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#1
Spanish
 
#2
French
 
#3
German
 
#4
Italian
 
#5
Russian
 
#6
Polish
 
#7
Arabic
 
#8
Dutch
 
#9
Hebrew
 
#10
Turkish
 
#11
Japanese
 
#12
Chinese - Mandarin
 
#13
Chinese - Cantonese
 
#14
Korean
 
#15
Portuguese
 
#16
Any of the various native american languages
 
#17
Other
 
#18
I only speak English
 
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« on: October 24, 2015, 03:49:45 AM »

I'll go first in order of fluency:
English/Arabic - evenly fluent
French - almost fully fluent
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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2015, 04:02:25 AM »

Nepalese and Hindi.
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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2015, 05:12:35 AM »

Spanish and Latin both fluently also English
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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2015, 05:38:14 AM »

I'm functionally fluent in Spanish (speaking, reading, writing, listening). I also took French for four years; I was really close to it "clicking" in the same way that Spanish inevitably did for me, but it didn't help that I was taking Spanish and French classes simultaneously and the Spanish definitely dominated the French in terms of how I'd pronounce a lot of words and whatnot. I can still read it, but nothing else really. I also possess phonetic fluency in Greek and can barely carry on a conversation.
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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2015, 06:11:35 AM »

I obviously speak German, dialect as well as High German. I'd consider my English to be quite fluent; if you're familiar with the CEFR, I'm at somewhere between C1 and C2.

I have had five years of Italian in school so far, am currently in my sixth, and while I am not too bad, I feel I could be better in the language, but am probably too lazy for getting ahead. I'm somewhere around B1.

I've furthermore had four years of Latin, but that obviously doesn't really count as a "spoken" language.

I also had two years of Russian, but I never really got that far with it, and I no more have Russian lessons this year.
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« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2015, 06:49:58 AM »

I speak really mediocre French.
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2015, 10:01:30 AM »

I am as fluent in Russian as I am in English; it is the only language that I use to communicate with my family and I learned to speak/read/write Russian before I did English. I've been studying Spanish for the past 5 years, and judging by test scores/several trips to Latin America, while I am nowhere near as proficient in Spanish as I am in English/Russian, I can read pretty much anything and understand pretty much anything besides songs/some local slang, and while I speak with a very heavy (and, apparently, very indeterminate, since it is part from American English and part from Russian) accent, I can communicate pretty much any concept. Voted Russian and Spanish. I have briefly studied several other languages at one time in my life or another, but I am nowhere near fluency in any of those and in some cases it's been many years since I've stopped.

EDIT: Ah, can you only vote for one language? That's kinda ridiculous, but OK. Voted Russian.
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« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2015, 11:12:37 AM »

English wasn't an option in the poll, but that would be my second language.
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« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2015, 01:01:06 PM »

German, but nowhere near fluency and proficiency-just barely conversational. Used to be alright, but lack of practice takes its toll.
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« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2015, 01:13:13 PM »
« Edited: October 25, 2015, 12:24:34 PM by Thinking Crumpets Crumpet »

In order of fluency:

English - Native language
French - At my best, I was almost fluent, and only messed up on slang and idioms. But I've gotten a bit rusty.
Russian - I can speak conversationally, with a couple of mistakes here and there.
Spanish - I have a pretty good vocabulary, but my grammar and accent are terrible, and I have a hard time understanding non-Castellano speakers.
Arabic - Only Modern Standard Arabic, and only a year of study. So, just basic conversation.
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