I only list the language that I am fully fluent in, which is Spanish. I don't list "hobby languages" that I've dabbled in, like French, German, and Mandarin. I am fully prepared to be put on-the-spot by someone who wants to test my Spanish fluency, and this has happened before. I spent many years learning Spanish so that I would be able to use it professionally, so I'm absolutely going to list it as a skill.

What's really annoying is that, even though I'm fluent in medical spanish, I am not certified. When I volunteer at a clinic that helps out a lot of underserved Hispanic patients, I'm talking in Spanish all the time. When I'm volunteering at the Big Corporate Hospital, I have to follow protocols and call in the medical interpreter when speaking to any Hispanic patients. The interpreters are often very confused when they walk in the room to hear me chatting with the patient, and then I switch to English and start speaking through them for the official business stuff.

Quote Originally Posted by boy in a kilt View Post
I speak engineer and scientist. That should be on a resume.
LOLZ!!!111!!! Oh hai, I speakz Lolcatz too!