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What languages do you know?

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English - enough
Cantonese - can carry conversation but can't read or write it
Italian - can carry conversation
French - can carry conversation but have to go sloooow

The way I see it, there are really only three phrases I need to learn when I travel abroad.

1. Do you have any chicken?
2. How much is the beer?
3. Where is the bathroom?

Teach me how to say those three and I can get by anywhere.
 
Native English
Took two years of French in High School, it was really easy class nothing intense at all.

That's all I know. It doesn't matter either, because U S A, U S A, U S A!!
 
English - native

German - i can build a sentence and understand it when its spoken to me, but you'll have to give me a moment before i can put together a spoken reply.

Spanish - so little i probably shouldn't count it
 
English - Very well, I think
Spanish - Used to be almost fluent, but now probably more intermediate-advanced
German - Intermediate
Telugu - Intermediate
Hindi - Beginner
 
English (American) - Native
French - Poor (I understand better than I speak)
Spanish - Poor (I understand better than I speak)
Japanese - Poor (I understand better than I speak)
C++ - I make Bjorne look like a script kiddie.
 
English - Native
German - kind of weak, but am in a class. I really need the time to properly learn the grammar rules, then I can work on building my vocabulary.
 
my greek has eroded over the years, but i want to fix it up. i also want to learn spanish, french and italian. when it comes to asian laguages, i'll just concede defeat.
 
Originally posted by: Dumac
Also, knowing a couple sentences of Spanish doesn't make you a Spanish master. I don't count myself as knowing a language until I am positive that I could go to that country and function without a hitch. Only languages you are fluent at count in my opinion..
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Function without a hitch? Wouldn't you have to know every idiom and slang word for that? Like others have said, I could strand myself in Mexico and survive (and even learn some more), so I would count that as knowing (some) Spanish. But I definitely don't know Korean, even though I can tell people to show me their bellybuttons.
 
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