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    Spirit King Senior Member seireikhaan's Avatar
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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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    Armenian (mother tongue) and English.
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    English, Chinese, and Spanish for me...
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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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    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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    I'm only fluent in English and Spanish. Polyglots scare me.

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    English and Spainish and one day if I can make time ebonix
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    Default Re: How many languages do you speak?

    Quote Originally Posted by Justiciar
    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.
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    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.

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    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.

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    Default Re: How many languages do you speak?

    Quote Originally Posted by FactionHeir
    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
    English?
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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...

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    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?
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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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    So you can speak 30 languages also SFTS? :P lol
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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
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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar
    I thought so too, aber ich haue meinen Kopf nicht gerne gegen die Wand.
    Why not? I do. :P
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vuk Brankovic
    So you can speak 30 languages also SFTS? :P lol
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    English: Proficiently enough I think
    Studied Deutsch (German) for three years but forgot most of it.
    Studying Ελληνικά (Greek) and Kurmanci ― كورمانجی (Kurmanji Kurdish).
    Can understand a little عربی (Arabic) and فارسی (Farsi/Persian).
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    looks like im the first Japanese speaker

    Japanese is my first languege, English is second. Ive been learning chinese for 3 years. Im enjoying it too

    When I graduate high school im thinking of learning one either Russian, Arabic or Spanish.


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