In Which Languages are you Fluent?

[KillarneyRose]

My grandmother watched me a lot when I was very young while both my parents were at work and, although she spoke and wrote English fluently, she always spoke to me in Polish. Unfortunately, we moved away and I didn't see her as often and my mother refused to speak Polish with me so I lost pretty much all of my fluency except for a few prayers and a cuss word or two.

[texas*princess]

I only speak English fluently

I wish I could pick up more lauguages, it just gets harder when you get older and I don't really have a whole lot of time right now.

My older [biological] sister can speak French & Spanish fluently though

[ZTAngel]

English

And that's about it.

I use to know Japanese fluently but after moving back to the US, I quickly forgot it. I know maybe a few words in it.

I'm ok with Spanish. I know enough to get by. I have a very hard time conversing with Spanish-speakers. They talk so fast so I have a really hard time understanding them!

My boyfriend speaks Polish fluently. Lucky him. I've always wanted to learn a foreign language. It's a great skill to have. I've been trying to get him to teach me Polish but I don't think he has the patience for me.

[SATX*APhi]

I speak English and Spanish fluently. I would like to learn to speak Portuguese, Italian, and French (in that order).

[greeklawgirl]

Sit down, everyone, because I know you will be shocked--SHOCKED!--to discover that I speak Greek fluently.

I had some knowledge of Spanish, but I need a major brush up, because I haven't used it in a long, long time.

[Eirene_DGP]

I can speak Spanish fluently and I am conversational in Tagala b/c my godmother is philipina used to take care of me when I was younger.

[Munchkin03]

English, of course.
Italian
I was fluent in Spanish, but that was a long time ago.

[APhiAngel]

Besides English I speak Farsi fluently, and I understand Turkey.

[AlphaGamDiva]

semi-fluent in french....can carry on a decent conversation with another french person, but it takes me a minute to get going. i understand it better than i speak it, but it's cool....and i'm working on it. my sister is fluent, so she helps me from time to time....and she just got back from germany, so is now fluent in that as well.

i would love to learn italian, but i think i'll get good with french b/4 i even attempt that one.

I am fluent in English, French, Ilocano, and Tagalog. How's that for variety?

I am semi-fluent in Hawaiian and Japanese.

[astroAPhi]

Originally posted by AlphaGamDiva
semi-fluent in french....can carry on a decent conversation with another french person, but it takes me a minute to get going. i understand it better than i speak it, but it's cool....and i'm working on it.

That's me exactly. I almost minored in French, but they don't offer French, or minors for that matter either, here.

[Buttonz]

Besides for English...I understand Hebrew pretty well..speaking it is a diffrent story!

[CC1GC]

Language is subjective.

One guy i work with says he's fluent in french, lived his life in a bylingual environment, but has difficulty understanding certain dialects. My other co-worker, teaches 6 languages at a private school, whose main clients are gov't workers or very afluent individuals. To hear them talk in french, many would assume they're equal in capability - even though the latter is much better than the former.

[AlphaSigOU]

Let's see... I must have a flair for languages:

I'm perfectly fluent in Spanish (the Caribbean/Venezuelan dialect, I have a hard time understanding the Mexican dialect). On occasion, my mind doesn't get quite into gear and I'll throw out some grammatical barbarisms in Spanish, because I'm thinking in English.

Being Spanish is a Romance language, French, Italian and Portuguese are linguistically similar, so I have no problem understanding them, though I don't speak 'em very well.

I can understand German and can transliterate Russian and Greek.

[CatStarESP4]

I can speak some German, French, Italian and Spanish. However, when I speak German, French or Italian, my parents observe that I speak with hardly an accent. When I speak Spanish, I have an accent. Could someone explain this strange phenomenom to me?