How Many Languages Do You Know?

i can only imagine what it must be like to write in chinese or japanese...so many charachters to choose from!

It's not really a matter of choice, to be exact. Each character, though it may be the same word, has a different meaning applied to the word. That's the hard part.

Believe it or not but I forgot Chinese so I'm down to 1

When I was a kid I lived in Malaysia where I learned Chinese, then I moved to the UK and forgot it when I went threw primary school.

That's actually alot of people's problems. They learn a language when they're young, but they don't actually apply it for most of their life. So, it's forgotten. I had to apply all 3 of my known languages for most of my life, so I retained the information. But talk about schizophrenia... I hear myself think in 3 different languages sometimes. It's scary. Haha.

haha that must be pretty weird, when I moved here my mum (Whos Malaysian) tried to speak it to me to keep it in my head but I didnt bother since no one else spoke it and I just forgot. But now my English is much better than hers but I understand its because she thinks in Chinese then translates it into English so her sentence structure e.t.c can be pretty weird at times (Unless you can think in Chinese too )

I speak English, some Spanish and some Dutch.

I need to learn to speak Dutch better, Holland is my home country.

I am trying to start and think in Spanish, being in my third year of it, I know everything but the pluperfect including the subjunctive mood. It's weird too, because sometimes, I'll start to think in a mix and continue, and then have to switch my brain over back to English.

A few summers ago, I studied the Russian Alphabet, and some words, and on the first day of my second year of Spanish, the teacher asked me, in Spanish, if I was in Spanish 2, and I replied "Da", which is Russian for yes. I was pretty embarassed, thus finding a seat and hoping that people would stop laughing .

Since I was born and raised in Germany I'm fluent in german , apperently I speak english as well ,and after a few shots of Vodka I'm told that I speak gibberish as well