Which languages do you know?

[WOLFINAS]

Catalan as mother Tongue, as well as Spanish.

After that, French as Fluent, and English a little poor than French.

Only Notions of Italian, and as Portuguese is quite similar to Catalan and French and Spanish, I can speak with portuguese people.

[hoera]

I speak Flemish (Dutch)
I speak fluently French and English and regular Spanish.
I learned some Polish years ago, but lost almost everything

[nicohauks]

I speak french
i learn english (for 4 years) and spanish (for 3 years)

[ausfi]

My mother tongue is Finnish. At school I learned some German, Swedish and French, but learned to speak only Swedish. I studied English at the University and later married an Australian and moved there, so my home language has been English. In Norway I learned to speak Norwegian, after which it is difficult to try to speak Swedish without using a lot of Norwegian words.
So I speak Finnish, Norwegian and English, can read German and some French. Understand some written Italian, mostly in songs.
I lived for a while in Denmark, and still understand Danish, but have lost the ability of speaking it.

[Math Murderer]

I've spoken English, Spanish and German my entire life. To be honest, I'm not sure which one of these languages is my mother tongue.
If the definition of "mother tongue" is the language spoken at home, then it's English for me. If the definition of "mother tongue" spoken with the mother, then it's Spanish for me. And if the definition of "mother tongue" is the language of the country you grow up in, then it's German for me.

I can also read and understand some French, Italian and Portuguese.

[Dakkus]

Time for an update..

Finnish: Birthlanguage
Swedish: Somewhat OK. If spoken clearly and not very quickly, I will understand most. Having a Swedish-speaking flatmate has really helped me a lot with this.
English: Fluent, used almost every day.
German: Good, I have been able to do all my conversations auf Deutsch for several days in a row. (learned through Dutch, BTW)
Dutch: Good. I read it better than German, but write it somewhat less fluently. However, I feel a lot more confident while speaking Dutch than I do while I am speaking German. I have had long conversations, also spoken ones, in Dutch, too.
Woman: Well.. Can speak to people speaking that language but can't understand what they're talking about. However, I have done my best to make some progress also with this language and have already seen several situations in which I have actually understood spoken Woman!
Russian: My Russian is good enough to keep me alive in Russia. A person speaking nothing but Russian is able enough to conversate with me, if also he puts a bit of effort into it.
Estonian: A fascinating language spoken in a fascinating country. I speak quite good Estonian.
Lithuanian: A crazy language that is quite hard to learn. But I have begun.. I already know over 5 words of it!
Hungarian: Spent a while trying to learn the language. Quite an easy one to learn, but I didn't have enough time back then and I had to let go of the book. I can order a pie in a restaurant and ask where the post office is (however, I won't understand the answer unless it's "right" or "left" :P).

I am also able to (very slowly) read Spanish, French and Italian so that I figure the main point of the text.
I also seem to understand Czech language surprisingly well. No idea why.

My goal is to learn to _read_ at least somehow all languages that have a status of an official languages in the EU.

First of all: a great topic!

