Is it your native language? English & Ojibwe

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand).

Fluent: German, ASL, and English
Medium: Spanish, French and Ojibwe
Japanese (slowly improving to medium!), BSL, Tagalog, and Italian

Is there a language you are DYING to learn? The ones I hope one day to know next? Russian, Hebrew, and Greek!

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? My parents aren't but my uncle lives in Germany!

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? Our family is multilingual because each of my kids have wanted to have language they spoke besides English. My oldest speaks a bit of Spanish, The next two speak German, the fourth child speaks a bit of French and quite a bit of Japanese, and my youngest is working on Ojibwe currently as is the rest of our family. We are a part of the Chippewa Indian tribe.

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) I'm currently taking classes for Ojibwe. I'm also working on Japanese, Tagalog, Italian and BSL.

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? Ojibwe!

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? This is a fun question for me, because I understand way more than I actually speak. If someone is speaking Swedish or Dutch I can pick it up as it's close enough to German. Same with Tagalog and Italian with Spanish. My uncle one morning came downstairs and started speaking to me in Spanish, and although I speak just a bit I understood precisely what he was saying. He tried to apologize and translate and I told him not to worry and translated what he'd said back to him. He was surprised as I can speak just a bit of Spanish but was able to understand what he was saying to me!

Is it your native language? Standard English and creoloe/ broken English.

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand).
Hindi which I can speak and translate a fair bit.

Is there a language you are DYING to learn?
At the moment, nope. I find it difficult to learn a language

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country?
My great grand parents were from India

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home?
Nope

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?)
Not at present.

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time?
I knew a great deal of French and Spanish because I did them most of my Primary and Secondary school life.

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language?
Chinese, Japanese xD

Is it your native language? Swedish

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand).
5! Fluent in Swedish and English.
I can read/understand and be understood in French, Spanish and German.

Is there a language you are DYING to learn? SO MANY. All of them! Someone help me. I think Japanese would be amazing!

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? Yupp, Sweden!

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? Not really. But my education is solely in English.

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) Unfortunately not... Maybe this summer though!

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? I mean... I knew French a lot better before than I do now.

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? I had this project a few years back where I tried to learn how to greet people in as many languages as possible. Only remember a few now though.

Is it your native language? czech and german

How many languages can you speak?
Fluent in english, czech, german and spanish, pretty much efficient in italian and french as in holding a conversation
i can also communicate with flemish/dutch and polish and i understand russian and danish/swedish

Is there a language you are DYING to learn? hebrew, gaelic and finnish

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? yes, czech republic and germany

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? we use a mix of spanglish and german and czech

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) not at the moment

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? yep, russian simply because i didn't use it as much over the years any more.

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? all the ones mentioned above, but also portuguese and japanese...

Is it your native language? Italian!
How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand). A part from Italian, I can read and speak English (at least I hope ) and Spanish!
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? I love foreign languages, so I'd like to learn as more languages is possible!!! Anyway, I really would learn Greek and Latin (unfortunately, not all the Italian school teach Latin )
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? They're both Italian, but their way to speak it are quite different because they're from different region (Calabria and Campania); also, my cousin has travelled a lot and he's able to speak English, Spanish and Portuguese (now he works as translator in Vatican City), another one lives in Norway, some of my cousins are in North Italy and speak a bit of German.
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? I Sometimes talk in English at home, it helps me to be always trained
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) I'm trying to improve my Spanish because I'm helping a canadian game develop team to improve their game and they need someone who translates in foreign languages!
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? I hope not! Well, maybe I don't remember all the Spanish I've learnt (I was 12 when I started), but I'm still able to understand it!
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? Hmm... well, they're a lot! Chinese (Ni-hao, even if I don't know how to write it properly), Portuguese (Olà), French (Salut), Indian (Namasté),... maybe that's all.

Is it your native language? Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese)
How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand). I can read in English, Spanish. When I was at university, I used to read in French too (the French-Portuguese dictionary was my best friend at that time)...
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? I'd love to learn a lot of languages, but I don't have mush free time.
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? My great gran parents are from Germany and one of them is from Portugal.
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? No.
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?)I'm always learning a language, because I like to read books in their original language. I just finished a book in Spanish and other in English.
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? Yes, French, German (my mom used to talk in home when I was a little girl) and Japanese (I studied Japanese at University, just for fun, during 3 years).
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, French, Portuguese and English.

