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POLL: How many languages do you speak?

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Dice, Oct 28, 2003.

  1. Rallymama Gems: 31/31
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    The short answer is, far too few.

    I'm fluent in only English, but I do have some High School French and can make my way through restaurant menus in Spanish and Italian pretty easily. ;) I also know the manual alphabet and a few random words and phrases of ASL, but nothing of the syntax.
     
  2. Hacken Slash

    Hacken Slash OK... can you see me now?

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    English, French and Spanish (around here it has become practically bi-lingual now). I can also handle the unintelligle extended vowel sounds that occur after drinking too heavily :D
     
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    BOC Let the wild run free Veteran

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    I can speak Greek and English. I used to speak German and French (I hate this language) but I haven't used them for many years and now I'm only able to understand some words and phrases and to do a simple conversations like "Wie heisst du?", "Wo wohnst du?" etc. Also, I can understand ancient Greek and some Latin.
     
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    Well I'm one of the 300000 people in Finland that has swedish as native language.

    I also know English and a little German and Finnish.
     
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    Fluent? Dutch and English.
    I can understand and make myself understood in German, and if they speak slowly I can even understand some of the french babbling ;)

    And a little Japanese, from my Martial Arts training :D
     
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    I can speak fluently Dutch and English. Though my English still needs some work. :) I can also speak German quite well and a bit of French.
     
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    Morgoroth Just because I happen to have tentacles, it doesn'

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    Swedish, Finnish, English and German fluently and I can also a little bit latin but a looong way from being considerd fluent :D
     
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    I come in under the standard Anglo-Canadian response of fluent in English and speaking some French.
     
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    My mothertonge is the language of Chuchichäschtli. Besides I can fluently write and read Standard-German. And I can make myself understood (sometimes) in French and English.
     
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    Hebrew and English, some German and Arabic, and an assortment of curses in different tongues :D
     
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    I'm just a dumb American - I only speak two - English (of course) and Spanish (due to where I live). I'm also working on Old English and Latin, if you want to count those. I've always wanted to tackle French, and then someday Old French and Old Spanish.

    So does the desire to be multilingual count for anything?
     
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    Finnish fluently. English quite fluently. I also speak poor Swedish and German.
     
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    I speak swedish and finnish fluently, english quite fluently, and some far from fluent german. In addition I understand norwegian and danish (kinda comes naturally when you speak swedish, the languages are very much alike).
     
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    Fluently: Dutch, English, German
    Less Fluently: French (ow, and a local dialect called "Limburgs" which sounds really, really stupid, I try to avoid that one)
     
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    [​IMG] IIRC (really IF) Taza is a language freak.

    3 languages...
    Fluently (more or less) I speak Slovenian and English.
    I can also communicate (though mostly basic) in German.


    @faded
    There's a dictionary for Klingon on the net somewhere. Just look on google for it.
    I havent learned it even one bit, but my friend has and he says it's really simple. No tenses... :eek:
     
  16. Mesmero

    Mesmero How'd an old elf get the blues?

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    Fluently: Dutch, English.

    I also speak a bit of German.
     
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    Fluent - English
    Partly fluent - ig-pay atin-lay
    Not nearly as fluent as I should be considering the country I come from - French
     
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    Well German of course, as my mother mother language. Then English, quiet good I think. Polish rather good, and my Latin sucks ;) .
     
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    Fluent Polish and English. Bilingual, sort of. Most probably, my Polish is still better, but I tend to use English more often. Because of computers and the internet, of course ;) Latin... it's hard to be fluent if you hardly ever speak it. My French used to be advanced and good at that level, maybe even fluent, but I've had a gap of two years. Must do something about it. My ancient Greek wasn't bad and I always had the very top notes in German - that is when I still learnt it :( Too long, too long now. I'll probably give up on modern Greek, but I'm going to keep learning Italian.
     
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    Just one...the language of love. Hahahaha. I wish that was true.
    Tried to learn german once and it ended in disaster. Word of advice, don't use late night RTL2 channel on sky for revision if you do the same.
     
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