Seeing that we're all from different places, I thought it'd be interesting to start a topic like this.
So what do you speak? It doesn't have to be fluently.
-English
-Spanish (very little)
-Japanese (almost nonexistent)
english.
japanese (not fluent)
very little french i like forgot it all after middleschool
uh i can say f your mother and hello in chinese.
Spanish
English
a little of portuguese.
English
Spanish (Pretty decent.)
Japanese (Learning.)
English and a little bit of Spanish. I would've figured I'd have picked up more Spanish, having been raised in a Hispanic household in one of the most (if not most) Hispanic states in the Union, but I didn't pick up much.
I speak about 12-13 including Japanese after those Famicom ads I watched.
-English (native)
-Spanish (up to AP Spanish in high school)
-Japanese (teaching myself, but will take formal classes in college)
Guetamala or Guatemala?
I speak German (my mother language),
English (fluent),
Japanese (fluent),
Chinese (basics) and
Italian (forgot most of the basics I learned :P) a little bit.
Latin (I don't speak it, but I had it 5 years at school. The basics are there. ;) )
I can read (very) easy written French or Spanish. I understand a bit of Dutch.
If possible I'd like to become fluent in Chinese and then get some knowledge in Cantonese. That's quite hard, but I still have lots of time. ;)
German
English
Latin
French (learning)
Spanish (a little)
I`d like to learn japanese someday.
English of course
took 3 years of Latin
I know how to swear in French and German
If Latin also counts... I had that 5 years in school.
I forgot most of it, though.
Non vitae, sed scholae discimus... or so it seems. ;D
manuel seems to be an encyclopedia of languages! good job!
I do what I can.
It seems I can learn new languages very easily.
On the other hand I can't remember stuff I'm not interested in. I was so bad at history and law in school... and still am. :P
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on February 14, 2007, 02:42:21 pm
Seeing that we're all from different places, I thought it'd be interesting to start a topic like this.
So what do you speak? It doesn't have to be fluently.
-English
-Spanish (very little)
-Japanese (almost nonexistent)
Hehe, diito on what Jedi said. But I also know a tiny bit of Cantonese as well.
Portuguese (native, but forgetting :-[)
Japanese(using all the time)
Basic English
Basic Spanish
Little Italian
French and almost perfected english.
English & spanish. ;)
Does American Sign Language count as forgein language? :-\
Since America Sign Language is my native language (but you don't speak it but using hands)
1) ASL (my native language)
2) English (good at English but grammars bad)
3) German (My foster parents native language)
4) Japanese (can understand Hiragana and Katakana)
and
5) Spanish (little bit because my parent's from Mexico)
Quote from: The Ancient on May 13, 2007, 01:11:43 pm
Does American Sign Language count as forgein language? :-\
I would love learn the sign language.
Sign language? Cool. ;D
I find it interesting how you can communicate through signs.
English , Spanish, know a little Japanese.
French and english :)
Spanish (native)
English (pretty good actually)
...and I can read Hiragana, Katakana and some simple Kanji ;D
Portuguese (L1)
English
Spanish (very bad)
Japanese (kana reading)
Quote from: Profeta Yoshitake on July 10, 2007, 03:15:40 pm
Portuguese (L1)
English
Spanish (very bad)
Japanese (kana reading)
Falamos o mesmo idioma, Profeta!
Qué tan malo es su español? :P Dicen que ustedes los brasileños entienden más el español que nosotros entendemos el portugués. ;D
<Translation for the spanish-impaired :P: How bad is your spanish? It is a common saying that you brazilians can understand our language (spanish) a lot more that we can understand yours (portuguese).>
Quote from: 133MHz on July 15, 2007, 11:41:40 pm
Qué tan malo es su español? :P Dicen que ustedes los brasileños entienden más el español que nosotros entendemos el portugués. ;D
Mi español es tan horrible que nosotros llamamos de portuñol!
Pero yo entendo muy bien todo o que leo o escucho!
Lenguas hermanas!
My spanish isso horrible that we call it Portuñol!
But I understand very well everything that I read or listen!
Brother-languages!
Quote from: corisco on July 11, 2007, 11:14:45 amFalamos o mesmo idioma, Profeta!
Que legal, rapaz!
Você é brasileiro?
Mora no Brasil?
Quote from: Profeta Yoshitake on July 20, 2007, 02:13:40 pm
Quote from: corisco on July 11, 2007, 11:14:45 amFalamos o mesmo idioma, Profeta!
Que legal, rapaz!
Você é brasileiro?
Mora no Brasil?
Nao, cara, moro no Japao, sou casado com japonesa, mas nao sou descendente de japoneses, estou aqui ha 15 anos, mas meu coracao esta ai, na terra mais linda(apesar dos problemas) do mundo! E compuletamente viciado em FAMICOM!!
Um prazer em conhecer um brasileiro nesse site, ainda mais curtidor de Famicom!
I thought I'd bump this interesting thread for the newer members.
I'm very interested in what languages people speak.
I speak fluent Arabic. Some Spanish & French too 8).
