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| Posted on 2009-04-02 11:29:28 PM |
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I am only fluent in English. I tried taking Spanish back in high school for 2 years which was required to graduate. The first year (9th grade) went fine because I had a good teacher who was always there to help me. I went downhill the second year (10th grade). The Spanish teacher for that year was rarely there because he was usually gone for some damn golf tournament or some other excuse. Also, most of the work was done on worksheets since he spent a lot of time on the phone whenever he was present. I only passed the class because I had to copied from a classmate. In exchange, I let him play my DS.
I've been extremely rusty ever since.
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 12:16:33 AM |
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My main language i speak outside my house is English of course, otherwise it's mainly Assyrian (which no one has probably heard of) because my nationality is ... well, Assyrian. I'm also learning some Italian at school and i can count to ten in Japanese and Indonesian.
It makes me proud knowing a language not many other people speak :3
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 12:57:21 AM |
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I can speak: English, Dutch, French, German, Vlaams and Brabants.
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 01:58:27 AM |
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I can only speak German and English. And I am also learning latin.
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 04:54:12 AM |
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The only language I'm sure I'm fluent in is German... I haven't really talked to anyone in English before (apart from English classes in school of course), so I don't know if I can speak that fluently. (It often takes me about five minutes for one post like this, as I need time to find the right expression, check the spelling and grammar etc.). I do think my English is decent though.
Apart from German and English, I'm learning Spanish in School (I also used to have French classes, but it was so horribly boring I dropped it.)
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 07:17:16 AM |
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Just English...
...What?
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 07:29:47 AM |
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German is my native language. Being quite fluent in English, I can speak French a bit (I know the grammar, but too few words).
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 07:33:04 AM |
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Same as exit1337, but I COMPLETLY SUCK AT FRENCH :<
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 07:38:27 AM |
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Native English speaker, good proficiency in German, and currently learning Danish just for fun. Not all that many, I suppose, but I absolutely adore languages, and am eager to add as many more as possible to my list in the future.
I really, really hate the fact that English is my native language, though. One truly has to go out of one's way to avoid being cursed with monolingualism forever. Sometimes I feel like I don't even have a native language--with English being so widespread in the world, a language of international commerce and the like, I don't feel as though I have any special cconnection to it. I don't have any language that is uniquely, personlly mine--I'm just speaking the lingua franca, with nothing to call my own, to speak privately among my countrymen when abroad, as everyone else can do.
And I really resent the negative effect English seems to be having on other languages, and the words and phrases it seems to be loaning out to them. At leas tprevious international languages like Latin and French donated words of culture and scholarship to their kin around the world. But English? Idiotic corporate-speak and soulless advertising slogans. Nearly every single time I watch the German news somebody uses the word "know-how" as though it were a technical term or something (once I even heard it used to translate an English speaker's use of the word "expertise"!) Worse still is when they use English words to replace words the language in question already has perfectly good words for--most of which sound far, far nicer than the very words being used in their stead (seriously, would anyone want to be "happy" if they didn't know what it means? It sounds like another name for scabies!). This is "my" language's contribution to human culture? Agh. It makes me mad just thinking about it. Stupid ugly parasite of a language.
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 08:46:56 AM |
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I know English, and Norwegian due to... well, being Norwegian, and have had French before so I suppose I know a bit of that. I'm currently having Spanish in school, and all is going well with that. Now for myself, I'm also trying to learn Japanese, and that's going well too. Can read hiragana and katakana alright, but kanji is a great blank space for me right now, and can't really be bothered to try learning much of those yet. Still can't really use my Japanese knowledge for much yet, either. Ah well, it'll hopefully come in the future.
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 10:35:49 AM |
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Originally posted by JirachiJust English...
...What?
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 10:43:32 AM |
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I know Swedish (Yes, I'm from Sweden), English, and basic French. I would like to learn Latin, but I didn't have enough room for it in my school timetable...
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| Last edited on 2009-04-03 10:44:08 AM by yoshicookiezeus. |
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 03:54:03 PM |
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Ranking of fluency:
1. English
1. German
2. French
:S
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 03:59:39 PM |
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English and French.
I once tried to learn Lojban... not a whole lot of teachers out there to help with that 
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 04:45:24 PM |
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i know Italian 
and english, about
(how could i have so many post? i'm a blabber )
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 06:30:49 PM |
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The only languages I know are English, and some Japanese. I tried speaking Italian once, too fucking hard. I gave up.
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| Posted on 2009-04-03 07:55:44 PM |
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I'm impressed at all those who can speak more than 1 and amazed at those who can speak in more than 3(Because I only know three at the moment.)
Well, I speak English, Spanish, and French.
I'm planning to study German(it being a very popular language), Japanese(because I want to visit Japan and actually read and speak this language because of their magnificent video games, manga, and anime), and Latin(to better understand Latin Languages).
If you guys are currently learning a language in school or so, I suggest trying to take the time and effort to know the language very well instead of only knowing a fraction of the full knowledge of which you are able to gain by taking a bit more time to learn it.
Those of you who know more than 3 so far, bravo(cause you're probably better than me at knowing how to speak different languages).
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| Posted on 2009-04-04 12:11:00 AM |
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English and German.
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