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    What languages(apart from your mother tongue) do you speak?!

    I know very well English, a bit of French and German, and Japanese.
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    Quote Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
    I know very well English,
    If that statement was infact true it would be "I know English very well." Sorry about the pedantic comment.
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    I speak english and some german. Might get forced to learn french later on.
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    German, English, and Spanish. I could probably learn the other romance languages fairly easily if I took the time..

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    I only know german, and ebonics, which some might call a foreign language.
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    English and very little German and Swedish.
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    English and Spanish
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    English; French, Spanish, Catalan (enough to have small convos), German
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    English and some German. I can count from 1 to 10 in about ten languages to, but don´t know if that counts.
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    English, a good deal of Spanish (More than enough to get by IMHO), and some random words in other languages.
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    English and passable French. It's starting to go though, I need to practice it soon.
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    Hmm, since the question is what foregin languages do you speak I have to say none. I speak english (first langauge) and french (passably) they are the offical languages of my nation.
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    I speak english, I could speak French if I got of my lazy American ass and tried, and I can curse fluently in Spanish and Spanglish.

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    I speak English and am proficient in German.
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    Well I can speak Dutch and English very well.
    And since we have to learn German and Frenche in school , I do speak those on an exeptable level - don't expect me to actually argue or answer particulary hard questions though
    And I do know how to translate Latin / Ancient greek , so I suppose I could make some small sentances

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    Well apart from English I am passable in German. I can also 'speak' a bit of latin (well actually, I can't, but I can translate it), as well as a tiny amount of ancient Greek.
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    German and English, I abandoned Latin in school and successfully prevented my dad from teaching me Dutch whenever he tried to.
    I never really learned any grammar in both languages I know, I usually got to have a feeling for a language to learn it(which was probably one of my problems with Latin, that feeling wasn´t really developing).


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    English and Danish. And I understand some Arabic.
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    Only Spanish (overachievers, you all!).
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    I speak American thank you! Ain't it great?

    Ahem... sorry about that.

    I also speak Spanish. Well... as much as one can since I've not spoken it for a few months anyway...

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    I know none.

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    I speak English as my mother tongue, excellent French as a foreigner, average French as a native speaker, German and a sprinkling of Hungarian (I went there on holiday a few weeks ago).
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    I speak Dutch, English and German (though admittedly not really good), I speak a little bit of French (or at least I try to...reading is far more easy) and can read a bit of Latin. I've tried to learn Arab but so far no good... will have to try again later (although it's better then ancient Greek, at which I am a total failure).

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    English
    German
    French
    Spanish
    Portuguese
    Dutch
    Mexican
    American
    Italian
    Turkish
    Arab
    Creolo

    Can count till ten but not speak in
    Chinese and Japanese

    thas about it

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    can wright in
    Latin and ol' Greek
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    Dutch, decent French, a little tiny bit of German, reasonable English (speak, not write :p) and understand/translate some Latin.

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    Norwegian, Swedish, German, English and moderate French
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    I learned German (native) and English (the buisness language) from my parents at the same time. So I really have 2 mother languages.

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    I speak Finnish, English and German besides my mother tongue, Swedish.
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    A little bit of Spanish and a tiny bit of Japanese.

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    Enough Spanish for work, enough German to eat and drink there, and give/get directions.
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