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What foreign languages do you speak?

2005-09-26, 12:24 PM #1

jesseg88

Registered User

Posts: 215

I wonder what languages, other than English, people know here.

I'm currently taking my first year of Japanese at high school.

日本語はかんたんでわありません。 (Japanese isn't very easy.)
Edit: Fixed the は particle.

A couple years ago, I also took a little German.

Made you look

2005-09-26, 12:26 PM #2

Nikumubeki

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Posts: 17,541

I know very little german, some really awkward swedish, random japanese words which mostly don't even mean what they are supposed to and... that's probably it.

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2005-09-26, 12:28 PM #3

Jep

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Posts: 10,237

English and French. Vive le québec! *not*

Know some spanish and some japaneessseeeesseeeeseeee also, though mainly when listening to it.

Onegai sensei!

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2005-09-26, 12:29 PM #4

Freelancer

Peelancer

Posts: 15,012

I don't speak any foreign languages because there's no need to.

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2005-09-26, 12:32 PM #5

Tenshu

Thought he was onto something.

Posts: 1,364

Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, passive understanding of Latin and ancient Greek. Having been the ***** of numerous cultures through history sure paid off.

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2005-09-26, 12:32 PM #6

Ubuu

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Posts: 1,670

Ebonics >.>

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2005-09-26, 12:47 PM #7

- Tony -

Not satisfied.

Posts: 4,773

I have a GCSE grade B in German and C in French. I know a little Russian too, but that's limited to something along the lines of dobryi pazhalavitch v-Moskovye.

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2005-09-26, 12:53 PM #8

Cool Matty

Usuyami no Sekai

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Konnichi wa!

2005-09-26, 12:55 PM #9

Shintock

Balls of steel.

Posts: 7,146

Francais, tabarnac!

2005-09-26, 1:07 PM #10

R_ivi_N

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Posts: 425

Considering this lot, where is the option for Klingon?

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2005-09-26, 1:09 PM #11

Darkjedibob

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Posts: 4,280

German, although I read it a lot better.

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2005-09-26, 1:10 PM #12

Michael MacFarlane

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Posts: 8,272

I'm proficient enough in Spanish that I wouldn't starve or get lost wandering the streets in a Spanish-speaking country, but I'm definitely not fluent.

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2005-09-26, 1:11 PM #13

Roach

Registered User

Posts: 5,275

German and learning standard Arabic right now.

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2005-09-26, 1:21 PM #14

Ric_Olie

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Posts: 3,198

English and Polish, and whatever snippets of Spanish I can recall from High School.

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2005-09-26, 1:31 PM #15

dalf

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Originally posted by Shintock:

Francais, tabarnac!

M. Shintock a dit un mauvais mot. Nous devons le punir. A tes genoux, monsieur!

Probablement vous avez le deviné, oui français est ma langue secondaire.

Edit: Aucune personne n'a pas trouvé ma faute grammaire?

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2005-09-26, 1:34 PM #16

Baconfish

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Posts: 18,004

A bit of german and some vague Scots.

nope.

2005-09-26, 1:36 PM #17

Avenger

Positive!

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Spanish is about all I've got.

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2005-09-26, 1:39 PM #18

Daeron the Nerfherder

"Down, boy!"

Posts: 1,275

If by foreign you mean "non-english":
Swedish
Finnish
French
German

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2005-09-26, 2:11 PM #19

stat

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Posts: 3,017

I know a good deal of German, which gives me the ability to understand some Dutch and read the Scandinavian languages (excluding Faroese and Icelandic, of course).

I want to learn Tibetan.

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2005-09-26, 2:14 PM #20

Bobbert

The Super-Spy That Wasn't

Posts: 3,248

Some spanish and a little bit of french.

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2005-09-26, 2:15 PM #21

JediKirby

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Posts: 17,361

Russian and Japanese FTW

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2005-09-26, 2:18 PM #22

Mort-Hog

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Posts: 4,192

Why on earth isn't Norwegian on that list?! >;

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2005-09-26, 2:21 PM #23

Space_Bandit

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Posts: 1,173

Originally posted by Shintock:

Francais, tabarnac!

Deutsch, Scheiße!

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2005-09-26, 2:51 PM #24

tinny

Looking for: One heart.

