What languages do you speak? read? write?

[smurfitup]

first language is farsi; speaky excellently, can't read or write

speak, read, and write english

am proficient in speaking, reading, and writing spanish

i live in south korea right now, so hopefully i'll learn korean by the time i leave here.

[cts]

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I don't understand how you can speak a language well and not be able to read or write it. (other than the Asian languages or ones with different alphabets)

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this is the approach that say the Pimsleur method takes

[cts]

I used to think learning a new language was pretty dumb when I was in high school and they forced us to pick one and take three years of it, so I took some Spanish and did what I had to do to get through. Now I'm coming around to liking the idea of a new language and recently purchased a subscription to RosettaStone Online to learn German (I just randomly picked a language on the last, German sounded in the middle of the pack/maybe a little easier than the rest) and downloaded the whole Pimsleur German set. The RosettaStone subscription is meh, mostly vocab and it's not bad but it would be pretty weak if it's the only thing you are using to learn the language. I really like the Pimsleur audio set I downloaded though and have been doing a lesson per day (although like RosettaStone it wouldn't be adequate on it's own, the two programs are pretty different and work together well imo). After I feel like I get a hang of German I may try to brush up on my Spanish a bit and then maybe learn Arabic since that seems pretty applicable to today's politics/global affairs.

[diamonddawg]

Spanish: Speak, read and write; excellent
Catalan: Read fair to poor; write & speak not at all
French: Read fair to poor; write not at all; speak, fair to poor
English: Speak, read and write; excellent

[spyderracing]

English: Born and raised in the states. However, I don't think I really write well. I've always been a science/math guy so I've let my grammar slip a bit (it's always the stupid punctuation stuff that gets me).

German: Have never taken a class in my life, but one of my roomates is fluent and the other is in the process of taking German courses at the University. Consequently, I speak well, read fairly well, but can't write it to save my life.

[Shizzle12345]

I always wondered that when you speak like 3 languages fluently, what language do you think in? The language you use most at that moment?

[gilper]

English - first language

French - Speak, read, and write probably pretty poor now, and it has been years since I've had the need for it. I studied in H.S. and College. I traveled in France and did some work in Morocco.

Spanish - speak poorly. The nanny is teaching our daughter Spanish and I'm learning some too.

Sign - poor to fair. I've done some work with deaf institutions and I'm also learning this along with my daughter.

[quirkasaurus]

English -- first language
Japanese -- speak poor, listen terrible, read barely
French -- speak poor, listen terrible, read barely

[GeraldGiraffe]

I'm English, so it goes without saying that I am an accomplished user of my native tongue.

I can also vaguely understand written French - by which I mean that I can often work out the gist of a sentence, but not its finer points, such as grammar. I can do the same, but to a much, much lesser degree with Italian.

So, essentially, I can only speak English. Oh, I can also read Middle English and a small amount of Old English, in addition to a similarly small amount of Latin.

[Benal]

I'm fluent in both english and french.

I attended french elementary and high schools. My math class, physics, geography, etc... were all in french. Most students spoke english outside of the classroom - it was funny watching teachers constantly yelling at us not to speak english while at school.

My college years were in english.