How many Languages.....

[crawdiddy]

Neither do I understand what 'installed' is supposed to mean in this connection. I do regularly communicate in Norwegian (my mother tongue)/Danish & Swedish, English and German. Here in Norway you learn two foreign additional languages - before university studies. I had German and English. Today you can even choose Mandarin, Russian etc. etc.

How is this with you Americans, do you learn any foreign languages at school (through high school) at all?

Olsen, you are correct-- Americans tend to be somewhat insular as far as foreign languages. We don't have as much fluency in foreign languages as europeans. Probably not so good at geography either.

But yes, people in the U.S. actually DO learn other languages in high school. Me? Some French in high school and college, and some Spanish on the streets. Also Pig Latin from Elementary school.

And when you say "on your computer," I'm not sure what you mean. I have 30+ mainframes at work, with many languages on them. Many have Unicode as an installed feature. But of course, Unicode will be a standard FMID on z/OS 1.9.

 

[hiorgos]

Español and 日本語.

 

[akptc]

I would like to install French on an XP laptop that I am configuring for my Dad but sometimes the laptop wakes up in French and sometimes in English. I do dislike MS Windows OS with passion

 

[jonmanjiro]

My work PC, and two home PCs are installed with the Japanese language version of Windows XP, and I can type in Japanese, English, Chinese (simplified and traditional). All other languages seem to display properly as well.

 

[varjag]

English/Norwegian, Russian and Belarussian layouts here.

My peeve with standard Norwegian/bokmål layout is that for some odd reason many of non-alphabetic characters, e.g. [] (), are dislocated from where they are on U.S. English layout. It still mostly resemble it, but different enough to screw my muscle memory.

 

[shimokita]

The office laptop is Japanese including the keyboard layout. I have set the screens and applications to English and I normally disable the IME function. The home computer is Japanese OS, keyboard, etc and fixing configuration/ security problems is a bear. My personal computer is only English. Work related is mostly done in English, German, Japanese, Korean, s.Chinese, t.Chinese, Tai, and Vietnamese. All three computers have different OS and application versions.

Surprisingly the Japanese keyboard is not a problem when typing in English as I stopped looking at my fingers some years ago. The only real problem is the split space bar that keeps shifting me into another language… ;-)

clh

 

[bunkawen14]

I speak English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and a bit of a West African language called Twi. I've only got the first four installed on the computer, though.
Disclaimer: contrary to the poll's wording, an accumulation of languages has nothing to do with wisdom.