How many languages do you speak?

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-06-13 08:59pm

Native: English
Good: French and Japanese
Learning: Italian and Spanish

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-06-13 09:03pm

Fluent English in all aspects. I speak good Mandarin Chinese (Can understand everything used in everyday life), and read a little less, and write even less. I'm a first year Japanese student, so I can engage in simple conversation... Since I'm Chinese, I can also guess at many of the kanji and what a particular sentence means.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-13 09:29pm

I can speak standard American English, and of course California English. Im fully proficient in all the tonal differences for "dude". Every other sentance starts with "Ya know". The proper use of "hella" is an East Bay thing.

I understand a few hundred words in spoken Cantonese. I have trouble understanding sentances, I mainly know that name of objects and simple phrases.

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2003-06-13 09:45pm

English and Mandarin. A little Japanese (very little).

Son of the Suns · Post by **Son of the Suns** » 2003-06-13 11:18pm

verilon wrote:I know Wnglish (obviously) and I speak Spanish fairly well. I can understand (theoretically) Portuguese and Italian given that, and I can understand some French, and less German. I also know a bit of Russian (though all in present tense, and I am getting caught up on it again, anyhow).

~ver

Wnglish?

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-06-14 02:17am

Since we're all including dialects of English, I can understand Pidgin English (Used in Hawaii, other Pacific Islands), and standard English.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-06-14 02:20am

Exonerate wrote:Since we're all including dialects of English, I can understand Pidgin English (Used in Hawaii, other Pacific Islands), and standard English.

I think that's mostly we Americans padding out our totals so we don't look completely insular.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-06-14 02:26am

RedImperator wrote:
Exonerate wrote:Since we're all including dialects of English, I can understand Pidgin English (Used in Hawaii, other Pacific Islands), and standard English.
I think that's mostly we Americans padding out our totals so we don't look completely insular.

Hehe, true. But I do speak other languages

If you ever talk to somebody who speaks Pidgin English, the common American's reaction would probably be "...is he gay?"

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-06-14 03:29am

Sea Skimmer wrote:Or "I only speak two languages, English and bad English."

Well, I did, but it's OK, cause when I say it it's cool.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-06-14 03:44am

My German is "somewhat okay" and my Hebrew is "pretty darn good".

Both have sufficed with the ladies in the countries where they are spoken, so I am satisfied.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-06-14 03:45am

English

Few Japanese words and phrases

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EvilGrey · Post by **EvilGrey** » 2003-06-14 03:51am

Dialects of English do not count as separate languages, poor unilingual (?) fools!

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-06-14 07:38am

Native: English

Learned: French, L337 5p34k

Partially Learned: Finnish, German

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-06-14 12:27pm

You want local dialects?

Wa bout ye wee man wheres the craic here?

Incidently craic is NOT a miss spelling of a class A drug. I spend a long time explaining that to a few non-irish people i met at a youth politics conference once.

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2003-06-14 01:08pm

English (some dialects included), Chinese, Taiwanese and a tiny little Japanese

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-06-14 04:54pm

English, of course
Cantonese
Mandarin
I suppose pig latin technically counts
I can speak enough Spanish to make a complete ass of myself
I can count to ten in all of the above, plus Japanese

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-06-14 10:57pm

English and French.

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2003-06-14 11:16pm

English, which is my primary language. My King's English is passable, but I've forgetten my Aussie English.

Can speak Chinese dialects Cantonese and Mandarin, but can't write Chinese very well. Studied French and Italian, but I've forgetten much of French and almost all of Italian save one word.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-06-14 11:46pm

English. I can pull off a basic conversation in Spanish. I took French for a few years so if I look at my notes I may be able to speak it again. And I'm an expert at pig latin.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-06-15 04:24am

I can speak English, Bengali and some Hindi and Urdu as well as a little Turkish. I can also read and write Arabic but is very poor at speaking it.

Regarding accents or variations of English I can understand the Irish accent somewhat having lived in the Irish coastal city of Galway. I have also stayed in New York but my US accent is not like a genuine American. In simple words I lack an accent and talk english the way it is.
Hopefully I will be able to improve my US accent once I arrive in the US for higher education next year.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2003-06-15 04:41am

English. But I can speak some Cantonese and Mandarin, though not that good with either (better with Cantonese). Oh, and I'm trying to learn Huttese: "H'chu apenkee, geebawa do lorda numa!"

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-06-15 04:54am

Lord of the Farce wrote:English. But I can speak some Cantonese and Mandarin, though not that good with either (better with Cantonese). Oh, and I'm trying to learn Huttese: "H'chu apenkee, geebawa do lorda numa!"

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Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-06-15 06:09am

Fluent English, functional French, a few phrases in Mandarin and a word or two of Japanese.

I was taking a course in Mandarin Chinese as one of my necessary arts electives at college, but had to drop it for a variety of reasons. I later picked up a book/tape to try to learn Japanese, but I'm having a fairly rough time with it.

Let me tell you, Mandarin is one of the most logical, consistant and overall well-designed languages I've ever encountered. Japanese is, well, not.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-06-15 09:05am

Drooling Iguana wrote: Japanese is, well, not.

And why do you say that?

Crix Dorius · Post by **Crix Dorius** » 2003-06-15 11:52am

German (some differend dialect's) and English.

Snippets of France, Russia and Japan.