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fluent-german, french, spanish, russian </p>
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<p>I’ve been living all over the world due to my dad’s job so I’ve changed schools 10 times and have had to pick up the languages</p>
<p>besides, everytime I read russian verses, it makes me go aww…!;)</p>
<p>“And why is that Tpeck?”</p>
<p>Only language you need to know. English is the de facto language all over the world. I might take Swedish though at U of I.</p>
<p>Ummm… I would think the primary languages are:</p>
<p>English: definitely, since America, England, Belize, a lot of Canada, Australia, New Zealand use it (am I missing a few?)</p>
<p>Mandarin: China, comon, you got 20% of the world’s population right there. You also have a good number of Chinese immigrants around the world. Taiwanese can also speak/understand mandarin</p>
<p>French: France, Part of Canada, African Countries</p>
<p>Arabic: Almost all of the middle east</p>
<p>Spanish: Spain, Latin America</p>
<p>umm … you forgot Hindi ( One of the national languages of India ) … thats another 15% of the worlds population right there…</p>
<p>Japanese, Spanish, Korean… so wanna learn Russssssssian!</p>
<p>hmmm…I thought I responded to this thread a while back…I only skimmed the responses so I may have overlooked myself…oh well.</p>
<p>French: upper intermediate/Conversational…spent 9 month sin France with no prior knowledge of French…man that’s like the best way to learn a language!</p>
<p>Italian: basic…my schedule says “intermediate” but I do not feel like I am even there yet. I want to go to Italy and be immersed. </p>
<p>Spanish: Lower than basic…I know a few verbs and can kinda understand some of it based on what I know from French and Italian, but I have forgotten a lot of it. I want to pick it up again…and live in a Spanish speaking country for a while.</p>
<p>I have also studied Hungarian for a short time, but forgotten most of it. I would like to try Portuguese sometime in the future. I like Romance languages and want to be fluent in the four I have mentioned. I would also like to dabble in Catalan and Romanian.</p>
<p>Ich spreche Deutsch! 
(translation)
I speak German!
lol</p>
<p>Armenian! woot!</p>
<p>Spanish
English
French
Japanese
C++, html, and PHP at the momment.</p>
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Because english is the only language which is guarenteed to have speakers in every nation in the world.</p>
<p>I’m unwilling to believe that as many people speak Japanese as have listed it.</p>
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Why not? Its a popular language with a prestigious/cool culture etc.</p>
<p>Because, after years of studying it and living in Japan, I meet a lot more people who say they speak it than actually can express any level of fluency in the language.</p>
<p>Granted, I may be wrong…</p>
<p>And the very “coolness” of speaking Japanese is also part of my trepidation. I hate J-fans…</p>
<p>I’m fluent in mandarin chinese. I can’t read or write much, but I do speak it rather well. I’m learning french at school, so I’m not going to count myself as even semi-fluent in that, heh.</p>
<p>A Swiss guy, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus stop where two Americans are waiting.</p>
<p>“Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?” he asks. The two Americans just stare at him.</p>
<p>“Excusez-moi, parlez vous Francais?” he tries. The two continue to stare.
“Parlate Italiano?” No
response.
“Hablan ustedes Espanol?” Still nothing.</p>
<p>The Swiss guy drives off, extremely frustrated. The first American turns to the second and says,
“Y’know, maybe we should learn a foreign language.”</p>
<p>“Why?” says the other. “That guy knew four languages, and it didn’t do him any good.”</p>
<p>Afrikaans…</p>
<p>English, Java, sort-of-spanish</p>
<p>and you know, i may be the only deaf person in the world who deosnt know ASL. … at the weird thing is my dad (who’s not deaf) is taking an ASL course right now lol</p>
<p>So…how do you communicate? That’s an interesting gap in knowledge there.</p>
<p>i have hearing aids so i can hear a bit… i just talk normally. i would only learn ASL to communicate with other deaf people, but i dont know any who only use ASL</p>
<p>Ah, makes sense. </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>