How many languages do you speak?

[bwana]

Are you bilingual/multilingual? If so how many languages do you speak and to what degree of fluency?

For the sake of discussion "cunning" is not a number nor a measure of fluency.

 

[MirageF1]

English fluently.

Afrikaans ( swak) for my sins.

Hebrew, Russian enough for basic verbal intercourse.

 

[etienne_marais]

Afrikaans, English and French. Working on German.

 

[now05ster]

Fluent in English and Afrikaans. Us Afrikaans Natalians had no choice but to learn the English language deliciously.

I can greet in Zulu and Xhosa. I'm such an overachiever.

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

Fluent in German and English. Little bit of French (4 years in school). Afrikaans is rusty.

Edit. Can swear fluently in Italian

 

[Jase]

English, Afrikaans, rotten Portuguese / French (used to be less rotten). Working on some Russian and Mongolian at present

 

[Brian_G]

I guess fluently means you can hold a basic conversation?
So 2 for me with 2 more "learnt".

My grandfather could properly speak 7


EDIT: See reply below, just 1 for me then.

 

[Prawnapple]

I loik to have talking da afrikaans, ne.

A tiny bit of German. Brot en Wasser. See?

 

[Drifter]

Afrikaans and English.

 

[netstrider]

Afrikaans, English and Spanish.

Spanish not what it used to be but I was fluent once. Lived in South America.

Can understand some Portuguese by proxy.

 

[livw88]

English, Afrikaans and a little bit of Foreign

 

[NeonNinja]

English. Afrikaans. Xhosa. Zulu. Sotho. Pedi. Ndebele. Shona/Venda/Tsonga (basic).

 

[Polymathic]

English fluently.

Afrikaans ( swak) for my sins.

Hebrew, Russian enough for basic verbal intercourse.

phone sex?

 

[bwana]

I guess fluently means you can hold a basic conversation?
So 2 for me with 2 more "learnt".

My grandfather could speak 7

I think that would be classified as conversant rather than fluent.

 

[Geoff.D]

Are you bilingual/multilingual? If so how many languages do you speak and to what degree of fluency?

For the sake of discussion "cunning" is not a number nor a measure of fluency.

English, Afrikaans, Flemish.
Understand but can't speak, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Xhosa, Sotho

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

So kakpraat tel nie ?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

English, Hebrew fluently,

Afrikaans barely understand a few things,
French, again barely enough to understand anything.
Mandarin, just a few words.

 

[Prawnapple]

English. Afrikaans. Xhosa. Zulu. Sotho. Pedi. Ndebele. Shona/Venda/Tsonga (basic).

lol BS, prove it

 

[UrBaN963]

English and Afrikaans but I can greet in 11 and have... well, had basic Spanish and Italian.

 

[wbot]

Afrikaans, English.

Understand some Dutch, Flemish, German