How many Languages do you speak?

[Naiwen]

You're fluent in. At least a dozen for me, the most fluent in : English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and German for me personally.

 

[MrDawn]

You're fluent in. At least a dozen for me, the most fluent in : English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and German for me personally.

I can only speak English.

Question. If you really wanted to @Naiwen . Could you get paid a lot just to be a translator for people?

Someone told me that they make a lot of money.

 

[Naiwen]

I can only speak English.

Question. If you really wanted to @Naiwen . Could you get paid a lot just to be a translator for people?

Someone told me that they make a lot of money.

Yep I could but mostly due to being on disability for so long, I don't really see the point of working, too stressful for me personally.

 

[MrDawn]

I took a Spanish class when I was a Sophomore in high school. I did a month in Spanish before I dropped the class. I didn't want to take the time to do it.

 

[Kylie]

I can only speak English.

 

[Ash]

Fluent in English...obviously. I'm currently learning to speak Spanish which is going somewhat well. Just the basics down so far, thanks to Duolingo. Hopefully I can come back to this thread and say I'm fluent in Spanish as well.

 

[apathy]

Only English, despite spending like 14 years learning Gaeilge in school :'D
I did German for 3 years but don't know any of that either ^^,

 

[Ashlynn S]

How exactly are we defining fluent here, because if you really speak 12 languages what I consider to be 'fluently' then that's incredibly impressive.

I speak English (obviously), Gaeilge (similar to apathy, had it at school but never really use it, and don't know how fluent I am these days), pretty decent French, and conversational Spanish.

 

[Naiwen]

How exactly are we defining fluent here, because if you really speak 12 languages what I consider to be 'fluently' then that's incredibly impressive.

I speak English (obviously), Gaeilge (similar to apathy, had it at school but never really use it, and don't know how fluent I am these days), pretty decent French, and conversational Spanish.

I can decipher just about any language, code, human or made-up, and process any information, coding and etc. and my level is just as good as I'm typing it on here, For example, I can understand, read, speak, understand and write anything because I'm a high functioning autistic. All ABC languages and a few Asian ones, science and social sciences pose no problem to me at all personally. Been incredibility brilliant in school, yet not so much at work, because I lack the social and communication skills.

 

[Ashlynn S]

All ABC languages

There are about 7000 living langauges in the world and the vast majority of them use the Latin alphabet.

I get that if you know one or two languages from the same language tree, then you can understand parts of others in the same tree, but there are other languages that are quite unique like Basque or Lithuanian/Latvian, I don't see that you can understand them without learning rules first.

Similarly with programming languages, they are semantic and therefore easier to understand, but only on the condition that you understand basic underlying rules.

 

[Naiwen]

There are about 7000 living langauges in the world and the vast majority of them use the Latin alphabet.

I get that if you know or two languages from the same language tree, then you can understand parts of others in the same tree, but there are other languages that are quite unique like Basque or Lithuanian/Latvian, I don't see that you can understand them without learning rules first.

I know the rules, lol. Lati, Ancient Greek and I'm Asian myself, lol. So basically,I have studied history of languages and etc so yeah. Every particle sounds crystal to me personally.

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I've learnt German in about 1 course, easy as ABC.

 

[Ashlynn S]

I know the rules, lol. Lati, Ancient Greek and I'm Asian myself, lol. So basically,I have studied history of languages and etc so yeah. Every particle sounds crystal to me personally

I also studied language history a bit as part of a wider topic, which is why I'm questioning this so deeply.

There are over a hundred language families with living languages in them, but let's narrow it down to just the biggest 10-20, those would cover about 75% of languages. Then there are about 70 languages that are 'isolates' and don't belong to a family. There are also a load of unclassified languages, but they are spoken by very few people so we won't include those.

So, along with Greek and Latin, you've learned the basic rules for another 90 or so families/isolates?

 

[Naiwen]

I also studied language history a bit as part of a wider topic, which is why I'm questioning this so deeply.

There are over a hundred language families with living languages in them, but let's narrow it down to just the biggest 10-20, those would cover about 75% of languages. Then there are about 70 languages that are 'isolates' and don't belong to a family. There are also a load of unclassified languages, but they are spoken by very few people so we won't include those.

So, along with Greek and Latin, you've learned the basic rules for another 90 or so families/isolates?

Online yep, for studying purposes yep. And I speak my mother tongues natively : Chinese Mandarin, Japanese, Tibetan, Mongolian and Korean.

 

[JennyorAlice]

I can only speak English.

I did take some Spanish in high school. I can say a few words/phrases in Spanish but I'm not fluent by any means.

 

[Ash]

I can only speak English.

I did take some Spanish in high school. I can say a few words/phrases in Spanish but I'm not fluent by any means.

Hola! I did French in high school and I can only say a few phrases as well. I kind of wish I took Spanish instead because it would have helped me a lot right now since I'm learning it.

 

[ZandraJoi]

I only speak my native, English. I'm an introvert so I honestly do better with written words than oral. Learning languages as well as the various cultures has always been fascinating to me. I took Spanish in High School & could get by conversationally. I taught myself Sign Language years ago. I dabbled in Japanese & Mandarin.
For those who like learning or are fluent, what motivates you to learn? For me, it's the thrill of being able to communicate with others.

 

[Sharon]

I speak English as my main language. I can speak and write in Tagalog (Filipino) when forced to. Unfortunately, I haven't had as much practice as I do no have any other Filipino speakers around me regularly.

 

[armintd]

I can speak English,German and a little bit of a Italian.

 

[Kyng]

English is the only one I can speak fluently. I did study French and Spanish at high school, but I doubt there's much left of either of those .

 

[Empire]

Just English