So, how many languages can you speak?

There are an impressive number of people fluent in other languages here!

My second language is Thai and I'm not entirely sure how to classify my ability. I'm not fluent, I've only been speaking it for about 18 months, but how would you define basic/intermediate/advanced conversational?

Basic conversational is what, being able to say hello and order food and ask for directions? Advanced is being able to have conversations about most things, but without the full vocabulary of a native?

I'm good enough that I went 7 or 8 months living with people who couldn't speak English, so I'd put myself a bit above intermediate conversational. I'm not quite at advanced yet because whilst I can have a basic discussion about politics or ethics, there's a lot of vocabulary I've yet to master.

I can also read and write.
 
twentyone said:
Norwegian - Native
English - Fluent

Swedish and Danish are so similar to Norwegian, only a few words are different so all you have to do is swap them out. I guess that counts as I can fully speak/write it? But I do choose to communicate with them in Norwegian anyway as they understand that just as well :)
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Ikke juks!

regulus said:
English - Native, fluent
Dutch - Advanced conversational level (Lived there for 3 years). Near fluent
German - Conversational level (worked there for 9 months)- Intermediate
Flemish - Conversational level - Intermediate to advanced (same as Dutch really)
Slovak - Basic conversation. Learning at the moment.
Spanish - Bad :(
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Dutch and Flemish are essentially the same language, so that's cheating ;)
 
I can also speak enough Russian to get me through the country.

And by that, I mean the 5 words I do know: Yes, No, Thank you, Beer, Chips
 
Well, english for a start. Studied french and german for 8 years each, though more comfortable with german, as my family lived over in Austria for a while. My Mandarin's getting there, good enough to rent myself a flat over in China and explain things like "a water pipe's burst, there's water everywhere!" to my landlord :p

Also did latin for a while, and slowly getting a handle on serbian.
 
English, Russian and just started study abroad in France for almost 9 months so hoping to pick up as much French as possible.
 
English - native fluent
Czech - beginner/intermediate - taking lessons
Russian - beginner, knew more but have forgotten a lot
Spanish - forgotten almost all of it (language I was taught at school)
 
I'm fluent in Yorkshire and Jackspeak*


*One for the RN/RM guys. Although I've been out for over 10 years you never forget :)
 
English, good French and ok German.

I can ask for beer and tell girls they're beautiful in loads and loads of languages though :D
 
English - (native, fluent)
French - not to bad although read better than I speak
German - same as French
Japanese - can get by in Japan in shops and restaurants as well as asking for directions and being polite to people ... would like to learn more though.
 
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