What languages can you read?

[Altamont Ravenard]

ahahaha! French takes the lead!

Taïaut!

AR

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

the top 1337 is in French.

Mais peut-tu les elite en d'autres languages?

or something like that...

I guessed that, considering the source. I am, however, insufficiently multilingual to read French.

 

[Arnwyn]

If you can't read kanji then you can't read Japanese.

Ah, well.

 

[Desdichado]

I'm surprised spanish is doing so (relatively) poor in this thread. Isn't Spanish by far the most popular foreign langauge studied in the US, where about 75-80% of EN Worlders are from?

Taking two years of Spanish in High School, as I did, wouldn't have had me claiming I could read it. I can read Spanish because I lived in Argentina for two years. My Russian's also a bit spotty, but I took four semesters of college Russian, and once upon a time I was OK at it.

The poll doesn't really address level of proficiency.

 

[diaglo]

Ah, well.

no that should read...Ah...Sooo.

 

[Zoatebix]

If you can't read kanji then you can't read Japanese.

I used to be between 1st and 2nd grade literate in Japanese, now I'm way back in the realm of illiteracy. Woo! Time to start practicing.

I guess that leaves English and Spanish...

 

[Gez]

The poll doesn't really address level of proficiency.

Of course. We can't two duodimensional polls. Otherwise I would have added, for each language, different categories (none at all, a handful of words, can read short and simple texts, can read magazines, fluent, mothertongue).

Since we can't, I drawn the line at "can read short and simple texts".