Are you fluent in another language other than your native language?

[Lambsbread]

I want to see how this goes.

Personally, I am not fully. I'm learning German and Finnish, though.

[Хahar 🤔]

It depends on what you mean by native language, I suppose. Bengali has as good a claim to being my native language as English does; when I was very young, I habitually spoke Bengali more than I did English. Of course, one might say that I'm not fully fluent in Bengali, since my Bengali is mostly English words put in different order.

I voted Yes because it made more sense than voting No.

[ZuWo]

Yes (Not American).

Strictly speaking, my only native language is Swiss German so I can say the two non-native languages I speak fluently at this point in my life are Standard German and English. I used to speak French and Italian quite fluently when I was in high school, and I have studied Swedish and Polish for a couple of months. I made a deal with myself that I will refresh my knowledge of at least French, Italian and Swedish before I start studying a new language.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I kind of have two native languages (even though I really did learn French only at 4-5) and I think I can consider myself somewhat fluent in English (though I'll leave that to the judgement of my fellow forumites ).

[Beet]

It depends on what you mean by native language, I suppose. Bengali has as good a claim to being my native language as English does; when I was very young, I habitually spoke Bengali more than I did English. Of course, one might say that I'm not fully fluent in Bengali, since my Bengali is mostly English words put in different order.

I voted Yes because it made more sense than voting No.

Same here [well, not the Bengali part]. I answered yes (given that there are only two votes under 'American', then it must be the two of us) but it is really ambiguous. If you can have two native languages, then the answer should actually be No. If you can only have one native language, then the answer is Yes by definition. But I never really made the effort to actually go and learn a foreign language and master it. What I have was given to me. Thus, it seems unfair to answer Yes on this poll.

[John Dibble]

I could have a brief conversation in Japanese, but I'm not fluent.

[Lambsbread]

Yes (Not American).

Strictly speaking, my only native language is Swiss German so I can say the two non-native languages I speak fluently at this point in my life are Standard German and English. I used to speak French and Italian quite fluently when I was in high school, and I have studied Swedish and Polish for a couple of months. I made a deal with myself that I will refresh my knowledge of at least French, Italian and Swedish before I start studying a new language.

Ah, du sprichst Deutsch! Ich spreche auch, aber nicht so gut weil ich bin ein Schüler. Ich finde Deutsch schwer zeitweise, aber vielleicht ich versuche nicht genug

[LastVoter]

Not sure how to answer this. Decided to answer Yes, not American.

[I'm JewCon in name only.]

Russian

[ZuWo]

Yes (Not American).

Strictly speaking, my only native language is Swiss German so I can say the two non-native languages I speak fluently at this point in my life are Standard German and English. I used to speak French and Italian quite fluently when I was in high school, and I have studied Swedish and Polish for a couple of months. I made a deal with myself that I will refresh my knowledge of at least French, Italian and Swedish before I start studying a new language.

Ah, du sprichst Deutsch! Ich spreche auch, aber nicht so gut weil ich bin ein Schüler. Ich finde Deutsch schwer zeitweise, aber vielleicht ich versuche nicht genug

Wenn du das alleine und nicht etwa mit Google Translate geschrieben hast, kann ich sagen, dass du schon ziemlich gut Deutsch sprichst!

[Lambsbread]

Nein, das war mich!

[Franzl]

English and German are both native languages. Speak French relatively well. Fluent written, spoken is a little harder for me.

[Insula Dei]

Define 'fluent'. Tempted to say yes.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Can communicate in Spanish reasonably well when not put under pressure. Writing is much easier than talking and listening obviously (as I write this I'm talking to a Spanish friend of mine on Facebook. His response to what I've just written: "No entiendo". Oh well).

[Gustaf]

Yes. I guess every non-native speaker of English here should be able to say yes? I know a bit of German and French but I'm far from fluent there.

[Lambsbread]

Define 'fluent'. Tempted to say yes.

Can speak it well enough to have a conversation and/or can write well enough to write maybe about a page-long essay?

[Franzl]

Define 'fluent'. Tempted to say yes.

Can speak it well enough to have a conversation and/or can write well enough to write maybe about a page-long essay?

That's certainly not fluent IMO. I want to really know a language before claiming fluency.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Define 'fluent'. Tempted to say yes.

Can speak it well enough to have a conversation and/or can write well enough to write maybe about a page-long essay?

That's certainly not fluent. Hell, I can do that (and have done that).

The real test imo is whether can you understand a group of teenagers having a natural conservation amongst themselves while you listen in... if you can understand about half it, you are nearly there.

[Lambsbread]

Define 'fluent'. Tempted to say yes.

Can speak it well enough to have a conversation and/or can write well enough to write maybe about a page-long essay?

That's certainly not fluent. Hell, I can do that (and have done that).

The real test imo is whether can you understand a group of teenagers having a natural conservation amongst themselves while you listen in... if you can understand about half it, you are nearly there.

I was going based off of what I do for homework in school hahahaha. Yeah, this is probably better.

[Sbane]

Yes, because even if we assume Bengali AND English are somehow my native language, I can still speak Hindi fluently. Wish I could speak Spanish fluently as well, but my brain said no more to any more languages.

[Хahar 🤔]

Define 'fluent'. Tempted to say yes.

Your English is better than a lot of the anglophones here.

[dead0man]

Do many Euros still have the "we are better than you because we speak more than one language" complex?

[Frodo]

No (like too many other Americans), though I tried like hell in grade school to learn Spanish.  But since I never found the occasion to use what I had learned, I never retained enough of it to converse coherently with native Spanish-speakers.  

[RogueBeaver]

Fluent en français.

[Redalgo]

I do not speak any other languages fluently. Spanish classes in high school and then Russian in college did not convey much to me in the way of conversational skills. At this point, I am basically incapable of communicating in either of those languages but might try to learn them someday.