Quote Originally Posted by bitpicker
Ah, and which others do you only write and read then?
Well, it's a complicated question. When you don't use a language everyday, you forget it. There was time when I chatted in German almost everyday through ICQ, but now I think I forgot much. However, I think I can more or less "fluent" read and write in English, Italian, and German. Without a dictionary, I can deal with simple phrases in Spanish and French; and with a dictionary, I can understand even more difficult texts. Same with Latin.
I also tried to learn Polish and Norwegian, but I have no time for them, so my knowledge of them is very very basical. However, I think I can understand simple phrase in Norwegian/Swedish since they both are similar to English and German, and in addition I know (if remember) some minimal grammar things of Norwegian. Why Norwegian? I'm just a fan of these three letters: Æ æ, Ø ø, Å å.
Polish, by the way, or rather its grammar seems very hard to me! (I can understand those who learn Russian!). I think I could read some very simple texts in Polish, but I don't think I'd be able to write anything in it correctly, meaning a right case of a noun or a verb form.
I could also add that I happened to read and translate teaching(is this a right word?..) texts from Ancient Greek (into Russian, of course) and passed many written grammar tests in it, and did it quite well; but it's true for the past tense only because now I remember almost nothing of the terrible Greek grammar and vocabulary and only recall them as a nightmare today.