The fascinating (to me) and jealousy inducing ability of many of our members to switch back and forth between their native language and English has caught my attention yet again over the past few days, so I'm wondering:

What languages do you know?


As for me....
I'm a native American English speaker that has difficulty expressing myself. 

And, as a victim of the US educational system, I am also capable of some French. Some...but I'm still not knowledgeable enough in it for using the language to be practical.

Language goals:
Learn......Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish (Norwegian priority), along with Dutch, and maybe focus back on French later.


-Sean

American English, English English, some Spanish, some Swedish, bit of polish, and "Buffalonian" apparently is what they call my regional dialect.

What the hell is soda?  It's pop to me!

I am English speaking, although I did grow up in Southern Mississippi y'all.  I took the obligatory French and Spanish in high school, although now I just get the two mixed up and can't speak either (I can understand a small amount of each, if you speak slow enough).  The girlfriend bought us the Rosetta Stone French this past year since she wants to visit France, but neither of us has had time to really give it a go.

English, some Spanish, and how to talk sh*t 


@Soda... Goodness, that stuff tastes awful!

I am forever glad that I was born in England, and learned the beautiful, now almost universal, English language... ...!

I only know English, and can only speak English, (with a slight Cockney (London) accent)... ...!

I have the utmost admiration for Folks who's natural language is not English, but can speak, and write in English fluently!
We have many of them here on the Site!
I love listening to non English folks around the World speaking in English....(apart from certain places... .. ....)...!

They put many of we, natural; "English-speakers" to shame!
It is a confusing and complicated language, and difficult to master correctly, with many words having different spellings and different meanings!

For such a small/minute Country, such as England, I am always just amazed how Universal the English Language has become over the Centuries!

I am very proud of it......and I love it to bits!... ...!

Paul...Cor, blimey, Guv!... ... ...! 

Ok. My native language is Dutch ofcourse but since we are brainwashed from childhood to learn other languages I also speak fluent English and German, I can make myself understood in French, I can read Swedish, Danish and Norwegian (although it's a little). I can order food and drinks in Spanish and Italian and I know a few words in Bini (local Nigerian language), which is the native language of my wife.

Carlo (Beware, I know karate..... and 7 other Japanese words)

Being from the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, I speak Yooper.  Don't know what that is?  Look it up   


I drink pop and beer, and I eat Pasties.  However, being a Marine I have been around the world a few times, so I know a little Japanese, a little Arabic, a little Korean, and from living in Hawaii and California, I know some Hawaiian and Mexican.

Amongst my travels, I met and married my beautiful wife from Alabama, so I am also fluent in southern and redneck and even know a little hillbilly.

When I drink I tend to mix them all up in a single sentence 

Currently English, and English only.  Though Indiana dialect around here is a mix of southern twang with a northern influence.  Far from proper English

Trying to learn Mandarin Chinese, not going well, only understand a few simple words.  Have the Rosetta Stone Mandarin but quite frankly have found it totally useless for this language, it would be a big help but first need to actually learn the basic words first, it starts right out in lesson one with pictures and short sentences....I can pick out some of the single words but can't figure out what the others are, so I'm stuck.  Unfortunately my favorite Taiwanese girl has let her English slip beyond where she can help me decipher some of it

Its difficult to figure out...example from early in the lesson....I know horse is , or MA.  And , or YI is 1.  But what the heck is the middle word   All I understand from it it "One ?? Horse" Its every single set like this and its only the first part of lesson one   Its one thing to teach through immersion into the language but totally pointless without some kind of beginners translation to get the basics down to understand it all.   Would take years typing random words into a translator to figure out each character