What languages can you read?

[Gez]

Other than English, of course. I assume everyone here is able to speak English.

The options are:

1. None
2. Arabic
3. Chinese
4. Dutch
5. French
6. German
7. Italian
8. Japanese
9. Polish
10. Portuguese
11. Russian
12. Spanish
13. Swahili
14. Swedish
15. Other African
16. Other American
17. Other Asian
18. Other European
19. Other Oceanian
20. Do programming languages count?

 

[RangerWickett]

Japanese, and Other European (Latin).

And I'm . . . I dunno, fluent enough in Spanish to survive, if I was stranded in a city. Not nearly enough to hold a conversation, though.

 

[diaglo]

you forgot Klingon and Tolkien Elf

edit: also you forgot Latin.

edit2: with http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr i can read alot more languages. i marked french and some computer languages. but i know choice spoken words in at least a few more like danish, turkish, and tugalog..and don't do badly in written italian, spanish, and portugese.

 

[Chacal]

I assume everyone here is able to speak English.

You might be assuming too much. Reading english is a prerequisite for being here, but speaking is not.

Hmm... after some thought, you might be right.

The hard part is not speaking english, it's being understood when you speak english

Chacal

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

French and Other European (Ancient Greek) and Other European (Latin)

 

[Gez]

You might be assuming too much. Reading english is a prerequisite for being here, but speaking is not.

I meant read. If you're able, with the help of a dictionary, to understand, say, a news dispatch, you may consider yourself able to read the language for purposes of that thread.

I havn't put dead languages in the poll, because they interested me less. (I know. Latin isn't dead, since it's still spoken in Vatican City. There's even latin words for pin-ups, cell phones, and computer networks.)

 

[Chacal]

I meant read.

I knew that

Chacal

 

[johnsemlak]

I marked French and Russian, though my French is pretty rusty from lack of use. My Latin is worse unfortunately.

 

[Stormborn]

As mentioned by the Overkitty I actually read more ancient languages than modern ones: Hebrew, Ecclesiastic Latin, Koine Greek (muddling a bit with Classical), and can probablly handle Old English and Middle English as well, or better than, Russian and German which I marked (but really, don't have that many skill points in.)

 

[Dimwhit]

At least I used to be able to read French. And speak it, too. Quite well. But it's been a while...