So, what languages, besides English, do you speak? Personally, I can speak French (although my writing of it is down right atrocious). I find that I can say a ton of stuff of the top of my head, but if I'm forced to write...I suck. I can understand waaaaaaaaay more than I can actually speak, too.
It's my goal to learn Russian in the following year, and to work on French. Furthermore, I'd like to become a signer down the road. Are there any languages you'd like to speak? Why?
Already mostly bilingual in English and Japanese, though a bit rusty in the later from lack of use. Hopefully I can learn korean eventually as well.
Edit: As for why, I don't really know, other than for practical reasons for the first.
I can speak English very well, but not as well as you would normally expect.
I used to be able to speak Spanish almost fluently, but it went away after going to a school that taught no spanish whatsoever, now I can speak it pretty well but nowhere near fluently, I can understand more than I speak, but I still understand very little.
English is my native language. I'm an advanced beginner in Japanese, and I will eventually need to reach near-native level so that I can translate documents in and out of the language. My skills are quickly degrading now that I'm out of college and will be working for a year.
I also took German for 4 years in HS and one in college. If you want an easy FL, German is it.
I took Spanish all through Jr. High & High School, I speak it decent, understand it well, & can read it more easily than English sometimes. I dunno how that works, but there you go.
Although now that I'm not using it every day, I'm forgetting it by the bucketful.
I want to learn multiple languages. Right now I'm working on Spanish, but I want to learn Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
Five years of Spanish. I can read and write it well, speaking it and listening to it takes a lot more work. I also can speak and write a little bit of Arabic. Not a lot, just swears and common words like, "How are you?", "Shut up", "Come on", "Let's go", "Stop" etc. And I can only write numbers and my name.
I might have been more fluent in Arabic and French had my father taught me when I was little. But no, he didn't want to screw up me learning English. Oh well, that's life...
I know some portugese but I only took it because I had it required. May learn French or Spanish for my senior year.
Took French for 6 years, when i go back to college this fall I'm gonna take French again. I can speak and write it pretty well, and reading it isn't a problem, but I have trouble understanding what an actual french person says, because of slang and their accent and when they start speaking quickly I just get lost lol.
Learned Hebrew in 1st grade, was taught it through 6th grade, then forgot it all freshman year of high school when I started taking French. 3 years of French so far and although I'm not really fluent in it, I'm pretty good at it and easily understand conjugations and stuff.
Why'd I take French? Because I refuse to learn Spanish and my school didn't offer Italian. Latin's boring.
English, of course, is my main. I speak fluently in Spanish and Italian. I learned Spanish in school, with the help of my cousin who learned it before me. And Italian is just from growing up around my dads side of the family, my step-dads mom also speaks very good Italian.
I also know a little bit of French and Japanese. I'm trying to work on those a bit now.
Only what I've learned in Spanish I so far.
My mother tongue is Dutch, naturally, but I am fluent in English as well. Other languages I know are Frisian, French and German and a little bit of Spanish and Japanese.
I can read Ancient Latin and a little bit of Ancient Greek.
I took six or seven years worth of Italian and can only recall the days of the week, some colors, and numbers. It's pretty bad.
Other than that, I know maybe a handful of words in Spanish. Nothing in any other language that isn't from a song.
Japanese and I can speak some Latin.
English, of course, and Spanish from school. I can understand Spanish and related languages extremely well, my brain just functions like that. I can Spanish fairly well, but my speaking is a bit rusty.
English (derp), and a bit of French. I've pretty much forgotten how to write French and speaking it is a bit hard to due lack of use. If someone speaks to me in French, I ask them if they can speak in English. Hooray, laziness.
I speak English, I took a semester of Spanish in junior high and it bored to sleep, so I'm taking German in high school.
English (duh), and I'm picking up the things in my Spanish I class pretty quickly (iTienes gatos y queso en tus pantalones!). When someone speaks it, or if something's written in Spanish I can pick out stuff I know and somewhat figure out what's being said. There's the Japanese I picked up from being an anime fan since Kindergarten (USODA!!!). I know a little bit, like very little Korean from taking Tae Kwon Do (counting, kicks, punches, those things). And there's bits and pieces of Italian that I learned from Assassin's Creed 2.
So as you can see, the only thing I'm truly fluent in is English. ^^;