Finnish, English, Swedish. And no matter what language i use, people (including myself) usually miss the point of what i'm saying. \o/

I want to speak spanish.
I bought a tshirt at a ska-p (spanish ska/punk band) and it has an album title on it, saying 'que corra la voz' and I want to know what it means

babelfish isnt really elping, 'the voice that runs' or something

so I think it's something like 'spread the word' xD

literally it'd be "may the voice run" (run around, be heard)
the voice would be... yes, the word, the news...

awesome

the picture on the tshirt is a cat that has a megaphone, and jumps out of a newspaper, so it'd fit in the context ^^

Oh wow... can I use you to translate a few songs from Gaelic to German/English someday?

Yea I know I'm not the one this is said too, and I don't speak thát many languages as Malferatu, but I can tell you: it definitely does!

Languages broaden you view of everything so much. Firstly it's like a key to foreign cultures. Even when foreign people talk English and tell you everything about their culture, there's still a lot you don't know. It's hidden in the language, I guess, and I know it sounds vague, but I can't explain it better. And of course, knowing a foreign language makes you be able to read books, see movies and hear music in that language too, and I think these are things that tell a lot about cultures as well. Of course some books are translated, but in translations there is always something missing as I said before, and not all books are translated.

Secondly: you have só much more choice of everything! For example with books, music and movies as I mentioned. When you know foreign languages, you are not dependent on translators anymore, which means you can view/read/hear a lot hidden works, which in my opinion are mostly better than the translated (which are usually the more known, the popular works) ones! And with music of course, you can listen to a Finnish singing band when you don't understand Finnish, because music is a language itself, but still I think that understanding the language in which they're singing makes the music even nicer!
And and and, for example you can visit music sites in a foreign language, and that way you can see what's going on in that country. That's actually how I discovered Poets of the Fall, so that means, that if I hadn't known Finnish, I probably wouldn't have known Poets of the Fall! and this way I discovered a lot of other foreign bands too.

And finally: languages allow you to be critical. What I always do, is when I find an article in Wikipedia, I first read it in Dutch, my native language. Bút when it's something important, I check as well the German and English (or other) equivalents, to see what these countries have to tell about it. As well for studies it's very useful to know languages, since you have many scientifical resources to choose from then. I really take advantage of that

Wow what a long post, sorry but I just wanted to say this, haha I love languages.
And oh yes, I'm the topic starter btw, but I changed my username for some reason, so I've already told which languages I speak

I speak English and Norwegian fluently, and Ive learned German for 4 years, but I don't think I speak it that well. I wa skinda forced to learn it. I've been talking to people from The Netherlands for over 3 years, so my Dutch is better than German.
I can also understand Danish, Swedish and Icelandic.

I can speak finnish (My mother tongue), english quite fluently , plus swedish and german.

I wish it would be possible to study japanese or chinese at my school, but no.

I can't speak :
Romanian (mother tongue)
English (obviously)
French (just know how to read and to speak, not that good....I don't actually like it, I'm just learning because it's obligatory in school)

I would love to learn German and Finnish (for 3 weeks I'm trying to learn a little but)

I speak Polish and English (poorly...).
I learn Russian and learned Germany.
And I'd like to learn Finnish.

Dutch, English and german (really bad...)
I would like to speak Japanese, just because I love that language. And I want to visit Japan someday, and they don't know much English
Also I would like to speak English every day, it's just a beautifull language.

I speak and write fluently:

Spanish : My first language since I've lived in Venezuela since age three.
French : I was born in France, but ironically, I'm better at Spanish and English
English : It's the universal language, and mandatory in my college.
Hebrew : It was mandatory in my school. And yeah, I'm a Jew, so it comes handy. xD
Italian : Learned it in college and by listening to it constantly. There's a big Italian community in Venezuela.
Portuguese : Basically, same situation as Italian.
Yiddish : It's (practically) a dead tongue. But I really like it.

I don't completely suck at:

German: I'm still in a learning process.
Ancient Greek: As a read in a previous post, it's a 'holiday language'. Although I'd like to now more.
Portuguese (From Brazil): Very similar to Portuguese (From Portugal) and, a lot of the words are the same as in Spanish.

I'd love to learn:

Arabic : I can say a few words, but can't read it AT ALL!
Finnish : I only know the basics to survive in there without starving myself to death. But when speaking with a native (they speak quite fast) I don't understand a word.
Russian : I love the sound of that language!

