How many languages do you know?

**smokey the elder** · 08-27-2010, 03:09 PM

English (American style, not the Queen's

); I can speak basic Spanish and read it better than I speak it. I had some German in college and can count, know a few phrases (Guten Morgen, danke, bitte, etc.) Because of martial arts training I used to be able to count to 10 in Korean and Japanese, but, alas, those brain cells have gone to the Rainbow Bridge...

**Barbara** · 08-27-2010, 03:33 PM

German-native
English
French
Italian

... that's the ones I can speak...

Spanish- can read a newspaper- when I speak it comes out Italian
Latin

Greek - enough to ask for menus and busses

Japanese -learned it through 3 years but forgot most of it.

..and very few words in Polish

(like tanie meble which means cheap furniture)
and I can count in Finnish and know that a a moose is a hirvi and a Hamburger is a Hampurilainen (i.e. when you speak of a person who lives in Hamburg, Germany)