Welcome, all, here we are.

[ZombieNixon]

Poll question: Welcome, all, here we are.

Let's start with a poll. How many languages do you speak (not counting English), whether fluently or just dabbling ?

[LynzM]

1. German and French

German fairly fluently, French is passing, used to be much better. Bits of ASL and Spanish, but I didn't count those.

Who speaks 4-6 languages? Wow!

[ZombieNixon]

3. One of them would be me.

Fairly fluent Spanish (tho' I forgot how to say the word for "line" yesterday; it was embarrassing), passable Gaelic and Norwegian and smatterings of Hindi and Bengali.

'Course, I'm completely fluent in one foreign language, but seeing as I made it up for a computer game I'm creating and I'm the only person who knows anything about it, that won't get me very far when I'm lost in a European capital.

[LynzM]

4. Nice :)

I always felt like if I just had more time, I would learn more languages. I guess it's a matter of priorities... pretty cool that you have your very own language! How long until anyone else gets to learn it?

[ZombieNixon]

5. Right now, it's in the form of snarky hidden messages on signs

in this fantasy game-in-progress. I probably won't get to release a final copy of the game until I'm in college, so it could be a while. I think I'll treat it like the Alien Language off Futurama, and let people figure it out on their own, only it'll be a lot harder, given that it's a full-blown language with its own script, and not just an English cipher.

[FuzzySlippers]

2. Dabble in Italian and French.

[Lisa0825]

6. Just one other, Spanish.

I can read it very well, understand it moderately well, and am working hard on the speaking part. Creating original thoughts in Spanish in my own head is SO much harder than understanding what I read or hear. I'm in a 4th semester class right now, and hoping to do a week or two immersion this summer in Mexico.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Many...

I'm fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and music, a bit rusty with German. I can read Italian, French, Catalan with relative ease (I plan on attaining fluency in those idioms too :)), and a bit of Latin.

I'm dabbling in the Finno-Ugric languages, Scandinavian, Sanskrit, and using the IPA to deconstruct the syntax and learn the phones of other languages like Arabic, Bantu, etc.

[DemExpat]

8. Fluent Dutch, highschool Spanish.

DemEx

[helderheid]

10. Hoi!

:hi:

[melnjones]

9. Spanish fluently,

and I'm learning Brazilian Portuguese.

[nickinSTL]

11. German and French

German much better than French.

I can work out a great deal of most Germanic and Romance languages.

I'd love to learn more languages, and if I had the time, I would.

Working 2 jobs plus grad school takes too much time right now, unfortunately.

[Eurobabe]

12. Need to brush up my German, moving back overseas

YEA!!! Out of SW Ohio!!! Double-YEA!!!