Poll: How many languages can you speak?
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I speak English and a smattering of French.
Interesting exchange in my MGT321 (Effective Business Communication) class this past week:
Teacher: "What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?"
Class (more or less in unison): "Trilingual."
Teacher: "What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?"
Class (again in unison): "Bilingual."
Teacher: "What do you call someone who only speaks one language?"
Me: "American."
Interesting exchange in my MGT321 (Effective Business Communication) class this past week:
Teacher: "What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?"
Class (more or less in unison): "Trilingual."
Teacher: "What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?"
Class (again in unison): "Bilingual."
Teacher: "What do you call someone who only speaks one language?"
Me: "American."
Uhh... Three.
Apart from my native (Russian), I also speak English and French.
Apart from my native (Russian), I also speak English and French.
That's a pretty good one. If a little offensive.SimuLord said:
You forgot to mention what kind of Chinese: Mandarin or Kantonesian?havass said:
I myself speak about three languages, Dutch, English and a bit of German. I tried Japanese though.
If I want a foreigner to feel a bit more comfortable I say simple things like 'hello' in their language, but then they will speak their own tongue in a way I cannot comprehend.
People: When they say they cannot speak your language doesn't mean they don't know one word!
2, English and a decent grasp of Japanese (can't read a newspaper) and a matteriung of Mandarin.
English is the only language I speak fluently, but I'm in the second year of learning Chinese now.
Fluent in English and Hungarian, and I can kind of hold my own in Irish and German. I can speak two useful languages, and two novelties..
*slap*SaKenyi said:
Americans speak English! So you mean 'American English'. If it were so simple, Belgians would speak Belgian and Mexicans would speak Mexican. So no, it's not like that.
Still, that's an impressive vocabulary. (Just saying some Spanish and Italian food doesn't cut it as a language, just so you know.)
Russian, really? a singer called Regina Spektor once wrote a song of which I don't really know the meaning of. The song is called Apres Moi. There is some Russian in it.
One, English. Just.
In moments of pressure I seem to lose control of my higher functions. One of these is the ability to speak cohesive English, and what comes out is a string of words that almost totally fails to have any relevance.
A primary example of one such environment is that around cute females.
In moments of pressure I seem to lose control of my higher functions. One of these is the ability to speak cohesive English, and what comes out is a string of words that almost totally fails to have any relevance.
A primary example of one such environment is that around cute females.
