How many languages do you speak 2.0

There was an old thread so I made a new one per the website!

How many language do y'all speak? For myself, Hindi is my first language. Followed by English, Arabic, Urdu, and Gujarati.

I was curious if ESL teachers know more than 1 language. I used to work in Hong Kong back in 2016 but I can't speak Cantonese well. Being in Korea I can read Hangeul but it's still a challenge to speak Korean and understand it. Look forward to your answers!

Aren't you cheating a bit with the Hindi and Urdu thing? Pretty much the same language, no? I say this as a Swedish speaker where in theory I could probably speak Norwegian as well with a bit of effort (and depending on the Norwegian dialect).

They use different scripts (not sure if lonestar_mel can read Urdu [or Hindi for that matter]) and though they're considered mutually intelligible by some, most people I've known who could speak Hindi never really made claims to being able to speak or understand Urdu. Maybe they never explored it that deeply, though.

Bizarrely, I remember some Gujarati phrases that I haven't heard or used since high school. A good friend's parents were from Gujarat and I learned a handful of expressions around at their house. All goes to show that context is crucial to language learning, given that there are many useful Korean phrases that I can't get to stick in my memory, despite actively trying.

Personally I speak intermediate-level Italian. Used to be better but I haven't used it much in years. There's a Sicilian guy who has a restaurant in my building and I try to talk to him in Italian sometimes but his accent and dialect quickly cause my efforts to wither.

A bit of Korean, and not much more English. Used to speak a bit of Maori, but haven't used any for over 3 decades...only a bits and pieces left in the tank.

English as a first language.

Spanish at high-intermediate, maybe? I studied it for over a decade and used to be able to read YA books comfortably, but haven't been doing much more than a daily 10-minute review or so on Duolingo recently.

I'm somewhere in intermediate for Korean as well. Sadly, I finished KIIP, and live so far from Gangnam/Seoul that all the classes and language exchanges are a no-go. Not a huge fan of internet tutoring. My husband is Korean, but he speaks...very fast. I mostly practice nowadays by reading webtoons.

I'm generally pretty interested in language learning, but I think I'd like to get to a higher level with Korean before I tackle anything else.

High Elvish, Black Speech, Klingon, American, Na'vi, Mexican, Newspeak.

Eng, Fren, some KOR

2.25?

English, more korean than french,  but I could convince a korean that I can speak korean well,  I couldnt convince a poutine eating Bonhomme that I understood even a lick of what those backwards hillbillies in Quebec speak.

I'd put it at 1.48

just english, used to be decent at spanish but its been so long i wouldnt call myself close to proficient anymore. also learned a bit of latin during my catholic school days.

Aren't you cheating a bit with the Hindi and Urdu thing? Pretty much the same language, no? I say this as a Swedish speaker where in theory I could probably speak Norwegian as well with a bit of effort (and depending on the Norwegian dialect).

I guess it is LOL. I could put it like this: Hindi/Urdu. In most cases, Hindi and Urdu are similar. Pakistanis and Indians can talk to each other and understand one another. The main difference as mentioned by budlight is the scripts. Hindi uses Sanskrit while Urdu uses Arabic and some Persian. I've heard some Arabic phrases in Urdu so it can sound different at times. My family is very diverse and I was blessed to learn all these languages pretty easily. My Dad and I interchangeably switch languages/dialects whenever we talk to each other so we don't forget how to speak all these languages.

Two, English and Afrikaans (fluently). Smatterings of Tagalog and a couple of Korean and Chinese words. Chinese is an unbelievably difficult language because of the intonations.

I never much bothered with the intonations. People might laugh if you call their mother a horse or whatever, but I find they can usually understand.

Does the language of love count?

J'ai etudie le francais a l'ecole primaire neuf ans.

But the last year of high school it was optional, and i quickly opted for a 2nd science course.

