What languages do you speak?

[redchild]

I grew up with Cantonese and English at the same time but my Cantonese has pretty much stunted as I started going to school so now it's reduced down to almost nothing as I speak almost exclusively in English. I can still understand basic conversations but forming sentences of my own is difficult. My pronunciation is slow and pretty watered down ("Americanized") but it's still understandable.

I learned some simplified Mandarin back in high school but my skills are horrendous as I don't practice. Stuff on tv goes by too fast for me to process. I can understand really (really really) basic conversations and maybe guess at a restaurant menu (an English translation helps but if there is none I just pick whatever I'm familiar with.) My pronunciation is terrible as I can't remember the correct tones with which word so I'm afraid of saying the wrong thing.