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| Cunning Linguists Languages and their use. What languages do you speak and why? What do words really mean? Can you say things in one language that you can't say in another? Should there be a national language? How many languages should a person know and what are they? |
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2008-09-26, 08:23
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How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I'm relatively new to Cunning Linguists, and would like to get to know the regulars here a little bit better. Just list the languages you speak, with your level of proficiency.
First Language: English
Second Languages: Japanese (fluent, self-taught). Spanish (proficient, I'm Guatemalan, so I feel obligated to speak it).
I plan on being a translator/intepreter after college, I also have a natural gift for languages. I'm currently teaching myself Arabic and Korean as well.
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2008-09-26, 18:51
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Fluent in Spanish.
Can read/write/speak/understand French, though not fluently. I can watch a movie in french without subtitles and still understand most of it.
Am teaching myself Russian and Arabic. I lost interest in Japanese right around the time I started liking Mandarin. That's my future target. This would make me proficient 6 UN official languages, coincidentally, and I'm almost halfway there.
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# 3
2008-09-29, 01:11
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First Language : English (fluent)
Second Languages: French (above average), Arabic (fluent)
Learning : Russian 2%, Japanese 2% :- P
My dad's from North Africa and my mom's from south east asia precisely Filipino : - P , when I was a kid I could speak Tagalog fluently but as the time passed by I forgot it due to my parents getting separated and me staying with dad whom I would communicate with either in english or arabic .
I always like to learn new languages, anything that sounds different from english is acceptable accept french which I hate because of the grammar thing
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#4
2008-09-29, 21:07 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First language: American English (fluent)
Second Language: German (decent level)
Learning Russian so I can get into Ukranian, so I can visit Ukraine; I still don't know why I want to :|
I should probably learn French as I am French, but from what I hear the French are complete douchebags to you if you can't speak proper French. I wanted to learn some Korean and Arabic but the dialects made Arabic a tad useless for me and I've heard most Koreans would rather practice their English than speak Korean. I might learn some Mandarin and visit China.
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# 5
2008-09-29, 21:13
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In een kanker walvis.
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First language: Dutch
Fluent in english, proficient in german. I can mutter a few words in french, although I was forced to take it 3 years in highschool.
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2008-09-30, 05:49
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
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Originally Posted by Self Respect
Second Languages: Japanese (fluent, self-taught).
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そうですか。 私は７年間で日本語を勉強した。 でも、今は昨年より日本語はよくない。高校三年生の日本語 を勉強したけど、昨年、高校は終わったからです。 日本に行った事がありますか？  .. or, to compliment the script: >_< or however the hell they do them.
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# 7
2008-09-30, 08:54
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
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Originally Posted by flat_head_screwdriver
.. or, to compliment the script: >_< or however the hell they do them.
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Demo sa, ore no computer ga kana wo misenai. Ma, amari no kanji yomimasen, ore wa.
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I can only read about 100.
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# 8
2008-09-30, 11:34
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
just install the encoding thing in my computer under your language settings and then if you have trouble with your kanji, www.popjisyo.com is your friend.
Im assuming your better than me if your fluent, so why do you use ore and not watashi?
Have you ever been to japan? I have, its fun
By the way:
English as a first language
Japanese to an intermediate level. |
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2008-09-30, 13:36
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
english, chinese.
both native.
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2008-10-01, 01:36
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
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Originally Posted by flat_head_screwdriver
just install the encoding thing in my computer under your language settings and then if you have trouble with your kanji, www.popjisyo.com is your friend.
Im assuming your better than me if your fluent, so why do you use ore and not watashi?
Have you ever been to japan? I have, its fun
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Because traditionally, "boku" and "ore" are used by men, "watashi" by women.
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2008-10-01, 19:58 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Fluent - Spanish(native) and English
Second- French
Learning: Portuguese and Italian
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2008-10-02, 14:13 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Danish and English. I can also communicate perfectly well with swedes and norwegians, but I take it that doesn't count.
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#13
2008-10-03, 15:45 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Norwegian and English. I can also communicate perfectly well with swedes and danes, but I take it that doesn't count.
