How many languages can you speak to a conversational level?

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**HoverBoy**

Bulgarian (home language) + English (duh)

Also working on Spanish and Russian but still voted 2.

**Ailaros**

Jimsolo wrote:The poll specified 'conversational level' so I selected only one. However, I do know a smattering of other languages. I could survive (order at a restaraunt, count out money, find the hotel and bathroom) in Spanish, French, and Japanese.

Yeah, I'm perfectly fluent in english and fairly fluent in spanish, so I put down two. If you count languages that I have any level of fluency whatsoever, the two jumps to five (ancient greek FTW).

Kudos to you army guys with the farsi. I've been told that's one of those languages where few learn it by choice for a reason...

**children of filth**

I speak english, and pirate. Pirate is a language, right?

**Cake Farts**

I speak American. The language of the free.

**SgtSixkilla**

Two, because of movies and hip hop music.

**Shake Zoola**

English (native)

Japanese (school and former residency)

**kronk**

English and some Spanish. Thanks Houston!

**DruidODurham**

Well, I'm American...so I speak English and Arabic. I know some amount of Spanish, of course, and I used to be real good at Latin in high school. Lingua latina non mortua est!

**SPARKEYG**

English, German, Perl, C, Pascal, x86 ASM,

Yes, I'm a software developer.

**Lord of Change**

English and Spanish (thanks to School).

**Fifty**

English First.

Japanese to a very good conversational level. (Especially if you gave me a month to get back up to full speed).

I was pretty good at German at School and Uni, but never used it very often. Strangely though, I used to be able to semi-converse in Dutch. My flatmates were Dutch, and it was similar enough to English and German that I could understand them in Dutch, and talk to them in English, so we would have one conversation in two different languages. I also used to read a lot of European football match reports on the web in Dutch before European games started getting decent coverage in English. That was years and years ago though.

**Riffzor**

Swedish and English, but I've often gotten myself through conversations in German, as German, Swedish and English are all Germanic languages which lie close to one another.

My german grammar is about non-excistant though, thanks to my German-teacher at school whom seemingly couldn't speak German. (When we had a German guest for a week, they had to speak to one another in English, and the poor girl looked ashamed whenever our teacher tried to learn us some word which of course was pronounced completely wrong.)

I can also say five words in Polish, but that won't take me anywhere. =P

**medd**

English and German. I spent about 5 1/2 months in Germany this past semester

**blazinpsycho&typhooni**

English, obviously.
Chinese, it's okay, but I sound so white when I speak it. Because of that, I limit my conversations to one or two word answers, anymore and it takes me a while to find the right word. I nearly killed my grandpa because he was laughing so hard at me. But personally, I think I'm getting better.

Oh and French from school, 'cause y'know being Canadian and all, it's all about the french eh.

**LordCreed**

I'm Dutch though I can only speak two languages.. LOL English and Dutch, but I can speak a little bit German

**Dakka_Dok**

I speak Belgian, French, English and German.

**Asherian Command**

i speak 2. Woman and English. And if you wanna count Aussie and Russian. Make that 4.

**Stephen Bond**

Im half norwiegen and german so decided to embrace my ancestory and learn both and am now fluent(ish) in both yay

**Cantus**

English naturally and german to a pretty decent standard. I've been known to understand some swedish and dutch but only because of the similarities between germanic languages.
I've also been able to understand some spanish just from travels. God help me when I try to speak any though..

**Krellnus**

Riffzor wrote:Swedish and English, but I've often gotten myself through conversations in German, as German, Swedish and English are all Germanic languages

English isn't very Germanic any more it is mostly latin...

English, I can also speak italian O.K. but only if push comes to shove so I didn't count that so really only 1.

**Luco**

I can say "i cant speak this language'" 3 different languages, does that count?
Ever so slowly trying to pick up Gaelic, but mostly just English.

**Kilkrazy**

English (native), French, German, and Japanese.

My German is rusty and needs a bit of work to make it properly conversational.

**blazinpsycho&typhooni**

Krellnus wrote:
Riffzor wrote:Swedish and English, but I've often gotten myself through conversations in German, as German, Swedish and English are all Germanic languages

English isn't very Germanic any more it is mostly latin...

English, I can also speak italian O.K. but only if push comes to shove so I didn't count that so really only 1.

English can actually be seen as the illegitimate child of latin/french languages and german. It's got a lot of grammar and vocab similarities, english grammar structure actually has more ties to german. But a lot of vocabular comes from the latin/french languages

**rocklord2004**

I speak english just fine. Writing it on the other hand....yeah, not so much. I do want to learn German and Japanese though.

**Cantus**

Krellnus wrote:
Riffzor wrote:Swedish and English, but I've often gotten myself through conversations in German, as German, Swedish and English are all Germanic languages

English isn't very Germanic any more it is mostly latin...

English, I can also speak italian O.K. but only if push comes to shove so I didn't count that so really only 1.

Not speaking german yourself, seems an odd comment to add in. Grammatically the two are actually pretty similar.

**chromedog**

Two.
English (native) and Dutch.
(Used to speak Hungarian as well, but learned Dutch from dad who - though born in Budapest, was raised in the Netherlands immediately post-WW2.)

Enough Dutch to eavesdrop on 'private' conversations between KLM 'crew'.

**Todosi**

English and American Sign Language. Thanks to working for a predominately deaf company after college.

**Doggles**

4 - English (native), French (good), German (terrible), and Mandarin Chinese (good spoken, terrible written). I can count and order a beer in Spanish and Italian, but I don't think it counts as "conversational" level until you can understand what people are saying back to you!

**Anshal**

English + Russian + Sami( Norwegian native languange) + German

**murdog**

English and French. Growing up in Ontario there's lots of french, and being near the Quebec border meant lots of hot Quebecois girls to hit on when we went over to take advantage of the drinking age being 18...

But I've forgotton alot, and I'm sure if I had to talk to a french person they would cringe in agony as I massacred the language.