Foreign Languages that you can speak/write/understand/read?

[frihetsivrare]

I can speak and write basic level German, enough to get by on vacation there without speaking English.  In German I can say at least a few things about many topics.  I can understand even less Swedish than that.  In Swedish I can count, introduce myself, say a few phrases that make no sense, and say how I generally fell about things.

[MODU]

Well, "speaking" of Tagalog, did anyone notice that "Deal or No Deal" was being hosted by the Philippines last night?  hahaha . . . it's a shame there wasn't much Tagalog spoken (again, because many of them speak English these days).

[Hash]

I learned English in KG1.

[GMantis]

Bulgarian, English and German - (though admittedly my German is very rusty and it's difficult for me to speak it).
I studied Russian at school and can understand it pretty well, though I'm almost incapable of speaking and writing. And I can understand other Slavic languages to various degrees - Macedonian (if there's such a language) - almost completely, Serbian - a lot, the other languages much less and Polish least of all.

[exopolitician]

German, Italian, and some French.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I can understand BBC English though I refuse to speak it.

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I also know enough German and French to embarrass myself in public if I so choose. Welsh too, but the first language of my Grandfather is not a foreign language.

[GMantis]

I can understand BBC English though I refuse to speak it.

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I also know enough German and French to embarrass myself in public if I so choose. Welsh too, but the first language of my Grandfather is not a foreign language.

I think that in most countries people will be delighted if a foreigner ( excluding migrants) can speak their language. Unfortunately, these countries don't include any English speaking countries or France.