This.
Also some Polish.
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#14
2008-10-03, 15:52 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First Language: English
Other Languages:
German (proficient)
Japanese (intermediate)
I know a decent bit of vocabulary and I've mastered hiragana and I can recognize/write around 30 kanji so far.
Cantonese (beginner)
I can only make simple conversation and recognize a few more hanzi than I know from Japanese, though some of the common characters do differ slightly. Different characters are used for some of the same words.
Mandarin (beginner)
Arabic (beginner)
When I was kid because my dad taught me it, but I can remember very little after never really having an opportunity to speak it as I grew up.
I plan to have all these languages mastered in the future.
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#15
2008-10-04, 10:35 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Primary Language: English
Second Language: German, Some Spanish, Some Russian
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#16
2008-10-05, 01:45 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First: Canadian English (fluent)
Second: Spanish (passable, but continuing to study)
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#17
2008-10-06, 17:28 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
English: native language, fluent
spanish: intermediate, about as far as you can get with two years of high school classes.
german: beginner, self-teaching with pimsleur.
ukrainian: beginner, taking classes at my university.
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2008-10-06, 19:09 |
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First Language: Urdu (Pakistan)
Second Language: English (also Official Language)
Local Language: Punjabi
Languages queued up for learning:
Chinese and Italian.
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2008-10-06, 20:41 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
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Originally Posted by OneMestizo
English: native language, fluent
spanish: intermediate, about as far as you can get with two years of high school classes.
german: beginner, self-teaching with pimsleur.
ukrainian: beginner, taking classes at my university.
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Two years of high school classes do not make you intermediate. More less an advanced beginner. |
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#20
2008-10-07, 02:09 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Fluent english and spanish
Bit of french from not paying attention to 3 years of french class (yes, i know, stupid me)
Tad bit of German. Took classes in the summer
Learning chinese. I'd be better if I could remember every word I am thought.
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#21
2008-10-11, 11:17 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
One. English.
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#22
2008-10-13, 00:40 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I speak spanish decently, though not that well considering i've taken it in school for many many years
and i speaky the english
theres a few languages i know a bit of, but not really worth mentioning
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#23
2008-10-13, 05:42 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I'm Fluent in - Farsi ( Persian), English
Very good in french, but I wouldn't say fluent because of the fact that I prefer speaking English over French ( I Live in Montreal, Quebec). I went to a French high school, English college/university.
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2008-10-14, 22:23 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First language : american english
Second language: german(fluent)
I am currently learning russian through Rosetta Stone(it works,try it) though. Hopefully will have it mastered within a year or so time.
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#25
2008-10-16, 00:21 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
My mother tongue is English however I am proficient in the German language.
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#26
2008-10-20, 03:57 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
just one
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#27
2008-10-20, 04:20 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First language English, conversational Spanish, and I am currently trying to learn Arabic.
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#28
2008-10-23, 03:50 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Fluently, just English.
I took French for six years and did the French immersion program, but ask me to write in French and you'll be horrified. I do have a good accent, though, and I can still converse to some degree -- that ability is going away quickly. It's not hard to find resources for learning French in Canada at all, thankfully, and I'll be taking advantage of that next semester.
I've been studying Spanish for 5 months. I have a decent knowledge of the language. I have a really good accent; I have a gift when it comes to accents, that's always been the easiest aspect of language courses for me. Quite frankly, however, I'm not interested in the language or culture at all. Taking Spanish was really just the result of not being able to take the French classes I wanted to, so in that respect I've hit a brick wall.
I'm studying in Montreal next year, so I really want to work on getting my French skills up to par. I'd like to study German somewhere down the line as well.
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#29
2008-10-23, 17:27 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
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Originally Posted by static_void
Fluently, just English.
I took French for six years and did the French immersion program, but ask me to write in French and you'll be horrified. I do have a good accent, though, and I can still converse to some degree -- that ability is going away quickly. It's not hard to find resources for learning French in Canada at all, thankfully, and I'll be taking advantage of that next semester.
