Languages Spoken by Community Members

[furballdn]

I've run into a slightly halting dilemma.

I'm sure most of you will agree that I split "Chinese" into "Mandarin" and "Cantonese" but where do I put the people that just said "I speak Chinese"?

Mandarin is more common. By Chinese, I meant that I speak mandarin.

[SteppingStone81]

English - 10, native
French - 8
Chinese - 8, mandarin (simplified & traditional)
Spanish - 6

p.s.  Long time no see!  Someday I still hope to return to EtG 

[Jocko]

I find it interesting though, that English, even though I use it only in t3h Internetz, is kinda like a second nature to me. I often find myself in situations, when I know the English word, but can't recall the Polish one. Or I use the English word, because it 'fits better', possibly having a meaning closer to what I mean, than the Polish equivalent. Also, I find myself thinking in English quite often... for example when I read a book written in English and my thoughts start to wander off into another topic, they'll probably be in English. And I definitely prefer reading books and using software in English even if I have access to Polish translations, if English is the original language of the book/software. It's quite funny when I speak with my friends about a computer game and we can't understand each other, because I use the original proper names and my friends use translated proper names which I don't know. Take for example the names of different cities in Heroes of Might and Magic 3: castle, rampart, tower, stronghold and fortress. These are words with extremely similar meanings, and you can guess that after being translated into Polish, it's hard to guess which one is which, unless you have played the translated version. Also, I like to write puns and lyrics in English.

This, so much.
I do have a friend, who is a native spanish speaker like me, but we still talk in english some times.

[Jenkar]

French all the way. 5 in german. 1 in chinese.

[ffun]

Portuguese - 10 (native)
Spanish - 8
German - 6
Italian - 6

[mesaprotector]

French - 6 (I can write an essay and converse decently. I'm nowhere near fluent, though.)
Latin - 3 (Four years, but I'm still not that comfortable with it.)

If I go by your definition of "1", I could probably add three more languages to the mix, but I don't think that's fair to the people who actually can speak them

[tempalt3]

I know Vietnamese and Hindi. I have to use google translator to talk them for the tones. I only learn it for 2 terms.

[drolly]

Nice thread, just discovered it and had the urge to reply, of course.

German - 10 (native)
Latin - 6 (seven years at school)
French - 4 (two courses in France)

[AP579]

6 in Chinese, I speak Cantonese. *hipster glasses*

[lawrenceleong888]

Cantonese-10              Native

Mandarin/Chinese-10   It's natural

Japanese-5                  No problem with reading, writing, speaking and listening. But kanji pronunciation as in Japanese is still moderate...though I know the meaning from Chinese characters though...Vocabulary isn't vast enough...Anime, vocaloid, japanese culture lover...

Malay-10                      I'm in Malaysia after all...

German-1                     Beginner

[Cunning_Wish]

中文当然没问题了10

English not very good,quite little difficult to discuss 4

other language don't know little more 0

[RWgirl]

Norwegian: 8-9
Swedish: 7 reading and understanding.  5 writing/speaking.
Danish: 8 Written/reading.  I have a really hard time understanding spoken Danish.  Danes seem to understand me well enough.

Spanish 3  I was a 6-ish, but I stopped speaking it for a few years and completely lost it.

Polish 2-3 I know enough words to get by, but I can't put them into sentences.