Then.. Let's start:
Finnish: Birthlanguage
Swedish: Language I'm forced to learn although I'll never need it anywhere. I can read it and also listen to, if spelled clearly. Normally I'll stick to English.
English: A language I nowadays seem to use a lot more than Finnish. When I'm entering serial numbers of notes I often end up mumbling the numbers in English while writing them :))
French: A language I just started learning in school. Got 135 minutes of learning it behind. So beware, French forum!
German: When me brother started learning German some six years ago I read a few chapters of his German book just for curiousity. Knew more German than my brother for a few months :)) Also my girlfriend speaks fluent German as she's lived in Germany. And whatever she's interested in, I try to be, too :]
Dutch: A language I'm very keen to nowadays. Has maany words and grammatical this and that from Swedish and English languages although spelled a bit differently. I can read somewhat well even without a dictionary using my English, Swedish and very limited German skills.
Woman: Well.. Can speak to people speaking that language but can't understand what they're talking about.
Russian: I once spent a lot of time with a girl who liked Russia very much. So, I learned parts of the language just for fun. Fell in love with the cyrillic alphabet and got a Russian webmail :)) BTW, that Russian webmail (yandex.ru) is the best webmail out there. This is how I learned Russian: I had an Ericsson's cell phone. It had tens and tens of languages to choose from. Including Finnish, Arabian, Icelandic, Hebrew, Srpski, Greek, English and Russian. Russian and Srpski (Serbian, if I've understood right) have _very_ much in common. Srpski words are practically the same as Russian although written with latin alphabetics. So, I read a text in a menu in the phone in Russian, then compared it to the text in Srpski. Learned the alphabetics that way. Then compared Russian words to Finnish words and learned to use the phone in Russian language without any problems. Used the phone in Russian for some six months or so :))
Estonian: The country's Finland's brother. And so is the language :) They speak a language that looks more like a dialect of Finland than a distinct language. Most of the postpositions are quite the same. Well.. Ok.. Estonian isn't /that/ easy because the vocabulary is different. I've used some Estonian web services. For example I used to order all of my cell phone logos from Estonia when it was still free that way :))
Norwegian and Danish: These are just Swedish with different wrapping.

I'm going to learn also Spanish or Italian some day. That's one reason why I want to learn French. They don't teach Spanish or Italian in our school and I can use French to learn then later :)
I've also thought of learning Polish some day. They'll soon be in EU and there are 40 million of them. And there aren't much people speaking both Finnish and Polish :) Now I can also say "Czesc, kurwa", which means "Hi, bitch" :?

[yli]

Now I can also say "Czesc, kurwa", which means "Hi, bitch"

It's the worst thing you can say in polish when talking to somebody. The meaning is much stronger than only bitch.... and it's used like fuck in english around lot's of times in a sentence.
The best way to say Hi is only Czesc...especially when talking to stangers

[Dakkus]

Now I can also say "Czesc, kurwa", which means "Hi, bitch" :?

It's the worst thing you can say in polish when talking to somebody. The meaning is much stronger than only bitch.... and it's used like fuck in english around lot's of times in a sentence.
The best way to say Hi is only Czesc...especially when talking to stangers :wink:

Yup. I think someone has scientifically proven that when any random two Polish people are conversating, 90% of their conversation consists of word "kurwa". That's at least what it's sounded like to my ears..

[tabbs]

My goal is to learn to _read_ at least somehow all languages that have a status of an official languages in the EU.

Interesting - and pretty impressive - list, and you seem to be quite ambitious. Keep in mind though that we just added three new official EU languages: Bulgarian, Irish and Romanian. And I suppose that more will come ...

Christian

[Dakkus]

My goal is to learn to _read_ at least somehow all languages that have a status of an official languages in the EU.

Interesting - and pretty impressive - list, and you seem to be quite ambitious. :) Keep in mind though that we just added three new official EU languages: Bulgarian, Irish and Romanian. And I suppose that more will come ...

Christian

Written Bulgarian is quite understandable through Russian and I've been able to navigate eurolines.ro through French. But true, I still need to excercise with those, however.

[pipocadoce]

Time for an update..

Woman: Well.. Can speak to people speaking that language but can't understand what they're talking about. However, I have done my best to make some progress also with this language and have already seen several situations in which I have actually understood spoken Woman!

If you pay well... i can teach you

[Asiamaniac]

Time for an update..
Woman: Well.. Can speak to people speaking that language but can't understand what they're talking about. However, I have done my best to make some progress also with this language and have already seen several situations in which I have actually understood spoken Woman!

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Good if you are quite familiar in German. Here, for a long time, there was special dictionary in the topselling lists. It is "Deutsch - Frau; Frau - Deutsch" (German - Woman; Woman - German). It has been published by Langenscheidt Edition and also looks like their regular dictionaries.

It is quite funny to read this, when the author desperately tries to explain
- what a woman really means when she says something
- how you have to say something in order to avoid lonely nights, although while being in bed with your honey.

[Sonkku]

My motherlanguage is finnish.

I know swedish, english and germany. I also know few words polish.

[Gorenc]

slovenian, serbian & english

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slovenian

german
english
croatian