In addition to English, I speak Cantonese as well as a little Japanese which I learnt in school.
Anyone else speak any languages other than English?
I only speak two languages, English and Bad English.
I speak English and French.
I speak 10 languages, English and Binary.
I speak English and right now I'm taking Spanish in High School.
Buenas tardes. Me gusta mucho dibujar mapas.
I can decently speak German.
I speak English, Bureaucratese, and Engineer/Scientist. :cool:
I do not speak any languages. I just point and grunt and occasionally poop.
Quote from agentsteel 53:
QuoteI just point and grunt and occasionally poop.
When I saw this, I was surprised when I looked to the left and did not see conveniently arranged alphabetical county road markers.
I know some Italian but don't ask me to have a conversation in it. I can read it semi-decently but when I hear it spoken aloud it is very difficult to understand more than just a few bits of it.
My skill level with Spanish is somewhat similar. I see writing in Spanish all the time right next to its English equivalent (bilingual advertizing and package labeling, mostly), so I can figure out what a lot of written Spanish means. But if I hear someone speaking it aloud I can't understand shit.
English and Kentucky Hillbilly.
Quote from: NE2 on December 10, 2014, 04:30:40 PM
Bad English.
I liked John Waite better in The Babys and as a solo artist.
English, some Spanish, a little Japanese and German, and just enough French to get my face slapped.
English, and um pouco de português. According to the Brazilian professor we collaborate with, I sound like a caipira (hillbilly) when I speak Portuguese, because the caipira accent pronounces the letter R the same way as rhotic accents in English do. I sound like a hillbilly in English too, but for different reasons.
I took four years of high school Spanish, which focused on reading and writing. When I took the placement test for my college's conversation-focused Spanish program, I placed in first quarter, first year, so four years of high school Spanish did me almost no good. But I did learn the key Spanish cuss words, from one of my college roommates. While I can recognize a lot of Spanish words in print or on road signs, I can't converse in that language.
I also know just a smattering of French and Hawaiian. For French, just about a dozen phrases, plus road sign French, enough for me to get by in multiple visits to Quebec and handle basic traveler transactions, but not enough to hold a real conversation.
My mother was Italian, but she made sure the kids never learned that language, so she could have "private conversations" over the phone with her Italian friends, right in front of us. One of my sisters, who is much better than I at picking up foreign languages, later learned Italian.
Quote from: Brian556 on December 10, 2014, 06:06:51 PM
Quote from agentsteel 53:
QuoteI just point and grunt and occasionally poop.
When I saw this, I was surprised when I looked to the left and did not see conveniently arranged alphabetical county road markers.
NE2 does not poop.
I can read and write (but not speak) some Spanish.
My undergraduate degree is in Spanish. I am fluent when I uses it on a regular basis
I can have a very long conversation in Spanish (from jr. high and high school only), but it gets tiring because I have to make a lot of roundabout explanations due to not having enough real-world experience.
English, and enough Spanish to be minimally functional most of the time.
I've had passengers in my van speaking Kentucky Hillbilly and I understood maybe a fifth of it.
I also have some understanding (not enough to be functional) of the structure of French, Italian, Portuguese, and Japanese.
I speak a few Philippine languages: Tagalog (which is of course what they teach in school so pretty much everyone speaks it), Pangasinan (from my dad's side), Ilocano (from my mom's side; I've been told my accent is terrible :)).
I took a Mandarin course at my university last year, so I can do some basic conversations. My schedule this year couldn't fit it, so I had to stop (and I haven't been able to practice with a lot of people so I may have forgotten a lot of it), but I might again next year.
I want to have learned French, but the school board said it was too late for me to start French in grade 9, and besides I already knew a second language. I do know a bit though, but:
Quote from: oscar on December 10, 2014, 09:50:23 PM
For French, just about a dozen phrases, plus road sign French, enough for me to get by in multiple visits to Quebec and handle basic traveler transactions, but not enough to hold a real conversation.
English, Swedish (reasonably fluent) and a little bit of French.
And some swear words in Finnish.
A few words of Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Hindi, Farsi, Arabic, French, Spanish, German. Fluent in none of them. Nothing to show off about. Just an amateur language geek who should probably make some choices.
Cool feature on the iPhone: Go to Settings and add some international keyboards (have tried in Korean, Chinese, Japanese). Go to any app where you can type something, and click on the mic for voice dictation. Do Korean, say "kamsa hamnida", and IOS will type out 감사합니다. It doesn't translate, but there's phonetic voice recognition built in. There's a lot I don't know about this, but I was pretty surprised.
