Topic: How many languages do you know?

English since it is my native language and I've been learning Japanese for awhile (although I think I've been slacking recently...) and I plan to learn Korean and maybe French. Although I currently know hardly anything in Korean, I can write my name and I know what a few of the symbols mean, but I know very few words.

Only English, but I'm gonna serve a two-year mission for my Church in a few months, and there's a good chance I'll be sent abroad and need to learn another language. I have no idea what I would learn though; I hope for Japanese.

Right now, English only. I'm trying to change that, though. I need to learn my native language first before I learn another language. After that... I'm thinking of learning Japanese, then French, then Spanish.

That learning order seems kind of weird. They usually recommend Spanish first if you know English since they're very similar (which you can probably do after you learn your Native Language), French is much simpler when you know Spanish so that's usually after Spanish, and Japanese is a very hard language so it's probably best to learn that last when you gain experience.

@Aromaiden: Actually, the thing is, I haven't given much thought to the order in which I want to learn certain languages since my number one priority is learning my native language. That said though, I would really love to learn Japanese after I master(well, not really master...) my language. The rest... if I have time to learn them.....

I only butcher the English language so far. If anyone is interested in learning a new language (for free), check out the duolingo site:

https://www.duolingo.com/

I'm thinking of using it to start relearning French.

I have the duolingo app on my phone and it's really good.

I recommend it.

French is easier to learn than Spanish if English is your native language.

@pikminfan22:
I've done a little bit of the french course, and it seems to be accurate from what I've seen

I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

I natively speak Italian, I'm fluent in English, and I studied French in middle school. I am currently thinking of taking French or German lessons.

Oh, and I can translate Latin and ancient Greek provided I have a vocabulary

Croatian,English,Bosnian,Serbian and Montenegrin

Latin and Germanic languages are easy due to similarities to English, however I don't think Japanese is hard, there's just more to learn. I think you can learn languages in order of what you want to study/know first, it doesn't matter what's considered harder.

I took 4 years of Latin in highschool. Latin was a great class to take because you learn so much about Roman and Greek culture, mythology, AQUADUCTS!, oh and yeah, you learn the Mother of ALL Languages - Latin!

Quomodo agatis hodie??? (How are you all doing today?)
My response would be: "Dormio" (sleepy - it's where we get our word dormitory from - a place where one sleeps)

I speak, write, type, and text English quite well. I'm also capable of using super basic German, mostly needing to work on vocabulary. On top of that, I know a handful of French and Spanish and a few in Japanese with no real knowledge of the written language.

@bezerker99: yeah, latin is actually mandatory in most schools from neo-latin countries (such as Italy or Spain). Being roman myself, I have always lived surrounded by latin one way or another - and by aquaducts! While I was in the US it was interesting to learn that there's a lot of people who study latin there, which is great - there was this guy who insisted on communicating with me in latin, thinking that I would have been fluent in it, but the truth is that it's never taught for speaking purposes here, just for translation and analysis. Those damn latins were so advanced, god bless them.
By the way once you know the basics of latin, studying the neo-latin languages is going to be easier, especially Spanish which still has a lot of the sermo vulgaris (vulgar latin). Italian is very hard though.

I speak : English , French , Arabic and a little of Spanish !

@New_Guest: Latin is the mother of European languages, though. At least, I think it is.

I know American and Nerd. I am also learning some programming languages, I used Unreal Script from Unreal Engine 3 a lot in school.

@TylerTheCreator: No, it isn't. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian are all Romance languages, meaning that they are descended from Latin (well, and quite a lot of minor languages, like Catalan and Sardinian for example). There are also Germanic, Slavic and Baltic languages. Together with the Romance languages they cover most of the languages in Europe. Then there are more specific groups as well; like Celtic, Hellenic (Greek) and a few more. Even non Indo-European languages to a certain extent; Uralic languages are spoken in Finland, Estonia and Hungary, and there's the Basque language, which is a pretty unique language on its own.