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    Default How many languages do you speak?

    And what are they?

    EDIT: Before you say that the 30 poll options are too much, I know a guy who can speak 27 languages!
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    Two, English and something else.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar
    Two, English and something else.
    lmao! What else?

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    English, russian, and russian-swearing

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    mother tongue, English and German.
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    Well I voted 2 because, although I'm far from fluent in French, I've been learning for 5 years and can communicate more or less what I want to say, even if it still has errors.

    The other language should be pretty obvious.

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    30 poll choices, and no Gah!?
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    Polish, english on intermediate and I can read russian
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    English, French, German and Spanish.

    A pretty good start, don't you think? I'm thinking of (later, that is) learning Russian, Dutch and Arabic.
    Oh, Vuk... What languages could that guy speak? I'm intrigued.
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    can read russian
    Can actually anyone read what I writed in sig?

    ....edited, or I might get another warning for swearing...
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    English and some Spanish. 2

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    French, english, breton and chinese (but my chinese is worse than it used to be, I seldom speak chinese when working in forestry). Also learned russian for long, long long time ago and it's gone, alas. Now it's only useful when I go travelling in Mongolia, since Mongolian is written with cyrillic alphabet.

    @charge: of course I can read it but I really can't understand it anymore!
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    English, Spanish and I'm working on Chinese. After that? I'd like Arabic but teachers of that are hard to come by.
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    Chinese's my mother tongue, English is my secondary language. And learned French and German for 3 years then dropped French, but still taking German for GCSE. Is the 4? or is that 2?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Warmaster Horus
    English, French, German and Spanish.

    A pretty good start, don't you think? I'm thinking of (later, that is) learning Russian, Dutch and Arabic.
    Oh, Vuk... What languages could that guy speak? I'm intrigued.

    Every European language, including Flemish. He also spoke Latin, Greek, and many middle-eastern languages, in addition to several Asian. Many of his languages were not spoken, but written and read, as they were ancient. He was my history proffessor when I first started going to school a LONG time ago. Unfortunetally he died two years after I met him. He was the most accomplished (and opinionated :P) people I have ever met.

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    Every European language, including Flemish.
    There are over 150 european languages .

    Still 27 languages is one hell of an achievement .

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    My mother tongue, English and a bizarre mixture of French, German and English that me and a friend communicate with. Frangleutsch!
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    3: Dutch (my mother tongue), French and English.
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    Dutch, English and German. My Frankophonics have rusted shut over the years.

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    Ach... maybe a bit of this, and a bit of that, you know. My interpreter
    speaks five and a bit though, so I'm fine with that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vuk Brankovic
    What else?
    There might, perhaps, if you're really, really lucky, be a hint in my signature or my location.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
    There are over 150 european languages .

    Still 27 languages is one hell of an achievement .
    Could count on Tribesy to say that.
    I am referring to every modern, national language my dear friend. That is what he told me.
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    English

    Very basic knowledge of German and Basic knowledge of Spanish. I don't consider myself able to speak them though.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar
    There might, perhaps, if you're really, really lucky, be a hint in my signature or my location.

    German? Darn I'm good! I'm learning German now. :)
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    I can speak English, French, Chinese, Italian.
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    Portuguese (mother language), English fluently, French badly, Spanish (but this is kinda cheating since it´s so close to Portuguese), I can understand some Italian but not really speak it...and I know half a dozen words in Hebrew and Russian.
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    Yo hablo tres idiomas diferentes:

    First spanish, for where I live that's the native language.

    Logo ingleis pos ese e o lenguagem que mais me gosta.

    And lastly portugues, the language of my mother...

    EDIT: Also apparently kamikhaan knows how to speak 30 languages so I'll have to be careful of what I write when he is around...
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    Let's say three: Serbian, English and German. But my German is quite bad. When I try to read complicated sentences in German, and see five verbs at the end I have no strength to put them in their proper places . But it is improving on a daily basis...

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    "He who takes up the sword, will die by the sword" or something like that?
    Yeh, almost, but than I wrote it originally it was slightly different

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    I am referring to every modern, national language my dear friend.
    And ...there are lots of nations in modern europe with several national languages , there are about 150 european languages used just in the countries of the European union ..not all countries in Europe are in the union

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