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English and French here, btw :D

"Everybody" in Norway speaks English...even my grandparents did, and I speak English...and Norwegian, obviously...

I also did classes in German, but I *hated* it, so I'm not very good at it :o

Well, I'm a Finn so my native language is Finnish. I also speak Swedish as it is the 2nd official language in Finland (most official forms have everything printed in 2 Finnish and in Swedish) due to the large Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. Everyone has to study Swedish in elementary school for 3 years but nobody really likes it...

I speak English as well (kinda obvious...) and most younger Finns do as we learn it at school from 3rd grade onwards. And of course the fact that our TV-programs are subtitled and not dubbed brings English to many folks as well. I must admit that I've learnt at least 50% of my English from TV...

Then I speak a little Russian and German. I studied German for couple of years as an elective at school and as my wife is Russian, I have learnt a bit from her.

BTW: My 5 year old daugher speaks & understands both Finnish and Russian as we try to make her bilingual.

Im from the worlds laziest country where languages are concerned.
Here in the UK... we generally seem to presume that the rest of the world will speak english.. and if they dont just shout loud and slow and they will understand you.

That said, ive been learning spanish for about 3 years, but im still not that good.

Final thought.. its been said before but.....

UK and USA... two nations devided by a common language.....Americans just dont speak English...LOL :D

no offence to anyone on that side of the pond.... John, please dont pull my account... i like the states... honest.... plead... grovel... back in florida in October......

I was going to say that I speak English, but then I read what steveh wrote. So, I guess I speak "American."

When I was twelve or thirteen, my brother taught me a little bit of German, as he was taking a class at the time. He told me that I did better than many people in his class. :D

My final year of secondary school, I decided that I should probably learn a language (if nothing else, it would look good on a transcript). My choices were French and Spanish. I chose Spanish, and the rest of the class (all in grades below me) asked me if I had taken the class before. I took a year off from Spanish after high school, and now Spanish is one of my majors.

But after all this, I may go ahead and try to learn French. And German, and Italian... I'll just work my way eastwards across the globe.

Jeff.

I speak English and Spanish, and about 20 computer languages. :)

Jeremy

I speak Tamil, this a language spoken in a state in southern India.
I can also speak Hindi, which is the national language of India.
I can speak english - started learning it right from preschool days.
Finally I learnt french for a couple of years, so can utter few lines in french.

I speak Canadian as well as English. I can also get around in FRench because all Canadian kids in public school have to take it (and we all forget most of it the minute we're out of school). I also took two semesters of Ancient Greek in Uni, but I have yet to run into any ancient greeks.

UK and USA... two nations devided by a common language.....Americans just dont speak English...LOL
No offense (offence) taken!! One of the things I really enjoy about this board is reading the different variations of the English language. I'll swear that there are some variations of English accents that I have a really difficult time understanding.

It's hard to live in Texas without speaking Spanish. I'm not the best at it but I can get around.

Oh yeah, I'm great at Pig Latin. Does that count?

I speak English and Spanish, and about 20 computer languages. :)

Jeremy

Ya, I obviously forgot HTML, CSS, XML, VB, C#...Fortran...Turbo Pascal...Basic.... :lol:

Wee... I'm learning quite a lot of things from this post. I never would've thought of the Finnish/Swedish thing (in fact all northern european languages look the same to me, only thing I know is that around the Netherlands there's the "iij" thing and up north people start using the "weird slashed Os" :lol: ) I've always thought you people were so lucky, being taught english from so young, not to mention the subbed movies!

Well, keep those replies coming!

"american" english...although even thats a little warped because i'm from Jersey and work in Philly :lol:

I used to be able to speak Polish fairly well, but when my grandma died i've since forgotten most of it..looking to get back into learning it again.

I speak Irish.
A lot of people in N.Ireland don't speak Irish, or can only speak a bit, in the south its a bit more common, but since I'm in the north, it's rare to see an 18 year old fluent irish speaker :)

I've been trying to learn German, but it's a bit akward.

I'm pure-bread American up in here Seattle, so I speak:
- Americanized English
- some Canadian, eh.
- 31337 (elite geek)
- u r a qt! (cell phone IM)
- high on Starbucks caffeinated speak
- slobbering drunk speak

probably none of that really counts. I do speak English, and I took a couple years of German in high school. TV taught me how to ask what time it was in Spanish, plus, I could find a beer or a bathroom in Mexico. :)

I took French, Russian, and Mandarin in college ("at university" for non-Yanks :) and Spanish in high school but I've forgotten nearly all of it except the most basic stuff. I can still "read" Cyrillic in that I can figure out what the words are, but I don't know what most of them mean anymore.

I´m fluent in Swedish and English, and read all the other sandinavian languages without troubles :p .

