Any multilingual people here?

[j_k_k]

Originally Posted by Chava61

Bilingual English & Hebrew. Also I know some French (lived in France one year as a child and then studied for 4 years) & Spanish (lived & worked in Ecuador). I also know the differences between American, British & Australian English (having lived in the USA, England & Australia) as well some knowledge of South African/Botawana (having visited these countries) English. I also know a few words & expressions in Greek, a few words in Russian, Hungarian, Italian & Yiddish.

Hebrew was far easier than I thought it would be. One just had to accommodate the concept of a completely different (Semitic) verb system, but I found that the derivation of so many verbs, nouns and so on from a common root made the language much easier. What I found most difficult was written comprehension, not because of the right-to-left, but the combination of not having the vowels and (to me) many letters' superficial similarities to one another.

[mountainannie]

English, French, Spanish

but I am never sure which is which and that becomes a problem

[RobE]

I speak and read Japanese and english.

[sumisu]

Dutch - fluent
Spanish - conversational
German - conversational
Japanese - conversation

Have worked in Holland, Panama, Colombia. Total immersion was the best way for me to learn!

[SilkCity0416]

English,

and very little Spanish, and Japanese. The former because I am a sucker for Latin women, the latter because Japanese is so cool!

[Mr. Opinion]

English- Fluent *****

Spanish ****

[NewCalifornian]

Fluent in English and German. A little bit French, too.

[BigSwede]

Swedish and english.

[alicejb]

I speak tagalog, english, visayan (dialect) and have picked up a few of spanish words...

[Nasuba]

Fluent
Tigrinya
Amharic
Arabic
Norsk
French
English


Functional
Svenska
Oromo
Farsi
Danish

I picked up most as kids, and a alot of them are so common that if you learn one you can hold your own with another(svenska/norsk, and tigrinya/amharic being some of them)