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French

19 (10.5%)

Spanish

14 (7.7%)

German

18 (9.9%)

Russian

8 (4.4%)

Mandarin

9 (5%)

Italian

5 (2.8%)

Greek

3 (1.7%)

Czech

4 (2.2%)

Hindi

3 (1.7%)

Arabic

5 (2.8%)

Farsi

3 (1.7%)

Portugese

3 (1.7%)

Japanese

10 (5.5%)

Vietnamese

3 (1.7%)

Korean

4 (2.2%)

Turkish

3 (1.7%)

Hebrew

4 (2.2%)

Polish

7 (3.9%)

Dutch

6 (3.3%)

Pashto

3 (1.7%)

Creole (Haitian)

3 (1.7%)

Swedish

9 (5%)

Bulgarian

3 (1.7%)

Mongolian

4 (2.2%)

Swahili

3 (1.7%)

Other

25 (13.8%)

Total Members Voted: 70

[DJ]

Native Croatian speaker here. I also mostly understand German, but I couldn't put together a grammatically correct sentence in German if my life depended on it.

[Bardum Idith]

I speak English, Japanese, Sindarin, some Latin, and enough German to visit Germany.
I want to learn Russian, the North Germanic languages, and Arabic.

Mae govannen, mellon e lam edhellen 

[Cheeetar]

Ich sprechen die Deutsch (a little bit).

[Vester]

Hallo, Cheeetar! Ich haise Vester.

Tagalog, very little Latin, and very little German.

Also, English.

[Cheeetar]

On a semi-related note, does anybody know how to get the weird double-s symbol that sort of looks like a capital B?

[Myroc]

Swedish as my main language. Pretty much fluent in English, and my French is horribad.

[Bardum Idith]

On a semi-related note, does anybody know how to get the weird double-s symbol that sort of looks like a capital B?

You can write a character by holding down Alt, then typing its number on the numpad and releasing Alt afterwards. Somehow this number does not always equal the ASCII-value of a character, for example the number for ß is 225 on Windows, while it's ASCII-code is 223...
Some keyboard-layouts also allow you to write ß with AltGr+S, according to Wikipedia the US-layout does this.

[RedKing]

On a semi-related note, does anybody know how to get the weird double-s symbol that sort of looks like a capital B?

You mean this?: ß (it's called an Eszett)

There's Alt+key codes for it, but they don't seem to work here. I had to cut and paste.

[Pwnzerfaust]

I speak English and German. Deutsch ist ausgezeichnet.

[Dwarf]

Hallo, Cheeetar! Ich haise Vester.

Tagalog, very little Latin, and very little German.

Also, English.

Ob ich wohl ihre Papiere sehen könnte?

I love German. It is the language of... anger? I don't know, it sounds inherently rough.

[DJ]

Hasn't ß been replaces with ss?

[Vester]

According to my German prof, yes. But, how did you do that?

[Bardum Idith]

I love German. It is the language of... anger? I don't know, it sounds inherently rough.

The language of anger! You made me laught out loud 

Hasn't ß been replaces with ss?

In Switzerland and Liechtenstein, but not yet in Germany.

[Boksi]

I love German. It is the language of... anger? I don't know, it sounds inherently rough.

The language of anger! You made me laught out loud 

It's probably because of Rammstein, you know. But German sounds far better to my ears than French. Oh, the French. They don't even pronounce half of their letters, the wasteful twits.

[Dwarf]

Well, IMO Germanic languages are sounding veryily more awesome than romace languages (French, Italian, Spanish...)

The Eszett (ß) is, as the name implies, infact a ligature of s and z, and is used for the 'sharp' s's, IIRC.
It seems it is gradually being phased out by grammar reforms.