languages

[bigeater]

What languages do you know?
I mean so you can speak fluent or almost fluent.

[bigeater]

What languages do you want to learn?

[Chemical King]

id like to learn japenese or italian. duno y , i just do

[STYLE74]

I speak fluent Italian and some Spanish.

[Snrf]

enough French and Spanish to get by in France or Spain, I'm currently learning Chinese..and I know a lil bit of arabic but not much (gonna start night classes whenever I get time)

[italianplayboy09]

speak fluent italian...can read and write also

[beuleux]

I can speak English, American, Australian and New Zealandish.

[Foskamink]

australian and a fair bit of german, hopefully soon dutch or french this year.

[Deltsarehot8]

I used to be fluent in spanish but i can still understand, read and write in it, i still speak a little

[chest6]

I can understand most spanish and read it I just suck at speaking it.

[beuleux]

I used to speak Yorkshire-ish cos I dated a girl from there but I dont speak it anymore. Ey-oop Laddy.. Oh yes I do.

[CSAR]

I can speak English, American, Australian and New Zealandish.

[Prada]

I can speak fluently in English and French. Very little Italian, I forgot it all

[bigeater]

australian and a fair bit of german, hopefully soon dutch or french this year.

Your location is France and you don´t know french .

[rubix6]

i would love to learn portuguese. It is such a beautiful language!! I am determined...I'm going to do it

[ifyoubuildit]

fluent in english and danish, can get by in french and german.

[Foskamink]

Your location is France and you don´t know french .

been in france / the french part of switzerland 2 months only now. my mate just left today was here 2 months we did a fair bit of traveling ect. i will start to learn french in febuary, or try and move to london / amsterdam, love the frence part of suisse (geneva) alot better then the german parts. but hey i love amsterdam and all the people there, but i think london would be nice having alot more contacts there.

[Flagg]

I've always wanted to learn Italian and/or Russian.

And im prolific in swearing in most other languages.

[LawMan018]

Learning German in college right now... Know a tad of spanish, enough to get around

[wascaptain5214]

speak and read and write in american and speak in cajun french

[auslifta]

i can hear 52 languages fluently

[CSAR]

It's a good question, but it is sometimes being answered incorrectly. English is a language. American English, British English, Australian English, etc. are varieties of the English language. Thus, you can't really say, "I speak American," as it isn't a language. It is more correct to say, "I speak American English."

Accents (dealing only with pronunciation) are largely indicative of gross language varieties. So you may be able to identify a person's nationality by their accent (e.g., Brit vs Kiwi), and you could even get more specific with regards to geographical location if you were familiar with a certain area, for example Brooklyn vs Queens.

However, dialects (a combination of vocabulary, accent, spelling, grammar, etc.) are highly subjective. As a result of mass media, air travel, etc., particular dialects are dying out. At present, there isn't a real consensus on dialect. Some argue that there are only two dialects of English; British (encompasing the U.K., Australia, and NZ) and North American (the U.S. and Canada). Others argue that the distinction can be made at the level of nationality and still others argue that the distinction can be made at the regional level or lower.

[beuleux]

Say for example in Brooklyn a particualr word meant one thing but in Queens it meant something else is that dialect or does the word have to be meaningless in Queens classify as dialect.

Not important to the original question... Im just curious LOL