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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar
    Two, English and something else.
    lmao! What else?

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    English, russian, and russian-swearing

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    mother tongue, English and German.
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    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.

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    30 poll choices, and no Gah!?
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    Polish, english on intermediate and I can read russian
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    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.
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    can read russian
    Can actually anyone read what I writed in sig?

    ....edited, or I might get another warning for swearing...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Warmaster Horus
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vuk Brankovic
    What else?
    There might, perhaps, if you're really, really lucky, be a hint in my signature or my location.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar
    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. :)
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    I can speak English, French, Chinese, Italian.
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    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.
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    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...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Soulforged

    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...
    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.
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    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. "Yo habla love."
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    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.
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    So you can speak 30 languages also SFTS? :P lol
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    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 . But it is improving on a daily basis...

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    "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

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    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

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    Armenian (mother tongue) and English.
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    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.
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    English and Spainish and one day if I can make time ebonix
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    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

    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 ) 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? ) 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.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Vuk Brankovic
    lmao! What else?

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    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.
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    I speak English and Vietnamese (only the southern dialect however, I don't know the Bac Viet dialect or the Hue dialect).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
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    Quote Originally Posted by Soulforged

    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...

    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
    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

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    In a racial conflict I'd have no problem popping off some negroes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vuk Brankovic
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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.


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