Yes, it's more along the lines of spread the word.

By the way, be careful with the messages in Ska-P's merch. They can be quite... Hmmm.. revolutionary and different.

I speak Latvian, Russian, English, a some sentences in Ukrainian, some sentences in Estonian and Latgalian(dialect of latvian language)

I speak:

German - Native
Low German - I understand more than I can talk..since my granparents used to speak it a lot..and especially I love when people speak the Hamburg "accent" ^^
English - Quite well I guess ^^

I'd love to learn:

Finnish - I already know a few things...usually in other conversations I only understand a few words without getting a real context..beside the basic stuff of course. ^^
Well,till now it's enough to "survive" a shopping tour..anyway I'd love to speak a lot more. Not only the bad language. Which some band guys like to teach you when you're there and tell them you're german. ^^ Well,sometimes we do the same with them,too.

I speak:
Swedish
Finnish
English

I have studied German for 2 years and one year Russian so I don't speak them yet, at least not good..

I would like to learn at least:
Japanese
Icelandic(?)

Why? Because I like the Japanese popculture (games, manga and so on..). I've planned to move to Iceland.

I speak
Azeri
Turkish
Russian
English
But i wanna learn Spanish

Hmm... I was convinced I had posted in this thread already...

Finnish - mother tongue
English - fluent
French - fluent
Swedish - fluent (grammar's a bit rusty though)
German - can't say fluent but I would survive in Germany lol.

I have also done basic studies on Latin and Russian (up to the point where I can read the language but not know what it means ) so really can't say I speak either of them! I would love to continue studying both.

There is not a language in the world I would not want to speak, they are all interesting Especially all rare and dying kinds, such as Sami, Irish, Welsh etc.

I speak: Spanish (it's my first language), English (very fluent), Hebrew (very fluent), French (I suck at pronouncing, but I can read and understand).

I'd like to learn: Arabic (I can understand a little, but I can't read it at all), German (Love the language, I can understand some), Finnish (I love the sound of it, even if I know very little... Actually, I just know most of the words that are normal for them, but can mean something hilarious in Spanish )

I speak spanish, english and some portuguese
I'd love to learn: Russian, german and latin

* Turkish (Main language.)
* English (Not fluent.)

I would love to learn Finnish and Russian.

To my great displeasure I only speak English because many public schools here do not promote learning another language till around the 8th grade. At this time most kids are of the age of 14 or 15 and for those that don't know usually the language center of the brain kind of shuts down making it much trickier to learn new languages. (This is why it is much better to teach languages to younger children)

I would love to learn:

Dutch and Italian.

There are a lot more but those are where I'd like to start.
I just want to travel to the Netherlands when i get a bit older.
I don't want to seem like an ignorant American that walks around saying "Hello, But by any chance do you happen to speak English?"

I'm a Malaysian.

1) Malay (Native)
2) English (As a second language write & talks quite fluently).
3) Can read and talk Arabic (As long I'm reading it 'real time').

Can speak & understand a little bit of Dutch, German, French and Italian but forgot really most of it (An advantage while living in Europe 20 years ago). and yes must understand a little bit of Chinese and Indian as living in Multinational country.

that's A LOT of languages
and many of these are even quite different from each others.

Dutch - Native
English
German - not perfect but I can understand most things

Russian, coz I'm from Russia and English.
I new some words and understand belorussian and ukaraine - they're like russian language.
At school for 1 year (XD) studied Czech, but all that I remember - it's 'pozor pes'

Want to study french, finnish languages.
Now I must learn latin and ancient Greek. donno how I'll do it in a few days...

Haha, funny how things change. I August 2008 I made a long list of languages I'd like to learn (and would if I were not so lazy). On that list, Finnish was last. Well, guess what: I have been learning Finnish for 1.5 years now. Granted, I still suck at it, but it is a lovely and beautiful language and I am learning a little bit more every day. Hopefully I'll be able to actually have a conversation in Finnish soon (a simple one anyway).

Oh and I forgot to mention that I understand (but don't really speak) Koelsch (that is the dialect spken in and around Cologne. My dad's from the area so I got to hear it quite often when I was still living with my parents.

@Tru3L0g1c you almost make it sound as if it were impossible to learn a language once you are not a child anymore.
Fear not, if I can do it, you can. I'm 37 now and picking up something new is certainly not as easy as it was 20 years ago, but it does work. All you need is a little patience and lots of practice.

By the way: welcome aboard