Studied french throughout school, but learned nada.

Been teaching myself german out of interest, no offence... just such a funny language.

know hello phrases and to get along in Bangla, and ki-Swahili, but nothing impressive :o

My next atempt is prob to enhance my french skills, cause was thinking of travelling through west africa at some point in the future, and figured it could be useful.

I speak English (Canadian), French (Quebecois, and I'm rusty. I took 8 years, though, so throw me back into the culture and I could be fluent in two months, I'm sure), and just a bit of Japanese. I used to know more, but I didn't reach a point where I could retain anything easily.

American, some French (studied for 3 years but you lose it if you don't use it). Many computer languages. And I am still trying to understand the language used by my (too soon to be) teenaged daughter. Yeesh!

American, some French (studied for 3 years but you lose it if you don't use it). Many computer languages. And I am still trying to understand the language used by my (too soon to be) teenaged daughter. Yeesh!

Oh yeah, and I have been taught how to swear by some of my best friends in Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and some German. Why is it that we always learn the swear words first?

I can translate you Latin with the aid of a dictionary for vocabulary. I'd like to learn Ancient Greek, Welsh, German, and French. I have a major problem with memorization but am a whiz at syntax and grammar.

Computer wise: HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, Perl, Java, VB. (I'm also a big supporter of web standards.)

I can't write plain old Basic anymore but I can still read it. I can also read whatever type of Pascal Delphi uses and some C.

You scandinavians are amazing.

I spoke hebrew because I lived in Israel for three years. However, I'm losing it. I asked my parents (both of whom are native speakers) to speak it with my to refresh my memeory.

Danish, Norwegian, English, and I took classes in German (three years), French (one year), Spanish (three years).

I´m fluent in Swedish and English, and read all the other sandinavian languages without troubles :p .

Also Finnish?

Am. english and pretty good german. I took a year of german in college and loved it, then taught myself by reading all of the Harry Potter books in german, which blew up my vocabulary like crazy. I love watching movies in German, too, though you have to have a special player to read the euro format and output to our american standard. Now why do they do that???

Also Finnish?
You are asking for way to much! ;)
BTW I thought Scandinavia was N, S, D...? Norden (the Nordic countries) F, S, N, D, I?
Does hyvä ilta mean good evening? Way off?

You are asking for way to much! ;)
BTW I thought Scandinavia was N, S, D...? Norden (the Nordic countries) F, S, N, D, I?
Does hyvä ilta mean good evening? Way off?

Well, the definition of what exactly are "scandinavian" countries seems to vary. Searching the words "scandinavian countries" in Google (http://www.google.fi/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=scandinavian+countries) gives this page (http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Scandinavia) where N,S, D are included but then it is mentioned that F and I are occasionally counted as parts of Scandinavia. Go figure... I guess that N, S, D is the most "officially" correct list of Scandinavian countries.

Yeah, "hyvä ilta" means "A good evening" as in "it was a good evening" :tu: If you wish to wish someone "good evening", you would have to double the last vovels, i.e. "hyvää iltaa".

For all you English speaking non-scandinavian folks: Swedish, Norwegian and Danish sound somewhat related in my ears so I'd guess that most folks on those countries would be able to communicate with folks in other countries. But Finnish (http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Finnish_language) is a completely different beast altogether and often referred as the most difficult language in the world to learn... :D

Actually, the page about Scandinavia (the "this page"-link above) seems to contain quite a nice and short summary about the nordic languages, recommended reading...

fluent in english/french/arabic/armenian

Well I'm from Holland so I speak Dutch. I also speak English and some German and French.

Rene

Flemish / Dutch and fluent in English and French

some German

English and Welsh.

English natively, spanish and Tagalog (Filipino) learned

Half Thai and Half Italian here (mom is thai/dad is italian). I can speak Thai fluently but cannot read (sadly). I can understand most italian spoken to me but cannot reply yet. I plan on learning quite a bit when I go to Italy this year to visit my grandfather and hopefully spend sometime in the mountains with him learning about his life and life in general.

best to all,
Emilio

I speak English and a miniscule amount of Spanish that I learned working in restaurants for 10 years.

Basically I can say "I need those French Fries On The Fly!" and "More Plates and Silverware Please" and "Thank You My Friend!" in Spanish....but that's about it.

I have taken two dead languages in school - Latin and french. I speak American and have never seen the need to speak other languages in my travels. I applaud those who do speak muti-languages. It is a good mind exercise.

I'm taking latin in highschool this year, mini nomen est larry! (my name is larry! haha

I'm taking latin in highschool this year, mini nomen est larry! (my name is larry! haha
Meum nomen est Larry. ;) Nomen is neuter so you want to use the neuter form of the adjective meus-a-um for "my."