If you're a native English speaker, it's hard to find the motivation to learn another language. You can get along almost anywhere just on English and foreigners will usually be more interested in practicing English with you ahead of helping you practice whatever foreign tongue interests you.

Nevertheless I think it was worth it. I acquired Spanish fluency as an adult and the experience continues to enrich my life.

Spanish is a good choice for English speakers because it's the world's second most widespread language. It's also fairly regular and overlaps some English vocabulary.

But you should, if you can find the time, try to learn at least one foreign language in your life, even if your first is the world's new lingua franca.

C, objective C, python

Technically, I know java, but after this semester, I'm done being forced to use it.

oh, I'm also fluent in English.

English and Portuguese!

(I speak spanish well enough to have a conversation, but I wouldn't say I'm fluent. Got a 5 on the AP test in high school, but if you don't use it you lose it. :( )

Galician (a variant of Portuguese -- or vice versa, historically), English and Castillian ("Spanish"), which I've never used much, but know better than 90% of natives, since I live bombarded with it in a diglossic country.

English and other (Hebrew).

Spanish - Native English - Fluent (with a spanish/texan accent) Mandarin - Enough to get around in Beijing Brazilian Portuguese , yes, but heavily mangled with Spanish

Hmm Slovenian, Croatian, English and German. As for computer languages I know C++ and AS3 fluently and many other not so fluently :)

(Note: are comments about individual languages mix relevant at all?) -> me : Spaniard, college in Italy, living in the Bay Area.

To those who are fluent in Mandarin: did you learn from your parents, from school/private language lessons, or all by yourself?

Lithuanian, English, Russian. I can understand Polish and speak a bit, but I am afraid this does not count as fluent :)

English and Marathi (guess I'm the only one)

I speak English, Hindi, Tamil and a South-Indian dialect of Marathi. One of the advantages of growing up in a multi-lingual house.

no you are not

likewise :)

I speak Thai quite good, but still would hesitate to say I'm fluent...

Otherwise, I speak mainly American English ;)

Fluent in English. Tamil is my mother tongue, but alas, I can't say I'm fluent in it.

Japanese and English. Living in Japan for 10 years helps with your Japanese.

Bulgarian (living in Canada)

English, Dutch, and some German, Frisian, Swedish, Italian and Czech. :+

English and bad English

English and Malayalam.

I also expected a poll on computer languages.

I selected "Other" for Hebrew.

English and Swedish.

Same here. Was an exchange student in Sweden for a year. What a great country!

Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin... :)

German and Italian (English is on the way ;)

Working on Norsk, along with others...

Russian, English, Norwegian, Swedish

English, Russian, Hebrew, Spanish

Czech

that makes us two :-D

And we are also fluent in Slovakian :)

And we, Slovaks, are fluent in Czech ;)

Dutchie living in Aus.

American living in NL

English and Afrikaans

Turkish and English.

English and Malay.

Hindi, English

Esperanto

Hebrew

russian go! go! go! :)

English, French, Hindi + Creole + Bhojpuri :p

C++

You do not speak C++ fluently. If you did, you would know that ++C is faster in some circumstances and is generally to be preferred. :-)

Actually, C++ is more likely to be faster than ++C, since C++ allows for greater instruction-level parallelism (the increment can be done later rather than being part of the critical path).

Hrm... I suppose the C++ FAQ lied to me: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/operator-overloading.h...

That has absolutely nothing to do with the language.

It was a joke (and judging by the reaction, apparently not a good one).