How many languages do you speak ?
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Icelandic, mother language
English, fluent
Danish, understand it but cant speak it
Swedish, Norwegan, understand some of it
Dutch, I am supposed to know it, learned it for two years in school, but I can hardly speak a single word so it doesnt count.
English, fluent
Danish, understand it but cant speak it
Swedish, Norwegan, understand some of it
Dutch, I am supposed to know it, learned it for two years in school, but I can hardly speak a single word so it doesnt count.
LOL, Perry.
German - mother language
English - fluent
Spanish - used to a little, now only a few phrases
used to know a tad of French
I also know Latin - although it's not really spoken
German - mother language
English - fluent
Spanish - used to a little, now only a few phrases
used to know a tad of French
I also know Latin - although it's not really spoken
english (DUH!)
spanish (fluent read and write)
dutch (can speak fluently but cant spell for $hit!)
spanish (fluent read and write)
dutch (can speak fluently but cant spell for $hit!)
I speak fluent Spanglish.
My parents used Spanish as their 'secret' language...
If they didn't want us to eavesdrop, they would switch to Spanish, their first language.
However, I spend many hours trying to decode them....
I can't speak it fluently, but if I got lost in Little Havana I would survive.
What gets me is all the differences in the Spanish language...
Depending on if you are using Cuban, Puerot Rican, or my Ybor City Slang, and who you are talking to, you can get in big trouble!
My parents used Spanish as their 'secret' language...
If they didn't want us to eavesdrop, they would switch to Spanish, their first language.
However, I spend many hours trying to decode them....
I can't speak it fluently, but if I got lost in Little Havana I would survive.
What gets me is all the differences in the Spanish language...
Depending on if you are using Cuban, Puerot Rican, or my Ybor City Slang, and who you are talking to, you can get in big trouble!
English.
My Russian was very good 30 years ago.
My French was very good 30 years ago.
My German was fair 40 years ago.
One of my brothers speaks fluent Japanese and one of his sons works for an American company in Japan.
My father was an interpreter in WWII. He spoke fluent German, some Yiddish, and a bit of French and Italian. If he wanted to hide something from his kids he spoke in German. My brothers and I were always scurrying to the dictionary to try to figure out what he had just said. My step-mother was German, but was not what you'd call a "talker".
I miss the language diversity we had as a child. America has become so homogenized. <Sigh> I try to speak a little French to my daughter occasionally, but she prefers English because it is "faster", i.e. she doesn't have to fumble around figuring out HOW to say what she wants to say.
I envy the Hispanic families that come to market speaking their native tongue. Ironically, they are trying as quickly as they can to become assimilated. Ugh!
My Russian was very good 30 years ago.
My French was very good 30 years ago.
My German was fair 40 years ago.
One of my brothers speaks fluent Japanese and one of his sons works for an American company in Japan.
My father was an interpreter in WWII. He spoke fluent German, some Yiddish, and a bit of French and Italian. If he wanted to hide something from his kids he spoke in German. My brothers and I were always scurrying to the dictionary to try to figure out what he had just said. My step-mother was German, but was not what you'd call a "talker".
I miss the language diversity we had as a child. America has become so homogenized. <Sigh> I try to speak a little French to my daughter occasionally, but she prefers English because it is "faster", i.e. she doesn't have to fumble around figuring out HOW to say what she wants to say.
I envy the Hispanic families that come to market speaking their native tongue. Ironically, they are trying as quickly as they can to become assimilated. Ugh!
1. German, duh
2. Bavarian, which is considered a foreign language in the rest of Germany(forgot something toolgirl?)
3. English, duh
4.Italian, lack of practice but gets better pretty fast when I'm there
5. Spanish, a little
6. Latin
7. old Greek as spoken 4.000 years ago
Wow, what an opportunity to show off.
2. Bavarian, which is considered a foreign language in the rest of Germany(forgot something toolgirl?)
3. English, duh
4.Italian, lack of practice but gets better pretty fast when I'm there
5. Spanish, a little
6. Latin
7. old Greek as spoken 4.000 years ago
Wow, what an opportunity to show off.
Portuguese (mother language)
English - fluent
French - fluent, although the last time I spoke some french was in 1993.
Spanish - Understand well, but never studied the grammar. Learned from friends.
German - Studied it for 5 years, now forgotten.
