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09-14-2011, 04:31 AM
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Location: Africa
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What Languages Do You Know?
Just curious
For me:
English: Native
Latin: Written fluency
Spanish: Conversational... pero ahora estoy estudiando mucho para mejorar mi habla! (żes correcto?)
Khmer (Cambodian): A few words to get around
Last edited by indiblue; 09-14-2011 at 12:07 PM.
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09-14-2011, 05:20 AM
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#2
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 417
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English: Native.
French: Used to be ok in school, could brush up and be ok.
Japanese: Used to be ok in school, would need to re-learn a lot of it.
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09-14-2011, 09:13 AM
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Need to stay motivated!!
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Ridgecrest, CA
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English : native
Spanish : fluent
What I would like to learn however:
German
French
Italian
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09-14-2011, 09:29 AM
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English is my mother tongue.
I have spoken Italian and Deutche while living abroad although the skills are quickly escaping me. I know lots of broken Spanish now.
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09-14-2011, 09:57 AM
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I'm a princess.True story
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Sherbrooke, Canada
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French : native
English : learned it in school, travelling and speaking a bit of it at work
Spanish : learned a bit in school but forgot a lot
I'd really like to learn German, as I'm planning to travel over there by 2013.
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09-14-2011, 10:15 AM
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focused.
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: on a european fluffy cloud
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Greek : Native
English : Fluent
Italian : Intermediate
French : Some just for fun, will take it more serious after my degree in Italian
Spanish : Oh how i wish!
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09-14-2011, 10:16 AM
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#7
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 489
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English: native
French: learned in school,but forgot most
Sign language: learned from some deaf friends,then took a class in college,but forgot quite a bit and some signs have changed over the years.
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09-14-2011, 10:25 AM
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#8
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I'm fluent in ASL - teach classes, interpret, it was my first language.
English
Spanish - I studied for 7 years, so I can communicate, but I'm getting rusty! I prefer to write/read than speak.
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09-14-2011, 10:33 AM
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My first language is English and my second language is French. French/English bilingualism is pretty standard where I live, I've only met 3 people so far who only knew one language here (with the exception of children).
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09-14-2011, 11:43 AM
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Made of Starstuff
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: New England
Posts: 8,731
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My answer is "not enough".
English: Native
Spanish: High School Level, if that. Took for it for years, can still only ask "Where is the tobacco store?" and I don't even smoke, so fat lotta good that'll do me.
I always wanted to learn French, German, and Japanese, though. Maybe not all at once, but still fun to pick up certain words and phrases.
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09-14-2011, 12:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lovely
Spanish: High School Level, if that. Took for it for years, can still only ask "Where is the tobacco store?" and I don't even smoke, so fat lotta good that'll do me.
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Hehe well all I remember from my Khmer (Cambodian), besides general direction and polite conversation, is "More rice, please."
And equally important for all Asian cultures: "Please, no, I'm full."
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09-14-2011, 12:06 PM
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#12
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 234
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Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian are both my mother/native languages, I also speak fluent English, German and Italian.. I would love to know Spanish or Portuguese. Or maybe Dutch, Swedish.. I like languages, I'm a quick learner but I'm lazy. If I am forced to use the language I get the hang of it pretty fast. Studying from books.. Not so much
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09-14-2011, 12:11 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by indiblue
Hehe well all I remember from my Khmer (Cambodian), besides general direction and polite conversation, is "More rice, please."
And equally important for all Asian cultures: "Please, no, I'm full."
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I took one year of Mandarin in middle school and my four year old daughter has already learned as much as I did by watching Ni-Hao, Kai-Lan
Last edited by Munchy; 09-14-2011 at 12:11 PM.
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09-14-2011, 12:24 PM
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#14
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it's always something
Join Date: Aug 1999
Posts: 11,615
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English
Though I purchased Fluenz Italian and need to get started. Maybe we need little study groups
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09-14-2011, 01:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchy
I'm fluent in ASL - teach classes, interpret, it was my first language.
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That's why I took it in college.I thought if I liked enough and did well,I wanted to be an interpreter.It wasn't easy,and rather then continue on,I gave up.I really wish I hadn't given up.
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