English being the main.
dutch(native)
a little bit english
a little bit german
its not much :D but i want to learn english perfect and dutch perfect afcourse. man dutch is an endless language..
i also want to learn russian, swedish and danish
English (native)
German (Finished German II)
some spanish
and some french
Spanish, English, and a little (I mean very little) Russian and French.
ciekawe, czy ktos mnie zrozumie.. ;D Ja mam ta przewage, ze WY nie potraficie mnie odczytac, a ja potrafie Was, hahaha ;D
???
I think it's polish.
Klawatura? (the only polish word I know ;D).
I speak English, broken Japanese and thats it.
Quote from: 133MHz on April 05, 2008, 11:43:32 am
I think it's polish.
Klawatura? (the only polish word I know ;D).
Klawiatura ;D
Quote from: manuel on April 05, 2008, 11:31:28 am
???
No prosze.. ;D Sasiad Niemiec, a nie potrafi slowa zrozumiec ;D haha ;D :P :P :P
You making fun of me? ??? >:(
Arbeitsspeicher! Festplatte!
(it seems I know a lot of random computer stuff in many languages ;D)
Quote from: manuel on April 06, 2008, 11:36:31 am
You making fun of me? ??? >:(
in a translator it came up with this:
"No powder. Grin Sasino German , and not potrafi slowa clear Grin haha" ??? ??? ???
Maybe because he writes without all the funny accents Polish has.
polish is very hard language, you CANNOT simply translate it using online translator ;D ;D
Quote from: manuel on April 06, 2008, 11:36:31 am
You making fun of me? ??? >:(
absolutely NO... ::) :(
I didn't think you did. ;)
But you could tell us what you wrote. :)
English (native, expert level)
Japanese (advanced level)
Spanish (intermediate level)
German (beginner)
As for Japanese, I plan on taking the Level 2 Japanese Language Proficiency Test later this year. I'm obsessed with the language. I probably know around 1,000 Kanji, which is still not enough to understand everything. I have to say Kanji is the hardest part of learning Japanese. The spoken portion is not hard at all, it is much easier than English.
Nice. The more people understanding Japanese the better. Make sure to be around the forums.
Good luck with the Proficiency Test. Where will you take it?
And have fun learning more and more kanji.
千里の道も一歩より ← ;)
Yeah thanks. :D
Well, it would be super awesome if I could take it in Japan, but that probably won't happen. I will probably take it in D.C. as that is where I live. Washington D.C. that is. I am pretty sure the date for this year's test is December 7.
Yes, it's always on the first Sunday in December, this year the 7th. Good luck for that!
ガンバレ！ :D
はい、 がんばれゴエモン！ ;D
Me: Chinese:Mandrain, Cantonese(understand,unfluent)
English
french(grade3 LV.)
spanish(few words)
Marishus(few words)
Japanese(few words)
THAT IS 7 LANGUAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's cool, but I wouldn't count languages with only "a few words". ;)
Concuerdo con manuel, yo tampoco contaría idiomas de los cuales sólo sé unas pocas palabras.
;D
I am fluent in english
If something is written in dumbed down french or said in dumbed down french I can get the basic idea of what is being said . I haven't really explored the language in 6 or so years so I am not nearly as fluent as I used to be. It's all good though.
Claro que si ! :o
.... :S
Something along the lines of "is that clear"
"Claro que si" means "Yes, of course". I don't study Spanish as much as I used to so correct me if I am wrong. I'm full time Japanese now.
English is my native language... I speak Spanish pretty well, and I can understand (and speak, to a significantly lesser extent) Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, German, French, Swedish, Russian, Dutch, and Romanian. Languages of which I know but a few words include Czech, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Norwegian, Irish, and Danish. I tend to pick up new languages extremely easily...
Quote from: Kuvio on May 16, 2008, 09:21:29 am
"Claro que si" means "Yes, of course". I don't study Spanish as much as I used to so correct me if I am wrong. I'm full time Japanese now.
I guess my lamens translation should have been "that is clear" which basicly means, "yes, ofcource"
English natively
German - enough to get by
Sign Language
:D
Swedish - Native
English - good enough (after 14 months in Ireland)
All other languages - after 3pints of Vodka ;)
Yikes, mate! :o
After 3 PINTS of vodka, you'd be off to the morgue! ;)
On another note, I'm always impressed how all non-Americans can speak multiple languages. Most people from the USA can't even speak English correctly! ??? It's rather pathetic...
Quote from: ericj on June 16, 2008, 01:04:55 pm
Yikes, mate! :o
After 3 PINTS of vodka, you'd be off to the morgue! ;)
On another note, I'm always impressed how all non-Americans can speak multiple languages. Most people from the USA can't even speak English correctly! ??? It's rather pathetic...
I agree it is pretty sad... other countries are way ahead of us in terms of lanuguage
I speek Engilsh (native)
and spanish quite well
Don't know any other languages, but I'd like to learn more of them someday, mabey try to pick up Sweedish and Japanese
I TALK ENGLISH REEL GOOD.
I took German in 7th and 8th grade, and will be taking it in 9th grade.
I also took French on high school, but just at that time it was abolished from the standard curriculum so I had a few years of it and nothing more. I didn't like it anyway :P.