Italian - understand some, being close to Portuguese/Spanish
English - fluent
French - fluent, although the last time I spoke some french was in 1993.
Spanish - Understand well, but never studied the grammar. Learned from friends.
German - Studied it for 5 years, now forgotten.
Italian - understand some, being close to Portuguese/Spanish
2 fluent, 1 pretty well, and i'm just learning a 4th. and i can read/recite in a 5th, but i can't "speak" it.
chess your not compleatly correct in hispanics wanting to be assimilated. I personaly couldn't think of something worse than that. being from Colombia South America i can see how many hispanics would want to be assimilated considering that they come from countries whos goverments are among the most corrupt in the world and seeing the US couldn't think of a better alternative. as far as i'm conserned if hispanics could learn to better pool thier resources and really rally together tword a commen goal then they would be taken more seriously ploiticaly as well as in the national consiousness.
English - fluent, born here
Mandarin Chinese - mother language, can understand and communicate, but illiterate
Spanish - three years in high school, can understand and get around if I have to
French - can order a ham sandwich with cheese and butter. I can also read french and get the notions for some reason... was in france this past summer and just picked up a periodical and read and I understood.
Mandarin Chinese - mother language, can understand and communicate, but illiterate
Spanish - three years in high school, can understand and get around if I have to
French - can order a ham sandwich with cheese and butter. I can also read french and get the notions for some reason... was in france this past summer and just picked up a periodical and read and I understood.
BigVince:
I hope your are right. We really need a movement towards more diversity in languages here in the States. Unfortunately, the trend is in the opposite direction.
This reminds me of a story. I was in Cancun for two weeks several years ago, trying to convert pasty white skin to something slightly darker. My wife and I were in a restaurant when a charming young Mexican waitress appeared to take the order of the three guys next to us. As it happened, her English was not fantastic, but she had a fairly good grasp of it. One of the guys started asking detailed questions about the food and she would pepper her answers with Spanish nouns because, I assume, she didn't know the English equivalent for, say, fried plantains. Anyway, the guy started getting loud and demanding and finally said to the girl: "Why don't you learn proper English?" Well, of course the young lady became flustered and apologized and left after taking the order. The three Americans started laughing about her being a dumb Mexican. My wife and I overheard all of this because we were at the table right next to them. I have a bad temper for this sort of thing and was steaming at their boorish behavior, but, without me saying a word, my wife got up with her water glass in her hand, walked the two steps to the guy's table and told the guy he was a "declasse fool" and threw the water on him. The place erupted in laughter and clapping and the three guys stormed out. Hooey! I thought I would die laughing.
I hope your are right. We really need a movement towards more diversity in languages here in the States. Unfortunately, the trend is in the opposite direction.
This reminds me of a story. I was in Cancun for two weeks several years ago, trying to convert pasty white skin to something slightly darker. My wife and I were in a restaurant when a charming young Mexican waitress appeared to take the order of the three guys next to us. As it happened, her English was not fantastic, but she had a fairly good grasp of it. One of the guys started asking detailed questions about the food and she would pepper her answers with Spanish nouns because, I assume, she didn't know the English equivalent for, say, fried plantains. Anyway, the guy started getting loud and demanding and finally said to the girl: "Why don't you learn proper English?" Well, of course the young lady became flustered and apologized and left after taking the order. The three Americans started laughing about her being a dumb Mexican. My wife and I overheard all of this because we were at the table right next to them. I have a bad temper for this sort of thing and was steaming at their boorish behavior, but, without me saying a word, my wife got up with her water glass in her hand, walked the two steps to the guy's table and told the guy he was a "declasse fool" and threw the water on him. The place erupted in laughter and clapping and the three guys stormed out. Hooey! I thought I would die laughing.
Um lets see..
Well, my favorite language of all time is Pascal...
But I'm also fluent in Java, JavaScript, Rexx, Perl, Basic, and Cobol...
Oh, I do some 'Pig-C' once in a while...
Gee, guess I win!
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Ok, real answer: English, and I can read spanish but I don't try to speak it because I hate how it sounds coming out of my mouth. I sound like some dumb beloved patriot.
1. English- Fluent
2. Polish- Fluent (picked it all up from my step-mom)
3. Bulgarian [Macedonian]- Fluent (both my parents' language.
2. Polish- Fluent (picked it all up from my step-mom)
3. Bulgarian [Macedonian]- Fluent (both my parents' language.
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