OT -- What languages do you speak?

[tristar]

I was just wondering what languages all of you speak. I'm fluent in English and French, and kind of fluent in Hebrew. Anyone else?

[Alf]

Spanish and Catalan (native languages)
English, French, Italian and Portuguese (good level)
German (medium level)
Swedish (beginner level)
At present I´m trying to learn Japanese, though despite having a couple of 'Teach yourself Japanese' books and a lot of anime DVDs with original Japanese audio, as well as a lot of manga in their original edition, so far I have just learnt a few katakana characters.

[Speedy Boris]

English (native)
Spanish (two years in high school, so probably it's down to basic right now)

This probably shouldn't count, but I also know a few random words in Japanese. Can't say I can actually speak the language without looking like a total idiot, though.

[Tom Stathes]

English (native)
Spanish (5 years of study and hearing my mother's family speak it, though not quite fluent.) :o

[AndrewGilmore]

Languages are something of a hobby of mine- I have a big collection of foreign-language dictionaries, so, just for fun/wordplay purposes, I have picked up a few scraps here and there in various languages including Irish Gaelic, Yiddish, Greek, Welsh, Latin and Russian- however, I know none of those well enough for even basic conversation, with the possible exception of Yiddish.
In terms of languages which I have actually studied, I lasted only about two weeks in college Spanish, but have two years of college French under my belt, which I speak fluently, if perhaps not as fluently as a native speaker would. I also took a year and a half of high school German, which I learned pretty fluently at the time, but by now I've forgotten about 95% of it, which relegates my German to the aforementioned "I know a few words and phrases just for the hell of it" category.
And of course I'm a native speaker of English.

[oceansoul]

Hungarian (native)
English (you can judge the level from my posts.:D )

[Bugsy-Kun]

French (Native)
English (enough fluent)

[Speedy Boris]

English (you can judge the level from my posts.:D ) I've seen far worse. :)

[Bugsmer]

I speak English fluently. I've had instruction in French from Grade four up through Grade 13, but I still can't hold a conversation in it, pour deux raisons: one, I don't think in French (I've always treated it like a code in which to render my English sentences); and two, because I've never had anyone to practice it with. Languages are something you need to keep up with and practice every day or you'll eventually lose them, even if you were once fluent in them. In Canada, it is not necessary to know French, but it helps to be able to decipher words and phrases one sees from time to time. Everything made in Canada has English lettering on one side and French on the other, so there are nouns I never forget and phrases I use to fancy up my English, rather like Chaucer and his Latin. It must be pretty cool to be able to communicate with so many different groups of people. Keep speaking, guys, and you may know these languages to the end of your lives.

[detroittvguy]

English and Ubbi-Dubbi.

[AndrewGilmore]

I've seen far worse. :)

So have I- mostly by native speakers:D

[dandu]

I know not to talk about banned members but what about jacktripperfan? Boy did that fella speak some horrible English...:rolleyes:
Anyway I speak English fluently and some French, oui oui, je parlez Francais!

[Ray Pointer]

English first, some Spanish and more French. Does Profane count? Let's not forget bird calls. How's that for "fowl" language?:p

[frootloops]

English, Scottish and Australian:p

I suppose I should be ashamed to say, I cannot even speak my own native language - Irish, but I don't know a soul here who speaks it, so I guess I don't need it.

[frizfrelengfan]

English - my native language. I take a great deal of pride in the way I write.
French - took in high school, I can read and write it but not speak it
Spanish - I know many words, just from working in New York City

My friend and I speak in a code, which he made up.

I also know several computer programming languages.

[Fredrik]

Swedish - native tounge.

English - fluent.

Finnish - fluent but not quite as good as my English.

Norwegian - understand perfectly, as it is very close to Swedish, and I can sort of speak it but that's not really necessary as Norwegians will understand Swedish.

Danish - also close to Swedish so I understand it well enough, but I wouldn't try to speak it. :)

French - studied at school many years ago, so basic knowledge but very rusty.

[Bugsy-Kun]

French - studied at school many years ago, so basic knowledge but very rusty.

French is a hard-knocks language to learn. Even here with the many races peoples.