Bumping this because I want to know if anyone can speak Hebrew or Arabic. I have a huge interest in the middle east and would like to learn some of both languages.
Some japanese... Katakana. Most of the hiragana. Like 2 kanji. A meager understanding of the grammar.
English (native)
Spanish: Taco, El pollo loco
German: Das, und
8)
"Das" is only one of the 3 articles. Please also remember "der" and "die".
Here, I just doubled you German vocabulary. :D
Quote from: nintendodork on February 12, 2009, 06:51:00 pm
English (native)
Spanish: Taco, El pollo loco
German: Das, und
8)
Sterben Sie sich! If you can understand that without using online translators you win. :P
Wekekekeke
I've heard that before too :P
My German vocabulary consists of:
- Arbeitsspeicher
- Festplatte
- Datei
- Drucker
- Scheisse
- Ja
- Nein
I'm interested in knowing more computer/electronics parts (I know computer/electronics parts in a bunch of languages for no reason).
Quote from: 133MHz on July 09, 2007, 10:46:49 pm
Spanish (native)
English (pretty good actually)
...and I can read Hiragana, Katakana and some simple Kanji ;D
Same here, but I forgot most of the japanese I knew (mostly Hiragana)... I just didn't care much about it anymore.
I think most spanish-speakers can understand some portuguese too (but not speak it).
I know some QBasic, PIC Basic, and I knew Pascal but forgot most of it (it's almost the same as Basic, anyway) ;D
Should I learn Italian? I've been italian since last year (it should have been a couple of years sooner, but paperwork takes time it seems... :-\)
I actually learned english by playing NES! (I later perfected it when Internet arrived).
This story is happy end ::)
Quote from: 133MHz on July 09, 2007, 10:46:49 pm
English (pretty good actually)
Pretty good? You're the only person I know who knows how to write disks and can explain it in an easy-to-understand way
even though you haven't bothered to yet in English
Quote from: Walky on February 13, 2009, 05:53:19 pm
Quote from: 133MHz on July 09, 2007, 10:46:49 pm
Spanish (native)
English (pretty good actually)
...and I can read Hiragana, Katakana and some simple Kanji ;D
Same here, but I forgot most of the japanese I knew (mostly Hiragana)... I just didn't care much about it anymore.
I think most spanish-speakers can understand some portuguese too (but not speak it).
I know some QBasic, PIC Basic, and I knew Pascal but forgot most of it (it's almost the same as Basic, anyway) ;D
Should I learn Italian? I've been italian since last year (it should have been a couple of years sooner, but paperwork takes time it seems... :-\)
I actually learned english by playing NES! (I later perfected it when Internet arrived).
This story is happy end ::)
I still find it amazing that you learned English from the NES. I haven't learned any Japanese from the Famicom :-\.
I think it's a little easier to learn English from the NES than Japanese from the Famicom, since the Japanese language has more alterations and history..and people from other countries can learn English easier instead of vice-versa
You have to have basics in the language first. If you have some basics in Japanese you can very well learn something from Famicom and other video games.
Quote from: nintendodork on February 13, 2009, 09:51:08 pm
I think it's a little easier to learn English from the NES than Japanese from the Famicom, since the Japanese language has more alterations and history..and people from other countries can learn English easier instead of vice-versa
Learning English is not easier than learning any other language. English has more in common with the Germanic languages and therefore is easier for native Germanic speakers. However, ask someone who speaks Arabic, Japanese, or Russian how easy English is.
Any language learned from scratch is hard.
That's what they all have in common.
I speak English
Ich kann nicht so gut Deutsch sprechen.
BUT I am learning, I am only in my second quarter.
Noch, liebe ich meine Deutsch Kurs.
Viel Spass im Deutschunterricht. ;D
Ja! Ich gehe nach Mathematik bei Deutsch...
I TRY not to be braindead in class...
but I'm also in Calculus...
German is my fun class. The other classes are required. :(
But I AM getting off topic a little bit here.
Deutsch ist sehr Krieg!
Das, die, und der sind alle artikel! woot :P
Ich bin auslander und spreche nicht gut Deutsch.
"Das, die, und der sind alle artikel!"
Nein...
Den. der, dem
Depends on whether you are going Nominativ, Akkusativ, oder Dativ.
That bit gets a little confusing at times. Makes me glad that I take decent notes!
Ehh, I just got it in a free vocabulary lesson from Manuel :D So now, I can say a whole SENTENCE in German!
Quote from: shoggoth80 on February 14, 2009, 11:15:00 pm
"Das, die, und der sind alle artikel!"
Nein...
Den. der, dem
Depends on whether you are going Nominativ, Akkusativ, oder Dativ.
That bit gets a little confusing at times. Makes me glad that I take decent notes!
Yeah fuck the Dativ! I never quite mastered that shit, oh well I know enough German to get by. I figure it;s not getting much better unless I live in a German speaking country.
Old PC German Ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5cxJD72DV0
With whopping 4MB RAM and 210MB harddisk. :o
Funny thing is, I remember that one. :D
Ummm...
I have Atari computers with less than that...
520ST...
