[tamil4]

English and Tamil fluently
Doing German gcse (if that counts)

[ehc]

I can say really useful phrases in broken German like "Where are my bagpipes?" and "I like to dance in the disco!"

Honestly though, I regret not taking German for A Level.

[ScottishShortiex]

English, French and Spanish (both at a reasonable level although I wouldn't call myself fluent).

[philistine]

English - exceptionally
French - conversationally
Japanese - conversationally (though it's fading due to lack of study)
Italian - beginner
Latin - strong (you don't really have conversations in Latin though)
Greek - beginner

Toss in a handful of expressions in various other languages; Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic and so forth.

I love learning languages.

Slightly related:

James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, spoke several languages. Taken from Wikipedia:

By this time Murray was primarily interested in languages and etymology. Some idea of the depth and range of his linguistic erudition may be gained from a letter of application he wrote to Thomas Watts, Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, in which he claimed an ‘intimate acquaintance’ with Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish and Latin, and 'to a lesser degree' Portuguese, Vaudois, Provençal & various dialects’. In addition, he was ‘tolerably familiar’ with Dutch, German and Danish. His studies of Anglo-Saxon and Mœso-Gothic had been ‘much closer’, he knew ‘a little of the Celtic’ and was at the time ‘engaged with the Slavonic, having obtained a useful knowledge of the Russian’. He had ‘sufficient knowledge of Hebrew & Syriac to read at sight the Old Testament and Pe****o’ and to a lesser degree he knew Aramaic, Arabic, Coptic and Phoenician.

Is this real life?

[Subway]

English. French and intermediate level Spanish. Intend to take these to uni this year. But would love to know a minor language like Catalan or luxembourgish!

[medbh4805]

(Original post by philistine)
Slightly related:

James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, spoke several languages. Taken from Wikipedia:



Is this real life?

this guy is my new hero

[bíborcsiga]

(Original post by philistine)
Slightly related:

James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, spoke several languages. Taken from Wikipedia:

Is this real life?

(Original post by medbh4805)
this guy is my new hero

Another inspiring example would be Kató Lomb. (again from Wikipedia)

Native in Hungarian, she was able to interpret fluently in nine or ten languages (in four of them even without preparation), and she translated technical literature and read belles-lettres in six languages. She was able to understand journalism in further eleven languages. As she put it, altogether she earned money with sixteen languages (Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian). She learned these languages mostly by self-effort, as an autodidact.

I read some of her books, and it's amazing how she believes you can learn as many languages as you want, you just have to work hard. (Though unlike her, I do believe in the existence of language talent.)

[jo1692]

English - native language
German - fluent
French - beginners

[toxik_apple]

English (native) and Italian (fluent). I can translate Latin and Ancient Greek interchangeably and read Portuguese, Spanish and French. I've been meaning to self-teach Russian for the past 3 years so will probably try and do that this summer. Would love to grasp Mandarin and Arabic as well at some point.

[lassiesuca]

I speak English (native tongue) and Spanish (advanced level) and doing German as well (both Spanish and German at A-Level as well).

I can get by in French and my grandparents live in Turkey, so I've picked up a bit of Turkish along the way too.

[ms607]

The only language I can speak fluently is English, but I know enough German and French to hold a decent conversation.

I also know little bits of many other languages.. maybe not enough to hold a coherent conversation but still - and they'd be Spanish, Italian, Malay, Russian and Swedish.

I always liked learning languages at school though. Don't know why I didn't continue German on to A-Level... may do it at university as a side course

[Chiseph]

English as my "native" language (started going to an international school in Prague when I was 4), Czech and Vietnamese.

I don't get what you mean by 'speak' and 'fluently' though... I can certainly convey my thoughts better in Vietnamese because my parents are Vietnamese and have always only spoken Vietnamese to me, but because it's only them I speak to I can't understand Vietnamese radio/TV/any accent that's too different from my parents' ones... on the other hand, I watch/read/listen to Czech all the time, but because I now go to a boarding school in England, I rarely use it in actual full-in conversation with anyone.

I'm doing French and Latin at A-level, but compared to my Czech and Vietnamese, my knowledge of the two seems pretty miniscule....

I think that just makes me retarded, rather than good at languages.... even though I love them to pieces )

[sucess]

im trying to learn swahili and korean

[spanishguy]

English - native
Spanish - fluent
French intermediate
Studied Greek & latin to A level standard
Able to read Portugese, Italian but not speak
Starting German in September

[Claidheamh]

Italian - native
Lombard - native
English - fluent
French - intermediate
Norwegian - advanced
Swedish/danish - can understand
Gaelic - currently learning

[123maz]

english, french and german

[ECONMATHSMATHSMATH]

Spanish - just swearing
Russian - perfect
English - between upper intermediate to advanced level
Kazakh - perfect

[fl4mers]

Fluent in English and German. Upper intermediate level Korean.

[simibean]

English, and quite a bit of Punjabi and Hindi

some bits of German and French

[rach2012x]

English (first language), French, Welsh (a little)