Who speaks more than one Language?

[126coupe]

English being my only language I decided to learn Italian. My wife is going to Italy with a girlfriend and we decided after 50 years on this earth its time to do it.
We started in January using the "Pimsleur" method. Highly recommended. We just finished Italian I (16 cd's, thirty 20-30 minute lessons) We have been doing it about an hour a day 6 days a week.
Pimsleur has Italian II and III. When you finish with Italian III you are a 2- on a scale of 5, 5 being fluent.
Its quite challenging, but fun too.
I have always felt that people that speak more than one language are,should I say superior?

This method is conversational, so you can get around other countries easily and converse with the locals.

[azasadny]

English and Arabic here...

[Tobra]

English, Spanish, French, Japanese, pretty rusty on French and Japanese

[NY65912]

English, Italian (spoken in the house) and Spanish and Brooklynese.

Believe me it does'nt make you superior. But it's great when you travel to a country and you speak the language. I have found that the locals treat you somewhat different if you know their language.

[daepp]

Does Latin count?

[stomachmonkey]

In order of learning,

German, (hoch unt swabisch) English , Spanish, Italian.

[RPKESQ]

English, Latin, French, some German, some Italian, some Gaelic, some Japanese, some Swahili, some Spanish. Always hoping to add more.

[jyl]

English, French, some Chinese

Oh, and a teeny bit of German.

[126coupe]

Originally Posted by daepp

Does Latin count?

Sure it does, is Latin close to Italian?

[sammyg2]

I know a little spanish:
"four by four" means please, "adidas" means good bye, and "fleas on my dog" means merry christmas.

My 9 year old son can converse well in Russian and Spanish.

[jriera]

Fluent in Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and English

Can ask for the bathroom and order a beer in Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Japanese, Bahasa, Endebele, Russian, Latin and Texan

[imcarthur]

Canadian, American, some real English, and enough French to be dangerous.

Ian

[rdrr]

English, German, some Mandarin, some Cantonese
forgotten all the Latin and French

[slodave]

German, English - I have been known to speak drunk on occasion as well.

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally Posted by RPKESQ

.... some Gaelic,.

Scots or Irish?

Keep it alive!

[m21sniper]

English and broken self-taught spanish. Heh.

[Hugh R]

As an ugly American, I just speak slowly and loudly.

[Buckterrier]

English & Gibberish here.

[Zef]

Fluent in French... in English...in Spanish...And it's enough.

[efhughes3]

Originally Posted by Minkoff

Sure it does, is Latin close to Italian?

Isn't Latin the original Italian?