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Danish, because I was born there, English because we speak that a home every day ( for those of you that don't know ,-my husband is Maltese ,and for many years Malta was nearly bilingual Maltese and English ) I speak enough Maltese to get by, but by no means fluently. Learnt German at school, but lost most of that by not using it. I understand some Italian, a little Flemish. And Norwegian and Swedish written , but not always spoken.
As in, I can read a Norwegian book, but would struggle with a film .
 
I speak in English. Although my national language is Bahasa Malaysia which is taught in school and I can speak fluently in Bahasa too. I'm Chinese , however Mandarin is only thought if one attend chinese school. Therefore, I hardly speak or write in Mandarin. But I can speak a bit of Mandarin. Chinese consist of many dialects , Mandarin being one of it. I can also speak in Cantonese and Hokkein (which is on of the many chinese dialect) .

I wish I could speak in Japanese and brush up my Mandarin as these two languages are wide used in the world now.
 
Strictly English for me, although I did take French in school. Just never did anything with it. My husband learned Spanish and daughter knows some Latin. Our second son knows Korean. And we have a grandson learning Spanish and a granddaughter who speaks Portuguese. When I met my husband my Dad told him that he could speak Spanish, too. "Taco, tostado, bean burro......." LOL :)
 
My daughter is starting Latin this year. She's doing a Latin workbook this summer since we've never studied it to kind of give her a base. Wowzer! I'm trying to learn some along with her. I've heard it's really good with helping to learn other languages.
 
My first language until age 3+ was Lithuanian as I lived with my grandparents during the final days of WWII.That's totally lost but I believe it prepared my ear for languages as I obviously learned English fast when my father came back after the war and that became our home language. In hs and college I had Latin and it certainly gave me a base for other languages. While we were never taught Greek we were given enough to also know many root words.

French in hs and college and I was an exchange student to Quebec in hs and got pretty good - by necessity - Canadian French. Years later when I visited a friend who was living way north of Quebec City, I could still converse. In France, my accent was considered atrocious. Now...mostly gone.

In later years, I lived in Thailand where I became pretty good in speaking Thai but without an ear for the tones. My chef/musician son had the tones down and was fluent from 3-6. In Iran I studied Farsi and unfortunately had only 6 months in country because I loved that language and was getting pretty good and also teaching myself to read it.

Arabic was a struggle which I easily gave up though listening to Egyptian Arabic on the tv, I found that much easier to grasp than the guttural Gulf Arabic.

Now I feel pretty good that I can understand most people South of the Mason Dixon line!
 
English only . . . and that's the Southern version. LOL

I did take three years of French in high school, but like everyone else in a similar situation, that knowledge disappeared over the years. Except for a dialogue from the French textbook between Phillippe and Marie and a Paul Verlaine poem . . . bwahahahaha
 
Just English for me. I never had a reason to learn another.
 
English only though I took a year of French in high school so have super limited knowledge of it now. Hoping to taking sign language classes now as the local library offers them.
 
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