The Elder Stats

Sorry for another one of these threads, but I've not seen one fail before (hmm...except when I make them)

But, anyway, what languages do you speak, and what dialects of them, if applicable? If, say, you speak Scots, and are from Aberdeenshire, then say Scots, Doric. Get me? You can use the categories I've used, or invent your own.

Native: Highland Gaelic, and the dialect is the Lewis-Skye mix that most of the Gaelic-speaking mainland now uses
Fluent: Scots, Doric: English: Irish, Connaught
Reasonable: Manx Gaelic, North: Saami, North
Badly: German, Bavaria: Brezhoneg: French
Might as well just grunt at the natives: Cornish: Welsh, Powys

Meh, I make it sound better than it is...

Well, being from the United States, I can speak fluent English and some Spanish. I have to learn Spanish if I want to keep up with the country as immigrants from Mexico continue to come over. It's not that it's a bad thing, but it's a good reason to learn Spanish.

Yeah, I am fluent with English and know enough Spanish to understand what people say.

I speak no English whatsoever. I am learning to speak German feverishly. I have to if I'm going to college there, eh?
Otherwise I speak maybe 50 words in French, I can count to 6 and say yes in Spanish. A few swear words in Yiddish and American Sign Language, and a few dozen words in a language I made up for a book I was writing a few years ago.

Future projects: Irish, more Germany.

It seems like a lot of Americans are learning Irish. Not the full eighty million Irish descendants over there, but a lot

Cactus wrote:I speak no English whatsoever.

Seems you are pretty fluent with it.

Maybe he can write English fluently but cannot speak it. I've heard of people like that with other languages before.

I only know English.
My encounter with other users of other dialects can be summed up me getting ice cream from the ice cream man.

It went like this:

*Me and my friend here the truck*
*Get our money*
*Run after the guy in Late July Southern Californian weather. IE, HOT. Blister feet*
*Chase for 4 blocks*
"HEY! WAIT"
*Ice cream man stops*
"I'd like that."
*Points*
*Friend follows suit*
"*Spanish gibberish*"
"Huh?"
"*Spanish*"
"English? Abla English?"
"No. *Spanish gibberish*sinco*gibberish*"
"Sinco?"
*Splits payment with fried*
*Walk back to house*
*Find my friend's 360 toppled over with his Dead Rising broken. By my dog*

It looked pretty strange seeing a white boy trying to speak Spanish. :/

The Spanish are white...

My encounter with other users of other dialects

I know the feeling. With Highland Gaelic, there are dialects for every island, and there are ninety islands that are permanently inhabited, a few hundred that are seasonally inhabited, and hundreds more than are uninhabited but the placenames on which may be unpronouncable in a different dialect to the island's own, extinct, one.

Most of the dialects on the mainland are replaced by a combination of the two largest insular ones - Lewis, courtesy of Radio nan Gaidheal, and Skye, courtesy of Sabhal Mor Ostaig. But there are no common words between the different areas of the mainland, because they still borrow different words and still manage to change them.

My other native language, Scots, has a smaller number of dialects, but each of them are drastically different, and are sometimes mutually unintelligible with each other - Gaelic and English are out of the equation!

Swedish,a very good english (says other) and horrible french,a few words german, spanish and thai. Count to three in finish and a litlle danish and norway (do no how to spell that)