What languages do you speak?

[Vosem]

Russian is my native language; English is my basic day-to-day language. Both I speak fluently. Beyond that, I've studied Spanish for many years, and I can understand the vast majority of things (I've read Wikipedia articles/passages out of books without problems), but speaking and writing things that aren't very basic remains difficult. I hope to be there by the end of senior year (in addition to the school curriculum, I've been teaching myself to some extent), so summer of 2015, but it'll take lots of work.

[windjammer]

French, learn German and English

[Torie]

Lawyerese.

[anvi]

Lawyerese.

This is a real linguistic accomplishment, folks,  After all, Lawyerese has more cases than any other language.    Sorry, I know it's a lameass joke--the two large cups of afternoon coffee made me do it.

[politicus]

Lawyerese.

This is a real linguistic accomplishment, folks,  After all, Lawyerese has more cases than any other language.    Sorry, I know it's a lameass joke--the two large cups of afternoon coffee made me do it.

Someone had to say it, might as well be you

[ZuWo]

Swiss German, Swiss High German (not the same!), English, French, Italian and rudimentary Swedish, though I would probably get a good grasp of Swedish in a relatively short period of time if I made a serious effort at studying it (because it's so similar to German).

[Adam Griffin]

English and Spanish. I also took four years of French but studied it alongside Spanish and since Spanish was my dominant language...oh well, at least I can still read French. I've also spent a few years dabbling here and there in Greek, but never pursued learning it in the same way that I did with the others.

[MaxQue]

French, English and some terrible rusty and poor Spanish

[Indy Texas]

Like a true American, I speak French well enough to order in a restaurant or check into a hotel, and I speak Spanish well enough to give instructions to a housekeeper, a gardener or a waiter.

[CatoMinor]

Fluent: American English and Southern English.

Intermediate: Spanish and Upper Midwestern American English.

[Landslide Lyndon]

English and Romanian. I pretty much understand Italian but don't ask me to speak it.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

English fluently, fairly far along in Japanese, I can read French, Italian, and Spanish okay with the help of a dictionary but can't speak them at all, and I used to be able to read Classical Greek with a dictionary but am unforgivably rusty by now.

[Tender Branson]

Swiss German, Swiss High German (not the same!), English, French, Italian and rudimentary Swedish, though I would probably get a good grasp of Swedish in a relatively short period of time if I made a serious effort at studying it (because it's so similar to German).

That's the good thing about Switzerland: That you basically grow up with 5 languages in school and daily life. (Swiss-German, High-German for those who don't understand you people , English, French and Italian).

[Хahar 🤔]

Obviously I'm fluent in English. I speak and write in standard California English.

I am proficient in conversational Bengali; I actually regularly spoke Bengali before I spoke English. My accent is clearly of East Bengal and not West Bengal, but otherwise it is distinguished by its lack of any noticeable regional features; even the nonstandard forms that my parents use weren't passed on to me, although I'm not sure why. The register I use is filled with anglicisms and relatively informal (I don't generally use or even understand the Sanskrit words for things, but the same goes for obscenities and other very informal language); my Bengali vocabulary is most robust when it comes to everyday life. I only learned to read the language six months ago, and I still struggle with reading more than a few words at a time.

I studied Spanish from seventh grade to twelfth grade and I was generally one of the better students in the class, so I can speak and write the language somewhat and read it fairly well. I can decipher text in every major Romance language without an inordinate amount of difficulty, although French is the only one other than Spanish in which I can write at all.

My concentration for my history major is Eastern Europe, so I would like to learn to at least read Romanian or Russian (and ideally both) well in the next couple years. I am also interested in improving my Bengali reading ability.

[Insula Dei]

Depends on what you mean by 'speak', but I imagine my Dutch is passable. Also reasonaby good at understanding German, French and English. Oh, and being the product of a classical humaniora system, I also in theory ought to be able to read Latin and Ancient Greek.

[Del Tachi]

Currently, I can speak English and French.  I can carry-on a very limited conversation in Spanish, thanks mainly to my time in Seville and Barcelona.

I desire to learn a Slavic language.  I think Russian would be the most useful, but Ukrainian would be neat too!  What's the "easiest" Slavic language for an Anglophone to learn?

[Peter the Lefty]

English.  Up to German 4 now.  When I finish, I plan to keep learning languages for the rest of my life (if that's possible), but I'll probably manage to do just German and French realistically. 

[Vosem]

I desire to learn a Slavic language.  I think Russian would be the most useful, but Ukrainian would be neat too!  What's the "easiest" Slavic language for an Anglophone to learn?

The easiest grammar probably belongs to a far South Slavic language (Bulgarian is what I'm thinking of), as they've been influenced to a great degree by East Romance languages (Romanian and its relatives), while English has been influenced to a great degree by West Romance languages (particularly French). Still, as you can imagine, the level of kinship is pretty minute.

The easiest to learn, in spite of that, is probably Russian, just because of the wealth of material that can help you learn Russian, on the Internet and in printed form, is far, far greater than for any other Slavic language, so it's easier to seriously learn without traveling to someplace where the language is actually spoken.

[Ebowed]

Only English, unfortunately.

[Niemeyerite]

Spanish and Portuguese. My English is not that bad. Intermediate French and basic Chinese.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Polish (obviously), English, Modern Standard Arabic and some (just some) Farsi.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What's the "easiest" Slavic language for an Anglophone to learn?

Most certainly not Polish.

[Indy Texas]

Currently, I can speak English and French.  I can carry-on a very limited conversation in Spanish, thanks mainly to my time in Seville and Barcelona.

I desire to learn a Slavic language.  I think Russian would be the most useful, but Ukrainian would be neat too!  What's the "easiest" Slavic language for an Anglophone to learn?

I was always under the impression that Russian and Ukrainian were only distinct languages in the nationalistic way that Swedish and Norwegian are distinct languages.

[RogueBeaver]

English and French.

[TDAS04]

Spanish and Portuguese. My English is not that bad. Intermediate French and basic Chinese.

Spanish in Spain is somewhat different from Latin American Spanish, obviously (Spain uses the "vosotros" verb conjugation).  How different is Portuguese in Portugal from Brazilian Portuguese?  I'm sure at least a little.

I might want to learn Portuguese after conquering Spanish.  Could the usefulness of Portuguese increase with the rise of Brazil?