathi. ( It's written form is pretty much the same as Hindi's.)
My parents are Punjabis and I live in Maharashtra.

NOTE: Indian languages do have written forms. In fact, there are only a few of them that don't. Though there are many dialects that don't really have any alphabet.

Answer 3

I am from Zimbabwe. I live in England. I can speak English, Shona and French. English is the language I think in. Shona is my 'mother tongue' but I speak it like a foreigner. I studied french till A level. I also studied Latin at school but I have forgotten it. I can understand a bit of Dutch and Italian and can get by as a tourist there speaking the local language.

Answer 4

American ... english ... i can count to 10 in spanish !! i used to know a lot of spanish now that america is being taken over by hispanic ... but i moved to india and unfortunally i haven't been able to learn anything ... i can tell the difference between the indian languages though ... but the indian languages have no alphabet ( with the exception of hindi) so they are very very very hard to learn ... i tried learning french ... i left the school so i stopped and i don't have time for a new language ... besides everyone in bangalore knows english ...
oh yeah i know pig latin ... it's sooo fun

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Answer 5

I am also English and I am fluent in:-
Spanish,
French,
Italian,
Portuguese,
Catalan,
Turkish
and Romanian.

I also have a working knowlegde of Greek, Polish, Farsi (Persian), Basque, Scottish Gaelic, Hindi, Gujerati and Punjabi.

I can also read in German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch and Welsh.

I am currently trying to learn Albanian and Quechua (a South American indigenous language).

I hold a degree in Spanish French and Italian and I am fortunate enough to be in a job where languages are used constantly, so I am provided with the resources to learn languages.

Answer 6

Romania and speak 3 languages: Romanian, English and Italian

Answer 7

I'm Antonella, I'm Italian and I really love learning new languages and chatting with people from all around the world in different languages..

I can speak a really good english, french and little of German.

My favourite one is English, of course!!!

.........But I'd like to learn Spanish, as soon as possible ;)!

Antonella

Answer 8

I was born in Italy but have live in Wales for the last 15 yrs, so i speak English, Italian and Neapolitan.

Answer 9

I'm from Puerto Rico and I speak Spanish, English, Italian, Papiamento, some Creole and some french.

Answer 10

I am Dutch, I have lived in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. I speak Dutch, English and German and a bit of French.