Polyglots?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I believe Xamonas holds the record for most languages.

Only if you count fictitious languages.

I am the world's only fluent speaker of K'nirkish - although Ryokan has mastered a few of the basics.

Throgg'i t'nobruu ü.

[maiforpeace]

So, you are just a glot.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

So, you are just a glot.

I can be... for the right girl.

[kazzaqld]

Native language English (Australian version )
I can speak German quite well although I'm rusty...
Some French as well - but it's been a long time with that one too.

I am in awe of those of you with so many that you are capable of!

[Dr. Kwaltz]

Isn't Old Norwegian pretty much the same as Icelandic?

I see you edited as I was posting

Not quite.

The words and sentence structures are somewhat different, todays Icelandic is not using futark which traditionally was used with old Norwegian. Having a working grasp of Old Norwegian gives you a definite edge when it comes to understanding Icelandic, but it's not straightforward. But thanks to a lot of female nurses working at Oslo's largest hospital, I have.. ahem... expanded my horizon quite literally But that was a long time ago...

[Pappa]

I speak Welsh reasonably fluently, plus a little bit of French, a very basic understanding of Spanish and a few phrases in some other languages. I used to collect the phrases for "hello" and "how are you?" in as many languages as I could, but I've forgotten most of them now, and I think I probably pissed off some taxi drivers by trying to practice on them whilst drunk.

[fordo]

i mostly just grunt and use alot of hand jestures,

[Svartalf]

Isn't Old Norwegian pretty much the same as Icelandic?

I see you edited as I was posting

Not quite.

The words and sentence structures are somewhat different, todays Icelandic is not using futark which traditionally was used with old Norwegian. Having a working grasp of Old Norwegian gives you a definite edge when it comes to understanding Icelandic, but it's not straightforward. But thanks to a lot of female nurses working at Oslo's largest hospital, I have.. ahem... expanded my horizon quite literally But that was a long time ago...

Funny, Futhark never was used on a scale like real writing... good only for runestones and magic staves...
all the Sögur were written in an alphabet close to that used today (beside the buckle o having been replaced with an umlaut). and back in the 1200s, Norwegian and Icelandic were the same, except Norwegian changed and Icelandic hadly did.
(well, of course, I have basics in Islendisk, not enough tio read without a dictionary, but Zoega is your friend, but nothing in Bokmal or Nynorsk)

[Blitzkrebs]

I can speak German quite well, although I'm still thrown off by a lot of the little idioms in the language and when Germans speak too fast. Anybody who speaks German let me know - I need a language buddy! I also studied Arabic for roughly two years. Forgotten most of it.

[Beelzebub2]

I believe Xamonas holds the record for most languages.

Only if you count fictitious languages.

I am the world's only fluent speaker of K'nirkish - although Ryokan has mastered a few of the basics.

Throgg'i t'nobruu ü.

Ahh - Kleff - lobk'lob!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I believe Xamonas holds the record for most languages.

Only if you count fictitious languages.

I am the world's only fluent speaker of K'nirkish - although Ryokan has mastered a few of the basics.

Throgg'i t'nobruu ü.

Ahh - Kleff - lobk'lob!

Fung'p norp çiç liggl-tor-liggl'n.

[Chinaski]

Native language of English, plus Italian, German, and I'm going to count Swiss German as an extra language. Germans don't understand it.

[Svartalf]

Swiss Alemanic... it can count as a German dialect... problem is that it's not close to Classic German, belonging more closely with Swabia dialects spoken in Bade Wüttenberg from Stuttgart and the Black Forest down to Switzerland. Takes a lot of getting used to, due to their vocabulary and pronunciation quirks. Actually, any German speaker should be able to easily learn any of the variants from Germany, Switerland, Austria, Elsass-Lothringen or Norther Italy... it just takes getting used to every individual dialect's quirks of usage and pronunciation... not saying that Alemannic Swith is the easiest though... it's been evolving in complete independance from the rest of German since the middle ages...

[pearlgirl]

German, Spanish, and Kiswahili.

[Pendu]

English, Punjabi and Hindi.