1040ST...
still play their games like they are supposed to!
Of course, the 800XL has what... 64Kb of RAM?
Ok ok... off topic on this one...I know.
Quote from: manuel on February 15, 2009, 05:32:01 pm
With whopping 4MB RAM and 210MB harddisk. :o
Funny thing is, I remember that one. :D
It's nice how they mention CRT tube sizes in centimeters instead of inches. I live in a metric-system country but TV and monitor sizes are still given in inches.
Sounds kinda funny when you're not used to it. Examples :P
I just got this old 36 cm TV for free today!
My friend bought a 43 cm LCD monitor for his new gaming rig.
Back then all was given in cm. Metric system ftw.
Now still a lot of catalogs mention the screen size in cm at least with TVs. It's what we're used to. Many people just don't know how much exactly an inch is. With computer monitors inches are quite common.
You silly non-Americans, unable to understand our superior measurement system.
I can't use the metric system worth a flying poo :-[
Quote from: manuel on February 16, 2009, 05:15:46 pm
Metric system FTW
Seconded. Imperial is so unnatural in a mathematical sense.
I have to convert to metric in my head to understand, and it's not easy, so I tend to memorize common magnitudes and extrapolate from those.
Quote from: son_ov_hades on February 16, 2009, 05:28:42 pm
You silly non-Americans, unable to understand our superior measurement system.
I am american too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-adpTvjNOk ;D
Quote from: Josh on February 14, 2007, 06:38:56 pm
-English (native)
-Spanish (up to AP Spanish in high school)
-Japanese (teaching myself, but will take formal classes in college)
Oh wow, I forgot about this thread. Man... Two years have really passed? Well anyway, time for an update. ;D
-English (native)
-Spanish (I got a 3 out of 4 on the AP Spanish exam in high school, but since I haven't been practicing it very much, my command of the language is slipping away)
-Japanese (I'm in my second year of classes, on Genki II now. It's all been pretty darn easy so far, almost like I'm relearning something I already knew, or rather, as if I'm finally solving a puzzle I've been experiencing for nearly half my life)
Quote from: Walky on February 16, 2009, 07:20:54 pm
Quote from: son_ov_hades on February 16, 2009, 05:28:42 pm
You silly non-Americans, unable to understand our superior measurement system.
I am american too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-adpTvjNOk ;D
No no no, it makes perfect sense for those from the United States of
America to refer to themselves as American. We are the only country that has America in the name.
This is America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfvDCSWu3s&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfvDCSWu3s&feature=related)
Uhm...the United States of America is in North America. You have America in your name...but we're still all in some kind of America
But my point is that no other country makes any political reference to America. It's the same way that someone from the Federated States Of Micronesia is a "Micronesian" even though there are other countries located in the region known as Micronesia.
Quote from: son_ov_hades on February 16, 2009, 07:44:31 pm
Quote from: Walky on February 16, 2009, 07:20:54 pm
Quote from: son_ov_hades on February 16, 2009, 05:28:42 pm
You silly non-Americans, unable to understand our superior measurement system.
I am american too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-adpTvjNOk ;D
No no no, it makes perfect sense for those from the United States of America to refer to themselves as American. We are the only country that has America in the name.
This is America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfvDCSWu3s&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfvDCSWu3s&feature=related)
Yes, I know it makes perfect sense for most people from the USA, but it still weird when you ask someone from the USA (and other countries, specially european and asian) to show you where "America" is on the map; it's very unlikely (as far as I've seen) that they'll point the whole continent.
Some people ever have to call it "The Americas" to differenciate it from the USA. I think it's perfectly fine to say The United States of America (as a whole), but when, for example, a US president says "America disagrees with..." or something like that, it sounds weird; for someone who wasn't born in the US but in almost any other country from this continent it sounds like an japanese prime minister saying "Asia disagrees with...".
Well, I understand too that United States of America is one hell of a long name for a country, and maybe that's why people started using "America" (I think sometimes you say "The States" too as an informal way?)
Even some people here in Chile (and in other american countries) refer to people from USA as americans, even when there is a word here to call them: "estadounidenses" (something like "united states-ers", I don't think there is a way to directly translate it to english).
(That monster truck jumping over the plane on fire was awesome! fuck yeah! ;D)
I understand where you're coming from. But this brings up another point, in Latin America you are taught there is one American continent. We, and most of the world, know it as two continents. North America starting at Greenland and ending with Panama, and South America starting with Columbia and ending with the southern tip of Chile. I can't really say which one is correct, but the Panama canal does seem to separate the two. So there is never any confusion for us, because when we refer to the continent it's North or South America.
United Statesian or United States of America-er just doesn't sound right :P.
There's the matter of convenience and and smooth flow of communication. For most people, 4 syllables is about the limit for a word they need to use frequently. Anything longer will wind up abbreviated somehow. There's also the issue of there being multiple United States, particularly during the 19th century when "Americans" probably came into common usage to describe residents of the USA.
I do agree that when referring to the country it's more appropriate to say, at the very least, "the US". Saying "America" is a bit ambiguous.
