Are you multilingual?

Well I can speak English, Cantonese (horrible), and Mandarin (horrible).
I'm pretty sure if I talked to a Chinese person fully, I'll just say "I don't know what you're saying; sorry my Chinese is bad."

I learned all of them from my mom first and was pretty fluent but slowly drifted more onto English when I went to school.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
Well, only 2 if i have to be speaking the language myself, 4 if it only requires me to be able to understand and communicate with the native speaker.
Which languages?
-Danish
-English
-Swedish(I can speak very little swedish myself, but i understand swedish perfectly fine unless it's some obscure accent)
-Old Norwegian(Same as swedish, i speak very little myself, but i understand it just fine to have 5 minute conversations)

How did you acquire these languages?
Danish is my native tongue.
English was basically self-taught from video-games, i got the more grammatical aspects of it from education but overall i learned english from vidya.
Swedish and Norwegian is simply due to how similar they are to danish, i mean i have a lot of swedish family that i talk to with them speaking swedish and me speaking danish, and we communicate perfectly fine.

I've also recent considered trying to learn another language, i am very fascinated by languages and i would've continued learning french if it had been possible at where i was studying post 9th grade.
The languages i've considered trying to learn are Chinese, Russian or Japanese.
Chinese is simply due to how big i personally expect that language to become in the future.
Russian is because it sounds cool as pineapple.
And Japanese is because there is a lot of untranslated things i want to read.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?*
2

Which languages?
Japanese (native)
English (uk)

How did you acquire these languages?
I was born in Japan and learned a lot of it from my parents before we moved to Europe. I still use it daily. My written is rather poor however.

English came from growing up mostly in the uk and from online games. Still make errors from time to time.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
2

Which languages?
- Spanish (native)
- English

How did you acquire these languages?
I learned Spanish with magic. And video games taught me English. No really, I actually used dictionaries while playing video games. And then I "polished it" when computers and Dial-Up internet became a thing. And then cable TV also became a thing, and I kept expanding my vocabulary and improving my understanding of spoken English by watching HBO stand up comedies with subtittles (I was a naughty naughty teenager).

And I guess I can also attribute some of it to PUBLIC SCHOOL ENGLISH EDUCATION to a certain degree... But I could swear that every single English class I ever took was the same. Are you still teaching me subject and predicate at high school? pomegranate.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker? Two.

Which languages?

• English
  
• Chinese
  

How did you acquire these languages?
English is Singapore's primary language used for... basically everything, even though we have three other official languages.

And Chinese is supposedly my mother tongue, that I'm forced to learn under the government's bilingualism policy.

My parents are both from Shanghai, so I speak a little Mandarin and Shanghainese, enough to have a five minute conversation at a basic vocabulary level. I also know enough French and Korean to pick up words here and there and make reasonable guesses at meaning. I learned those from classes.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
2

Which languages?
- Dutch (native)
- English

How did you acquire these languages?
Dutch I learned from birth. Both my parents are fluent in English (well above avarage for Dutch standards) and watch a lot of English spoken media. I've also had at least 5 years of mandatory English classes (may have had them before that, can't remember), which were very easy with video games, internet and TV to teach me. Right now I'm trying to completely get rid of my Dutch accent, which I somehow only lapse into when I'm speaking to a native English speaker (mostly accentless otherwise). I was also taught French (3 years) and German (2 years) at school but I forgot most of that. I can still understand German most of the time, and sometimes understand bits of French, but I wouldn't be able to keep up a conversation in either.

English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. Family speaks Cantonese, learned Mandarin in school in China. Fluent in speaking both, but my vocab has deteriorated. Learned English when I moved to Canada.

English & Spanish.

I'm dominican.

High-five.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?

Three.

Which languages?
- English
- Spanish
- Dutch

How did you acquire these languages?

I learned English from my surroundings and school, essentially. It became my native language.

Spanish is my secondary, learned when I went to visit family in the Dominican Republic when I was 5 and our flight back home was delayed a few months due to a powerful hurricane. My family could never understand a word I said (I spoke English over everyone's Spanish) so they basically said "pineapple it, we're teaching you." Then I continued learning through just speaking with my mother.

Dutch is my elementary + high school language; everything was taught in Dutch, except for English classes.

Danny wants me to vote but I doubt I could hold a five minute conversation in English.

Danny wants me to vote but I doubt I could hold a five minute conversation in English.

I barely can either and it's the only language I know.

2.

English, Malay.

Malay is for when im speaking to family members, and English(or singlish rather) is the lingua franca, even with malay people i dont know.
We also study both in school so... :|.

3. English, Japanese and Engrish. fluent in all three.

[MENTION=1]Fiel[/MENTION]; I just noticed you didn't answer.
I know you're multilingual but I don't remember how you acquired them (or if you ever wrote about it).

I speak English and Bengali. Bengali is my native language, English I learned in school. I used to be able to speak French, Spanish, and Arabic, but that's gone down to being able to understand French and being able to make noise in Arabic.

[MENTION=753]Taku[/MENTION]; Out of curiosity, which variety of Engrish might this be?

I can only converse fluently in both English and Malay, the former as we learned it in schools and I've been exposed to it since I was a child, the latter as it's our country's official language and I supposed having an extra language to use helps when you know people who might not know English can use Malay to talk to you. It was the only way I could converse with my late grandmother as she didn't attend an English school in her time and thus only knew Mandarin and Malay.

1) If "passed German 1 with an A" counts as knowing language, then yes, yes I am.

2) ...German...

3) ...at school...in a class...

[MENTION=753]Taku[/MENTION]; Out of curiosity, which variety of Engrish might this be?

LOL I was just joking around. I've been living back and forth from Tokyo to Hawaii since i was a little kid so I became a native speaker in both and adopted the Japanese way of speaking English; like not being able to pronounce some words correctly. Pretty much I can act like a tourist from Japan and troll everyone in the streets of Waikiki.

I can hold a pretty great conversation in Korean. My ex and I mostly communicated in Korean. I can also communicate in Japanese, but not nearly as effectively as in Korean. I love that I speak all these Asian languages but I don't know Spanish (I'm half Mexican/white.) It throws people off. I self-studied Korean, studied abroad in Korea, and also took two years of it in college; I took another two years of Japanese after that.

English now. I used to speak marathi about a 12 years ago, but lost it...