How Many Languages Can You Speak?

[paleus]

The key to being able to be truly fluent in other languages is practice. In Europe, there are many different languages being used around everyone all the time. Drive an hour and you are in another country that speaks another language. Here in the US, most of us don't even have exposure to other languages. Maybe if you are near the Mexican border, you would be exposed to Spanish on a daily basis, or French near the Canadian border. But for me, here in Arkansas, I am never around another language to have the need to communicate in any language other than English. That makes it difficult to learn a new language just for the heck of it. I can speak enough Spanish to get my point across if I had to, but it would be really rough.

[Djf3864]

English here, but I work with some very talented people who learn and speak multiple languages.

 

I tried to learn another language but just didn't have the drive to really go full force with it and ended up just wasting my time because if you don't use it you lose it.

[FirstnameLastname]

English, a little Spanish, a few snippets of Portuguese and of course all the dialects of fish.

[tipptruck1]

A large percentage of Peruvians are of Japanese ancestry.  If you ever go to Peru, it is also odd to see a Japanese face with Spanish coming out of it at 100 miles an hour.

Got one better. How about a Japaneses descent fighter. That was born in Brazil. That speaks fluent Portuguese. Then when he speaks English. He has a Brazilian accent, but can make the "L" sound. perfect in English. Talk about weird.

 

Brazil has a huge Japaneses population. They are behind only Japan in world population. Of people from or of Japanese descent. 

 

[everythingthatswims]

English, and a little French, but I doubt the French will stick with me for long...I speak fluent "fish talk", I have one friend at school who speaks it too and sometimes our friends ask if we are speaking English. For example: "I was swimming a caffeine shad rigged on a 3/0 weightless screw lock swimbait hook in shallow water over some hydrilla that hadn't formed mats yet, but they weren't committing, most of the plenty of swipes and boils but few hook ups. Must have had something to do with the cold front that came through last night." doesn't even sound like fishing to the average person