What other languages can you speak?

There is nothing cooler than speaking one or more foreign languages. It's awesome right? I am so impressed when a friend drops some rapid fire foreign lingo out of the blue, whether it's your buddy shooting the breeze in Vietnamese at your favorite local Pho shop, your Venezuluan roommate arguing with his mom about Chavez, or your kid sister haggling in French (all things I've witnessed at various times). It's just so cool! And how about a member of the opposite sex coming at you with some non-English? Forget about it, so hot.

So anyway, from the bilingual like Smoot to the stuttering untalented dufus like myself, let's talk about languages we can speak, are learning to speak, or want to learn to speak.

I studied Latin in high school and Spanish in college; unfortunately, I never really took either seriously as anything more than a required class, and have subsequently forgotten everything I learned.

I have been living in Japan for over 2 years and studying Japanese that whole time. They say it's the toughest language in the world and well I don't know if that's true, I can't imagine anything being harder, what with its 3 alphabets and reversed grammar. But the more I study, the more I am able to communicate with people who I would never know anything about otherwise - which has been the most rewarding part of being over here.

I took four years of french, so none. =(

I spent a month traveling in Germany and picked up a fair amount of German. It is a pretty cool accomplishment when you first successfully communicate with a person in their language.

Spanglish.
My parents speak spanish and I was born and raised in San Diego so I picked up some spanish, Not much but I can get away with it.

I frequently butcher both the Spanish and German languages, but I still get my point across pretty effectively.

I-yay eak-spay ig-pay atin-lay.

Sluuuurrrrrr after a few too many.

i can speak street. does that count?

i can speak street. does that count?

Definitely.

I speak Spanish. Was pretty good at it until I stopped taking it late in high school. I apparently know enough to be exempt from taking it in college.

I know very little Norwegian. (From an ex)

I know some sign language.

And of course, I speak Ebonics. :laughing2

Spanish, hindi and Gujarati