Langauges anyone...

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by Lobo on Thursday, April 28, 2011 and has 24 replies.

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So fair and because I've been slacking off mostly I only can speak intermediate Japanese, count to 20 in German, say a few words in Romanian and Russian, speak basic Texmex Spanish, a few phrases in Arabic, a few french words and I'm trying to see what's up with sign language. πŸ™‚I started teaching myself in 2004. See lazy, I should know more and I think I'm going to start practicing again. I want to be able to speak at least 5 languages before my time is done.

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I speak Dutch, English and Spanish fluently, German reasonably, some French (I can read French books though, usually have to do so in college anyway) and a little Italian too (which some Greek girl is teaching me at the moment) good thing is its SO similar to Spanish that understanding it is not too hard πŸ˜„.

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Yes I find that most europeans that I meet are at least tri lingual. I got a lot of flak for not hitting up spanish 1st, as I am in Texas lol. Yeah that's gonna kick my ass, learning to read it. πŸ™‚ I wanna learn latin maybe aramaic, that one be sweet. I'll get these out of the way first before I try these two beast.

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Posted by Lobo
Yes I find that most europeans that I meet are at least tri lingual. I got a lot of flak for not hitting up spanish 1st, as I am in Texas lol. Yeah that's gonna kick my ass, learning to read it. πŸ™‚ I wanna learn latin maybe aramaic, that one be sweet. I'll get these out of the way first before I try these two beast.

NOt all Europeans though, look at the Brits πŸ˜› their knowledge of languages other than English is just embarassing πŸ˜› but understandable in a way at the same time. My country borders with Germany and Belgium (which has a French-speaking part) so the influence of those languages is fairly strong.

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Hola, todo esta tranjadeo bien?

Hey mi nombre es lobo. Amo a mujeres con acentos espa?oles gruesos. Estoy mirando para hacer a algunos amigos.
Mi espa?ol es malo, o el espa?ol del texmex es. S? solamente cuatro a cinco frases, c?_mo contar, y colores b??sicos y la ropa y el alimento del items>.

Konnichiwa! watashi
no namae wa Lobo
Dozo wa smimasen. Watashi wa atana su. Sorry if it sucksπŸ™‚

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I speak fijian / english I can sign auslan and I know how 2 flirt in spanish, swear in asyria,count in japanese and order in chinese...I like saying hello in korean I wish i could speak korean because I like korean people but the language is weird to get my mouth around

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Posted by Prince_Pisces
Well I have a hard time enough with my own language, i cant be asked to learn another one LOL!!!

(sigh)LOL oh Prince what awesome knowledge will you bestow next? πŸ™‚

I think that chinese and african languages are harder because of the dialect factors. But Russian is a beast too. But I've heard the portuguese is like spanish squared.πŸ™‚The Japanese culture next to Native American is my favorite. Oh and I do want to learn how to speak at least one Native American language, that would be a personal victory for me as I'm a quarter cherokee.

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I have a euro talk /speak CD and so far Arabic seems like I could learn it with out that much of a problem. I don't like how vietnamese sounds though. It's a little muffled on the voice speaking part of the lessons.( on a side note)---> I think a women british, slavic, brazilian and deep southern accents or the spoken languages can be attractive. :0 In the states here you can live quite well as a translator because unlike the UK and Asia more often than not people only speak one language😒

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mi Espanol is muy malo

That's all I got out of a year of college Spanish... C'este la vie (oh, and lookey there, I can speak French too LOL)

Does pig Latin count as a language?

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Posted by WoundedLeo

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english, french and italian

Copy Cat!

+ One more which is a secret that I can not divulge because it is a very ancient language.

Moreover I can get by in Spanish and German.

I can say hello and thank you and curse in most every language known to humanity. And I can certainly recognize every language just by sound and phoenetics.

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Impressive πŸ™‚

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I speak 5 languages

Dutch (fluently)
English (fluently)
Spanish (fluently)
Italian (pretty well)
German (pretty well)

I can also read French somewhat decently. Can read a lot of Latin too and a bit of Greek as well. Even some Middle-Egyptian! (Hieroglyphs)