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How many languages can you speak to a conversational level?
One or barely one
Two - Thanks school / ancestery / necessity
Three - I'm probably a European
Four - I'm very likely a European
Five or more - I'm probably Dutch
Other (write in)

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Umber Guard





Speaking only German and English, but I can understand Dutch a little, but that´s mainly due to the similarities it has to english/german.

Had Latin in school, and can scrap some of it together again, but well, I was never very good at it -.-

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Regular Dakkanaut




Necanor wrote:German (nationality)
English (2nd nationality)

I can not speak any other since I had Latin in school.



I whish I had it... now I have to retake Latin for studying a Master's degree.

My four years of french in class are almost forgotten, therefore:

English + German
   
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Legendary Dogfighter




Munich, Germany

motorhead1945 wrote:
Necanor wrote:German (nationality)
English (2nd nationality)

I can not speak any other since I had Latin in school.



I whish I had it... now I have to retake Latin for studying a Master's degree.

My four years of french in class are almost forgotten, therefore:

English + German


Ahh, that is a pain, every word has 130 different forms...

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Tail-spinning Tomb Blade Pilot





Another german as first language, english second language. Plus latin, but that doesnt really count (since I only barely scraped by, and its not really a language to speak in).
   
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Deranged Necron Destroyer





English as a first language and steadily working on hablando español. Hoping to pick up Japanese here soon to for when I end up visiting there.

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Twisting Tzeentch Horror





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I speak fluent English, a tiny bit of South Welsh, a little Italian and a tiny bit of French

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Made in dk
Mutilatin' Mad Dok






Out in the country in Denmark. Zealand

i speak both danish and english very well, thanks to living in denmark, games and great teachers
   
Made in nl
Proud Haradrim Warrior





Eindhoven

First language, is Dutch, since I am from Holland.
Second I can speak Englisch
And third I can understands/have a common conversation German.

And very little French, this is my third year French at school, but I can't really speak it... (And I don't really want to.)

 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






Sheffield / Oxford

I'm half dutch and still only 1.

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Made in gb
Regular Dakkanaut



UK

Polish, English, Spanish, Russian (I don't read cyrylic though) I can also understand pretty much everything in Belarusian and Ukrainian, as most of people from Poland also have passive understanding of Slovak and Czech. Used to speak a bit of German but don't remember much of it now.

Can do few basic sentences and few most important words in Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, Dutch, Lithuanian.
I also know insults in probably like 16 or 17 languages (you never know when you might need it ha ha )

   
Made in nl
Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




Holland

I speak three up to a level where I can talk to everybody about everything. Those three being Dutch, English and Spanish.
I'm Dutch and have thought myself English(never needed school for that) and lived in Spain.
At school they tried to teach me German, French and Latin. I'd say I can still easily listen to French, I can read the Latin, but I fail terribly with German.

I could still hold a VERY basic conversation in 5 different languages, 6 if you count the Spanish dialect I was thought.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






Folsom, CA, just outside Sacramento

i dont know how to speak english, only eng, on some days maybe engli

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Liche Priest Hierophant






Speak English, Nerd and write Internet (which can't really be enunciated). Know decent Deutsch (enough to enjoy a Krimi here and there). Know smatterings and occasionally a surprising amount of other languages, such as French, Italian, (well, most of the Romance languages, but that's mostly through word roots- don't ask me how to say 'you' to save your life), Japanese from too much subtitled Anime, and an amusingly large number of Swahili words, from of all things Choir.

Probably the one language I really want to learn (aside from wanting to speak Deutsch fluently) is Russian, and it's the one language I can't even understand the alphabet for.

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Perfect Shot Dark Angels Predator Pilot





Vancouver WA

as a publicly educated American I speak english and whenever i have to converse with anyone who doesn't speak english i just speak english very loud and slow at them until they understand or become disinterested....I would actually love to learn how to speak german though.

   
Made in fi
Been Around the Block





I speak dozens of languages at controversial level.

(I seem to be on a giddy mood lately. Excuse moi.)
   
Made in ca
Fresh-Faced New User






Im an expat living in Hong Kong and going to school in canada, Where my mum and dad grew up. I speak english and Cantonese (a chinese dialect), so I can get around the city easily, although my first language is english.

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Belgium

English, French, German, Dutch (and if it counts, I speak Flemish, the Belgian Dutch and Walloneese, or something like that, the Belgian French) Holland FTW!!!!

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Sinewy Scourge





Salt Lake City, Utah

I speak English natively, and I'm also fluent in Russian. Lived there for a couple years.

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Made in se
Sneaky Sniper Drone





Sweden

Swedish, danish, english and spanish. I can understand french, but it is a wile (8 years) since I spoke it the last time

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Adolescent Youth on Ultramar




Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands

Well, how about that! I actually AM Dutch
   
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Water-Caste Negotiator






I come from a mexican family, and I've taken up to level 3 spanish classes at school, and I still can't have a full on conversation in spanish.

I speak english perfectly though, but I was born in the US, and so were my parents so I mean thats not very hard is it?

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Sinewy Scourge




Grand ol US of A

English and Spanish as I live in Texas. 2 because one of them isn't speaking...sign language.

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Werewolf of Angmar




Far over the MistyMountains cold

Im dutch
I speak:
Dutch, english, spanish and german on conversation level..
Speak a bit french, italian and african (south africa)

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I'm not sure wether that is a sword... it's more like a letteropener, really. 
   
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Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings






North of your position

Im Dutch, but I cant speak 5 languages on high level (conversational)

And lill' overlord, you cant tell me what DE are in Spanish, German, Italian and French!

   
Made in nl
Werewolf of Angmar




Far over the MistyMountains cold

I know the dark parts..but sont think there's a translation for: eldar

And i said: a little french and italian...and african. African is really cool you should try it!
I just dont know how towrite anything in african...

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I'm not sure wether that is a sword... it's more like a letteropener, really. 
   
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Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings






North of your position

Op naar een leenmeissie!
Like that?

   
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Been Around the Block




I decided I would vote as if I were in my prime, so that's.... 1 for me.

 
   
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Frenzied Juggernaut





Colorado

Xanthos wrote:Faroese (about 60000 people total speak this, but I´m from the country so hah)
Danish (second language)
English (school)
Swedish (midway between faroese and danish)
Norway (very similar to swedish)

So five, that I can speak well.Take that, Holland!


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Perturbed Blood Angel Tactical Marine




Gaithersburg, Maryland

English and Russian, thanks ancestry, no thanks school, the French teachers couldn't even control the classes much more educate them in a foreign language

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Waaagh! Warbiker





Ottawa, Canada

Ork, Canadian-french, English, Czech, Italian, German.

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