It's a poll, state what other language you are able to speak / write. Then give us an example of how it differs from English.

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French (fluent)
German (less fluent)
Russian (even less fluent)
Arabic (hello and other bits)
Italian (see below)
Spanish (see below)
Czech (see below)
Polish (see below)
Japanese (hello and other bits)
Welsh (hello and other bits)
etc etc
all to varying degrees and mostly related purely to technology - I read tech/ engineering manuals but couldn't manage day-to-day conversations in most.
They vary from English in that they're foreign.

conversational japanese

it makes a lot more sense than english and is a lot easier to use.

Mongolian: fluent. Difference to English is that it is an Object-Subject-Verb language, it uses 7 cases like Russian, (probably) no prefixes but a lot of postfixes, you add one thing after another behind words and get different meanings. Actually it has a lot common with Turkish, Kazakh languages in terms of grammar (and vocabulary). Example: tor - be born, torol - family or root, torolh - native, torolht - with the same root, torolhton - people with the same root, torolhtnii - of people with the same root, torolhtniihoo - of my people with the same root, torolhtniihoor - by or through the people with the same root, torlhtniihooroo by or through my people with the same root, etc.

Russian: I can read, listen and pronounce reasonably well, but cannot speak well. Writing is tough. Probably you know about the differences, I think it is mainly Subject-Verb-Object language but the order of those is not very strict, 7 cases, a whole lot of prefixes and also many but less postfixes. When I read or listen I somehow understand the prefixes but I never get it right when I make up my own sentences.

Dutch: I can understand probably 30% of newspaper and can buy things at market.

i can speak welsh fluently

English and Greek, but I'm very cunilingual.

english (poor)
japanese (very poor)
mandarin (very poor)
cantonese (very poor)
korean (very poor)
french (very poor)


im a jack of all tounges master of none. i can express myself best in english but only because i know the most of that language (hard to tell i know) chinese language is my second but i only started learning that because i had too with my martial arts, and also i grew up around a chinese family for years,


i still find it very hard to write in oriental langueage, i strictly do the verbal side only, i am learning korean at the moment, i am also designing my own pinyin type system for korean as none exist,

jai gah

English and Foul

English and Foul

you got that in the wrong order potty mouth:grumble:

English is the other language.
Any way, I can speak and read some Russian as well, no problems understanding it.