Native Language: German
How many languages can you speak? English (fluently), French (6 years in school but lol it's French, so yk), Spanish (4 years in school)
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? I kind of want to learn Turkish but I'd have to do a professional language course because it's HARD.
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? Yas. All from Austria. (My granddad was originally from Czechoslovakia but Idk if he spoke any Czech, I don't think he did.)
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? Nah. Unless I'm abroad obviously. Or talking to someone who doesn't speak German.
Are you currently learning a language? I kind of gave up on duolingo a while back. I was "learning" Dutch there for a while though. XD
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? My French is definitely A LOT WORSE now compared to when I was still in school.
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? Tbh, I usually just say "hi", that's pretty much universal.

Native language: English
How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand). English, some Spanish, a few words in German
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? I'd like to learn German, Greek, and Latin
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? My dad and grandparents are from other countries, but all from English-speaking countries (England and New Zealand). I have a great aunt who is from Germany.
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? No
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? I've been learning Spanish in school as my foreign language class, but not this year because of my full class schedule. I'm attempting to learn how to read Latin for fun.
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? Because I'm not currently taking Spanish at school I'm forgetting a lot of it.
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? Spanish, German

Is it your native language?
Turkish yes, Spanish (and English obv) no.

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand).
Fluently, 3 (Turkish, English, Spanish). I can read and understand written German using a dictionary, because I know the grammar, but I don't know many words.

Is there a language you are DYING to learn?
German. Persian would be REALLY cool too, because the poems (or 'gazel' as specifically called) in Persian are very beautiful.

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country?
I'm from Turkey so yeah. My whole family is Turkish.

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home?
Nope.

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?)
No - but I have many resources on my hands for German, so as soon as I have time I will go back to it.

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time?
German (sounds like I'm obsessed with it XD but I'm not honestly). I used to know many more words, but I forgot over time.

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language?
German, Italian, French, Greek, Portuguese (I can understand written Portuguese to some extent, though), Arabic.

Is it your native language?
Spanish, yes.

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand).
Fluently, 2 (English and Spanish). I can read and understand a bit of Portuguese and Catalan.

Is there a language you are DYING to learn?
I wish I could learn them all lol but I would love to learn German, Arabic and Japanese

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country?
Yes, my whole family is from El Salvador

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home?
Nope unless I have to lol

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?)
No

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time?
Yes. When I was little I learned German in my school but it’s gone now

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language?
French, German, Japanese, Italian

Is it your native language?
Vietnamese!

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand).
I speak English fluently. My native language is Vietnamese and I can read, understand, write most things, and maybe speak at a conversational level. I am learning Spanish, Dutch, and French on Duolingo. I studied French for four years in an academic setting so I'm okay at it but definitely not fluent.

Is there a language you are DYING to learn?
Ooh! Other than getting a lot better at French and Spanish [and Dutch], I'd love to learn Russian.

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country?
Yes. They're from Vietnam.

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home?
Nah. I mostly speak English all the time unless I need to explain something that is easier said in Vietnamese.

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?)
^^^ French, Spanish, and Dutch because I want to visit France, I want to easily communicate with the Spanish speakers that are common in my area, and just because lol

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time?
Not completely, although most of the French I learned in school (such as grammar and verb tenses) is a bit lost. I retained mostly vocabulary words.

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language?
Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, German.

Is it your native language? Portuguese

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand).
Fluent: Portuguese, English
Intermediate: Italian
Beginner: Russian, German

Is there a language you are DYING to learn? Toooooo many of them! German, Hebrew, Russian, Portuguese Sign Language, and many, many more.

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country?
Yes, we're Portuguese. My father's family comes from Angola, whereas my mother's is Portuguese. I have Italian relatives through family marriage.


Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home?
I speak Portuguese at home and alternate between Portuguese and English with friends.

Are you currently learning a language?
Yes, Russian. It's quite the challenge!

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time?
Somewhat... I studied Hebrew for two years, I was never fluent, but right now i can barely understand it.

