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What's yer favourite language?
I can speak: Urdu, Punjabi, English and a little bit of German, French, Arabic and Spanish.
My favorite language is Urdu. It's more friendly than English and not so harsh.
My second favourite langauage is Punjabi. It's a slang version of Urdu.

well i know Dutch, English and some German.
and well my fave is my own language Dutch.

a language i want to learn is Japanese.

the one and only russian

I can speak Dutch, English, German, French and Japanese, but my favorite language is English

I can speak what you ask me to. My fav language is Swahili probably.

Hm.. I keep getting the feeling that this has been up before....

Anyway, my favorite languages are English and Swedish, as it's the only ones I can use without feeling held back or restricted by a limited vocabulary.

I'd however love to improve my german, which in it's current state is far from fluent.

I can only speak Chinese and a little English,but I hate English,because of the exam...

English is the only language I speak fluently but I like and enjoy it anyway, even not knowing anything to properly compare it to.

I do like listening to people speaking other languages even if I haven't a clue what it means though

I have to admit that I've quickly fallen in love with Mandarin and Cantonese since starting studies and becoming friends with lots of Chinese-speakers.

It's a fascinating and unique language once you get into it. I also find Hebrew interesting. I love me some German too, so if this was a Facebook quiz I'd be a Yiddish Chinese....

English is the only language I speak fluently but I like and enjoy it anyway

Oh good, I thought I was the only one. I took French for a while in high school. I doubt I can speak much of it now. In college and grad school I took ancient Greek and Hebrew, but only to read them, and I'll even need to relearn those if I want to do that well. I should probably relearn French and learn German, and then I'll know the six theological languages.

I feel sorry for people who have to learn English, which is most of the world, it seems. It's a very inconsistent language. But it does give native English speakers a lot of chances to teach it overseas.

I know Irish, Polish. and English-of course, i know Polish coz I AM Polish. My fav is Eng. coz its easy alot.

My fav is Eng. coz its easy alot.

That's nice to hear.

So you speak cat?

I speak Draconian.

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Let's see, there's Earthkin Common, there's Draconian, Dronaean, Wolf, Draconic, Terran Common, ect...

I speak Dutch, English, (some) German and French and a little Esperanto. Dutch and English are nice, because I know them well enough to have a decent conversation. However, I think Esperanto is better for international communication, because it's not a native language for anyone, so everyone has similar trouble speaking it and understands that others have this trouble. Especially the latter is something I miss with some Americans. They just don't understand that speaking English can be hard for some people. Still, they aren't too good at it themselves. Ah well...

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Ooh, Esperanto. I thought about learning that once. Is it widely used though? Have you used it to talk with people, and where did you find them?

Is Esperanto Sim talk?

It's not widely used, but the people who use it are all over the world and welcoming. There is a system similar to couchsurfing where you can stay with people if you speak it. Using that system, you can travel and stay with people who like to show you around etc.

I don't really speak it yet, though, and haven't used it except with the local Esperanto club people. But I do very much like the idea of equality in a conversation with it.

Interesting! I'll have to look into that.

English is simple enough (still making spell mistakes though ), why complicating things? On the other hand, most of Esperanto is based on Europian languages. But if you put Chinese words in it, how are you going to write them down?

Tooth: The point is not that it's simple (although it is), but that it's a second language for everyone. With English, when I speak to an Englishman, I am learning his language and he isn't learning mine. That's not an equal situation. The point is also not that it has words from every language (although that is probably intentional, and indeed Zamenhof only knew European languages, so used those). There is no need to add Chinese words, and certainly not to write them in Chinese letters. It's bad enough that there are letters such as ĥ and ŭ in it.

Ruista ranteeseen perkele ja muita kieliä opettelemaan, engelsmannit!

I like Chinese. I'm trying to learn Chinese. This Esperanto scheiße der stier is as bad as Americans who think that they are the best. Is it any more "equal" then making a language composed of Japanese, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil etc? For true equality of language, refer to assembly language.

Schnapper: No, in fact a new language composed of more than only European sources would be better. But pragmatically, Esperanto is the best option there is. It isn't popular enough to be considered successful; designing a new language which is even more idealistic and with even less people learning it (I expect) would be a waste of time.

Actually, learning Esperanto isn't that useful either, due to the limited number of speakers. But that doesn't mean I can't like the idea.

I vote Hebrew!

Hebrew was painful for me to learn. Hmm, maybe I should've studied more. ... But Greek was much easier.

Arabic, because of it's letters.

It's a nice idea, but ironically, I think the good things about Esperanto will only last as long as the language remains obscure.

If Esperanto became widespread, the equality of speakers would be first to go, as people would teach it to their children as a primary language (Actually, some people who speak Esperanto natively supposedly do exist ).

Also, in constant usage the language would (d)evolve, developing its own arbitrary grammatical rules and whatever other problems are associated with all living languages in the world.

I'll stick to speaking Gibberish. Aspfkaspfkpf laspöifdjp qkdpösak, k öl pöald!