Posts: 1,736

I speak Tamil and French.

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2005-09-26, 3:11 PM #25

JediKirby

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Posts: 17,361

Originally posted by Ubuu:

Ebonics >.>

Haha, it's cause you're black... um... dawg!

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2005-09-26, 3:14 PM #26

Rogue Leader

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Posts: 1,548

Spanish, what more do you need? I mean, between English and Spanish I can probably talk to over half the people in the world. :p

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2005-09-26, 3:25 PM #27

TimeWolfOfThePast

Why not?

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Je parle français.

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2005-09-26, 3:29 PM #28

Tenshu

Thought he was onto something.

Posts: 1,364

Originally posted by TimeWolfOfThePast:

Je parle français.

*le* français

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2005-09-26, 3:34 PM #29

TimeWolfOfThePast

Why not?

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Merde!

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2005-09-26, 3:40 PM #30

ORJ_JoS

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Originally posted by Freelancer:

I don't speak any foreign languages because there's no need to.

Hah. Unless you travel a lot. To think that the entire world speaks english is an illusion. I've been in lots of parts in the world where they didn't understand a word of English. I've had to speak Spanish, German, French and even bits of Czech and Hungarian to get around in certain countries.

I speak English, Dutch, German, French, a bit of Spanish, I studied Japanese in college for about a year, but I forgot almost everything because I don't practise it anymore. By the way Japanese is extremely easy compaired to other languages. You can learn the entire grammar of the language in about a week because there are no irregularities whatsoever. The hard part is the writing. Oh, I can also translate ancient Greek and Latin. (Did that daily in highschool for 6 years... gah *headaches*)

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2005-09-26, 3:50 PM #31

ECHOMAN

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Originally posted by Freelancer:

I don't speak any foreign languages because there's no need to.

There are alot of things you learn that you don't need in life. Throw out algebra, calculus, most of your science courses, music, art, etc....

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2005-09-26, 4:03 PM #32

Jay

Hey guys, did you hear about Something Awful?

Posts: 8,804

I speak, read, write, and understand these:

English
German
Latin

I can read, write, and understand these:

French
Dutch

I can read and understand these:

Spanish
Italian

I can only read this:

Ogham

Everybody, especially Vinny, is annoyed by it.

Am I the only l'italiano guy here?

2005-09-26, 5:31 PM #33

Connection Problem

He broke your intarwebs.

Posts: 2,137

I speak french, but it's not a foreign language!

2005-09-26, 5:36 PM #34

Chuckles

Official Forum Doubtmaster

Posts: 445

I speak Latvian. If I were to choose another language to start learning - it would be spanish.

2005-09-26, 5:49 PM #35

Raoul Duke

I voted for cake.

Posts: 1,771

Takin a few classes in high school != speakin the language

just an fyi...

it takes a lot longer then that to be fluent...

but ya im fluent in english and french.

2005-09-26, 5:52 PM #36

Thrawn[numbarz]

colonpee addict

Posts: 11,951

Jamaican.

2005-09-26, 6:17 PM #37

Spork

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Posts: 6,279

French and 'Strayn. Mate.

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2005-09-26, 6:24 PM #38

Dormouse

Doesn't know that mice use holes.

Posts: 2,517

Five years of German, two years of French, three years of Russian.

Took a semester of Latin and studied Japanese on my own, but most of both are forgotten.

Have a heavily color-coded and worn klingon dictionary and other resources.

Beginning to learn Spanish from a new friend of mine who is an accomplished polyglot, with whom I usually speak in a creole of German Russian and French.

Want to learn Mandarin, Arabic, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Hindi.. ah hell, all of them really.

Most comfortable in German and French, Russian is harder because well it is far more complicated and I have used it far less.

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

2005-09-26, 6:35 PM #39

Dj Yoshi

Registered User

Posts: 19,202

I've taken two years of German, and absorbed a lot of it. I understand German very well, but I don't speak it too fluently.

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2005-09-26, 7:40 PM #40

Recusant

Prefered by 80% of Doctors

Posts: 1,480

I could speak French to an okay level but by now sound like any other Englishman who cares to butcher it. On top of that my slang at home has a mixture of Afrikaans and Zulu thrown in for fun but unfortunately I don't know any grammar.