Anyway, as for languages, I speak English (natively) and Japanese to an extent. I can get myself by in Japan, but it's hard to put a formal "level" on my Japanese since it's all self-taught and lacking in any real formal structure.
Quote from: son_ov_hades on February 17, 2009, 08:44:35 am
I understand where you're coming from. But this brings up another point, in Latin America you are taught there is one American continent. We, and most of the world, know it as two continents. North America starting at Greenland and ending with Panama, and South America starting with Columbia and ending with the southern tip of Chile. I can't really say which one is correct, but the Panama canal does seem to separate the two. So there is never any confusion for us, because when we refer to the continent it's North or South America.
But North America still refers to a couple other countries besides the US, that's my point.
Some people even refer so panama and its surrounding countries as "central america";
I'm not sure about that limits wikipedia seems to have some nice info about different interpretations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America#Usage
It seems everyone (and no one) is right ;D
Quote from: son_ov_hades on February 17, 2009, 08:44:35 am
United Statesian or United States of America-er just doesn't sound right :P.
I agree :D
We've gone a little too much off topic ;D
Quote from: Trium Shockwave on February 17, 2009, 10:58:35 am
Anyway, as for languages, I speak English (natively) and Japanese to an extent. I can get myself by in Japan, but it's hard to put a formal "level" on my Japanese since it's all self-taught and lacking in any real formal structure.
Yes, It's difficult to self-teach a language that is based on a completely different structure (and origin)... specially different writing characters (at least romaji makes things a lot easier when starting).
I think it must be relatively hard for native english speakers to learn to speak "good" spanish by themself (but probably not as hard as learning japanese), since we (I live in Chile) have a LOT of possible conjugations for each verb, and some other subtle differences like gender differentiations and such.
That's why sometimes foreign people can communicate quite clearly in spanish, even when using wrong words (even if conjugated wrong, the verb is still the same so it is understood).
Quote from: Walky on February 17, 2009, 11:04:36 am
Quote from: son_ov_hades on February 17, 2009, 08:44:35 am
I understand where you're coming from. But this brings up another point, in Latin America you are taught there is one American continent. We, and most of the world, know it as two continents. North America starting at Greenland and ending with Panama, and South America starting with Columbia and ending with the southern tip of Chile. I can't really say which one is correct, but the Panama canal does seem to separate the two. So there is never any confusion for us, because when we refer to the continent it's North or South America.
But North America still refers to a couple other countries besides the US, that's my point.
Some people even refer so panama and its surrounding countries as "central america"; I'm not sure about that limits wikipedia seems to have some nice info about different interpretations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America#Usage
It seems everyone (and no one) is right ;D
Yeah but my point is America=United States Of America, and North America=continent.
Quote from: son_ov_hades on February 17, 2009, 01:41:32 pm
Yeah but my point is America=United States Of America, and North America=continent.
Yes, but the meaning of the concepts depends on the place you live in. Since the U.S. have way more influence in the world that any central/south american country, it's quite understandable that it is their interpretation the one the other countries adopt (especially from overseas), since it's the one they hear/read the most ;D.
English, and a little bit of Spanish from paying attention in class.
I speak english, a good amount of spanish, and can speak some german.
I hope to learn japanese, specifically reading it because I have alot of japanese cd soundtracks from games with messages from the composer and a message from Shigeru Miyamoto... and I don't know what they're telling me.
Does anyone know japanese and they could tell me how to read it?
i can speak:
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Japanese (almost fluent)
i hope to learn more like Irish-Gaelic or German....
I forgot...I speak another language...
LOLspeak
I don't know if I've posted in this thread yet, but
English (duh)
And I'm in German 2 at school. :p
UPDATE KIDDIES
English(Dur)
Japanese(Learning at a snails pace, YEEHAW... I mean, ぼんぢい)
Spanish(>_> Only because of spanish class.)
English, spanish (to talk to my friend from mexico) portugese and russian (my heritage)
English (US, UK), Little Spanish (Barely anything.) I plan to learn Japanese, German, Spanish and Latin sometime.
english (American Southern)
some spanish (forgot after elementary)
can say the legend of zelda in japanese
can say donkey kong in chinese
I've started to read a lot of translated writings of Arabic and linguistics books about Arabic, which makes me want to learn it. Maybe I'll take an Arabic class if I can fit it into my schedule. Fascinating language.
English
Spanish
Learning German
The only japanese I know is from listening to the weeaboos online.
I know african tongue clicks and dog.
Japanese(reading and hearing no problem, never speak it so not experienced enough in expressing myself in it perfectly yet)
Chinese(enough to get by)
French(equivalent of finishing HS I'm assuming)
I've previously started Italian and Russian, but those didn't last past a week. If I say I "know" those, then any moron that knows "kawaii" can claim to "speak" Japanese :D
lol. Well it's kinda a given I thought. It's my native tongue.
I've slacked off language study forever. Really would like to get better at French. Honestly never feel too motivated to improve my Chinese for some reason though.
