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Netopia

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My father works with well over 100 languages and is considered by many a sort of "Einstein of Linguistics".

Me? I speak only English and enough German/French/Spanish to get by. :(

Guess I didn't get those genes.

He's almost 83 years old and has been called back out of retirement twice to work for six months at a time by the NSA since the most recent Gulf War.

Wonder if anyone will want me for ANYTHING at that age! :eek:

So if someone needs something simple (he does charge... so it'd have to be short) in Swahili or Vietnamese or Tagalog or Basque or Vogul or...or... I don't even know what all he works with, so if you have a request, I'd have to ask.

Joe
 
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bersl2

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Latin - bersl2 - intermediate to advanced, but extremely rusty and never fluent for conversation

difficile est alicui in lingua in quam nemo scribit aut dicit facundam esse. exempli gratia, de grammatica et verborum electione multos situs consului, cum perfectionem expetam. in scriptione, luxuriam temporis habeo; cur non utar?
 
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narcotic

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Spanish - narcotic - native
Danish - narcotic - native
French - narcotic - intermediate
 
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chcarnage

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German - chcarnage - native
French - chcarnage - advanced (a bit rusty)
Italian - chcarnage - advanced
Latin - chcarnage - advanced (a bit rusty)
Danish - chcarnage - beginner

Actually a Swiss German dialect is my native language but these are rarely written. Like most other Swiss from the German part of the country I'm a 100% fluent speaker of Standard-German.
 
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Cristatus

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Wow, you're gonna have a hard time updating this thread, I assume.


Anyhoo:

Gujurati - logic1485 - native language, though I can only speak it, and read bits, but hardly write.
English - logic1485 - uber1337 (hey, it's a foreign language to me, and my native language is foreign to you)
Dutch - logic1485 - can get by, but I need to study up on some vocab still
French - logic1485 - I was learning, failed at level 2 (of 5) twice! But I can understand other people speak it.
Hindi - logic1485 - I can understand what's going on in a movie (the only time I actually hear Hindi) or when I'm in Mumbai I can understand what the people say, but I can't talk it very well, and I can read some bits because it is similar in script to Gujurati

I want to learn to speak either Russian or Arabic for business purposes though.
 
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morkus64

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Nov 7, 2004
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Originally posted by: logic1485
Wow, you're gonna have a hard time updating this thread, I assume.
Click to expand...

I did... thanks for understanding.

AS OF THIS POINT the thread is updated. If you are not included in the list it is because you didn't use proper format. Understand the it is very TIME CONSUMING for me. PLEASE use the proper formatting.
 
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morkus64

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Nov 7, 2004
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thanks, 2X - added you

I asked mugs for a page at AT-Wiki, so hopefully that'll happen. I'll post everything we've got so far and then people can add themselves.

Anyone make a connection yet?

And why doesn't anyone speak Greek? :| Bastards. :p
 
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Mill

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I speak light to very basic medium German. In other words, I can converse or understand about half of what is said.
 
Circlenaut

Circlenaut

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I was born in Brazil and speak fluent portuguese through my parents. I only went to school in Brazil from the age of 5-6 so I was only "alphetebizado". Before that I went back and forth between the U.S. and Brazil. I really wanna take a year's abroad in Brazil to learn the language.
 
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