What languages do you know?

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My native language is English, I speak good Finnish and read and write it well, and I can speak some French and German and can read and write both languages well. Can still read some Russian, though have forgotten most of it.

I know English and Spanish. I also know "tourist level French". What I mean by that is, I can ask "How much does this baguette cost" and "I'll have some wine" or "Where is the toilet?"

And of course, the indispensable "Voulez vous coucher avec moi, c'est soir?"

I used to study German, but what I learned has almost completely faded from memory.

These days, this about sums it up:

I forgot: ¡uʍop əpısdn ʞɐəds ı

in Upside Down, every plosive is a fricative. and every unrounded vowel is rounded. voiced sounds are unvoiced. it would be fun, i guess, if one could read English text and then apply those 'filters'...so to speak. if my processing speed was fast enough.

used to be able to count to 100 in finnish but i think i lost that ability... still learning to count in hebrew! using the alephbet+geresh, too.

my uncle, whom i nearly never see, has a romanian coworker and he knows a few phrases (among bits from other languages). something about him i never ever knew.

Hablo español.
Je parle français.
日本語ができます。
Ich spreche Deutsch.

I'm fairly proficient in Spanish and French as I've studied Spanish for 5 years and French for 4. I have a decent knowledge of Japanese, been studying it for 4 years, but it takes quite some time to master since it is completely different than English. Nonetheless, it's probably my favorite language. This is my first year of German, so I'm just a novice at that. I plan on starting Chinese next year too, since the language sounds too beautiful and learning the writing system will be a great way to reinforce the Chinese characters I've learned in Japanese. Most aspies have a special talent, and languages is mine, I'm 17 and I still absorb languages as if I were a child.

I'm a language nerd, so this is automatically my favorite forum on this site! Languages are my favorite thing, and my area of expertise, so fellow language learners, get at me!

bienvenidos a WP! este forum tambien es uno de mis preferidos.

i think at the age of 17 one still can absorb language pretty easy, compared to 25+..>*ducks and covers in case of scientific evidence to the contrary*

I speak every language. (at least all that is available on Google Translate)

I am fluent in Finnish, Swedish, German, and Russian. I'd like to be more fluent in English, I have so many things to say, but this language barrier allows me not to.

Fluent English, German, Luxembourgish and a handful of German dialect. I know a bit Old Prussian, Visigothic, Latin, Dutch and Westvlaams. I can speak conversational Belgian French.

English is my mother tongue, and I translate French, German and Romanian literature. To varying levels I also speak Russian, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, Aromanian, Latin, Ancient Greek, plus a little Serb, Croat and Polish. I can also read Church Slavonic, the liturgical language of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Languages can become an obsession. Once you've learnt one (I started Latin at the age of 7), you can't stop.

Shwsara a meté tselet malinell, shwmadel.

Te yo-Yohio mecaidel tonn ren pa etsenessecy tadhete, ta yoredit xanna. O Fraellieal, flonn xalala cevhe haieazen ze?

Not enough.

Spanish is my native tongue.
I've been living in the USA since I was 7, so I'm fluent in English.
I can speak, read and write in French but not to the point I would consider myself fluent. Have only studied it for 3 years. French was really easy to pick up since it's a Romance language like Spanish so the grammar was very similar and there are a lot of words in Spanish and French with a shared etymology which helped immensely. I haven't studied French recently due to my busy college schedule but I am hoping to have the time to improve my French in the near future.
I am currently taking an introductory Japanese course in college and can say a few tourist-tier words and phrases. I can read hiragana, some katakana, but haven't touched kanji yet. Have only been studying Japanese for 1 month.

My native language is German.
The only languages I know beside it are Japanese and English.
I took lessons in Japanese for a year but I had to quit due to my lack of time since I'm now in my last year of a regular school. I started learning English in grade three and I still learn it in school but it's quite different from the English you normally speak. My teacher and my classmate have a very harsh accent which exactly sounds like how the parodies on Youtube describe germans speaking English. So I decided to teach myself a different pronounciation. Plus English is used all around the world so it's pretty useful.
Next year I have to learn Latin for my studies.

English is my mother tongue, and I know some Accadien ( French Canadian dialect ).