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What languages do you speak?
« on: December 11, 2010, 09:36:21 PM »
Self-explanatory thread!  :laugh:


All I speak is English, but I am thinking about learning Spanish.  :chin:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2010, 09:54:54 PM »
English only  except some swears and words in Bosnian.  Language has always been difficult for me took Spanish and passed it college but that was more about taking tests
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2010, 10:02:05 PM »
Well, not that I remember much of them, but:

2 years French, 1 year Latin in High School (can still say Twinkle, twinkle little star in Latin)
1 year of Russian and 1 semester of Spanish in College.
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2010, 10:04:09 PM »
English only  except some swears and words in Bosnian.  Language has always been difficult for me took Spanish and passed it college but that was more about taking tests

Where did you pick up the Bosnian?   :orly:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2010, 10:05:17 PM »
Well, not that I remember much of them, but:

2 years French, 1 year Latin in High School (can still say Twinkle, twinkle little star in Latin)
1 year of Russian and 1 semester of Spanish in College.

Which was your favorite?  :)
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2010, 10:08:43 PM »
Well, not that I remember much of them, but:

2 years French, 1 year Latin in High School (can still say Twinkle, twinkle little star in Latin)
1 year of Russian and 1 semester of Spanish in College.

Which was your favorite?  :)

Poliltical answe - Spanish was my least favorite.  Guess what language came to town and didn't leave after Katrina?  We have our first Miguelito (whatever that is) about 10 blocks away.  I think it's for sending $ back to Mexico because I don't see anything on the shelves as I drive by.
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2010, 10:15:02 PM »
English, obviously, and a small bit of French

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2010, 10:17:03 PM »
English only . I took a a few years of French in high school, but I can't "speak" it very well. I can understand written French ok, though. When someone starts spitting it at me ten miles a minute I have a hard time understanding most of it. So, I speak it like an American  :laugh:

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2010, 10:18:40 PM »
English only . I took a a few years of French in high school, but I can't "speak" it very well. I can understand written French ok, though. When someone starts spitting it at me ten miles a minute I have a hard time understanding most of it. So, I speak it like an American  :laugh:

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2010, 10:27:54 PM »
Just english.

Did japanese for my HSC and I've forgotten every single bit :-\

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2010, 10:37:29 PM »
English. Went through high school without a foreign language on a glitch. Boring story though.

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2010, 10:43:51 PM »
English only  except some swears and words in Bosnian.  Language has always been difficult for me took Spanish and passed it college but that was more about taking tests

Where did you pick up the Bosnian?   :orly:

Work I was a trainer and we at one point hired a lot of people through a group that sponsored refugees.  I know how to say most of the tools and materials  we used and a few other things besides the swears.
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2010, 10:49:41 PM »
i dunno how to write it, but i know "tzao" means "damn" or "shit" or something approximate in mandarin

we had chinese exchange students once, otherwise i only learned ni hao (ma), but once we slept at a cabin, we had bunk beds, and he struggled w the ladder, and kept whispering "tzao, tzao, tzao, tzao, tzao" :D
he told us later what it meant

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2010, 10:55:39 PM »
Ich spreche ein wenig gebrochen Deutch.  ::)

Ich hatte vier jahre in hoch schulle gehabt, aber ich hat fast alles vergeissen.  :-\

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2010, 10:58:02 PM »
Ich spreche ein wenig gebrochen Deutch.  ::)

Ich hatte vier jahre in hoch schulle gehabt, aber ich hat fast alles vergeissen.  :-\

i talk a wiener broken dutch.
i had a hat in the jar with hooch and a skull, after my hat fasted all the... idunno the last word :/