How many languages do you speak fluently?

[Scheherazade]

How many languages do you speak fluently? Where did you learn them?

[sdr4jc]

Well, does ASL (American Sign Language) count? I know most of that, so I guess you could say I'm fluent??

[Stanislaw]

I can speak english fluently, but the other languages, I can only just speak enough to just barely get by, So, I only speaks one fluently.

[beer good]

Swedish and English, obviously. My German used to be fluent but could use some practice, and I think I could still manage to make myself understood in high school Spanish. I love languages.

[sdr4jc]

Wow!! Swedish!! I bet that's a beautiful language. Good for you!

[Anon22]

I speak spanish, english, and a little bit of french (not fluent though, just learning, need french subtitles to understand though). Spanish was my first language, then I moved here 10 years ago, and I learned english, while in the house I spoke spanish. As for French, I'm just learning it in high school, but I plan on using somehow... well... I don't plan on forgetting it (most likely will though, sadly)

[Stanislaw]

Everytime I read the title of this thread, I imagine it being spoken by the robot in Jabbas palace from star wars episode VI return of the jedi "How many languages do you speak" c3p0 "I am fluent in over 6 million forms of comunic...." "yes or no will do!"

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[Petrarch's Love]

Are we counting only languages we're fluent in, or languages we can carry on a basic conversation in? I'm only fluent in English, but I can get by OK on my Italian and French (and read them fairly well) though it sometimes takes me a few days to really get back into speaking them if I haven't done so in awhile . I also have "small Latin" as Jonson said of Shakespeare, but I doubt I'll ever get the chance to speak it unless I get an audience with the pope someday or something.

I was curious as to how many languages people have had dreams in. I've had dreams in all the languages I've studied, including Latin (though Latin was weird because it wasn't spoken audibly in the dream. I was reading it on scrolls that emerged like captions out of the speakers' mouths ).

[daddysfiddler]

English is my first, and I'm studying sign language, and hope to some day work with the deaf. <><

[emily655321]

I'm just a silly English speaker. I studied French in high school, and Latin for one semester in college, and I have a few German language books sitting beside me on the desk, but I can't be said to speak any of those. I can read basic vocabulary, but seem to hit a wall when it comes to crossing over into the realm of conversation. I want to learn all the languages ever known to man, and read the great literature of different races, and trace them all back to the first whoopings in trees uttered by our ancestors, but I can't even manage to understand one French movie without subtitles.

[Pensive]

I can speak English, Urdu and Punjabi. I can't speak Punjabi and English very fluently.
My father is Urdu-speaking and my mother is Punjabi so I have learnt Urdu from father's side and Urdu is also our national language, while Punjabi is from my mother's side.

I learnt English from books and school. I was always good at languages. I mean essays, application, and this kind of stuff. I can write good Urdu essays but my Urdu hand-writing is an earthquake.

I can also understand Sirayki but I wouldn't count it as I can't speak it at all.

[Virgil]

I can speak English, Urdu and Punjabi. I can't speak Punjabi and English very fluently.
My father is Urdu-speaking and my mother is Punjabi so I have learnt Urdu from father's side and Urdu is also our national language, while Punjabi is from my mother's side.

I learnt English from books and school. I was always good at languages. I mean essays, application, and this kind of stuff. I can write good Urdu essays but my Urdu hand-writing is an earthquake.

I can also understand Sirayki but I wouldn't count it as I can't speak it at all.

Wow. And how old did you say you were? That's quite an accomplished young lady. You write english perfectly, probably better than me.

[Scheherazade]

Are we counting only languages we're fluent in, or languages we can carry on a basic conversation in?

I was thinking of the languages we are fluent in when I started the thread.

[Sami]

I am completely fluent in UK-English. I’m almost fluent in Canadian-English, but I’m still learning. Until recently I thought that the Canadian/American word for “cling film” was “surround wrap” – seemed logical. It turns out that the word is actually “saran wrap” – how embarrassing!

[MexThorn]

I speak a few languages. If you can call them languages. I speak English, Spanish, Spanglish, Ghetto, Ebonics, Mexican, El Salvadorian, Yaponiase, and Wapyoass.

But fluently I can speak English and Spanish (Espanol). English is my first language. I can speak Spanish really well and read but I can't spell Spanish. I end up spelling like English and it becomes Spanglish. I learned Spanish growing up in a Mexican - El Salvadorian family. When I was 4 I went to El Salvador for the first time. The whole time I was there that first time I was lost I didn't know a lot of Spanish then and nobody there knew English. My mom is Mexican-American and my dad is El Salvadorian so growing up around a Spanish speaking family I just picked it up.