So, what other languages do you speak/ understand?

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Just to get the ball rolling in a language direction in here!

I am a native English speaker, fluent to native speaker level in Greek, proficient in Italian, French, also speak Welsh and understand a fair amount of German.

And I can do very basic phrases for the ILs, in Yup'ik but really only a bit.

"All of my forrin languages get a LOT more fluent when I've had a drink or five"

Indeed, I hazily distinctly remember an entire evening spent in Prague in the mid-90s with a guy who had 10 words of English, I had 10 words of Czech, and we both had some German. We had a remarkably good conversation, largely revolving around Pivo.

Ah yes, I have some bizarre snippets of both Czech and Polish. Mam rada chleb is one that will never leave me, sadly.

"All of my forrin languages get a LOT more fluent when I've had a drink or five"

You should've seen my demented gran who speaks no English and my demented MiL who speaks no German get on like a house on fire, quite happily chatting at each other. A common language would've been a hindrance to communication. It also helped that neither one of them had any interest at all in anything the other person had to say [gallows humour].

I have native Englush, fluent Turkish.

Conversational French.

DS1 currently learning French and Spanish so have fisted off my books because my plan was always to go to uni to study languages. As it stands I am now doing a humanities subject but am going to pick up my languages as a replacement afterwards.

Planning to learn Russian in the few years.

By the time of my next decade birthday I would like to have Russian/German/Spanish and French.

Native English and Scots.

School French.

Read rather than speak Latin and Classical Greek also Hebrew now very rusty.

Little German.

Even less Welsh.

Scraps of Spanish and Gaelic.

Native English.
Asum.
Good Italian.
Not quite so good French.

Native English.
Irish.
Have some French and a smattering of German- enough to get by but still not that good.

Native English

Competent Afrikaans & isiZulu

Get by French & Japanese

Native English (allegedly)
Understand Welsh pretty well, speak rather haltingly
Russian rather basic but enough not to starve to death when in Siberia for 3 months - find written easier than spoken

Both Welsh and Russian significantly more flluent when drunk, unlike English which seems to transmogrify into a combination of Welsh and Russian.

The usual smattering of French (passable) German italian and Spanish

About 5 words each of Dutch and Japanese.

Native English
Get by French
Some Spanish & Italian. As in 'food & drink, greetings, please & thanks' etc.

I speak Accountancy fluently too.

Native English
Fluent Spanish (Ecuador) due to living there.
Good-ish Portugese.
Some ASL.

Native English, reasonably fluent in French and German. A good level of Polish and Romanian (Romanian used to be near native level but have lost much of it). Reasonable knowledge of Dutch and Spanish, but more passive than active. I can understand but not speak Italian and Yiddish. Survival Hebrew and Russian - can read a menu, do pleasantries, ask directions, get myself from A to B and do my shopping.

Native Dutch
Near native English
Fluent German and French
Thanks to 6 years of Latin, I can read Italian but can only speak it with hand and foot gestures

My DC are bilingual English/French.

Native Dutch
Near native English
Fluent German and French
Thanks to 6 years of Latin, I can read Italian but can only speak it with hand and foot gestures

My DC are bilingual English/French.

Native English
good conversational level in Dutch
good conversational level in Russian
used to speak conversational Indonesian, but would need a refresher course
conversational BSL
very rusty French

Native English with Hungarian parents. Can speak it fluently, and switch from English to Hungarian like lightening that it freaks people out.

Weirdly can understand some other languages, but that's happened over the years with my traveling career.

Native English, used to be fluent in French - bit rusty now but can read it.

Holiday Italian, very basic survival Japanese, ( directions, menus, pleases and thank yous etc)

Native English

Good but not fluent French

Good and improving Spanish

Tourist German

Can read a bit of Italian and Portuguese

Studied Classics at uni so Latin and Ancient Greek are my strong points!

Native English.

Semi-decent Russian (live here, love it, but will never master prefixed verbs of motion.)

Previously Upper-Intermediate French, now rusty as I almost never use it.

Can read Latin and koine Greek.

Spoke good Maori when younger but mostly forgotten now.

alma, good to see another St Clares fan. [:D]

Native Danish speaker
Near native English ( have lived in England for 25 years)
Serviceable French, German and Italian
A-level type Latin and Ancient Greek qualifications

Native English
Good French and German
Very rusty but quite good Russian
Mainly forgotten Latin

Shouldn't we meet up and practise our various languages? I'd love to have a Rusty Russian meet-up.

Rusty Russian meet up? Sounds good. While I feel somewhat rusty, I'm still functionally fluent with good pronunciation. English is native, French is generally good but very rusty (soon to be corrected by changing countries....), German is basic but reasonable and with a pretty wide vocab. Beginner's Dutch.

Fluent in Polish, good Hebrew, good French. And English too, of course.