I'm starting Japanese lessons this week, work started a program to teach anyone who wants to learn for free :D
English (1st, fluent)
Spanish(2nd year in high school, i can understand simple sentences and construct them too, albeit usually wrong)
and a few phrases in Latin (grades 5-8, forgot alot, didn't learn alot) and Italian(spoken in my house)
EDIT: Though not me, the latin teacher at my school is fluent in like 10 languages. He can carry on an intelligent conversation in latin, spanish, french, italian, german, portugese, romanian, greek. and has a basic understanding of swedish, korean, welsh, russian, polish, zulu and more. Story goes he grew up on a farm and was so bored he studied languages for the hell of it.
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I'll add being able to understand some very basic Dutch and Afrikaans in written form. Never studied either language, but just based on my knowledge of German I can decipher similar words and such. I can't understand the spoken variants though.
Quote from: Peps1ru1es92 on November 16, 2009, 04:20:56 pm
English (1st, fluent)
Spanish(2nd year in high school, i can understand simple sentences and construct them too, albeit usually wrong)
and a few phrases in Latin (grades 5-8, forgot alot, didn't learn alot) and Italian(spoken in my house)
EDIT: Though not me, the latin teacher at my school is fluent in like 10 languages. He can carry on an intelligent conversation in latin, spanish, french, italian, german, portugese, romanian, greek. and has a basic understanding of swedish, korean, welsh, russian, polish, zulu and more. Story goes he grew up on a farm and was so bored he studied languages for the hell of it.
He must have had a real boring life.
English: native, Midwestern / standard dialect
French: took for four years; quit this year because of the abysmally slow teaching speed and all-around horrible teacher; plan to resume in college
Japanese: very basic only; can read and pronounce katakana and hiragana; can understand a few kanji symbols
As a side-note, I've learned to write UK English over the last year. I prefer using it because I feel more educated using "dialogue" instead of "dialog", and I also cannot abide some of the rules of American English.
For example,
Matthew's poem, "The Dao," was selected for the anthology instead of Catherine's poem, "The Ruby Sunset."
Why must I put the punctuation marks inside the quotation marks? They weren't in the original title...
Quote from: megaman on May 15, 2008, 10:44:52 am
Me: Chinese:Mandrain, Cantonese(understand,unfluent)
English
french(grade3 LV.)
spanish(few words)
Marishus(few words)
Japanese(few words)
THAT IS 7 LANGUAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, yea! :D Had to bring that to everyones attention again.
Wow, I can't believe it's been almost two years since megaman was on here!
I just speak/write in three languages, which are:
- Portuguese (European)
- Spanish (European)
- English (European)
I'm fluent. ;D
French.. I did knew, and was also fluent, but due to some circumstances it totally passed out. :-\
I speak English and I'm learning japanese.
Meh my turn at old topic dig-out!
My languages:
Slovak (natively)
Czech (it's very similar to Slovak)
English (fluent, I hope :D)
German (I can understand almost everything said and written, but talking is something different)
Polish (the same as German, but a LOT better :D)
(and I do understand all Slavic languages a bit, like Russian, Bulgarian, languages of former Yugoslavia...)
Japanese? No, I don't have time anymore to study this language, but I was really desperate learning it when I was younger, so only some basics remained.
Spanish (Argentinian/Latin American)
Portuguese (Brazilian)
English (American)
Quote from: jpx72 on May 03, 2011, 01:24:16 am
Meh my turn at old topic dig-out!
My languages:
Slovak (natively)
Czech (it's very similar to Slovak)
English (fluent, I hope :D)
German (I can understand almost everything said and written, but talking is something different)
Polish (the same as German, but a LOT better :D)
(and I do understand all Slavic languages a bit, like Russian, Bulgarian, languages of former Yugoslavia...)
Japanese? No, I don't have time anymore to study this language, but I was really desperate learning it when I was younger, so only some basics remained.
:o Europeans always impress me with their ability to speak multiple languages.
Polish (of course)
English (pretty well I think and still learning ;) )
Japanese (not too much but still learning sometimes)
German (not so well, I hate this language...)
Speak and read some Latin, Middle-English and German, and I'm learning Japanese (quite slowly, natch.)... Additionally Zoreac, Quenya and Sindarin, if you count them; I also speak, write and read proper English. 8)
Mandarin and Spanish (Castilian) are on my list to learn before I'm too senile... :bomb:
English.
Mandarin Chinese (Simplified characters and Pinyin).
One or two Spanish and Korean words.
Quote from: kite200 on February 14, 2007, 02:57:11 pm
uh i can say f your mother and hello in chinese.
Fuck your mother.
Tā mā de nì de māma.
Hello.
Nì hăo.
I see I didn't post in this thread yet.
I speak, read and write:
Swedish
English
Japanese
I studied Spanish long ago but forgot most of it, and also some Mandarin Chinese. I still remember the basic grammar/syntax (basic Chinese grammar is actually very easy for an Indo-European language speaker). And since I know Swedish I can also understand Norwegian and written Danish (spoken Danish sounds like Swedish/Norwegian with porridge in your throat and is therefore impossible to comprehend).
When I said English, I mean American (U.S.) English. I have friends in the U.K., and can tell the small differences between U.S. and U.K. English.
Well...
