[Saoirse]

Interested to know as there is a lot of people from non-english speaking countries who frequent BEA and it seems like we have a lot of Polyglots, possibly. And just have a geniune fascination with languages of all kinds. So are there those that speak languages (either fluently or just know some basics) beyond their own native tongues and/or english?

Im only fluent in English but I can speak a little bit in about 12 different languages. I can hold a (very) basic convo in French and Lithiuanian, and can understand some German and Danish when it's spoken or read but can't really speak it back. Also know some very basic phrases in Italian, Polish, Japanese, Turkish, Icelandic, Spanish, Czech and Russian (I at least know the alphabet). Given none of that lack of fluency is useful, as of yet.

[Silver]

Aside from English I've been learning Japanese the last three years and I really love the language. I may actually be going to University in Japan too, so I'd probably become pretty fluent if I did that. Aside from Japanese though, I really know very little of other languages. It's always been pretty hard for me to wrap my head around other languages actually, I'm glad I have enough of an interest in Japanese to keep up with it.

[drakonium]

Wow that's pretty cool! I like foreign languages too, although I currently have no time for them. I speak French (lol), hope my English is correct (well at least I have good marks, so...), and I love Spanish. Sadly I don't take Spanish classes anymore, but I'd really like too and it will probably be the case next year. Not that I'm particularly good at it, but I just love that language. Other than that, I know nothing

Edit : also, although I like to think that I have a pretty cool accent in Spanish, the way I speak English is embarrassingly clichéd. I can't get used to how you speak your shit and I'm like the French guy in the movies.

[Guest]

Learning languages is pretty much the only thing that I have ever been any good at or shown any discernible talent for! So yeah... I can speak a few!.

I am bilingual in German and English. I speak Dutch at home (and by extension can understand Afrikaans reasonably well). I have a first degree in Swedish. I speak passable French (by which I mean I can read literature without a dictionary and hold a reasonably fluent conversation although I struggle sometimes to find the right words and strangely the French seem to think I sound Swiss which I am not sure what that means). I have good conversational Spanish. I can make myself understood in Italian, Polish, Welsh, Irish, Arabic and Icelandic (by which I mean I can hold a simple conversation, order food, ask directions, count... You know basic stuff that means I can survive!) In addition I can read with reasonable proficiency Latin, Plattdeutsch, Danish, Norwegian, Old English and Gothic but the spoken word leaves a lot to be desired!

In my new found semi-retired unemployment, I have started learning Te Reo Maori and Tahitian!

[nutso42]

American Sign Language, English, Guyanese Creole

[Precedent]

Fluent in English

Decent in Spanish, German

A little bit of French

[TracyJacks]

Hungarian - first language
German - fluent
English
Italian
a bit of Spanish
very basics - Slovakian and Russian

[MrFrogger]

English is obviously my native language, but I also know a tiny bit of French.

[Cymro2011]

Welsh and English.

[revolver94]

I took four years of French in high school, but I'm slowly losing it I've been thinking about picking it up again, but it hasn't happened yet.
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