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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2010, 11:12:00 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 :/

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2010, 11:21:52 PM »
English. I know a couple of curse words in Hungarian that I picked up from my grandmother and a couple of useful Italian hand gestures.  :thumbup:

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2010, 03:26:42 AM »
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:

je ne pas parlais francais!
or something :]
sacrebleu!
viv lu frooons!


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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2010, 03:36:26 AM »
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:

je ne pas parlais francais!
or something :]
sacrebleu!
viv lu frooons!


Ça-va ça-vient !!

Enculer !!

La putain de ta mére.

 :zoinks:

la puta madre!
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2010, 04:12:34 AM »
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.

I think you're probably right.  I Googled them and they issue money orders.

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2010, 05:41:24 AM »
fumer le cigare , oh la la
Putain de merde!
Connasse, On n'y baise rien !!!!




ok Ive had too much beer and I should switch back to English

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2010, 08:21:52 AM »
I know only two languages: English and Bad English! :orly:

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2010, 08:35:39 AM »
I know only two languages: English and Bad English! :orly:

Yes, but you're fluent in both.  Some folks are only fluent in Bad English. :LOL:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2010, 01:14:22 PM »
Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish. I understand Norwegian and Danish (and speak a little bit of both), and a little bit of Estonian and Hungarian.

And I think I can still read some Middle Egyptian.
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2010, 01:35:42 PM »
Dutch, and some Dutch dialects. English, German, bit of French. Can read some Latin and classic Greek, and, if I try hard, I can probably still make some sense of old Hebrew too.

Know some loose words in other languages, but not nearly enough to say that I can speak those languages.
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #25 on: December 12, 2010, 02:48:28 PM »
Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish. I understand Norwegian and Danish (and speak a little bit of both), and a little bit of Estonian and Hungarian.

And I think I can still read some Middle Egyptian.

How do you stay fluent in so many languages?   :orly:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2010, 02:49:39 PM »
Dutch, and some Dutch dialects. English, German, bit of French. Can read some Latin and classic Greek, and, if I try hard, I can probably still make some sense of old Hebrew too.

Know some loose words in other languages, but not nearly enough to say that I can speak those languages.

That's a lot!  :viking:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2010, 03:41:22 PM »
Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish. I understand Norwegian and Danish (and speak a little bit of both), and a little bit of Estonian and Hungarian.

And I think I can still read some Middle Egyptian.

How do you stay fluent in so many languages?   :orly:

When you come from a language that is only spoken by a few, then you have to know other languages, if you want to experience anything outside the borders of your own country.

Don't know how it is in Sweden, but in the Netherlands hardly any program on TV is dubbed. So, you'll hear foreign languages almost any day you switch on the TV. Music, most of the songs are in another language. And, in school foreign languages are obligatory. It's not that you are the only one having knowledge of another language, most people do. So, there are things available in other languages too.

The non spoken languages are the hardest to keep up with for me. Then the language I hear the least. For me, that is French. But, with a kid going to secondary school, my French is getting a boost again, even when I don't help her with her school assignments for French at all.

My French never was good. My German sucked in school, but, meeting German people, and mutual visiting did a lot of good for my German. I do still mess up with the gender of words, but, for understanding what I am hearing or reading that doesn't matter. Can make me being understood right a bit hard sometimes.
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2010, 03:58:27 PM »
CBC, Spanish is a lovely language to learn :thumbup: Very musical.

Apparently there is Spanish blood in our family on my Mums side as well as French, so I should know more Spanish than I do. The spanish I do know, is more Colombian, as I have Colombian mates. I know more French, but my verbs and tenses are terrible! I wouldn't last 5 mins in France with what I know! ;)

The one thing with language is that you kind of have to practice it all the time, or it leaves you.

Odeon and Hyke, awesome array of languages there :zoinks:

Go for it, CBC.

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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #29 on: December 12, 2010, 04:14:15 PM »
CBC, Spanish is a lovely language to learn :thumbup: Very musical.

Apparently there is Spanish blood in our family on my Mums side as well as French, so I should know more Spanish than I do. The spanish I do know, is more Colombian, as I have Colombian mates. I know more French, but my verbs and tenses are terrible! I wouldn't last 5 mins in France with what I know! ;)

The one thing with language is that you kind of have to practice it all the time, or it leaves you.

Odeon and Hyke, awesome array of languages there :zoinks:

Go for it, CBC.

Loup

Thank you Loup! I love the sound of Spanish and in fact I hear it often, since my city has
a large Hispanic population (mostly Puerto Rican afaik). It would be a helpful language to know.  :viking:
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