I speak English, French, Spanish and German. (I’ve studied Hebrew, Japanese and Russian, but I don’t keep them up.) I’ve found that knowing French and Spanish lets me understand the other Romance languages and respond in French or Spanish, so I can have slow but clear conversations. Same thing with the other Germanic languages - respond in German. Most of this happened in Europe, where I found people far more open to working with languages than in the USA.

I use to speak French fairly fluently but have had little practice in the past 10 years.

I always say only three, because I do feel that I should be able to learn, if given a regular life span, at least four.

Hahahahahaha!!!! You got to be kidding me ? I have a Native American mom and a Polish dad ! I had a Very hard time just understanding english .I had to teach myself to read ..And on top of that I see letters backwards ! I have to read everything 3 or 4 times …everything …I bet I am the first Polish Indian any of you have ever known ?

I’ve lived and worked in foreign countries much of my adult life. Ten years in Mexico made me fluent, I can get from Paris to the Dordogne with my College French, a year in China recently piqued my interest in learning more Chinese (but that’s a lifetime effort). But, like Frank, I think it’s going to be very useful some day soon.

I speak Spanish, English,French, Italian, German & Portuguese (brazilian) & now I’m trying my hand at Mandarin Chinese which is actually fun to learn, & it will be very useful in the coming years, I guess……

I suck. I speak one. But I speak about 1/8th of Spanish and intend to learn if that makes me suck less!

Being a New Yorker, I know a bit of Yiddish. I shelp all over New York. I schmooze with my friends. Had to listen to Palin’s spiel, and still can’t get over her chutzpah.

I speak English, and I also speak Ladino. Ladino is Judeo-Spanish. You can look it up if you don’t know.