How many languages can you speak?

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lol i only know english its funny how everybody knows a lil japanese who said you cant learn anything from watching cartoons....My mother tongue is not meant to be english but my parents never taught me any of their languages both my parents are bilingual but can only communicate to each other in english so it was impossible to learn my language.....(btw its yoruba)
 
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1.English
2.Spanish(not fluently, I can understand most but not speak it as good. Rusty)
3.I used to have a Brazilian gf so I knew a bit of Portuguese but that was years ago I'd be rusty at it now
4.Trying to teach myself Japanese.......kinda failing at it. Same goes for Italian and French

Overall I can only speak English fluently U_U
 
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Believe it or not.

My mother tongue: Chechen..
My second language is Russian, and I know it fluently, because Russian language is used everywhere in Chechnya, on all official documents and books, and we even learn it in school, because Chechnya is a part of Russian Federation. From knowing Russian, I can understand Ukrainian, and all languages that resemble Russian(theres a lot of them).
At age of 9 I moved to Norway, having lived here in 10 years(more than half of my life), I know fluent Norwegian and can understand all languages that resemble Norwegian, which is Swedish and Danish.
We learned English at school, and I am speaking English right now, so theres no need to convince you about that.
Even though there is some resemblance between Norwegian and German, there is still a whole lot of difference, so I chose it as the language I wanted to learn at Upper secondary school (2 years), because you could choose between French, Spanish, German or Latin..
Arabic, being a Muslim, you have to know Arabic to some degree, as in prayer, some phrases and on top of that, I took 2 months of Quran classes ^^

Lastly Japanese, well, from watching all that anime, I've developed a certain interest for the Japanese language.

It gets harder to learn new languages as you get older.. so it's good to start at early age. I didn't exactly choose to learn those languages when I was young, I didn't have any choice.

I don't know if that convinces you or not:p

Win!
I speak english, spanish [basics] and very little french
 
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lol i only know english its funny how everybody knows a lil japanese who said you cant learn anything from watching cartoons....My mother tongue is not meant to be english but my parents never taught me any of their languages both my parents are bilingual but can only communicate to each other in english so it was impossible to learn my language.....(btw its yoruba)

Yeah same i know some Japanese from watching Naruto and all that.
 

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1.Tagalog- fluent
2.English- fluent
3.Visaya- fluent
4.French- I can buy things, ask, order in a restaurant..and more with french)
 

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Two, English and French, I also want to learn how to speak Japanese and German too.
 

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Believe it or not.

My mother tongue: Chechen..
My second language is Russian, and I know it fluently, because Russian language is used everywhere in Chechnya, on all official documents and books, and we even learn it in school, because Chechnya is a part of Russian Federation. From knowing Russian, I can understand Ukrainian, and all languages that resemble Russian(theres a lot of them).
At age of 9 I moved to Norway, having lived here in 10 years(more than half of my life), I know fluent Norwegian and can understand all languages that resemble Norwegian, which is Swedish and Danish.
We learned English at school, and I am speaking English right now, so theres no need to convince you about that.
Even though there is some resemblance between Norwegian and German, there is still a whole lot of difference, so I chose it as the language I wanted to learn at Upper secondary school (2 years), because you could choose between French, Spanish, German or Latin..
Arabic, being a Muslim, you have to know Arabic to some degree, as in prayer, some phrases and on top of that, I took 2 months of Quran classes ^^

Lastly Japanese, well, from watching all that anime, I've developed a certain interest for the Japanese language.

It gets harder to learn new languages as you get older.. so it's good to start at early age. I didn't exactly choose to learn those languages when I was young, I didn't have any choice.

I don't know if that convinces you or not:p

Well thats Convinced me :)
 

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Languages learned because of the place i was born in

1-English
3-Arabic
4-Kurdish
5-Turkish
6-Farsi
7-Turkmanean
8-Newer Assyrian

european languages learned because of my Travels, and self learned

9-German
10-Spanish
11-Norwegian
12-Swedish "learned easier, because of Norwegian"
13-Danish "same"
14-Italian
15-Russian
16-French

Other languages

16-Japanese "very little"
17-Somalian
18-Hebrew
19-Latin
20-u could say ukranian too because of the russian, its easier to understand.

some of these languages i speak "little bit", others better, and some, very well! :D

What happened to number 2? o_o
 

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3 languages.
  1. English.
  2. Hindi.
  3. Marathi.

and i can speak all of them.
 

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1. Dutch
2. French
3. English
 

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1.Urdu
2.English
3.Punjabi
4. little Pushto (becos of friends)
5.Spanish and French (Also becos of friends xd)
6.Arabic (can only read it :D )
 
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1. Filipino
2. English
3. Basic japanese
4. Basic Korean
5. A little Italian
6. A little Spanish
7. A little French
8. Currently exploring Latin .__.

+ 2 dialects I'm purty sure you're not familiar with .__.
 

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english and tamil

same nice to see another person here who can speak tamil, i can also speak a little hindi and understand it quite well, i learned a little Spanish so i can understand and speak decently well and from anime i learned certain phrases in japanese
 

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Believe it or not.

My mother tongue: Chechen..
My second language is Russian, and I know it fluently, because Russian language is used everywhere in Chechnya, on all official documents and books, and we even learn it in school, because Chechnya is a part of Russian Federation. From knowing Russian, I can understand Ukrainian, and all languages that resemble Russian(theres a lot of them).
At age of 9 I moved to Norway, having lived here in 10 years(more than half of my life), I know fluent Norwegian and can understand all languages that resemble Norwegian, which is Swedish and Danish.
We learned English at school, and I am speaking English right now, so theres no need to convince you about that.
Even though there is some resemblance between Norwegian and German, there is still a whole lot of difference, so I chose it as the language I wanted to learn at Upper secondary school (2 years), because you could choose between French, Spanish, German or Latin..
Arabic, being a Muslim, you have to know Arabic to some degree, as in prayer, some phrases and on top of that, I took 2 months of Quran classes ^^

Lastly Japanese, well, from watching all that anime, I've developed a certain interest for the Japanese language.

It gets harder to learn new languages as you get older.. so it's good to start at early age. I didn't exactly choose to learn those languages when I was young, I didn't have any choice.

I don't know if that convinces you or not:p

i fully believe you man cos i have heard that many languages are similar to russian so learning others is not as nearly as hard for you since you been also to norway and learned languages which are similar to that also. But still you kno a lot of languages, do you ever by accident mix up languages or forget parts of some?, just wondering
 

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English
French
Dutch 1/3rds cause i was born there(but its not my nationality) moved to england when i was little so i forgot most of it
would like to learn japanese
 
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