View Full Version : How many languages do you speak?
And what are they?
EDIT: Before you say that the 30 poll options are too much, I know a guy who can speak 27 languages!
Two, English and something else.
Two, English and something else.
lmao! What else?
Vuk
English, russian, and russian-swearing :laugh4:
mother tongue, English and German.
Well I voted 2 because, although I'm far from fluent in French, I've been learning for 5 years and can communicate more or less what I want to say, even if it still has errors.
The other language should be pretty obvious. ~D
30 poll choices, and no Gah!? :gah2:
Polish, english on intermediate and I can read russian
Warmaster Horus
10-24-2007, 19:18
English, French, German and Spanish.
A pretty good start, don't you think? I'm thinking of (later, that is) learning Russian, Dutch and Arabic.
Oh, Vuk... What languages could that guy speak? I'm intrigued.
can read russian
Can actually anyone read what I writed in sig?
....edited, or I might get another warning for swearing...
ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88
10-24-2007, 19:44
English and some Spanish. 2 :yes: :beam:
Tristuskhan
10-24-2007, 19:50
French, english, breton and chinese (but my chinese is worse than it used to be, I seldom speak chinese when working in forestry). Also learned russian for long, long long time ago and it's gone, alas. Now it's only useful when I go travelling in Mongolia, since Mongolian is written with cyrillic alphabet.
@charge: of course I can read it but I really can't understand it anymore!
English, Spanish and I'm working on Chinese. After that? I'd like Arabic but teachers of that are hard to come by.
Chinese's my mother tongue, English is my secondary language. And learned French and German for 3 years then dropped French, but still taking German for GCSE. Is the 4? or is that 2? :dizzy2:
English, French, German and Spanish.
A pretty good start, don't you think? I'm thinking of (later, that is) learning Russian, Dutch and Arabic.
Oh, Vuk... What languages could that guy speak? I'm intrigued.
Every European language, including Flemish. He also spoke Latin, Greek, and many middle-eastern languages, in addition to several Asian. Many of his languages were not spoken, but written and read, as they were ancient. He was my history proffessor when I first started going to school a LONG time ago. Unfortunetally he died two years after I met him. He was the most accomplished (and opinionated :P) people I have ever met.
Vuk
Tribesman
10-24-2007, 20:22
Every European language, including Flemish.
There are over 150 european languages .
Still 27 languages is one hell of an achievement .
Mikeus Caesar
10-24-2007, 21:06
My mother tongue, English and a bizarre mixture of French, German and English that me and a friend communicate with. Frangleutsch!
3: Dutch (my mother tongue), French and English.
Kralizec
10-24-2007, 21:24
Dutch, English and German. My Frankophonics have rusted shut over the years.
scotchedpommes
10-24-2007, 21:30
Ach... maybe a bit of this, and a bit of that, you know. My interpreter
speaks five and a bit though, so I'm fine with that. ~;p
What else?
There might, perhaps, if you're really, really lucky, be a hint in my signature or my location. ~;)
There are over 150 european languages .
Still 27 languages is one hell of an achievement .
Could count on Tribesy to say that. ~;)
I am referring to every modern, national language my dear friend. ~;) That is what he told me.
English
Very basic knowledge of German and Basic knowledge of Spanish. I don't consider myself able to speak them though.
There might, perhaps, if you're really, really lucky, be a hint in my signature or my location. ~;)
German? Darn I'm good! I'm learning German now. :)
RoadKill
10-24-2007, 21:57
I can speak English, French, Chinese, Italian.
Portuguese (mother language), English fluently, French badly, Spanish (but this is kinda cheating since it´s so close to Portuguese), I can understand some Italian but not really speak it...and I know half a dozen words in Hebrew and Russian.
Soulforged
10-24-2007, 22:11
Yo hablo tres idiomas diferentes:
First spanish, for where I live that's the native language.
Logo ingleis pos ese e o lenguagem que mais me gosta.
And lastly portugues, the language of my mother...
EDIT: Also apparently kamikhaan knows how to speak 30 languages so I'll have to be careful of what I write when he is around...
Sarmatian
10-24-2007, 22:16
Let's say three: Serbian, English and German. But my German is quite bad. When I try to read complicated sentences in German, and see five verbs at the end I have no strength to put them in their proper places :laugh4: . But it is improving on a daily basis...
Can actually anyone read what I writed in sig?
"He who takes up the sword, will die by the sword" or something like that?
"He who takes up the sword, will die by the sword" or something like that?
Yeh, almost, but than I wrote it originally it was slightly different ~D
Tribesman
10-24-2007, 22:30
I am referring to every modern, national language my dear friend.
And ...there are lots of nations in modern europe with several national languages , there are about 150 european languages used just in the countries of the European union ..not all countries in Europe are in the union
seireikhaan
10-24-2007, 23:23
EDIT: Also apparently kamikhaan knows how to speak 30 languages so I'll have to be careful of what I write when he is around...
:laugh4: Okay, caught me. No, I don't really speak 30 languages, more like one and one half. Very good English, if I do say do myself, and rather broken, muddled French. Just wanted to see what any reaction might be to it.
English, and my French is good enough to carry on a long winded philosophical discussion, or a red-faced, profanity-laced screaming argument.