I only truly speak English and German, though my German is quite rusty. I have no problems with reading, and my listening comprehension is intermediate. I used to be able to write it okay too, but by now I have forgotten a lot of the grammar. Must get back to this one.
Likewise, I did some self study on Dutch for quite some time, and then ended up having a native Afrikaans-speaking roommate for awhile. I quickly used the opportunity to switch / convert my Dutch knowledge to learn Afrikaans, and I actually got fairly conversational at my peak. He left though, and I really haven't had time to keep up with it.
Spanish, I studied for 2 and a half years at the uni and promptly forgot most of it. I would like to review this one again, though I never liked this language, due to all of the crazy verb tenses.
Chinese, well I have some survival skills in it. I can get around and do some things, but I am not fluent by any means, though I hope to take some formal classes this fall.
So there you have it. If I had to communicate with a non-English speaker, my first choice of language would be German, followed by Afrikaans. After that, I *could* survive off of my Spanish or Chinese, but it is sometimes really labored. Also, Middle English is quite easy for me to read and understand fluently, thanks to all of my previous studies in Germanic languages and obsolete word cognates.
The English education in Sweden is that of British English, but because of the overwhelming influence the American culture has on the world, my English is probably a mix of British and American English.
The hardest part of Mandarin for me, is memorizing how the four tones are used in every word. Also while I don't have too much problem memorizing new Chinese characters (since I know Japanese), I had a hard time remembering how they were pronounced (and I forgot most of it by now). Basically I can read some Chinese but definitely not understand spoken Chinese.
English
Croatian
Bosnian
Serbian
Monte Negro
Kosovo
little bit Macedonian
little bit Albanian
some Slovenian
: D
I speak English. I used to understand some french but that is all but gone now.
My Bosnian / Croatian friend of mine in the States told me that one time he knew a guy that had put B/C/M/S all on a resume to be hired, but that the hiring manager just happened to be from that region himself, and saw through the deception ;D
Quote from: smeghead on March 25, 2014, 09:45:24 am
English
Croatian
Bosnian
Serbian
Monte Negro
Kosovo
little bit Macedonian
little bit Albanian
some Slovenian
: D
:)
every one visiting here speaks at least little bit English
plus, I speak Chinese (Mandarin, a tiny bit of Cantonese and the dialect Hokkien in my hometown)
i stayed in Switzerland (French zone), and I only remember Bonjour, salute, mercy bu gu.
I watch some Korean and Japanese AV movies, and that is why I know some f* words, yidaiyou (don't do this to me :)),
English, bad english and Loganese ;D
Quote from: MaxXimus on March 25, 2014, 12:46:43 pm
I speak English. I used to understand some french but that is all but gone now.
Same here. Learned french from kindergarten to grade 9, then started forgetting. My gf is fluently french, even I'm french and can't speak very well. I'm also half Polish and don't know how to speak that either.
I'm learning some basic Japanese for fun on the side at a very casual pace. Japanese, and maybe french, are the only languages I want to learn.
English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Irish in order of proficiency.
English and Japanese
Tried learning Spanish, but failed hilariously.
Quote from: Shumi Nagaremono on July 08, 2014, 03:47:29 pm
English and Japanese
Tried learning Spanish, but failed hilariously.
Haha, people say Spanish is so easy, but the verbs kicked my ass (then again I was lazy and didn't study hard, and still received an A). And that is the problem with university language courses: I got an A in Spanish without even trying, just because the pace was so slow and the other schmucks did even worse. What incentive is there to try hard, when you can get an A without doing the work? When I studied German, I had passion, a fire to learn that language, and I think because of that it was much easier for me than Spanish...and people laugh, and think "WTF? German is so hard compared to Spanish!" But to me it was the opposite.
I with a burning passion completely dislike spanish :P i dont know why but just the way the whole thing is setup bugs me and the fact that the accent is one that i can never pronounce doesnt make it better and on top of that my first year of spanish in highschool our teacher got fired for inappropriately texting a student... and so for the rest of the year we got a whole bunch of different subs who all didnt know spanish and pronounced it in the thickest country accent i have ever heard it was...... horrible :'( and then for spanish two we got a pregnant teacher who treated it like it was boot camp with that being said without doing 1 day of homework or studying and being half awake through most of the class since it was first period i passed with like a low b or something on the spanish 2 final exam with 100 vocab and some 100 grammar questions all no multiple choice although for spanish one they just exempted the whole class cause even they said we learned nothing ;) its probably that whole experience that made spanish not enjoyable for me but im just glad its over with :D
I really want to get back to my Dutch / Afrikaans studies, though I just have no time. I need to find another South African friend here in Taiwan, maybe a drinking buddy or something, so I can just chat away and soak in the Afrikaans.
For those who don't know, Afrikaans was originally / essentially a dialect of Dutch, spoken in South Africa when the Dutch had colonized down there. Then over the few hundred years of separation, as well as an influence from English and African languages, the grammar simplified and it became recognized as a separate language. But the comprehensibility between the two languages is quite high, without much real difficulty (just some pronunciation differences, vocab differences, and of course grammar differences).
