How many languages do you speak?

[angeliki_sr]

Well I'm kinda bored cause nobody is looking for Serbian translations so I want to ask you how many languages do you speak?
WHAT I KNOW:
Serbian
English
I am studying French in school for 9 years already.O la la!
It's my first year to learn Latin in high school and I don't like it very much.
I speak a little bit of Spanish.
And I know to build 10 sentences in Greek
WHAT I WANNA KNOW:
Greek,Greek,Greek!!!!Ellinikaaaaaa
Portuguese,very very beautiful language!

[maria_gr]

What I speak:
- Μιλάω Ελληνικά
- I speak english
- Je parle français
- Hablo español (I'm still learning)
- Parlo italiano (I'm still learning too)

What I want to learn like crazy:
- Bulgarian
- Turkish

What I would like to learn in the future:
- Serbian
- Romanian
- Portuguese
- Croatian
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Russian
- All the spanish dialects
- The pronunciation of Cyprus!!!

P.S Angeliki mou I just saw it. In your avatar the Greek Flag has 7 lines? The real Greek Flag has 9 lines (5 blue and 4 white).

[angeliki_sr]

I didn't make that avatar!I'll try to fix it...

[maria_gr]

It's ok, but for us it's strange!

[Adrienne]

I've been learning Latin for 4 years
I'm fluent in English, Italian and Spanish / eng and it I'v been learning for many years.. Learnt Spanish and Portuguese on my own
My first language is Serbian - so I speak Croatian and Bosnian too..

I'm trying to learn Greek and Turkish

from other languages I'd like to know French very much.. Lovely language

[xiurell]

I speak Spanish and Catalan
I've been learning English and French for many years
Italian is a language very similar to Spanish so isn't difficult to me undertand it but I can't write it
Now I'm trying to learn Greek and German

[Esbes]

I don't know what I really speak actually...I am only 100% sure that I speak dutch since I am a native speaker But okay i just tell languages i learnt and stuff to get the idea

- Dutch
- German (it's better than my english, and my pronuncation is pretty good unlike my english. I mean when I speak it, it sounds actually German complete with slang etc, so I think i speak German as well)
- English, I can say almost everything i want on it, but not grammatically correct mostly, and my english pronuncation is with a terrible Dutch accent.
- French. Hmm difficult. I learnt it 5 years on school. My pronuncation is not bad but not very good either. I kind of lost it because I don't have it anymore on school, but I can still read French very well. But I can say quite some sentences in French, know about the grammar and everything, it's just all a bit gone because all my other languages ; -)
- Spanish. My pronunciation I don't know how it's like..Spanish people say I still have a Dutch accent but that will never go away, and I am understandable, they say. My teacher thinks I am very good at the writing part. Listening and reading I can do well too. I have had it only 2 years at school now, but since I speak spanish very intensively (I've been to Spain on an exchange, have Spanish people on msn, I like Spanish music..), I think it's better than my French which I had 5 years!
- Ancient-Greek.. Well, you know...just reading and knowledge about grammar, although I already lost it abit, have got it for 3 years at school and now i am already 1.5 year without it, so.
- Latin. Only reading as well and grammar knowledge, but I still have got it on school, starting my 6th year now.
- Finnish : D. I am not that good, since I still ask for translations here sometimes. Pronunciation NO IDEA really. I just learnt it at home, no course or something like that, just wanted to learn Finnish so I did it. But I have a Finnish person on msn and he says practically we can talk about everything at Finnish. So that is to say, writing, in a bit common talk, i am not able to go deep about a certain subject, but more global about many subjects. And my sentences are very often gramattically incorrect because Finnish is so difficult. And I am not even learning it anymore, because of to many languages and because I am content with the Finnish i know now : )

What I want to learn like crazy
- nothing. I wanted to learn Finnish, so i learnt it. I wanted to learn Spanish, so I chose it on school and I learnt it. Really if I would want something to learn right now, I would start inmediately But though, I dó want to improve some languages like crazy: German and Spanish, because I just like those languages very much so I want them to be (close to) perfect : ) Oh and ofcourse I want to learn New-Greek, i forgot that kind of : O I already have a basic knowledge, I can say some things, know grammar etc, I already started learning a bit. But since this would be my 9th (!!) language, it's kind of heavy : o

What I would like to learn in the future

Actually everything but okay. At least a basic of the language of any country to where I am going, I always find it worthless to go to a country when you don't even speak the language so But okay I'll chose some:
- South-African, because it's Dutch, but some words are really strange and therefore funny I really would like to speak that accent. Although it will be hard to learn, since it's just like Dutch, i mean the differences are small.
- Swedish. Because it's a bit like Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic and I speak none of them yet. And Swedish seems to me like the mayor language there, and the nicest one to speak, although Norwegian sounds very cool to me, too. And I already know some sentences in swedish so : P
- Russian, or at least be able to read the alphabet.
- Turkish maybe
- Romanian maybe, or some slavic language
- Italian, shouldn't be too difficult to get a base, since I already know Spanish French and Latin. The same for Portuguese, I like the sound of that language too : )

And I could go on and on and on. Since i think languages are the key to cultures really.. That's why I am happy that I know Spanish, it's spoken as mother language in many countries, so a key to many countries.
It's only not the case for English because it's so wide known, unfortunately. But I learnt a lot about some countries only because of knowing their languages and reading articles and listening songs in that language.

