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I would like to know who here speaks foriegn languages fluently.
Also what is your primary language?
I am starting my two years of language in college now and would like to know if you had a hard time learning whatever new language.
If you speak more than one fluently please list them all.
Thank you,
Athlon
I am about to be in my fourth semester of French, I will have two years total in college, and two years total in high school.
mg33
I forget the word for it, but what language do you speak naturally. I am assuming english?
I also just notice you have 330 posts and i have 33.
CRAZY!!!
OK there has to be more people that come here and speak more than one language.
Anybody?
Well, I can speak three. But not fluently anymore. My native tongue is english, I also know french and spanish, but I'm not so good at them anymore. Don't get much opportunity to practice!
i speak persian. I'm losing it though, it's easier for me to speak english so I do and I'm forgetting more and more persian. :(
I speak a bit of french, thats just from school. Us canadians have to take french from grade 3 till 9 then its optional.
Au revoir.
Khodofez.
Bye.
My native tongue is American English, not to be confused with the Queen's English.
I studied Spanish in high school for 2 years, don't remember a whole lot of vocabulary, but I can listen or read and get general concepts.
I studied Japanese in college for 2 years, never was fluent, but I can read katakana easy enough. I can pronounce hiragana, but again, my vocabulary is weak, so I only remember common phrases and simple sentences. I only recognize a couple dozen kanji or so.
Learn as much as you can, any tiny bit is so useful, and you never know when you'll use it.
well i finished my oac in french (that's basically like grade 13)... i can understand fairly well, my speaking skills aren't as great...also, i guess you would say i speak french with a quebec accent because i heard france french sounds really different...
I wouldn't go so far as to say fluent, but i speak Italian fairly well (i live in Italy at the moment, and can communicate almost anything i want, which is not the same as fluency).
Native language is the Queens English and i learned Italian by listening, asking, and making an arse of myself.
An example...
I wanted to rent an aparmtment for a year, and asked in an agency. The woman smiled politely and said she didn't have any.
When i told my Italian colleague how i'd said what i wanted he laughed at me, for quite a while.
Due to an inflection in the word Anno (year) which i missed, i had asked for an apartment for one anus.
Oh! That always hurts.
I am listed in a spanish class now but I want to take something where i have to learn the whole thing. Say something like japanese or chinese, something along thoughs lines. Don,t ask me why they just seem more appealling to me.
russian and french and spanish...these are my langauges...and oh yeah, english is foreign too!
My Brother in law started Mandarin lessons. VERY hard for a western tounge. New sounds, new writing, a real challenge.
I can understand you wanting to do that. I love languages.
I used to speak French very well, and German too (not so well), but i lost those a while ago.
Languages are cool to learn. Go for it!
Also, a nations' people will respect you for trying to learn their language if ever you have cause to use it in their country. Better to stutter out a crap phrase in Chinese than to come straight out with the same in your own language.
Athlon, I speak english, live in the US. I also picked up quite a bit of spanish when I was waiting tables.
Oh, and in two more posts, when I have 333 posts, on account of being mg"33" I bet my computer is going to catch fire...
mg33
I have just finished my exam for french ( high school exam) and i preyed for the day to come! i hate speaking othjer langugages cos i lose interest very quickly. Al i speak now is english/scottish/could u reapeat that plz ( scots often cant be understood by foreigners)
Stevie Calder
I speak fluent Japanese. Steve
How hard was it to learn Japenese?
I am really interested in it, but some things I pick up and others well dont come to me quickly.
Japenese interests me becuase I have a japenese relative and I want to learn something intirely new to me.
Learning japanese would really help me when playing imported RPG's from Japan. I know that is kinda pointless because RPG's are based so heavily on text and interaction, unlike dragonball Z/fighting games, which are just push button, non verbal games. Oh well, I just want to learn Japanese.
I am Dutch... so I speak Dutch and English...
And a few words german and french..thats about it
Me and some of my friends in high school started out own language we called "germanese" It involved the sound of german, and the ninja-like precesion of japanese sounds all roled into one (Hope this does not offend anyone, we were young and involved in a world embellished with "stand-outish" types. Anyhow, it was great, everytime we talked like that people thought we were going to attack.
mg33
Native ugly American, but speak fluent Spanish...although I'm losing a lot of words...don't get a lot of opportunity to practice.
Rich
Stand on a street corner in the rain for about an hour. Let the rush-hour traffic bathe you with the fresh runoff. I am certain your Ugly American dialect will come back to you in a...splash.Quote:
Originally posted by Kraken
...I'm losing a lot of words...don't get a lot of opportunity to practice.
heh,
yeah, I'd sure like to give that cabbie the other day a few choice words...
by the way, it's the Spanish that is slacking, not the english...although, I still have dreams in spanish where I can't remember english...weird...
Rich
My second langualge is Italian....yeah I know there goes the prices of real estate..:)
Tony
Athlon, Mike,
Japanese isn't too easy to learn. I had a pretty good teacher, but she was extremely difficult. I have studied it for about 3 years. If you would like to know some words in english that you have seen in Japanese, just let me know and I will do my best to translate them.
I'm perfectly fluent in both English and French. I learned both languages as I grew up (also doesn't hurt to be in a billingual province ;) )
I also know a bit of German and Japanese. Looking especially forward to starting Japanese language courses next year.
eyebrow,
Hey, (i know i'm jumping on this late), but where do you live in Italy? i lived in rome for a while to study art...i was lucky enough to live right downtown by the pantheon...
i miss that crazy country, and would like to get back sometime...oh, and on the subject of this thread, i speak Italian proficiently, although i lose more of it every day i stay in Ohio.
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cdoGG
I live in Ohio as well!!
I really don,t like it here.
I speak English and Armenian. Any other Armenian people here?
- Alex
pretty close..hehe..think USSR
Athlon, where are you at?
I'm about 20 minutes east of Cleveland, right on the lake
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cdoGG
I live in Zanesville, but I am attending college at Ohio U. in athens at the moment.
I have some friends that go here frm the cleveland area. There names are matt and beth.
English and took french in school.
English and Chinese, does others dialect counts?
japanese is my secondary
:D
I am Scottish but live & work in Germany. My German is very good but not yet fluent. One of the nice things about German is that so many other languages are derived from it e.g. Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and as a very distant relative... English itself. I'd like to learn Spanish as a few languages are derived from that and I'd like to learn Italian & Persian just for the hell of it.
Evildrome.
I know some italian......ragu, lasagna, chef-boy-r-dee (oh wait, that's french!)
hehehe :D
-fishee
cdogg,
Rome's cool, spent only a short time there though, now i'm in Milan. Different story!
Italy is marvellous. I'm considering staying here.
I love the UK but the weather is **** and everything costs at least a third more than the rest of europe!
Cant get crappy English food here though - that i go home for. Bacon sandwiches dont exist! Tragedy.