(I am fluent in teenage so I can talk to my niece. I know, right?)
I'm currently learning Spanish.
Swedish is my native language, so I speak it fluently. I can also understand Norwegian and Danish. Apart from that I still remember a bit of my school French, but it's getting worse by the year.
French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (semi-functional) and German (basic).
English (native), decent Italian from having lived there for two years - trouble finishing sentences without a dictionary, though.
Pretty much just English, at least as far as languages I can actually use. I took Spanish in high school, but don't remember enough to do anything with it. I know a rather small amount of French from a combination of driving in Quebec and being an Alizée fangirl in high school, but not enough to be functional beyond reading road signs. I also picked up the odd word/phrase of Japanese (such as "in the name of the moon I shall punish you") due to watching way too much Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura.
As for languages I want to learn, I wish I knew French, and Russian intrigues me for some reason.
I took a semester of Russian. I would imagine it could put one off learning languages forever if it was the first second language one attempted.
I learned Spanish in elementary and middle school and know a decent amount. I recently started taking Latin this year.
I took Spanish in high school, but I don't remember enough to have a conversation. With the aid of a dictionary, I can make out the romance languages and German in writing, but not fast enough to speak.
I speak whale somewhat fluently.
Excuse me stewardess I speak jive
I took French in high school and undergrad (and even got to use it in Quebec when I was 19) but have lost the majority of it from years of not speaking it. I was never fully fluent, but I did write and illustrate a storybook in French in my senior year of high school, so there's that. (I need to find it.)
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Quote from: riiga on December 11, 2014, 11:09:35 AM
Swedish is my native language, so I speak it fluently. I can also understand Norwegian and Danish. Apart from that I still remember a bit of my school French, but it's getting worse by the year.
I can read Norwegian and Danish pretty well. I understand spoken Norwegian reasonably well, but have a pretty tough time with spoken Danish.
Quote from: Laura on December 12, 2014, 08:03:02 PM
I took French in high school and undergrad (and even got to use it in Quebec when I was 19) but have lost the majority of it from years of not speaking it. I was never fully fluent, but I did write and illustrate a storybook in French in my senior year of high school, so there's that. (I need to find it.)
That sounds a lot like me and Spanish. I also wrote and illustrated a storybook, El Autopista (http://vidthekid.deviantart.com/art/El-Autopista-156037695). How I managed to get so far thinking "autopista" is a masculine noun is a mystery.
Thanks to Sesame Street, I can count to 10 in Spanish. I can confidently order combination "cinco" at my local Mexican restaurant, getting eyes to roll in the process.
Four years of high school German didn't get me anywhere either.
English is only a second language for me. My native language is Spanish from Spain, which is different from what is spoken in The Americas. I can also speak Catalan, which I haven't spoke for a long time due to that independence thing, and some French. I can also understand Portuguese and Italian.
Quote from: vtk on December 13, 2014, 06:33:56 AM
That sounds a lot like me and Spanish. I also wrote and illustrated a storybook, El Autopista (http://vidthekid.deviantart.com/art/El-Autopista-156037695). How I managed to get so far thinking "autopista" is a masculine noun is a mystery.
Which is wrong, 'autopista' is feminine (La autopista).
My native language is American English from southern CA, also knows a good amount of Spanish I picked up, and some French I've learned from my French-born father and HS French class. I know a few Cherokee and Osage words like "O-si-yo" (hello) and "Wa-do" (thanks) which are Cherokee from my maternal grandfather who is part-American Indian from OK. I like to learn different languages which can be useful in world travels and business opportunities. I had a few relatives in northern France who spoke Flemish, a variant language of Dutch spoken in northern Belgium and nearby towns in France historically a part of the Flanders region.
My second language is Spanish, the Mexican variety. I used to use it daily a lot more than I do now. Back then, I had roommates and coworkers from Latin America; now, I have occasional, brief conversations with customers by phone, and they're all about cable.
I once spent ten minutes trying to figure out what language some tourists were speaking at a hot tub in Utah, then realized they were from New Zealand speaking English. I once spent fifteen minutes on Chicago's L trying to figure out what language the folks in front of me were speaking; they were from Asturias and had been speaking Spanish the whole time.
I can pronounce many written languages but don't understand the meaning of the words... including Polish, Russian, and Greek. I used to have the Arabic alphabet memorized, but I forgot it shortly thereafter.