I've been studying Spanish for 5 months. I have a decent knowledge of the language. I have a really good accent; I have a gift when it comes to accents, that's always been the easiest aspect of language courses for me. Quite frankly, however, I'm not interested in the language or culture at all. Taking Spanish was really just the result of not being able to take the French classes I wanted to, so in that respect I've hit a brick wall.
I'm studying in Montreal next year, so I really want to work on getting my French skills up to par. I'd like to study German somewhere down the line as well.
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I recommend taking a French class at your university when you're here. People speak French here, but...if you're living downtown then it's really easy to just speak English all the time. |
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2008-10-23, 17:37 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I recommend taking a French class at your university when you're here. People speak French here, but...if you're living downtown then it's really easy to just speak English all the time.
Yeah, that's what I'm planning on doing.
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#31
2008-10-24, 13:11 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
English is my primary language. But I can speak Portuguese quite well.
My mom is Brazilian and I learned it from her. I'd say my Spanish is decent mostly just studied in High School and had a job where I had to speak it on a regular basis.
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#32
2008-10-27, 08:52 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Language one: Australian English, fluent
Language two: French, advanced although not quite fluent.
My grammar is excellent, strong vocabulary, but not so good at speaking.
Language three: Italian, intermediate.
I can have conversations, my grammar is okay, a little rusty as I stopped the language last year.
Language four: Not really a language but I understand egyptian hieroglyphs fluently (self taught).
I would love to be fluent in French, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Indonesian, Spanish and Irish.
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#33
2008-10-27, 09:09 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I natively speak American English. Other languages rated on an arbitrary percentage scale:
50% Latin (I know, not a spoken language, but whatever)
30% German
20% Russian
5% French, Spanish, Mandarin
And I taught myself the arabic and hebrew scripts but can say fuck all using them. I could read to a blind person who speaks them though :)
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#34
2008-10-28, 23:05 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I speak the language of your only quality is the ability to make uninspired threads french.
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#35
2008-10-29, 14:20 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First: English
Second: Serbian
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#36
2008-10-30, 20:49 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First Language: Korean
Second Language: English, fluent
Third Language: French (proficient)
Planned to self-teach: Japanese (sister's second language), thought about another European language but think French has got me covered.
I figure that these 4 languages will grant me leverage/versatility in a business career pretty much anywhere in the world.
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#37
2008-10-31, 14:48 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
first language is english
fluent in french,german and mandarin
learning arabic and spanish, should be fluent in both at the end of 2009
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#38
2008-11-02, 11:18 |
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My mommas uterus.
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First language: Serbo-Croatian
Fluent in: English, Dutch, French
Basic knowledge of German.
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#39
2008-11-02, 22:35 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Because traditionally, "boku" and "ore" are used by men, "watashi" by women.
Did you learn Japanese by watching anime....?
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#40
2008-11-02, 22:37 |
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My mommas uterus.
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Did you learn Japanese by watching anime....?
Is there any other way?
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2008-11-02, 22:41 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Is there any other way?
Haha.
Well it's funny because "watashi", is not just used by only women, it's a normal/formal way of referring to yourself. I thought it was strange for someone fluent to claim that "boku" and "ore" are what is expected to be used by men, especially when written, until I realised that's what it's like in Anime.
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#42
2008-11-08, 11:20 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
English : mother tongue
French : competent intermediate...
Russian : bit better than french
Japanese : fluent
I learnt them in that order, which is why the french and russian fade despite my efforts to use them from time to time.
For Japanese, you will find some great knowledge at www.language-global.com/lglbbs/
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#43
2008-11-10, 15:47 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
French: First language
English: Fluent
Spanish: A few bits
Japanese: Beginning to learn.
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#44
2008-11-20, 07:52 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I speak american and fluent in West coast
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2008-11-21, 04:21 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
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Originally Posted by Machoman411
First Language: English
Other Languages:
German (proficient)
Japanese (intermediate)
I know a decent bit of vocabulary and I've mastered hiragana and I can recognize/write around 30 kanji so far.
Cantonese (beginner)
I can only make simple conversation and recognize a few more hanzi than I know from Japanese, though some of the common characters do differ slightly. Different characters are used for some of the same words.
