What Language Do You Take, Or Know?

[Veceria]

Native language: German
Other languages: English, little bit latin, little bit C

[Astormark]

Native Dutch, though I do speak fluid English - as I was raised in English.
Basic to intermediate French as well. I did 2 years of Latin if that counts

[Gopferdammi]

My official native language is German, while it is de facto Bernese German, which you may or may not consider as part of a different language, based on your preferences.
In addition to German I learned English, French and a bit of Italian and Mandarin.

[The Blaatschapen]

I really wish I could answer the poll, but apparently Newspeak is more important than either "Dutch" or "other"

[Hairless Kitten II]

Mother tongue: Dutch

Other languages: French, English and some basic German.

I'm also able to talk in a dozen Dutch dialects, without any accent.

[Surote]

Spanish

[Rhodmhire]

I need not to learn a second language.

My robot overlords have taken care of it for me.

[Autotelic]

My native language is American English. I am also pretty good with American Sign Language (although I am not fluent).

I would love to learn another language, but I really never had the chance. In high school, the only option was Spanish and you couldn't take it if you were in band since the classes always overlapped (and I was in band). When I hit college, I took a semester of Slovak and French, but I ended up taking a break from college. When I went back to finish my degree, I wanted to improve my visual learning since I am an auditory person; so I took four classes of American Sign Language. I am not fluent, but I can hold my own in conversation.

I am going to go to graduate school, but I doubt I will have time to pick up a language.

[Swazderland]

native langauge: Australian english
i have learnt in the past from from compulsory langauges at school italian,Japanese and chose french (dont remember the otheres at all remember some french) not doing french now
maybe in the future ill try and learn (german russian or dutch?)

[Swazderland]

I need not to learn a second language.

My robot overlords have taken care of it for me.

the translator is probably wrong (wont change it to the right form) and the changes you have to make with fench in spelling. its the same with babel fish (it will always be in the vous form)
would i be right french speakers?

[Dakini]

Native is English. I was fluent in French at the end of high school, but now I can read and understand it well, but can neither speak or write it with much confidence (and without much checking). I'm going to try to improve this.

I also know a bit of Spanish and would like to improve on my Spanish speaking abilities. And well, I know a smattering of words and phrases in a couple of other languages.

And I'd like to pick up another language, maybe German or Dutch.

[Dakini]

I really wish I could answer the poll, but apparently Newspeak is more important than either "Dutch" or "other"

Which is weird because there's the Dutch thread that goes on for a while so you'd think that most people here would know that there are a decent number of Dutch speakers.

[Gopferdammi]

If there are enough people who are interested in learning one specific language, it might be interesting to see if NSG could pull of a "learn (insert language here)" thread.

[Samatolian City-States]

I know English, and am attempting to learn Latin. Which you forgot on the poll.

[Dakini]

I know English, and am attempting to learn Latin. Which you forgot on the poll.

Because I don't think there are any native Latin speakers anymore.

[Meciene]

Something is wrong with the poll. If you know more than two languages, how do you vote for both?

Anyway, I'm fluent in English. I'm learning Chinese (Mandarin) and I'm not very fluent in Thai and Filipino.

[Dakini]

Something is wrong with the poll. If you know more than two languages, how do you vote for both?

Anyway, I'm fluent in English. I'm learning Chinese (Mandarin) and I'm not very fluent in Thai and Filipino.

I think the thread starter assumes that nobody has more than one mother tongue.

[Rhodmhire]

the translator is probably wrong (wont change it to the right form) and the changes you have to make with fench in spelling. its the same with babel fish (it will always be in the vous form)
would i be right french speakers?

My robot overlords tell me otherwise.

[Allbeama]

I speak english for my native tongue( the American kind of course). I took Latin in High School and would like a refresher in the future because its been like 3 years of atrophy in my studies of the Mother Tongue.

[Dakini]

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I need not to learn a second language.

My robot overlords have taken care of it for me.

the translator is probably wrong (wont change it to the right form) and the changes you have to make with fench in spelling. its the same with babel fish (it will always be in the vous form)
would i be right french speakers?

The problem with this seems to be more that it says "enter a word". Knowing the word only helps if you know how to put together a sentence and conjugate verbs. So this is probably really handy if you've got a good idea of how to speak the language already but forget words here and there (or if you know basic sentences like "where is...?" and need to look up the object/place you're trying to find).

[Swazderland]

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I need not to learn a second language.

My robot overlords have taken care of it for me.

the translator is probably wrong (wont change it to the right form) and the changes you have to make with fench in spelling. its the same with babel fish (it will always be in the vous form)
would i be right french speakers?

The problem with this seems to be more that it says "enter a word". Knowing the word only helps if you know how to put together a sentence and conjugate verbs. So this is probably really handy if you've got a good idea of how to speak the language already but forget words here and there (or if you know basic sentences like "where is...?" and need to look up the object/place you're trying to find).

yeah that what mean you cant just really on it you must have some knowlegde of the langauge

[Samatolian City-States]

I know English, and am attempting to learn Latin. Which you forgot on the poll.

Because I don't think there are any native Latin speakers anymore.

Either way, it should still be there. Considering a number of popular languages are based on Latin.

[Dakini]

I know English, and am attempting to learn Latin. Which you forgot on the poll.

Because I don't think there are any native Latin speakers anymore.

Either way, it should still be there. Considering a number of popular languages are based on Latin.

No it shouldn't. Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian and Italian may be based on Latin, but people who are native speakers of these languages are not native speakers of Latin. I doubt that there are any living people whose first language is Latin unless their parents spoke Latin to them almost exclusively while they were an infant, but this would have to be something the parents deliberately did to the kid and I haven't heard of anyone doing this (if it is done, it is rare enough that it should not be on this poll).

[Rhodmhire]

yeah that what mean you cant just really on it you must have some knowlegde of the langauge

I know basic Spanish and French, but in all honesty, I'm just not too fond of learning another language.

English is enough for me, I've always struggled with other languages. Also, my Spanish/French teachers were boring as hell, so I rarely paid attention in school, and find no time to learn on my own time.

[Linux and the X]

Native speaker of American, I've taught myself English, Profanity, and Internet, I'll be taking formal classes in Spanish next year, and I'm learning Czech.

Hexalingualism FTW!