[David Gerstein]

• American English— my original tongue and the source of my accent
• British English— the version of English spoken in most places where I lived from 1994-2004; I adopted the expressions and idioms so locals could understand me more easily, and still use them unconsciously
• Danish— the only other language I can both read and speak
• German— the first foreign language I learned, though today I can only really read it (speaking is a mess)
• Norwegian, Swedish— can read with low-level skill, unable to speak
• Hebrew— can read it, but can't understand it!

[Tom Stathes]

David, you forgot about how you speak in SFXish and Foodish!

[AndrewGilmore]

French is a hard-knocks language to learn
You're tellin' me?! :daffy: Hoo hoo!

[WoodpeckerWoody]

I speck Icelandic (native) the greatest language and it is mystery to me that only 310,000 speak it.

English you can judge the level from my posts. :rolleyes:

As bonus I would like to tech you one word in Icelandic

Icelandic vs English
Teiknimynd = Cartoon

[RachelToonist]

I was just wondering what languages all of you speak. I'm fluent in English and French, and kind of fluent in Hebrew. Anyone else?

English and Spanish, as well as a bit of German from my years living in Frankfurt.

[RachelToonist]

I speak English fluently. I've had instruction in French from Grade four up through Grade 13, but I still can't hold a conversation in it, pour deux raisons: one, I don't think in French (I've always treated it like a code in which to render my English sentences); and two, because I've never had anyone to practice it with. Languages are something you need to keep up with and practice every day or you'll eventually lose them, even if you were once fluent in them. In Canada, it is not necessary to know French, but it helps to be able to decipher words and phrases one sees from time to time. Everything made in Canada has English lettering on one side and French on the other, so there are nouns I never forget and phrases I use to fancy up my English, rather like Chaucer and his Latin. It must be pretty cool to be able to communicate with so many different groups of people. Keep speaking, guys, and you may know these languages to the end of your lives.

That happened to me with Spanish. I studied it from seventh grade through college, but my biggest stumbling block in trying to achieve fluency was that I could never understand spoken Spanish as well as I could the written language. I couldn't think in Spanish, either, and would be so busy mentally translating I'd often miss huge chunks of what was being said.

[Lee Glover]

Fluent
The Queen's English
West Country English (Ooo-arr, where's me cider, me little flower?)
Cockney English (Up the apples & pears I go!)

Basic
French

Only a few words
Italian

[Bartman]

I speak Igpay Atinlay (Pig Latin, for those of you not in the loop) and on good nights - fluid drunkanese!!! :p

[Timber Wolf]

I speak Finnish and English and some Swedish and German. I can't speak any other languages but I know a few (very few) Spanish words, thanks to Speedy Gonzales! :speedy:

[Bugsmer]

That happened to me with Spanish. I studied it from seventh grade through college, but my biggest stumbling block in trying to achieve fluency was that I could never understand spoken Spanish as well as I could the written language. I couldn't think in Spanish, either, and would be so busy mentally translating I'd often miss huge chunks of what was being said.

One of the reasons for this problem is the fact that we pronounce written words in our own private ways, and continue to prononce them like this, whether or not the words actually sound the same. Our years of work weren't quite for nothing, however. We did learn a few words, phrases and verb conjugations that we'll continue to use for years afterwords. I found one big stumbling block in learning a language to be the enormous volume of nouns and adjectives I had to keep looking up in order to get my message across. In my written work, I would write in French, and leave English words to be looked up later, so they would be more like English compositions than French writings. I would use big words I'd use in English after looking up the French equivalent, and I'm sure they seemed out of place in my poorly-worded writings. I also had the habit of translating English expressions into French words, leaving some alien mixture of words that mean't nothing to the average Frenchman. The only way to learn a language is to practice it properly and often with someone else who speaks it.

[angilbas]

English (mother tongue)
French (educated up to Grade 11)
A few Spanish words such as el conejo:bugs2:, el gato:sylvester, peligro:speedy:, caballeros:bugs1:, cantina:slow:, aeropuerto:daffy::speedy:, gracias:speedy::sylvester, senor:befuddled, senorita:sowhite:, and el pollo:foggy:.


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-Tony