Poll: How many languages can you speak?
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Dutch (native language), English (because it's everywhere, also school subject but I knew to speak it long before we started learning it in school), Romanian (speaking and reading), French (school subject), German (school subject) and planning to learn Spanish after I'm close to fluent in French and German.
English (father's language)
Chinese (mother's language)
I can speak read and write both easily. When I speak in Chinese, it is usually in Cantonese, but I can manage a degree of Mandarin, due to it being a school subject. Now does that I mean I know three languages or two?
Chinese (mother's language)
I can speak read and write both easily. When I speak in Chinese, it is usually in Cantonese, but I can manage a degree of Mandarin, due to it being a school subject. Now does that I mean I know three languages or two?
Well, since I really love to learn new languages, my list is a bit longer... ;-)
German is my native language.
Learned in school (and in quite frequent use):
English since 1994/5.
French since 1996/7.
Spanish(castellano & catalan) since 1998/9.
Less used, and not fluent:
Italian since 1999. Especially cursing! ^^
Portuguese since 1999.
Afrikaans since 2003.
Learning (but at a very slow rate):
Chinese (Mandarin and some Gan).
Arabic.
Gaelic.
Plus some -more or less- "extinct" languages/alphabets like latin, runes, hieroglyphs, cuneiform script etc. but then I use dictionaries for the correct translations and interpretations(if possible at all).
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I didn't add dialects to the languages I already learned. Than the list would be very, VERY long.
German is my native language.
Learned in school (and in quite frequent use):
English since 1994/5.
French since 1996/7.
Spanish(castellano & catalan) since 1998/9.
Less used, and not fluent:
Italian since 1999. Especially cursing! ^^
Portuguese since 1999.
Afrikaans since 2003.
Learning (but at a very slow rate):
Chinese (Mandarin and some Gan).
Arabic.
Gaelic.
Plus some -more or less- "extinct" languages/alphabets like latin, runes, hieroglyphs, cuneiform script etc. but then I use dictionaries for the correct translations and interpretations(if possible at all).
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I didn't add dialects to the languages I already learned. Than the list would be very, VERY long.
It's not too hard to speak it, but really hard to learn to read, you just have to have the proper practice. In fact learning to speak it is relatively easy, although I'm not exactly "done" with my studies of it, so I shouldn't really be saying that, although I can understand quite a bit.Julianking93 said:
EDIT: And oh yes, I'm from New York.
English and Urdu fluently (Hindi, too, if you count that as a separate language), Punjabi (not so well) and I can read Arabic (in my head and out loud) but can't understand it. Yet.
One and a half? I speak English(obviously) and some French. Living in Ontario means I've had to take 9 years of French classes; I know enough to make sense of the language even if I can't speak with proper grammar all the time.
I can speak two languages, English And Shovel. Yes, Shovel as in the tool you use to dig holes.
Me and my buddy were on some acid a while back, and our other buddy's bong broke. So, we planned to bury it later. My buddy, the one whose bong broke went home around 12 am or so. Anyways, me and my buddy are still TRIPPIN on acid and we kept reminding ourselves that we needed to bury the bong (We needed to find a shovel first though). Anyways, at around 5 am, me and him are making some oil with some good ol' Isopropyl; and then I just say to him (Cause at that point we hadn't talked about burrying the bong or getting a shovel since our other buddy left. (And we REALLY WANTED to have that bong burried before sunrise)) "Shovel.". LONG STORY SHORT: Me and my buddy had an EASILY 25 minute long conversation with each other ONLY using the word 'Shovel' - the funny ass part was we both knew EXACTLY what each other was saying. Anyways, our night ended with us burrying a bong @ 6 am in the morning JUST before sunrise while TRIPPIN hard on acid.
Ex: "Shovel?", "Shovel, shovel shovel!!!"... Yeah that's basically what we were saying to each other for about half an hour. LOL
Ex: "Shovel?", "Shovel, shovel shovel!!!"... Yeah that's basically what we were saying to each other for about half an hour. LOL
Im from Aussie land, thus everyone speaks aussie (not english, its aussie... just listen to an english man then listen to an aussie) trying to learn french at the moment, but finding it hard
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Coming from The Netherlands, I obviously can speak fluent Dutch. Besides that, I can fluently speak (that is, speak, I seem to be unable to write it properly) German, Spanish, Italian and English. I'm currently working on a side-studies for Russian and American (because Tim James said that if I wanted to live in Alabama, I should be able to speak American), maybe that'll help me out in the future.
American here, I can only speak English fluently. Unfortunately, learning a second language here is not as much of a priority as it is in the rest of the world. I am determined to learn Japanese in the near future however.
The Fifth Element?Sacman said:
OT: I speak fluent English with a basic understanding of both French and Spanish.