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Poll: Languages Spoken

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It seems that Mac-Forums has a diverse community setting. I am wondering what everyone's native language is, and also if they are fluent in any other language. I myself am an English speaker, and I would consider myself fairly fluent in Spanish as well.
 
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English only.

I've taken some Spanish, but not enough to learn the grammar.

next...
 
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Native English (AKA an Anglophone up here), fluent in French, some German and Fulfulde, read Greek and Hebrew, can swear in Vietnamese.
 
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I speak a language.

:biohazard

ha.
 
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I speak English
I've taken a bit of french (more like 7 years), but i cant catch on (i suck at it)
 
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English, some German, rusty French (not used in 12 years), conversational Japanese, and can order a beer in Spanish, Korean, and Italian.
 
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English, German, some Spanish, but I'm learning ;)
 
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English, fluent german, passable french & I can order a beer in spanish.
 

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I speak in tongues.
 
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MJGUK

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English and then I am very rusty in Japanese, French and Spanish.
Japanese is probably the best out of all three though and I'm trying to learn more right now, as some of my family are Japanese.

Arigato :]
 
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Hmm... I speak bad Spanish (it's more like Tex-Mex, if you will; a split between English and Spanish with a Texas accent). Other than that, just English.
 
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English well, tad of spanish, but not very well
 
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English, French, Swiss Dialect, German and Tamil fluently.
Spanish for a year.
Latin and Arabic belong to my study of very foreign languages.
 
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sometimes i don't think i speak english that fluently........................
 
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rman said:
I speak in tongues.

i can understand tongues... ill translate for u...
 
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I seak English, and a little German.

However, I have taken courses in: English, French, Spanish, Latin and German.
 
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English is my main language.
Can speak spanish fluently but don't know EVERYTHING...
Know very little french
looking into learning mandarin and arabic... maybe hindi, italian, something else idk i'll see...
 
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I speak english, took spanish a few years, and going to take it again next year.
 
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English, fairly good French (enough to get around and converse in), and a tiny bit of Italian (mostly touristy stuff)
 

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