I'm kind of curious. I know most ,if not all, of the Non-Americans here speak English fluently enough to be understood. That's cool to me because I've tried to learn 3 other languages and failed at them all. So I became curious as to how many languages people speak. I'd also like to know how many of the Native English speakers have learned other languages.
I forgot most of the german I knew but only took 2 years of it. Spanish never could figure out though I'm not sure if that was because the teacher was horrible or it was just I don't get romance languages.
I had a slightly odd childhood growing up with a father in the military traveling all over. At home we swap words out a good bit from 6 or so different languages but its 95+% english. as a family we took spanish together so we have a slight working ability in it but it is really rusty, same with german from my parents having lived there until just before I was born and then going back a few times over the years. During college I spent a semester in china so I have some mandarin knowledge as well but again with not having had a chance to speak it in so many years I'm weak on it. In the end I am only fluent in english, the others I have enough knowledge to get by when I'm in a country that speaks it but just barely, definitely not conversational level fluency.
I'm sub-bilingual. Took many years of French classes in school, know enough to ask for directions, read road signs, count, and roughly follow a french conversation.
I've taken Latin, French and Spanish in school, but don't speak them anymore. I can make out a little Japanese if the person is speaking slowly, but not enough to hold a conversation.
I can speak a small bit of German, and I'm hoping to be able to get around Thailand half decently in a year.
