Do you speak a second language?

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2 fluent (English/Russian), 3 more reasonably well.
 
Used to be fluent in spanish but after 2 years of no practice, I can barely have a real conversation. I'm hoping to go to Central America this summer for a month or two so I can pick it up again...
 
i need a refresher, but i can speak spanish alright 😳
 
Fluent in Spanish. Can understand Italian, Portuguese, and French to an extent. It came in handy working and living down south.
 
out of the people who just replied, it seems like joichi is the only one who speaks a real second language lol

I speak some east asian language
 
Hablo un poco espanol, pero my vocabulario es muy pequeno. Yo assistia tres clases de espanol en mi escuela secondaria, y uno en universidad. Necessito mas practica, debo ir a una pais hispanico a apprender mas. Me gusta pantalones de queso.

Translation: I speak a little spanish, but my vocabulary is very small. I attended three spanish classes in highschool and one in college. I need more practice, I should go to a hispanic country to learn more. I like cheese pants. (direct translation of last sentence: Pants of cheese are appealing to me)
 
fluent in English and Farsi (Persian), currently learning French (j'adore le francais!).... I know I should be learning Spanish instead, but I like French more 😀
 
amwatts0322 said:
3: pig latin, gibberish, and english.
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Someone after my own heart. 😉

I know some Spanish and some Italian, from high school and college courses, respectively. I know a few words in Russian (mostly hello, goodbye, yes and no). I wish I knew more Russian, since we have a handful of Russian speaking doctors at my hospital and we get a LOT of Russian patients from the area that don't speak a lick of English.

I'd like to try to become at least conversational in another language, since it would help in practice down the line. Italian is what I'd really like to learn, but it is far less useful than Spanish, Russian or an Asian language like Chinese (any variation) or Japanese. I know you can effectively speak Italian to a Spanish-speaking person and they will speak Spanish back to you and you can understand each other (more or less anyway) but it's not quite the same as actually being fluent.
 
read/write english and hindi
talk urdu and punjabi
learning Greek <--Trying to learn something other than Asian languages, but given the fact that Asians make up most of the world's population, I am happy lol
 
English and Filipino - fluently

mandarin-not so but i can understand.. ciao!
nihonggo-i can speak a little,. ohayo gozaimasu! domo arigato.. so desu ne? nane?
spanish-i can understand some..🙂
 
English and Greek fluently. Spanish conversationally and I can understand what people are saying in Italian, but I can barely speak it.
 
I used to be fluent in french and spanish...now i kinda combine them into one language when i speak beacuse i'm out of practice...but i read books in both languages, and once i'm in france or spain for a few days i pick them right back up.
 
Studied Italian for several years so I'm pretty conversational in it. If I spent say 6 months or so in Italy I'd be fluent. I can understand (barely) Spanish but I can't really speak it. Might be taking medical spanish when I matriculate!
 
Sillydoc did you grow up in the states or greece?
 
Fluent in Russian and English.. and spanish sorta.. its on my resume but im out of practice 🙁
 
Rotinaj said:
Hablo un poco espanol, pero my vocabulario es muy pequeno. Yo assistia tres clases de espanol en mi escuela secondaria, y uno en universidad. Necessito mas practica, debo ir a una pais hispanico a apprender mas. Me gusta pantalones de queso.
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i hope you didn't list spanish on your app! 😉
 
fluent in gujarti (dialect of hindi)/english. I know Spanish pretty well.
 
6 languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Greek, and English.
 
fluent in English, telugu, hindi, urdu

farsi, spanish(sort of ...)
 
VVSHT said:
fluent in English, telugu, hindi, urdu

farsi, spanish(sort of ...)
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Nice! Telugu is sweet. I know a few words, a couple of songs in Telugu and used to be able to write my name, but it was very difficult for me to pick up on.

Other than that, I am studying Ancient Greek (not really something you become "fluent" in - the goal is most often to understand what's written), and I know a bit of Kiswahili but haven't been to Kenya in awhile so it's way out of practice.
 
Fluent in: English, Kannada
Decent Skill in: Hindi, Sanskrit, Spanish, Latin
 
First language: French
Fluent in English, very comfortable with German and Spanish.
 
Does no one else speak Japanese? :O (This should turn out hilariously awkward if anyone asks about it for an interview seeing as my Asian half isn't Japanese....)
 
Punjabi, Urdu/Hindi

I also have ambitious dreams of perfecting my Spanish one day. I don't see it happening yet though.

I might take Arabic for a semester/year and see how that goes too.
 
Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu/Hindi, sign language
Gujrati to some extent.
 
RA1987 said:
I can speak latin, but it's not done very much. I know some german as well. I took it for a year an der uni.
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Classical, medieval or church latin? I would love to hear you speak something that comes near the complexity of a cicero composition. Where did you practice conversing in Latin that oyu can actually speak it. I find this very dubious.
 
Fluent in Farsi (Persian) and English

Understand arabic to some extent, and can speak a little.
 
Myuuchan said:
Does no one else speak Japanese? :O (This should turn out hilariously awkward if anyone asks about it for an interview seeing as my Asian half isn't Japanese....)
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I speak Japanese, but not fluently. I majored in it in college, so I took 4 years of classes and then went on study abroad in Japan.

It takes forever to learn Japanese, tho - I think the US dept of foreign service classifies it together with Chinese and Arabic as languages that take 12 years of college-level coursework to become fluent in. In the meantime, something like Spanish only requires 3. I took German for 1.5 years, and I speak it at the same level as Japanese, and read better.
 
Drogba said:
Entendo um poco de portugues mas nao fallo o escrevo muito bem. Todas as linguas latinas sao muito similares.
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Your Portuguese is not bad, and yes all latin languages are VERY similar. I can read spanish and I can understand it a little as well (as long as they are talking slowly)
 
sc71football said:
Your Portuguese is not bad, and yes all latin languages are VERY similar. I can read spanish and I can understand it a little as well (as long as they are talking slowly)
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I think if you have a good foundation in any romance language then all the rest are fairly accessible to you with little effort. The one exception might be french because if its seemingly irregular phonetic and spelling system, though I can't say this with certainty because I haven't made a serious attempt to learn it. Are you brazilian, portuguese or maybe angolan :]?
 
I'm a native spanish speaker, so I've got that down, (yay for my parents who refused to speak to me in english while I was growing up 🙂) and after some more formal grammar/lit. classes, i've become a great academic-spanish speaker/writer/reader.

pretty good at french, italian and um poco de portuguese
 
Pretty good Italian, would need 6 more months or so in Italy to be fluent. Working on Mandarin, but that will probably take a while to get up to par.
 
Ma sono cosi tanti che parlano italiano? Non l'avrei pensato! Ci siete mai andati o l'avete studiato solo a scuola?
 
Fluent in Mandarin, semifluent Spanish....
I imagine it's pretty common for med school applicants to know a second language....
 
Fluent in English and conversational in Vietnamese. I hope to be fluent when I move back. Used to be pretty good at German in high school, but now I only know if enough to make a rough point.
 
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