Mandarin (beginner)
Arabic (beginner)
When I was kid because my dad taught me it, but I can remember very little after never really having an opportunity to speak it as I grew up.
I plan to have all these languages mastered in the future.
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There is no way you are intermediate in Japanese if you can only recognize 30 kanji... I can probably recognize over 200 and I don't even study Japanese.
English (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
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#46
2008-11-21, 04:39 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
American English (Native Language)
Japanese (in progress)
Romanian (in progress)
Spanish (Spanish I, Spanish II next year)
Korean (I can read it, but not speak it)
Russian (in progress)
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#47
2008-11-25, 02:31 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I speak both English and Spanish fluently.
Yo puedo hablar Ingles y Espanol muy bien.
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#48
2008-11-30, 20:02 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Right now, just English fluently, and intermediate Spanish. I plan on learning German and French, and hopefully a language with another alphabet, such as Russian.
I'm studying in Montreal next year, so I really want to work on getting my French skills up to par. I'd like to study German somewhere down the line as well.
Are you going to McGill, off chance? I'm from the United States, but I'm thinking of heading up there to attend that University. I'm not really sure about it yet, though.
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#49
2008-12-02, 23:06 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Fluent: English
Slovak (first language)
French
Not so great at: Polish
Russian
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2008-12-04, 14:10 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
As a Chinese living in Communist China [Hail Comrade Mao], I speaks only ONE language. Chinese.
But I type many-many languages tho....as long as my crtl-c/crtl-v keys and babel-fishes work...:)
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#51
2008-12-09, 22:10 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
English- Native and fluent.
Spanish- Native and fluent.
French- Taken courses for 5 years.
German- Taken courses for 2.
I've lately been considering picking up either Russian or Danish. Don't know which is more useful, since Russian used to be an official language throughout Eastern Europe, and both Norwegian and Swedish are fairly understandable to Danish speakers, at least I've heard...
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#52
2008-12-16, 03:39 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Im canadian and I speak english and french. My knowledge of arabic, russian, spanish, korean and latin are all self-thought. I only know one language game and that is pig-latin.
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#53
2008-12-16, 14:56 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
English natively, and French semi-fluently; my written French is fairly terrible though. When speaking though, i've gone a few days speaking it, and it really comes back and just comes out without me thinking...
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2008-12-16, 19:55 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
Russian, English - fluent
Can understand Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Spanish.
Want to learn Hindi
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#55
2008-12-17, 21:36 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
English (first language)
Russian (kinda first language, grew up in a Russian-American family)
French (studying in college) .. want to learn Spanish next.
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#56
2008-12-27, 14:23 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
My mother tongue- some motherfucking Gookenese that you don't need to know about  . I speak it fluently.
My second language - English. I can communicate with native speakers reasonably well however there is still much room for improvement.
I also know like lil tidbits about other languages however I am fully aware that this doesn't count as knowing how to speak them: I can count from one to ten in Japanese, say "i love you" in Korean, know a few words in German and French and Spanish and Italian.
I would love to learn German one day however its grammar is very daunting. |
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2008-12-27, 23:33 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
My mother tongue- some motherfucking Gookenese that you don't need to know about . I speak it fluently.
This and your constant glamorizing of "whites" leads me to believe you have one hell of an inferiority complex. |
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#58
2008-12-29, 08:32 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
english and a little bit of spanish
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2008-12-30, 13:56 |
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
This and your constant glamorizing of "whites" leads me to believe you have one hell of an inferiority complex.
Whatever makes you sleep well at night, hun
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2008-09-29, 21:07
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Re: How Many Languages Do You Speak?
First language: American English (fluent)
Second Language: German (decent level)
Learning Russian so I can get into Ukranian, so I can visit Ukraine; I still don't know why I want to :|
I should probably learn French as I am French, but from what I hear the French are complete douchebags to you if you can't speak proper French. I wanted to learn some Korean and Arabic but the dialects made Arabic a tad useless for me and I've heard most Koreans would rather practice their English than speak Korean. I might learn some Mandarin and visit China.
Last edited by Pink P&ther; 2008-09-29 at 21:13.
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