Like a lot of my Korean students regarding English: one can read and understand much more than one can say or write (use grammar correctly) when one does not interact with native speakers much. I - in person not on tv - heard and spoke with the first French-speaking person, outside the classroom teacher, when i was in grad school and went to her family's home in Gatineau, Quebec for (a wonderful) Christmas in 1994. Tres bien!

"Speak" is so relative here. 

English, Korean, and Spanish.

Only fluent in English, intermediate in both Korean and Spanish. Spanish is better than Korean, but I can have conversations in both and can understand most of what's being said in either.

I don't practice either as much as I should due to reasons.

Does the language of love count?

I would say why not? LOL! Let's add Sarcasm to my list too, super fluent in that XD I actually did a lesson with my 5th graders about Sarcasm in English. They REALLY liked it but I stressed to them NOT to use this with foreigners and only with their friends. One student said to another student "Bye Felicia..." because the other student said an incorrect answer. It caused the entire class to laugh and I was super happy they all understood the phrase.

I studied French for 13 years before I went to university In Montreal.  A friend and I decided to take a French course our second year to get an easy A and we signed up to the beginner's class.  They were culling the ranks on the first day because of frauds like moi.  The teacher asked one student "Comment ca va?" and the rube answered "Bien, merci."  He was immediately booted and told he had to move up a level.  Astute guy that I was I made sure to answer in English that "Today was sunny" when she asked me an innocuous question in French.  She nodded approvingly at my idiocy and I stayed in the class.  I only got a A minus, though.  I didn't do enough lab time. 

I studied French for 13 years before I went to university In Montreal.  A friend and I decided to take a French course our second year to get an easy A and we signed up to the beginner's class.  They were culling the ranks on the first day because of frauds like moi.  The teacher asked one student "Comment ca va?" and the rube answered "Bien, merci."  He was immediately booted and told he had to move up a level.  Astute guy that I was I made sure to answer in English that "Today was sunny" when she asked me an innocuous question in French.  She nodded approvingly at my idiocy and I stayed in the class.  I only got a A minus, though.  I didn't do enough lab time. 

A decent number of the students in my beginners Korean class in college had Korean-speaking families, and some could even speak pretty well already. I remember waiting in the hall to take my speaking test, sitting next to a guy chatting on the phone in Korean (we'd just learned how to read hangul and say dates). To be fair, based on convos with a couple of them, they took the class to close gaps in their knowledge. For example, they might speak well enough, but not know certain grammar rules, or have vocabulary they want/need that they never picked up.

Still, sitting through the ABCs in a language you're already conversational in seems like torture to me.

A decent number of the students in my beginners Korean class in college had Korean-speaking families, and some could even speak pretty well already. I remember waiting in the hall to take my speaking test, sitting next to a guy chatting on the phone in Korean (we'd just learned how to read hangul and say dates). To be fair, based on convos with a couple of them, they took the class to close gaps in their knowledge. For example, they might speak well enough, but not know certain grammar rules, or have vocabulary they want/need that they never picked up.

Still, sitting through the ABCs in a language you're already conversational in seems like torture to me.

It's probably why I skipped so many labs.  Reciting stuff that I had learned in grade two while the teacher listened in was hard work. 

It's probably why I skipped so many labs.  Reciting stuff that I had learned in grade two while the teacher listened in was hard work. 

Fun fact, some students in my college got credit for linguistics classes in which they spent half of the time being "lab rats". Our intro to phonology/syntax, for example, had 2 classes per week. One was lecture, and one was lab. Students who spoke other languages fluently could volunteer to be the "native speakers" for the labs, and then we would just ask them to say stuff in their native language, and practice transcribing what they said. I guess they maybe also had to write what they sounded like, too? It's been a while.

If I remember correctly, we had a couple Korean speakers, a Chinese speaker, and a Yoruba speaker. My Chinese-speaking friend was in the last group, and it drove him crazy that already knowing a tonal language didn't help him with another tonal language.