my first language is slovene, of course. english is the only foreign language i bothered to learn.
then there's our former country's serbo-croatian heritage; although separate languages now, serbian and croatian are practicaly one and the same although it's good to know both variants as some people there are still very touchy about it. i familiarised with it as a kid from tv, books and comics which were mostly published in serbo-croatian. it's also useful to learn cyrilic alphabet as it is still being used in serbia (differs slightly from your standard russian cyrilic).

i live close to the austrian border so i also know just enough german to hitch a ride on the autobahn or watch dubbed action movies. i'd like to learn spanish and some italian or french. maybe russian too. someday...

I speak Russian and English, I would say English is now my first language. I understand Uzbek but do not speak it.

I used to take French and actually lived in Quebec, until I realized French/Quebecan people don't want other people speaking French.

German (native) and English. Also a bit of Spanish and a bit of French.

And very very little Norwegian, but I really want to improve that since we have family up there.

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*worldaffairs - Spanish and Japanese for me.

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Danish (native) and English (and a bit of 1337-speak, but I don't do that too much). Once upon a time I learned German and Spanish for a few years, but I've not kept it up - English is the right way to go.

I speak (in order of proficency); English, Apache, German, Korean, & Spanish. I've also dabbled in Hebrew and French.

I used to take French and actually lived in Quebec, until I realized French/Quebecan people don't want other people speaking French.


They don't even want people from other French-speaking countries speaking French. As do all the other French-speaking countries, especially France.

They all have run away from wars started over mispronunciation.

I speak French and a few words of Finnish (as well as uhh, English).

>> ^gorgonheap:
I speak (in order of proficency); English, Apache, German, Korean, & Spanish. I've also dabbled in Hebrew and French.


Seriously? Holy Crap!

I would like to learn Mandarin since many of my colleagues speak it and speak English poorly these days. That, and I already can read Spanish, so I'd like to learn to speak/understand spoken Mexican Spanish for practical purposes living in the USA. (Reading and speaking are like 4th-grade-math and Calculus III). I have no interest in learning my native American Cherokee tongue unfortunately. I REALLY want to learn Greek and I think Arabic would be nice these days as well though I really don't have time to learn it.

I also have a limited knowledge of Japanese that I owe to anime shows. GAWD, what a LOSER!

I speak English, Swedish, and understand a teeny bit of Finnish. Wanna learn a ton of other languages though. Latin, French, Spanish, Japanese, Gaelic..

>> ^Farhad2000:
I used to take French and actually lived in Quebec, until I realized French/Quebecan people don't want other people speaking French.

>> ^Payback:
They don't even want people from other French-speaking countries speaking French. As do all the other French-speaking countries, especially France.
They all have run away from wars started over mispronunciation.


Come on guys. Quebec, although only a province, is one of the biggest supporter of the International French Community (la Francophonie), both in manpower and money. It's our only protection from the English Commonwealth of Nations since most of us detoxed from all the wine and bread of the Catholic Church in the 1960s. It helps to keep us sane in this cold and anglicized "North of North-America" climate. I'd guess the reason why Farhad felt unwelcomed though is because he's Uzbek as there are (too) many xenophobes in Quebec. It goes with the whole assimilation thing the English tried to pull on us. We are also not immune from islamophobia, so everyone that looks middle eastern is taken as a Muslim-potential-terrorist. There are many french-speaking Muslims from Northern Africa and it's not the fact that they speak French that's scaring the unwashed masses both in Quebec and France! On the other hand, most francophone countries agree to say that France and the Académie are too protective of "their" language. Ironically, France is one the worst offender when it comes to official usage of anglicism and English-loanwords-with-perfectly-acceptable-French-equivalents in mass media and governmental publications. They also have the most americanized Head of State the whole world 'round (except maybe North Korea).

As for me, I see myself as a citizen of the world. What would I be doing here otherwise? I speak French and English, Japanese, German, a little Esperanto and Mandarin. I read some Ancient Greek and Latin, as little as I can get away with really. Next I need to learn Spanish, Arabic and some Sanskrit. I'd also like to speak better Mathematics (yeah I consider that a language of its own). I have always been fascinated by all human languages, though I've not always put much effort into learning them fully.

I only speak english and a little american sign language. I would really like to learn Chinese in order to appease our eventual overlords. I guess I also speak a little spanish but it's incedental coming from west coast.

I was born as a sheepherder in Mypos so I talk like Balki Bartokomous.