IBM Code page 437. Fluently. With a little bit of
PETSCII thrown in for good measure...
O.K., O.K., computer jokes aside if you haven't guessed already I speak American English. Big surprise, right? Incidentally, everyone has their own personal strengths and weaknesses, and one of my many weaknesses happens to be learning to speak foreign languages. I could always pick up computer languages with relative ease, but when it came to taking French in high school I was an absolute disaster at it. I could figure out how to read and write French to some degree, but speaking it and understanding what was spoken to me was a whole other matter entirely! Honestly, I don't know how I was able to pass French I and French II-- I guess my performance on the written exams was just barely enough to keep me afloat because whenever I was asked an oral question by my teacher my stock answer was always
"Je ne sais pas!" 
On a more interesting note, last summer I was actually able to pick up reading Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics well enough to actually read some real Ancient Egyptian stone tablets to some degree. Those of you who are familiar with my writings on the
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 2 Discussion thread on this forum know that I absolutely love to deeply analyze things, and that I tend to take that task very seriously. In this case, I wanted to come up with an authentic Ancient Egyptian name for an Ancient Egyptian fictional anthro character that I was designing. When all of the lists of Ancient Egyptian names that I could find proved to not yield a name that was satisfactory for me, I decided that I would create my own authentic name. I learned from my research that Ancient Egyptian as a language was related to Hebrew, and just like with many Hebrew-derived names, Ancient Egyptian names could be made from phrases, such as my own real-life Hebrew-derived name "Daniel," which means "God is my judge." So I set out to make my own custom-tailored Ancient Egyptian phrase-name to suit my character, however before I could I had to learn how to actually make a phrase in Ancient Egyptian correctly, which involved learning vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, feminine suffixes, etc. Three Hieroglyphic-to-English dictionaries, many instructional websites, and a week of practice later and not only was I able to come up with a phrase-name for my character in properly rendered Ancient Egyptian, but I was able to read some of the photographed authentic Ancient Egyptian tablets that were provided by some hobbyist Egyptology websites to test my reading ability on. I thought that my being able to actually read something that was written thousands of years ago was very cool, and I was quite pleased with myself at the time. Of course it's not like you can find a way to use the ability to read Hieroglyphics everyday, so I have probably forgotten 90% of what I had learned already, but I suppose that I could always try to pick it up again if I ever really needed to. And the name that I came up with my character? Well, that's going to remain a
"sheta" (Hieroglyphic Transliteration "StA," meaning "secret") until I have finally settled on her final design and have drawn and published her!