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language?
Definitely Hebrew, German and French. With Spanish is the other way around, I understand much of it, but could not speak it to save my life.

Is it your native language?
Icelandic is my native language, it wasn't up on the poll (sadly )

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand)
English, Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian & Swedish. So that's 5 total!

Is there a language you are DYING to learn?
I would love to know French! That would be sweet!

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country?
Yes, they're all from Iceland too

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home?
Yes, I speak Icelandic when I'm at my parent's house, and Norwegian when I'm at home with my girlfriend, but English when I'm with a lot of my foreign friends.

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?)
I wish Just don't have the time.

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time?
I guess my Danish is a bit rusty, but I'm sure if I had to speak to a Dane, It'd come back quickly.

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language?
The usual "Bonjour"s and "Hola"s, but nothing beyond that I think ;P

Is it your native language?
Malay and English is my native language

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand)
English, Malay/Indonesian (Fluent)
Arabic (Read/Understand a few)
Korean/Japanese/Mandarin (Understand)

Is there a language you are DYING to learn?
French! Or Spanish.

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country?
No. All from English speaking country.

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home?
I speak English and Malay both at home or outside.

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?)
French in duolingo counts?

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time?
Not really.

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language?
Any language really as long as I have google translator by my side.

What is your native language? English and German
How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand). English and German (fluent), Mandarin (intermediate), Italian, French and Japanese (elementary) and Korean (beginner)
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? I'm dying to improve my Mandarin and Korean, I'd also love to learn Russian, Hebrew, Arabic and many others...
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? My parents are from Germany
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? Yes, we speak German at home and English outside of our home
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) Currently learning Chinese Mandarin at university, and Korean and Japanese to improve my job opportunities. I also plan on brushing up my French/Italian soon for a trip to Europe.
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? French, Italian and, when I was a kid for a while German
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? Dutch and Afrikaans (similarities to German), Spanish (similar to Italian), Vietnamese and Cantonese (friends)

Is it your native language?
Norwegian is my native language
How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand).
Norwegian, English, Swedish. I can read danish, and I can understand a lot of Icelandic (written and spoken).
Is there a language you are DYING to learn?
Want to know more icelandic.
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country?
They are all norwegians, except for some second cousins in Sweden.
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home?
At home with my boyfriend it's a little bit of a mix It's mostly English and Norwegian with a little bit of Icelandic sometimes. There is often more than one language in one sentence Outside of the home it's norwegian.
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?)
My boyfriend tries to teach me some icelandic occasionally I want to learn it so I can more confidently talk to his family in their language.
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time?
I have had 5 years of french in school, but I've forgotten almost all of it.
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language?
French, Spanish, Russian (if I know them), German and Nepali.

Is it your native language? No, my native is English

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand) I took 3 years of German in high school, but I have gotten rusty!

Is there a language you are DYING to learn? Japanese or Spanish would top the list, but any language would be fun!

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? My (step)grandparents came from the Philippines, and my ancestors are from Japan, but the Japanese have been in Hawaii/California for over 100 years.

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? All English

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) I downloaded Duolingo and started learning Italian, but Japanese, Spanish, and Mandarin would be helpful or work.

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? Yea, that would be German.. lol

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, German, Italian, French

Is English your native language? No.
How many languages can you speak/read/understand? 3. English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? No.
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? Yes. They all live in Brazil.
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? Yes. Portuguese at home. English/Spanish outside.
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? No.
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? No.
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? None.

Is it your native language? - English and Korean (Hangeul)

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand) - mainly i understand English and Korean. I studied French back in high school (i still remember some of it... ish ) and i studied Mandarin when i went to university.

Is there a language you are DYING to learn? I wanto be really good in French, German and Japanese but so far my chances of learning these languages are really slim.


Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? Yes


Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? Nope, not really. Even when i used to live abroad my parents didn't really spoke that much korean around me.

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) - i wish i was but unfortunately i'm not leaning any new languages at the moment.


Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? - hmmm. No, not really. I've tried learning other languages in the past but i have failed in memorizing most of them. So they all go into this list.


What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? - i know alot of the common 'hello' greeting in other languages because... well, youtube. But other than hello, that's it for me.