And just enough Spanish to have had the neighbour's wife in Costa Rica begging for a slice o' Beirut pie. :sunny: "Yo habla love."
woad&fangs
10-24-2007, 23:47
English is my native language and I learned Deutsch fur zwei Jahre, aber meine Grammatik ist sehr schlect. I haven't taken it in a year however so I don't speak it or write it well. I do understand a decent amount when I'm reading it.
IrishArmenian
10-24-2007, 23:50
Armenian (mother tongue) and English.
TevashSzat
10-25-2007, 01:54
English, Chinese, and Spanish for me...
Evil_Maniac From Mars
10-25-2007, 02:01
lmao! What else?
Vuk
...
:wall:
Anyways:
German
English
French (speak, not write so well)
Russian (a touch, not much really)
Spanish (I can say "Excuse me sir, I seem to have lost my cheese", and nothing else)
Oh, and Ostfränkisch. :laugh4:
Ayachuco
10-25-2007, 02:50
I speak English and Vietnamese (only the southern dialect however, I don't know the Bac Viet dialect or the Hue dialect).
Justiciar
10-25-2007, 02:56
Depends on what you mean by "speak". I can hold a short and ugly conversation in German, and know a slither of French - though grammar is virtually none existant.
I'm only fluent in English and Spanish. Polyglots scare me.
Strike For The South
10-25-2007, 05:37
English and Spainish and one day if I can make time ebonix
Depends on what you mean by "speak".
Indeed. I could have an ugly conversation in french, a normal conversation in german, and difficult conversations in dutch and english.
SeekerDK
10-25-2007, 11:15
Danish and English.
thou worth mentioning that I can do conversation with most Swedish and Norwegians since the language difference is quite small and I understand some German (3. language in secondary school) and Dutch.
And of cause I'm pretty good in British, American and India-English.
FactionHeir
10-25-2007, 13:27
I'm amazed at the large number of people who speak Chinese here. I would have expected a more English + 1-2 other Western languages distribution for the ORG.
You may guess which I speak, but I won't tell :tongue2:
Mikeus Caesar
10-25-2007, 13:36
I'm amazed at the large number of people who speak Chinese here. I would have expected a more English + 1-2 other Western languages distribution for the ORG.
You may guess which I speak, but I won't tell :tongue2:
English?
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:wall:
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EDIT: Also apparently kamikhaan knows how to speak 30 languages so I'll have to be careful of what I write when he is around...
I doubt that. :P That IS what the poll options are there for though...
And ...there are lots of nations in modern europe with several national languages , there are about 150 european languages used just in the countries of the European union ..not all countries in Europe are in the union
In 1922?
macsen rufus
10-25-2007, 14:48
I put down two - English, of course, my native tongue, and a smattering of a few bits of others that cobbled together make probably one whole one ~D
My most proficient foreign language is Spanish, I'd say, which is one I picked up in later life rather than at school. I'd say if I was dropped into a Spanish-speaking country I'd have no difficulties surviving, anyway. (Okay, I may have problems with pure Castillano - I learnt my Spanish in Latin America where the phonetics are so much kinder to us English speakers :2thumbsup: ) French and German I took at school, but have forgotten way too much, due to lack of practice. A bit of Nederlands after a few months working in Zeeland (no jokes from you Hollanders about my accent, ok? :beam: ) and a tiny amount of Italian - and I can buy beer in Turkish, Portuguese, Ukrainian (well, vodka, strictly - when in Rome etc), and International Sign Language for all the rest of the world.
If that doesn't cover what I need, well I just SHOUT LOUDER :laugh4:
So you can speak 30 languages also SFTS? :P lol
I only speak English. I'm learning German though I'm not good at it and I could get tickets, food, and drink in Spanish if I need to though conversation is completely out of the question.
And Macsen Rufus I'm glad I'm not the only proponent of volume as a pure medium of communication. I swear that yelling louder and pointing more furiously does get the point across, especially when the speech is laced with a few English cuss words.
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I think EMFM was banging his head against the wall because it should be rather obvious that I speak diese andere Sprache.
I thought so too, aber ich haue meinen Kopf nicht gerne gegen die Wand. ~;)
I'd also like to see Macsen Rufus communicate really loud using international sign language. ~D
I thought so too, aber ich haue meinen Kopf nicht gerne gegen die Wand. ~;)
Why not? :beam: I do. :P
Kralizec
10-25-2007, 22:47
So you can speak 30 languages also SFTS? :P lol
You know the saying, "there's nothing a Texan can't do"...
Mouzafphaerre
10-25-2007, 23:21
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Türkçe ― توركجه (Turkish): Mother-tongue
English: Proficiently enough I think :thinking:
Studied Deutsch (German) for three years but forgot most of it. ~:mecry:
Studying Ελληνικά (Greek) and Kurmanci ― كورمانجی (Kurmanji Kurdish). :book2:
Can understand a little عربی (Arabic) and فارسی (Farsi/Persian).
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Beefy187
10-27-2007, 01:08
looks like im the first Japanese speaker:sweatdrop:
Japanese is my first languege, English is second. Ive been learning chinese for 3 years. Im enjoying it too:2thumbsup:
When I graduate high school im thinking of learning one either Russian, Arabic or Spanish.
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