How many languages do you speak. not necessarily fluently, just undarstand and can carry a discussion in.

well I chose 1, mostly because I can only count in 2 other languages, and then it is not very high ;) so yeah I only speak 1 language and am not very good at that one :D

With you on that one Stormy. I speak only one. I tnink alot of North Americans only speak one. When I was in Europe it seemed like most people speak many different ones. I would like to speak french or something but just never got around to do anything about it. ;)

I can speak French and Greek. French I learnt in school (did 5 years of it), Greek I learnt from my mother...but I'm not that good comprehending it sometimes because Greek's speak so fast.

[ 06-30-2004, 04:07 AM: Message edited by: Lauren ]

Well my mother is hungarian and my dad english so that is two languages. I learnt french and russian at school and I took some private lessons for german. And this year I studied spanish at university, so that would make six, but german, spanish and russian are not too good.

I speak three, english, dutch, and german. The last two I studied for about 12 years so I'm nearly fluent in both.

Lets see:

1 German ( of course )
2 English ( I hope [img]smile.gif[/img] )
3 French ( very,very little ), but I survived 3 days in France after my car had a breakdown in Paris :D .

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English, Italian.

I used to be able to say four, but my French has grown incredibly rusty through lack of use. :( And I always find it annoying when people think they speak sooo many languages when in reality their grasp of most of them turns out to be very tenuous indeed. So I'll say three: English, Dutch and German. I can still read and understand French moderately well though - just wouldn't know if I'm still able to speak it in any understandable way. :D

So I answer my own question, I'll say 2. Icelandic and English. Although I understand written german and danish (talking danish in impossible to understand for anyone [img]smile.gif[/img] ) and I know some spanish although not nearly enough to be fluent in it [img]smile.gif[/img]