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JWPearl
JWPearl Posts: 19,893
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how many languages can you speak ??

me just french and english
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,451
    I learned quite a few at school. I am from Germany. My first foreign language was Russian, I'm from Eastern Germany. Then after the wall fell, I got to learn Latin, English, French, too two years of Spanish too. At university, I studied French for a bit, and got a master in English. Then I went abroad for a semester to Finland and learned some Finnish there. So I guess I'm at five. I can say and write at least a sentence in all of them. I once talked to a Finnish movie director, but the convo soon became too much for me :lol: I'm still pretty good at French, Latin is not a spoken language but helps a lot figuring out anything written that has the same linguistic background, and I can read Russian and understand a tiny bit. English is the main second language I use. I work as a translator, and live in America now, so I have to use it all the time. Languages are fun!
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  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    thats impressive!!!
    im chatting with someone at the moment who is portuguese, italian and irish and he can speak
    portuguese, italian, french ,spanish and english, my goodness where does he store it all but does not know gaelic
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,451
    It is not that hard to find your way around it if you do know some basics in certain languages. Spanish, Italian, French etc all have the same origin, Latin. English has had influences from Latin, French and Scandinavian languages. If you learned something like Spanish when you are German, you understand something of all the languages that have parts of the same origin. I have always been a language person and always enjoyed learning new ones. Not everybody is a language person. I suck at everything that has to do with numbers and math :lol:
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  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,224
    English
    C/C++
    Java
    HTML
    JavaScript
    VisualBasic

    I'm guessing those aren't the languages you're talking about though...
  • jnimhaoileoin
    jnimhaoileoin Baile Átha Cliath Posts: 2,682
    edited June 2015
    I speak Irish and English and can understand a good bit of French (I studied it for 7 years but we're crap at teaching languages in Ireland!). I understand some Danish and German but would love to become fluent
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    English and enough French to get buy when traveling. My French always gets much better when I'm using it, not surprisingly, then bottoms out again when I don't.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    I speak English. Poorly.
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  • elen
    elen Milan, Italy Posts: 188
    Leezestarr313 said:

    Not everybody is a language person.

    Absolutely true.
    I'm Italian and for what I've been taught at school I should only speak Italian...
    But I've always loved English and I tried to learn it by myself.
    I can survive in France and when I'm in a Spanish-speaking country I usually talk in Italian and everything's fine :)
    I can also say hello in Thai and thank you in Icelandic :D
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    I only know one language well and that is the language of looove hahaha talk about the cheesiest thing one can say ;)
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,398
    igpay atinlay
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  • shetellsherself
    shetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    English. Hubby's first language is Arabic. He's tried to teach all of us. The kids are better than I, but I can understand enough to get through a simple conversation. I can read it too but then have to work really hard on translation. It's a tough language but very beautiful.
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    English
    Bad English
    Deutschlish(my random combo of English and German)
    And I'm fairly decent at reading Deutsche
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I speak in tongues :sunglasses:

    English and four years of French. I'm with often in that it fades when not speaking it regularly. I found that the short time I spent in France had me practically thinking in that language - little of the mental translation I do now.

    I also know several Persian words and phrases.

    And elen, well done!
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    PJSiren said:

    English
    Bad English
    Deutschlish(my random combo of English and German)
    And I'm fairly decent at reading Deutsche

    No Modern English?!

    I wonder if Deutschlish is similar to Greeklish...
  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    hedonist said:

    PJSiren said:

    English
    Bad English
    Deutschlish(my random combo of English and German)
    And I'm fairly decent at reading Deutsche

    No Modern English?!

    I wonder if Deutschlish is similar to Greeklish...
    Modern English...? Is this stuff like Yolo? Haha
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    PJSiren said:

    hedonist said:

    PJSiren said:

    English
    Bad English
    Deutschlish(my random combo of English and German)
    And I'm fairly decent at reading Deutsche

    No Modern English?!

    I wonder if Deutschlish is similar to Greeklish...
    Modern English...? Is this stuff like Yolo? Haha
    I'll stop the world and melt with you
    You've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time

    :sunglasses:
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    PJSiren said:


    Modern English...? Is this stuff like Yolo? Haha

    Yolo? Oh dear =)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN6gs0AJls
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Yeah Hobbes!
  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    Oooh...I never knew their name....haha forgive me....I took your question literally....
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,398
    hedonist said:

    I speak in tongues :sunglasses:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrS4lFnGQk

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    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
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    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
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    4/29/16- Philly, PA
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    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
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