I had self-studied Dutch off and on for a few years after becoming conversational in German (Dutch and German are quite similar). When I moved to Taiwan, I was lucky enough to have a South African colleague, and I would chat with him in the Dutch I knew, and try to make it more "South African", and eventually it started becoming more Afrikaans than Dutch.
One day my colleague and I were riding the bus back from the city to our home, and it was quite crowded, and there was an English person sitting near us. My colleague had told me that we should speak in Afrikaans as many of the Taiwanese would understand English, at least somewhat, as well as the English person, and we didn't want people to eavesdrop our conversation. So he told me all this in Afrikaans, and we started chatting away. Ten minutes later, the English girl looked at my friend and asked in Dutch, "Where are you guys from?" Turns out she wasn't English anyway but was Dutch, and had been listening to everything we said, and was wondering where the Dutch as a second language speaker (me) and the guy who spoke funky Dutch (my South African friend) were from.
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Also, I hate to say it but studying foreign languages is another hobby of mine; however, Famicom totally kicked the language hobby's ass, and these days I would rather spend my time gaming than studying word lists :( I know, I am becoming a terribly lazy, useless person. :'(
1. Finnish
2. English
3. Swedish
This is very typical of what Finns can speak languages. :)
English and a bit of German I learned at school, that's about it. :( I want to go to an adult class to learn another language but I don't know which one or when I'll get the time to do that.
German and English.
Polish and English (more into U.S. dialect the way I was taught), that's it. I don't need anything else. Although knowledge of Japanese would be so helpful in my case but I just don't feel like learning anything more besides basics like hiragana & katakana....
German, English and French.
I need to get back to studying Chinese, but I am just so damned busy. The last thing I want to do after working from morning until night is to crack the books. Same thoughts about exercise, haha. I just hope that the extra effort I am putting in now will help me with my career, so that in two years time, I can focus more on other things in life than just work. We'll see.
In my church, everyone except for me and the priest is from the Philippines. Although I attend the "English" mass, some of the songs are sung in Tagalog / Filipino, and of course the other members also feel much more comfortable talking in that language before / after mass as well. Wanting to get better connected with my fellow parishioners, I decided to pull my Tagalog book off the shelf yesterday, and I am thinking about casually studying it as well, at least some basic phrases and the like. Interestingly enough, in some ways I think learning it would be more beneficial to me than improving my Chinese, but others would beg to differ, I know.
Likewise, I am also quite interested in learning Indonesian to a conversational level, but I can think of little justification to pursue this at the moment, since Chinese is most important, with Tagalog being semi-justifiable as well due to wanting to get involved with my church more.
I also have a desire to learn some basic Japanese for reading (i.e. videogames) and I feel with my knowledge of Chinese characters, I have a slight advantage, but of course with the goal in mind, this is lower on the list compared to the "languages used in real life".
Russian and English for now, maybe a little French.
Oh, and I'm also looking for some English language partners or just native speakers for (voice)chatting.
Some of you might think that my English is decent, but unfortunatelly, I don't feel confident while writing something and especially while speaking. I guess I need more practice.
Anyway, if you're interested in talking about some videogames, design, culture or just some random stuff - please sent me a PM. :)
-Estonian
-English
-German
-Russian
English
Bulgarian (native)
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian (native) Yes they are all the same language, but with different names, depends on who you ask ;D :crazy:
Macedonian (it is between Bulgarian and Serbian so I can understand it)
I can understand a little bit of Russian and may be Slovenian
:)
English, Russian, and I can understand various bits of other Slavic languages if I read them, not so much if I hear them spoken.
I did learn German, but proceeded to forget most of it after I finished school.
Quote from: FAMICOM_87 on June 14, 2016, 12:09:22 am
English
Bulgarian (native)
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian (native) Yes they are all the same language, but with different names, depends on who you ask ;D :crazy:
Macedonian (it is between Bulgarian and Serbian so I can understand it)
I can understand a little bit of Russian and may be Slovenian
:)
It is surprising to read this. Well, not the part about Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian. I have several friends from that region, and had studied a bit of the language long ago, so I am well familiar with the history of it.
But what surprises me is what you write about Bulgarian. It was my understanding that the "Bulgarian" stance was that Macedonian language was just a dialect of Bulgarian language. From what I read about the two languages (I also had studied a little Bulgarian a long time ago), it seemed basically the same type of situation as with B/S/C
fcgamer, basically you are right about Macedonian it is an Bulgarian dialect (Bulgarian grammatic) , but with many many Serbian words in it, so it is 50/50 :) by me.
Actually Macedonian are Bulgarians, but in the beginning of 20 century that Territory's become a part of Yugoslavia so ... the resolutes are a broken bulgarian and broken serbocroatian :D ;D :crazy:
Sa zdravlje brate :)
Swedish (natively)
English (fluent)
Japanese (advanced beginner :P I'm hoping to get close to Intermediate within a year or so)
French (the basics, haven't studied it in like 15 years though)
Quote from: Protoman on June 18, 2016, 04:52:26 pm
Japanese (advanced beginner :P I'm hoping to get close to Intermediate within a year or so)
You can do it! Grammar-wise you probably have passed most of the hardest part already, except maybe the causative verb-form and advanced keigo.