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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

[Acanthus117]

Hot damn. I've always wanted to do that.

[RedKing]

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.

I can't stand the way French people speak French.
Their accent is so arrogant and pretentious.
French with, say, a Germanic accent is actually pretty awesome.

And the French should be used to hearing it with a German accent, as many times as they've surrendered to Germany. 

[Il Palazzo]

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.

I can't stand the way French people speak French.
Their accent is so arrogant and pretentious.
French with, say, a Germanic accent is actually pretty awesome.

And the French should be used to hearing it with a German accent, as many times as they've surrendered to Germany. 

Cut to Napoleon and WWI.

[SanDiego]

Foreign languages? Well, I'm pretty good at english.. wait, you meant foreign to you. Ah. I'm a native speaker of the great and beautiful Czech language (and as such I'm able to pronounce several vowel-free sentences and boast about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk ), I know a bit of german, I can order a beer in Spanish, I dabble in latin and I can slowly read ancient greek.

[ChairmanPoo]

I saw a documental of National Geographic once, in which a guy traced human migrations through languages. He started off with bosquiman, which he said was the oldest language (and the only one to use clicks in it) and went eastward towards asia and finally native americans

[RedKing]

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.

I can't stand the way French people speak French.
Their accent is so arrogant and pretentious.
French with, say, a Germanic accent is actually pretty awesome.

And the French should be used to hearing it with a German accent, as many times as they've surrendered to Germany. 

Cut to Napoleon and WWI.

I see your one win and one stalemate, and raise you a Franco-Prussian War and WWII. Series record: 2-1-1 in favor of Germany (we'll call WWI an overtime loss for Der Deutschesreich).

And this is all, of course, tongue-firmly-in-cheek. 

I saw a documental of National Geographic once, in which a guy traced human migrations through languages. He started off with bosquiman, which he said was the oldest language (and the only one to use clicks in it) and went eastward towards asia and finally native americans

Uh, that sounds like a poorly done documentary. There's no definitive "oldest" language, nor has linguistic evolution been linear, and there's a number of African languages with clicks in them. And I've hever heard of Bosquiman.

[SanDiego]

Probably even the primitive hominids had some kind of primitive language to communicate in.

[Dwarf]

All languages spoken in most of Europe and Iran can be tracked back to Proto-Indo-Puropean.
The asiatic languages have other languages.

However, it is probably virtually impossible to go further back. Already the Proto-Indo-European language is a lot of guesswork and reconstruction.

[DJ]

Except those damn Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian.

[RedKing]

And Basques. And the Turks. And the Etruscans.

And then there's the Afroasiatic family (including the Semitic languages), which is as old or older than the Indo-European tree. And is utterly unrelated to Sino-Tibetan.

Bottom line: Ogg not invent language in one place and spread over world, because modern humans didn't all develop in one little cave in East Africa somewhere and then spread out. Precursor species had already spread geographically long before modern Homo sapiens developed language.

[Dwarf]

Well I meant most languages. Really, I'm not trying to retcon in my favour...

But yeah, basically what RedKing said.
The reconstructed proto-indo-european is, quoth the wikipedia, not practically usable to say as much as a sentence.

[Karnewarrior]

So, general consensus, I'm the only person here who can only speak one language?

[Dwarf]

Yu r ze amerikan sterotoip

[Heron TSG]

Yu r ze amerikan sterotoip

Is that the stereotype nowadays? Most colleges in the U.S.A. want only students who are fluent in at least two languages.

[Vector]

Yu r ze amerikan sterotoip

Is that the stereotype nowadays? Most colleges in the U.S.A. want only students who are fluent in at least two languages.

"Fluent?"  Don't make me laugh.  Getting a 5 on Lit + Lang AP test for French/whatever does not fluency make.