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What languages do you know?

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English - Native
Spanish - Practically fluent, but have a weak vocabulary
Chinese - Weak - Currently learning at school. I know sentence structure and how to read/write/speak to a limited extent
 
Arabic -> Fluent
English -> Fluent
French -> Fluent
Moroccan -> Fluent (Although this is a dialect)
Spanish -> Poor ... I can understand and get by if in Spain. Meaning I was able to pick up some chicks and order food and beer...lol
 
Originally posted by: Dumac
Okay, are you really learning from anime? I have heard this claim hundreds of times but everytime the person doesn't know squat past kawaii or bishounen, which they usually mutate into KAWAIIIIIII~~I~I~ and BISHI ><;;!!

Or you have the other side where all they really know is kimochi~ and onii-sama~ and futanari

Ugh..

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..

EDIT: (For the poll, I mean)
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This.

I can speak 2 languages. English and Vietnamese.

But, I can speak some phrases and have a general understanding of Cantonese and French (2 years high school, 1 semester college).

Then some random words and phrases of Mandarin, Japanese, Korean.

But knowing random phrases and words does not count as knowing a language.
 
English
Spanish - enough for "competency" from my University (placed into a 2nd year college class at the start of my first year, but opted out of taking it).
 
English - fluent
German - a little bit of conversational, almost none for reading
French - quite a bit, but I can only read it not speak it
Spanish - some, but not a lot.
 
English - native
Gàidhlig - Conversational (older family members don't like to speak anything but)
Japanese - Weak, but learning (girlfriend is from Tokyo)
 
Originally posted by: iahk
Originally posted by: Dumac
Okay, are you really learning from anime? I have heard this claim hundreds of times but everytime the person doesn't know squat past kawaii or bishounen, which they usually mutate into KAWAIIIIIII~~I~I~ and BISHI ><;;!!

Or you have the other side where all they really know is kimochi~ and onii-sama~ and futanari

Ugh..

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..

EDIT: (For the poll, I mean)
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This.

I can speak 2 languages. English and Vietnamese.

But, I can speak some phrases and have a general understanding of Cantonese and French (2 years high school, 1 semester college).

Then some random words and phrases of Mandarin, Japanese, Korean.

But knowing random phrases and words does not count as knowing a language.
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Well, I'm starting to listen to audio tapes of Japanese in addition to anime. Watching and hearing really helps though.
 
English - very well
Polish -- native polish speaker
Russian -- same as polish -- fluent
Spanish -- very well
German -- high German and low German -- fluently
Hebrew -- very well -- I`m jewish
Arabic -- good enough to converse on a daily basis
 
I live in the US and don't speak Spanish - you do the math. 😛


I was through a few French classes in high school. Not much has been retained.

 
English - Native, technically, also strongest
Arabic - Also technically native, pretty strong, use with parents, and with friends for cursing
Hebrew - Weaksauce, I can get by at checkpoints in the West Bank, and ask for the bathroom (eifo ha-shiruteem was some kind of stupid running joke in my Hebrew class, that I am partially responsible for starting). My pronunciation is top notch though, comes with speaking Arabic I guess...
 
English - native
Chinese (Mandarin) - fluent pronunciation maybe 10-15% vocabulary. Not enough to hold a detailed conversation but probably enough to travel and make do in China. I would probably seem retarded because I sound fluent but don't know so many words lol.
 
Dutch - Native
English - Very good (pretty close to being native)
German - Weak
French - Poor

And some other languages I can understand it a bit when reading it, but cannot speak or write it, or at least not correctly.
 
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Dutch - Native
English - Very good (pretty close to being native)
German - Good
French - Poor

And some other languages I can understand it a bit when reading it, but cannot speak or write it, or at least not correctly.
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eehhm... this 😀

 
Dutch: native
Flemish: native (dialect of Dutch)
French: fluent
English: fluent

you can't get a burger flippin job here if you don't speak at least Dutch and French
 
fuck you OP, you dont know japanese. fucking otaku think watching anime helps them learn. fuck you for fucking it up for us other gaijins.

anyways

english-native but i still suck at it
japanese-intermediate
german-basic
pig latin-awesome
😛
 
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