Is it your native language? Dutch
How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand). I can read/speak Dutch and English. I can read/write Korean (Hangeul) though i do not always understand what it means lol
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? Oh man, i love languages and i wish i was able to learn them all. Sadly i can't but i've always wanted to learn Latin, Spanish, Mandarin and Dutch sign language.
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? yep, both are from the Netherlands
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? When i was in school i spoke Dutch at home and English outside. But now that i graduated i only use Dutch.
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?): I am learning Korean together with a friend. Both for fun and because we want to visit the country one day and we both agreed that we should know the language enough to make conversations and ask for the way in case we get lost lololol
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? yes, I had German in school and i was pretty good at it but when i graduated it just went *poof* I can understand a little bit but only when they talk really slowly.
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? Spanish - French - Italian - Korean - Thai - Latin - German - Japanese - Mandarin , Wenzhounese , Cantonese and Turkish.

Is it your native language? English is my native language

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand) Speaking, as in being able to speak full, articulate sentences? English only. Speaking as in, can speak to a Kindergartner? French

Is there a language you are DYING to learn? I've always wanted to learn Greek or Russian for fun, but I'm trying to learn easier languages first that don't have their own Alphabet system

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? I do have distant relatives in non- English speaking countries, but I never met them

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? I speak English everywhere, because it's the easiest

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) I'm learning Italian right now. Mostly for fun, but also to keep myself busy during quarantine

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? I took Latin in high school, but I think I remember exactly 5 words of the entire language

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? I can greet people in French. Can't do much after that, but I can say hi to you

Native language? English & Farsi
How many languages can you speak? Threeeee. English, Farsi, Spanish
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? ARABIC ;_; and ASL
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? Both of my parents were born & raised in Iran, as were their siblings/parents. My generation is all over the planet though ehehe
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? At home I speak a mix of Farsi & English, there was a lot more Farsi present at home when I was younger (70% vs 30%) but now I'd say we speak more English (80% vs 20%)
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? I'm not learning a new language, but I never learned how to read or write in Farsi, so I'm working on that!
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? I've definitely gotten rusty with my Farsi and Spanish because I don't have the chance to practice as much as I like, but I haven't forgotten either of them! Just little bits and pieces here and there.
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? I can say French words like baguette and croissant does that count LOL jokes. uh. ASL -- I know the literal MINIMUM amount. Like the least you can know. I know maybe that.

Native language? English and Punjabi

How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand). English, Punjabi, and Hindi

Is there a language you are DYING to learn? Honestly quite a few if it were possible..such as Japanese

Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? My parents are from India, but settled in Canada after they got married

Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? I mainly just speak English, but I speak Punjabi with older relatives.

Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) Not at the moment, but it would be fun in the near future.

Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? I took French and Spanish in school but don't remember a lot of it (regrettably)

What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? A lot actually, but many of them are only greetings.

OMG why have I NEVER seen this thread? *is a big language enthusiast*

Native language? Filipino and English. Aside from that, I have a regional language too. So I guess I have three of them? *makes sense*
How many languages can you speak? (or read/understand). Five! I am fluent in three, and they're the ones I mentioned as my native languages. Additionally I can read, understand, and speak some basic Spanish and German. I studied those two languages in uni.
Is there a language you are DYING to learn? Tbh, I just want to work on my fluency in Spanish and German for now! I'm losing touch But I am also open to learning about other languages, and it amazes me when multilingual SSers greet me in their languages too
Are your parents/relatives from a non-English speaking country? Yup, we're all from the Philippines.
Do you speak one language at home, and another outside of home? I speak my regional language at home, and Filipino and English in uni.
Are you currently learning a language? - Why? (fun, work, New Years Resolution?) I'm technically free from uni because of the pandemic, so not really, but I was learning German before the semester ended :3
Have you previously known a language, but forgotten over time? Yes, I took a semester's worth of French back in high school. I....do not remember most of what I learned. It was high school and everything was super chill so
What languages could you greet someone in, but not necessarily understand the language? Anything that's on Google Translate, I guess. Even if it's not exactly the best source for sentence translation, I think GT gets the job done in terms of greetings