How many languages can you speak?

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  1. Tom26070's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    English- Native

    French, A level

    I have Swedish backgrounds :awesome:
  2. .Scout.'s Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    English (obv) and French.

    Just because you did a GCSE in a language, doesn't mean you can speak it....
  3. t-swiper's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    English and Swahili
  4. OddThings's Avatar
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    Native English,semi fluent in German (at A2 level and hope to progress to degree level)
  5. sharmine's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    English
    Bengali
    and got an A in French at GCSE so i think i can speak it relatively well, not so fluent
  6. Reformed2010's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    English and broken French. I wish I could speak more!
  7. Kerrias's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    Depends what you mean by speak?
    If you mean speak fluently then just one, English.
    If you mean being able to hold a decent conversation then three more, French, Spanish and BSL (well you don't really speak sign language but you know what I mean)
    And if you mean knowing bits and pieces then two more, Mandarin and Swiss German.

    But if someone on the street asked me how many languages I speak, I'd say one...
  8. mevidek's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    English, Czech, Slovak, Polish, a very small bit of Russian, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.
  9. pshewitt1's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    fluent Farsi, English, French, italian...really wanna learn Russian but farsi impresses people the most funny once they know it's iranian however.. :/
  10. kayleigh.jean's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    (Original post by Rosalind)
    I'm going to study French and Spanish too And hopefully a bit of Italian!

    What unis are you looking at? I tried and failed for Cambridge so its Sheffield or Birmingham for me
    aww awesome, excellent choice :P
    Edinburgh, St Andrews, Birmingham or Essex...haven't decided yet though!!
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    (Original post by splendidsun)
    I can speak Arabic (and English) fluently

    I would love to be able to speak Spanish/Italian fluently (GCSE doesn't get you very far)
    I can speak English (obviously! lol) and Spanish fluently.
    I know French and German and Italian..up to GCSE :L Which isn't very useful. :/
  12. katyness's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    Portuguese (native)
    English (fluent)
    Spanish (fluent but can't really write it)
    Currently learning German and then Im going to pick up on my French...
  13. IWantSomeMushu's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    Two in English and Gujarati.

    I can speak a little bit of Spanish as well.
  14. -raisa's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    2 fluently: English [native] + Cantonese [my parents are from China!]

    my French is decent (around B2?) so I would have no problems communicating in French.

    I'm learning German & Russian
  15. Robbie.'s Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    English y Espanol
  16. jaez121's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    (Original post by Scarface-Don)
    *Hi5's back*
    Are you applying to any uni's yet?
  17. catlover14's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    I speak English as my first language and I am also doing Spanish and French for A level- I am conversational in these two but I would love to be fluent in them some day
  18. ipulledhermione's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    English
    Urdu
    French
    and learning Spanish: me encanta las patatas fritas?
  19. Scarface-Don's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    (Original post by jaez121)
    Are you applying to any uni's yet?
    Yh I've applied to Barts, Keele, Southampton and Leeds for medicine and pharmacy at Kingston as my insurance for which I got an offer. Have you applied?
  20. LaughingBro's Avatar
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    Re: How many languages can you speak?
    Cantonese, Korean and English.
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