Are you multilingual?

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
I can speak four languages that I can hold a five minute or longer conversation with a native speaker in.

Which languages?
-My country native language
-Malay
-Arabic
-English

How did you acquire these languages?

From my everyday life. I use all of the languages above for my current job. I can understand Chinese a bit but I don't think I can hold a minute of conversation with it.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
4

Which languages?
French and English around the same level
Arabic less
Chinese spoken is pomegranate but messaging I'm pretty confident at because I don't have to pronounce the pineappleing 聲調。囧
How did you acquire these languages?
Parents are from Lebanon. Lebanon has two languages:Arabic, French. Lived most of my life in Quebec Canada( reinforced my french and picked up english there even though its a francophone province). Currently in China studying Chinese.

Edit~Also China has like a pineappleing pomegranateton amount of people with accents. Like every city, province, and autonomous region has its one accent and sometimes different ways of saying things. I'm more familiar with the northern part of China and their accents i suppose. I've heard in Shanghai chinese people sometimes encounter problems speaking to each other and resort to writing characters in the palm of their hand.

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

Which languages?
- French
- English

How did you acquire these languages?
Born French, learned English when I was about 11.

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.

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Totally the same as him.

I only know a few Malay words like; what and I don't know
My Chinese sucks big time though, don't think I can ever hold a 5 minutes conversation in Chinese....[/COLOR]

I'm fluent in English and Russian. Was born in Russia and my family speaks it, though I've lived in the US since I was 7 or 8. Hoping to tackle learning Japanese or perhaps German sometime in the near future, too.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
4

Which languages?
French and English around the same level
Arabic less
Chinese spoken is pomegranate but messaging I'm pretty confident at because I don't have to pronounce the pineappleing 聲調。囧
How did you acquire these languages?
Parents are from Lebanon. Lebanon has two languages:Arabic, French. Lived most of my life in Quebec Canada( reinforced my french and picked up english there even though its a francophone province). Currently in China studying Chinese.

Edit~Also China has like a pineappleing pomegranateton amount of people with accents. Like every city, province, and autonomous region has its one accent and sometimes different ways of saying things. I'm more familiar with the northern part of China and their accents i suppose. I've heard in Shanghai chinese people sometimes encounter problems speaking to each other and resort to writing characters in the palm of their hand.

I think what you're describing are the many, many dialects of Chinese that exist, of which each region practically has their own. Hehe.

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
Two, but on a good day three.

Which languages?
- English [Native]
- German
- French [On a good day]

How did you acquire these languages?
English was something I grew up with, so was German.
My family went to France many times as I was a child so I learned a lot of French with my grandparents along with everyone I met.

I think what you're describing are the many, many dialects of Chinese that exist, of which each region practically has their own. Hehe.

Theres the dialects alright haha. But what i meant is like the slight differences. Biggest one being between the north and the south. In the south they usually pronounce stuff like 車= Tse 知道= Zidao. In the north they add 兒 at the end of certain words. 打球兒 等等。People in the city I live say 四 and 十 almost the same way.

~China 2 big for just one language~

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

Which languages?
Finnish
English

How did you acquire these languages?
Finnish - native language
English - 10 years of English classes in school, but mostly games and internet. Learned first words at 5-6 years old playing pokemon. It really helps that movies and TV are always subbed, not dubbed (with the exception of kids ones) too.

I should be able to speak in Swedish, as that is also mandatory in Finnish schools, but I barely passed the courses. I'm not good with languages at all and if it wasn't for being a computer nolife, my English would probably be unreadable.

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 was the language I grew up with, and English classes are mandatory from fifth grade on. I've aquired most of my knowledge of English trough games and movies though.
I'm currently also studying Spanish, but I've only had four lectures so far.

Theres the dialects alright haha. But what i meant is like the slight differences. Biggest one being between the north and the south. In the south they usually pronounce stuff like 車= Tse 知道= Zidao. In the north they add 兒 at the end of certain words. 打球兒 等等。People in the city I live say 四 and 十 almost the same way.

~China 2 big for just one language~

I'm quite sure 车 being pronounced as tse is a dialect and not Mandarin..

And why are you typing using traditional Chinese? :o

How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
3

Which languages?
- English
- Tagalog
- Spanish

How did you acquire these languages?
My parents are both from the Philippines. I grew up speaking both Tagalog and English and never had trouble between the two. I'm not as good with Tagalog now since I don't speak it much anymore, but I still consider myself fluent minus some specific words.

I took Spanish for three years in elementary school and four years in high school. I used to practice it a lot when I took AP Spanish my senior year, but after that I kind of stopped paying attention to it. When I played S4 League I managed tournaments featuring international teams, and I would frequently have to speak Spanish over TeamSpeak, but that was two years ago. I don't really have trouble speaking Spanish now but I wouldn't say I'm fluent, definitely conversational if anything.