What languages do you speak/understand?

aphex

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For me...

English - Fluent
Canadian - Fluent, eh?
Spanish - Can carry a conversation (Understand very well, speaking is ok)
Hebrew - Understand somewhat, cant speak it very well.
Yiddish - Understand somewhat, can only speak single words.
Dutch - Learning, can understand and speak simple phrases.
German - Know very little.
Greek - Alphabet only.

How bout you?

 

Rallispec

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english
Vb
C, C++
a few other programming languages (if they count.. i guess i can speak them "printf("hello world"); ;))

and a tiny bit of spanish that i remember from taking it in HS
 

minendo

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Aug 31, 2001
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English, Broken English, Engrish, and any other dialects of english

German
 

damiano

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English
french
spanish
italian
java
c++
VB
Sql , pl/sql
KornShell
etc.......
 

ThePresence

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English, Hebrew, A bit of Arabic (kinda weak), I understand some German, cannot speak it. I can read and understand ancient Aramaic. I can speak it to some extent.
 

Electric Amish

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I can understand a lot of French, Italian, and especially Spanish.

I can speak a little Spanish.

I'm ok at English.

and I know a little German....he's sitting over there --->


amish ;)
 

Migroo

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Jul 14, 2001
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English (mother tongue)
Japanese (lived in Tokyo for 4.5 years as a child)
French - learnt at school, starting to forget it now
German - learnt at school, but I didnt get to where I was with French, so its even worse now! :)
 

cmdavid

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English...

Japanese, read/write/speak/understand.. (slowly forgetting it since i dont have the opportunity to speak it everyday since ive moved back over here from Japan... which sucks, but im minoring in it, so i should be getting back into it again)

Arabic, understand fluently, have trouble speaking it sometimes.. however it was my first language, and whenever i am surrounded with arabic for any amount of time (visitin relatives in Egypt) it all seems to naturally come back.. never learned how to read it or write it though..
 

StageLeft

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Sep 29, 2000
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English

French enough to basically get around if I was in france and the person talking to me was willing to put in the effort to figure out what the hell I was doing.
 

Shelly21

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Originally posted by: Beau6183
English, American, Japanses, Spanish, Pig Latin, Jibberish, and a partial-in-the-works-learing of Amharic.

Really? You don't look Japanese....how/where did you learn it?

English for me. Know phrases here and there.... picked up some dirty Finnish, Swedish phrases from my Nordic buddies back in college. :)
 

Beau

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Originally posted by: Shelly21
Originally posted by: Beau6183 English, American, Japanses, Spanish, Pig Latin, Jibberish, and a partial-in-the-works-learing of Amharic.
Really? You don't look Japanese....how/where did you learn it? English for me. Know phrases here and there.... picked up some dirty Finnish, Swedish phrases from my Nordic buddies back in college. :)

I took 5 years of it in school, started when I was in 7th grade. Same with spanish.
 

Jzero

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English, Scottish, and a workable Spanish vocabulary.

I once had a teacher whom I considered to be humanity's Greatest Waste of Intellect.
He spoke so many fluent languages:
English
Hebrew
Klingon
Lojban
Esperanto

Here's a guy with the capacity to learn 5 languages and 3 of them are constructed/fictional. *sigh*
 

UltraQuiet

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English but since I have had to decipher so many posts on here I'm getting pretty good at reading MORON.