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As suggested by IvanTih

English and only english. Since I'm American, they didn't stress the importance of other languages in school... Although I did stay in Spanish until I was a senior, it was a breeze because the teachers did next to nothing when it came to the actual language. I tested out of it for college... that's good I guess.

English, Korean, Japanese.

I speak english and bad english.

AMERICA FTW.

Does a language that i can write but not speak count?
Otherwise its two.
(haven't voted yet...)

I can carry a simple conversation in german and french.

My spanish teacher sucked, so I never learned anything.

I am always amazed by people who can learn multiple languages as I have trouble talking coherently in one.

English + Greek. Thanks ancestry.

Finnish + English + Swedish. Could not add German with good conscience since it is really rusty after 10+ years of disuse.

I speak Swedish as mothers tongue, and fluent English for obvious reasons Also my Spanish is not that shabby
since the missus is from Latin America

//Edge

English, Russian and Farsi. Military necessity.

Faroese (about 60000 people total speak this, but I´m from the country so hah)
Danish (second language)
English (school)
Swedish (midway between faroese and danish)
Norway (very similar to swedish)

So five, that I can speak well.Take that, Holland!

english and german(because of school)

English + French + German, but I'm not probably European.

English is my main language.
I also speak pig-Latin fluently.

Other than that, I speak very basic Spanish.

Languages I've learned minimally are Greek, Latin, and Japanese.

English (birth language) +German (school) + Afrikaans (cultural but I only know a few words)

Two. English and Persian Farsi. As stated earlier by another, out of military necessity.

The poll specified 'conversational level' so I selected only one. However, I do know a smattering of other languages. I could survive (order at a restaraunt, count out money, find the hotel and bathroom) in Spanish, French, and Japanese.

1, though I'm slowly learning French.

I voted two. English is my native language and I've taken a few years of German. The instruction was crap and I've forgotten most of what I once knew, so I'd only give myself half a language, for that. Most of the mechanics come relatively naturally, but I have the vocabulary of a 5 year old. The other .5 comes from Old English, which is rather like Latin in that A) it is dead as a doornail and B) no one really "speaks" it (that is, composes in it), even within the discipline - grasp of the language is judged by ability to read, comprehend, and translate.

So 1 for English, .5 for enough German that I'd be damn near fluent after half a year there, but currently forget words like "year" for hours at a time, and .5 for having translated half of Beowulf and several thousand collective lines of assorted Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose, but never having a reason to speak it again, as I likely won't be tested on my pronunciation by a professor ever again (unless a kindly Dakkaite would like to put me through grad school). That makes 2. 2.5 if you're willing to count Middle English as well, but it runs the gamut from almost-modern (barely worse than Elizabethan or "that Shakespeare crap") to nigh unreadable.

English and a decent amount of Polish. I grew up in a house with polish grand parents. Don't ask me to write it though. I also had German all through High School and speak enough of medical spanish to get me by since I work in anemergency department in New Jersey that is located with lots of farms that have a good migrant worker population.

Three - I'm probably a European
Four - I'm very likely a European

I LOL'd. Come on, some people doesn't know even their own language, European or not.

English quite eloquently and I could find my way around a Latin American country with my Spanish. I want to learn German due to ancestry, hence my screen name("BloodIronRule").

English is my native language, and school has managed to teach me a bit of German

dutch ( from belguim so...)
englisch
french
and i can handle myself in german...

Bosnian, Swedish, English, and I understand Spanish but cant speak it very well.

Oh yeah, and I speak crappy German too. (Thanks for that, Inglorious Basterds Movie)

EDIT: Can understand Norwegian and Danish too, ofcourse.

EDIT 2: And I can speak Serbian and Croatian without problems too.

So 5 fluid and 4 ''a little''.

Yeah, I'm European

Every last person on this board can speak nerd, so that's +1 to everyone's spoken language count!

FYI AFAIK thats what the TO and TFG told me at the GW that hosted that TAC APOC GT last week.

Once upon a time, three, but 15+ years of not using German and 30+ years of not using French pretty much lowered me to one these days.

I speak English(birth), Irish(school and the place I live), German(enough to speak), Frence(school aswell) and beginning to learn Spanish(holiday)

English, French, German, Dutch and Afrikaans