In Europe, it's common to speak at least 2 foreign languages. Or at least to understand them. It's also common that people speak the languages of their neighboring countries, because these languages sometimes have the same root, or are used in both countries. Almost every young person speaks English in Europe, and that is good because we all have one (quite simple and easy to learn) language for our communications. In my country most of the people can speak German because of the history that we had with Austro-Hungarian empire and because almost everybody has someone who works as an "gasterbeiter" in Germany. Along the Dalmatian coast people speak Italian very well because Italians are our most important tourists, besides Czech people.
I speak Spanish and English, which I think is not enough for me, and I must force myself to learn German too. I can understand all Slavic languages because of the same root.
I find it very interesting to talk about languages, and to learn about culture and the tradition of the people... I must say that I admire Language Geeks who speak few languages including Latin and Greek, in fact I am in love with one 
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Post a Commenttotal of 3. english of course, french and arabic-and a little bit of german,but very little.
ENGLISH...
My native German, English, some Danish and very rusty French. I also speak a variety of Swiss German, but that's not really a foreign language, even though many Swiss will tell you otherwise.
My native English, French, Italian and Spanish. I'm not fluent in any of the others but I could survive on holiday there...
My native Spanish, English and a bit of Portuguese.
my native Dutch, english, spanish and a little bite portuguese
english and spanish.... i took 3 years of spanish in high school.... and i kick but at reading it, but a little slow when it comes to conversational spanish.... but if u write it down i can figure it out
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Not fluently but i can speak german, french, italian.
i mean i can speak english fluently sorry that looked wrong when i said
" english. not fluently"
total 3, my native is arabic,english and jewish
my native - latvian. also english, russian and german. Want to learn italian, french, spanish and japaneese.
You can only get smarter, by playing a smarter opponent..
Now that madmoiselle mentioned she speaks Russian, because her country once was in SSSR, I can say that I understand all ex Yugoslavian languages. Slovenian, (Croatian is mine) Serbian, so called Bosnian even though its just a version of Serbian, and Macedonian which is very similar to Bulgarian
When I was in primary school I had french lessons , but I was not very happy with it, because I wanted to learn English. Later in High School (when I already knew English) I've been given a choice to take English or French classes, and I decided English... I wish I didn't because French is much more difficult to learn.
I think you should have had an option:
English is my native, but I wish I knew more
When my husband and I travel to other countries we think it is important to learn the basics to survive in that country. Even though most places we go people do speak English we never expect it. We never want to be thought of as "ugly americans".
My fiancee is Chinese, so I speak a little Cantonese. Not great, but enough to get around when we are in Hong Kong.
Macgirl, I am sorry, you are right. I should have had that option too. So tell me, which language would you like to learn first? Most american learn spanish, especially in California and Florida, and I hear French is also populčar among colleague students.
Which one would be the first you would like to learn?
LooooL I did not know that comments support my local characters that I was telling you about:
I made a typo there populčar=popular
Look: ČĆŽĐŠ čćžđš
Living in California Spanish is really the only practical language to learn. I understand quite a few words and could stumble through enough to get around if I were to go to Mexico but it would always be nice to know more. My husband took many years of French and we used it when we went to Paris but after that visit I don't think I want to go back so no real desire to learn it (I think going to Paris was the equivalent if someone only went to Los Angeles as their whole view of California). I took some German in college as well. The hardest part here is we just aren't surrounded by different cultures or immersed in different languages, so it makes it nearly impossible to learn these languages and make them stick. We are so envious of our European friends that speak 3-4 languages fluently. We are trying to decide on a language to try and learn as a family and then take a trip so we can practice using it
Vietnamese is my native language and of course I speak English.
Spanish is important for me to understand somewhat... but I'm learning!
English, Cantonese, Mandarian, and learning Japanese. I guess that's makes a total of 4.
im from Russia so i know Russian i know Australian i know spanish and japan
I speak my native language Spanish and I also speak English, Portuguese, and very basic French and Italian
I speak English, but I have spent a lot of time in Germany so yes I know German, I took Spanish in school unfortunately.
I speak perfectly Spanish (my mother tongue!!) and I can speak English, German and I was able to speak French, but I have forgotten it. I can understand Italian and I can write and read a bit of Dutch.
By the way in Spain most people can only speak Spanish and a bit (lil bit) of English!
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