Writer's Block: Multilingual
Depends *quite* what you mean by speak. I definitely speak English, as it's my native language. At one point I knew enough Hebrew to make coherent sentences. Now I only recognize a few words and can say "I need to go to the bathroom" as well as read the letters (even if I don't understand what they mean). In high school I took French and I still retain a lot of that. Not enough to be completely coherent, but enough to understand and make sentences. I probably sound like a three year old, though. And then there's latin. I kicked some serious ass this year with Latin. But I don't know anything conversational. I can say the most random words. Mostly it's words about love and war. I don't think I learned how to say "hello" until second semester and though we knew "nomen" was name, we didn't formally learn it until the second to last chapter. I would be able to speak it if I took a very long time thinking about what I were saying (because Latin is such a freaking hard language with all its declensions and the verb conjugations and RULES) for a very long time. So at most, three, but more like one and a half with a working knowledge of another and a vague recollection of yet another.