What languages do you speak?

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Robert Ewing

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British here.

And I speak English, Spanish, Japanese, A bit of American, but not much. And pidgin German.

I think my learning Spanish is a bit useless, I'd much rather of learned German for my GCSE's, but I had no choice in the matter. I also want to learn Mandarin. Because there's no harm in being prepared to negotiate with our future Chinese overlords.
 

thylasos

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I'm English, it's my mother tongue. I studied French, German, and Latin in school, then Russian at university (alongside bits of Czech, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.)

I can only really speak French and Russian, aside from English, though I can understand a good deal of a great many languages, and certainly survive.
 

wintercoat

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I speak three languages; English, Bad English, and Broken English. I would love to learn Russian, German, and/or some East Asian languages such as Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese or Mandarin. I'd actually be pretty much happy to learn any new language...well, other than a Romance language.
 

Kuzlo

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English and Slovakian. Learning Spanish at the moment and being Canadian I've got the mandatory bit of French from high school.
 

Helmholtz Watson

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SckizoBoy said:
I was about to say that as a BBC, it should be obvious what languages I speak, though I'm shocked by how many there are that don't speak Chinese of one persuasion or another...

Anyway: English; Cantonese; Japanese; casual German; even more casual French; and bullshit.
Cantonese? Ugh, from ABC friends I've heard that it sounds very backwoods and harsh on the ears, any truth to that?
 

mateushac

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Portuguese (as my main language), English (pretty good), French (managed to survive a 2 week trip to France without any English), Some sort of Portuguese/Spanish mixup, and that's pretty much it
 

Helmholtz Watson

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SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
From Germany, speak German and English obviously.

Used to speak a touch of Spanish but kinda forgot everything I knew when I stopped going there on holiday.
Random question but perhaps you can help. I spoke to two German exchange students before, and the guy was from Berlin, while the girl was from southeast Germany(maybe Bavaria) and the guy told me that he couldn't understand the girl when she spoke German to him even though they were both native speakers. Have you ever had that problem before when speaking to people from the Bavarian area?

OP:

I speak Standard-American English, very little German and some Japanese.
 

ohnoitsabear

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I'm a native English speaker, and I can have a conversation in German, albeit with a very heavy American accent.
 

pilouuuu

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Spanish, Portuguese, English and I understand some Italian and French. I'd like to learn Klingon and that Elvish language.
 

mysecondlife

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English and Korean. Its 3rd grade level so I can't read political news and stuff. But I can get by ok with reading, writing and speaking.

I also don't seem to have trouble learning Japanese. Seems pretty easy for most part.
Nouw said:
English and Korean. I can speak fine in Korean but I'm not great at it.
:)
 

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SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
Helmholtz Watson said:
Have you ever had that problem before when speaking to people from the Bavarian area?
Oh yeah, loads of times. We here in NRW sometimes run into problems talking to people from the East, you can imagine how it is with some Bavarians. Its like a completely different language.
What is NRW? Last question, can you understand Yiddish?
 

Nouw

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mysecondlife said:
English and Korean. Its 3rd grade level so I can't read political news and stuff. But I can get by ok with reading, writing and speaking.

I also don't seem to have trouble learning Japanese. Seems pretty easy for most part.
Nouw said:
English and Korean. I can speak fine in Korean but I'm not great at it.
:)
Awww yeah. Although it is a little sad that someone that is learning it is just as good as someone that is actually Korean >.>. Go on my man, do what many koreans can't be arsed doing!
 

Guffe

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From Finland.
Mom is Swedish speaking finn so Swedish is actually my mother tongue.
Dad Finn so Finnish from him.
Enlgish, as a result of Swedish I can communicate with Norwegians and Danes.
 

BlackStar42

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English is my mother tongue (not surprising when you're born in England). I learnt German at GCSE level but that's gotten quite rusty after three years of not using it. I can still understand some of Rammstein's lyrics though, so all is not lost! I also know a few Finnish and Italian swearwords, but I don't think that counts.
 

mysecondlife

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Nouw said:
mysecondlife said:
English and Korean. Its 3rd grade level so I can't read political news and stuff. But I can get by ok with reading, writing and speaking.

I also don't seem to have trouble learning Japanese. Seems pretty easy for most part.
Nouw said:
English and Korean. I can speak fine in Korean but I'm not great at it.
:)
Awww yeah. Although it is a little sad that someone that is learning it is just as good as someone that is actually Korean >.>. Go on my man, do what many koreans can't be arsed doing!
Korean living in New Zealand? Do a lot of Koreans live there?

I live in Southern California so meeting Koreans and eating awesome Korean food is no issue for me. Hopefully you don't have problem with finding Korean things to indulge.
 

Nouw

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mysecondlife said:
Nouw said:
mysecondlife said:
English and Korean. Its 3rd grade level so I can't read political news and stuff. But I can get by ok with reading, writing and speaking.

I also don't seem to have trouble learning Japanese. Seems pretty easy for most part.
Nouw said:
English and Korean. I can speak fine in Korean but I'm not great at it.
:)
Awww yeah. Although it is a little sad that someone that is learning it is just as good as someone that is actually Korean >.>. Go on my man, do what many koreans can't be arsed doing!
Korean living in New Zealand? Do a lot of Koreans live there?

I live in Southern California so meeting Koreans and eating awesome Korean food is no issue for me. Hopefully you don't have problem with finding Korean things to indulge.
Yup. There's a massive Korean community in NZ, likewise with other cultures too. Problem? The opposite actually, enjoy it :).