So. Sorry this post is so long. Thumbs up if there's someone who reads all this ; )

And some question: When do you think you speak a language? That's a question I've always been wondering about. I think maybe when you don't have to think about what you are writing and saying, when it just comes out of your mouth spontaneously. But what do you think?

[angeliki_sr]

I read the whole post! Thumbs up for me!
Well,I think you can say you speak some language when you can build a normal conversation without some effort,and when you know to write that.Then I could say I speak Serbian,English and French and I can have a conversation in Spanish with less effort than in French,but I can't write it..{The funny thing is that I never learned Spanish or even tried,I watch Spanish telenovelas a lot}I speak French a little lousy...Mais...J'aime le francais...

[mister Xazos]

Nice post here Angeliki, really.
I speak Romanian (my mother language; and for eveerybody to know once and forever: Romanian is a latin language, not slavic), I have 12 years in English and French and 4-5 in Spanish, of course, since my parents are there for some years. At school I make Latine (which I hate it, but that's life. How am I supposed to memorise of declinations?) and Ancient Greek.
All I want from the foreign languages is to speak Greek (fluently of course)
I love my Romanian, tough pronunciation, but beautiful (it's my language lol) and Greek and french.I hate English, but it's international, what more to do, I have even exams in English.
Anyway, Greek is the most longevive language from this Earth and the most rich, over 5mil atested in the dictionary, without the slangs. English is the most poor, it only has 700.000, and Romanian 1,5 mil.
I don't love the languages (exceptions: RO & GR) I love the cultures

[maria_gr]

Well I didn't count the dead languages (ancient Greek and latin), but as a student of Greek language and literature I have to know (not to speak but to be able to understand a text )...

[Adrienne]

Well you cant actually speak Latin, it is dead language, so is ancient Greek but to understand it yes...

[Guven]

I can speak russian, belarusian, english, and little bit turkish. i study german. And would like to learn arabic and farsi

[alp_er]

I speak Turkish(of course)
And English (you know)
I've been learning French for 2 years (tho i can't say i'm great but i try my best)
I know a bit Croatian and Bulgarian (i can survive in Croatia or Bulgaria)

plus:I'd like to learn Russian(and i will ), Spanish,Romanian,Albanian

[angeliki_sr]

Alp,then you could survive in Bosnia,Montenegro and Serbia too

[smelly cat]

Uff... that's a tough question... I'm fluent in Croatian and English and I speak a bit of Spanish and German. I did learn Italian and Latin for two years, but I know nothing anymore. And, just like pretty much anybody born in ex-Yugoslavia, I understand and/or speak Bosnian, Serbian and Slovenian (more or less).

Alper, don't be modest. Your Croatian is GREAT!

[alp_er]

Alp,then you could survive in Bosnia,Montenegro and Serbia too

sure! i'd like to survive in all balkan countries!

@smelly cat
and thank u dude

[mister Xazos]

Well I didn't count the dead languages (ancient Greek and latin), but as a student of Greek language and literature I have to know (not to speak but to be able to understand a text )...

I never counted on dead languages. My φόβος is latine; I never was able to make a translation, I never was able to lear her grammar, only literature. The worse part is that my profile is filology-ancient/clasical languages and I have exams at latin. Ancient Greek is awesome ! I love to translate texts from Aristotle, Platon.
They said it's easier to learn a romanic language because we learn at school latine. Who knows ? I'm tired of Latine... I preffer better to study Philosophy and translate greek texts with my worse teacher. (She's so dumb... like Tsimorwkoy, Maria )

[Augusta]

Romanian - mother language
English - very good ( i started learning it in the 5th grade, but i've learned more from TV and music. Now i'm studying forreign languages at some University, for becoming translator and interpretor. English should be the most important one :P)
German - very good (i'm studying it for 13 years now, the second language i'm studying intensively right now. It is my favourite though )
Spanish - pretty good (i learned it watching spanish soap operas :lol:, the so called "telenovelas"...i'm also studying it at the University)
Japanese - a few words and expressions (i just started learning it, at the University also :P)

i also understand a few languages without being very good at speaking them :P, like italian or french

[maria_gr]

(She's so dumb... like Tsimorwkoy, Maria )

Tsirimwkou!

[mister Xazos]

Oooooh yeaaaa ! I bless her with another name, I must gave her a sheep !
It sounded better as I said (I'm cute sometimes . haha )