Other Languages you speak

[K3nn3h]

Espanol.

A mi me gusta tu madre en cama.

Okay, so I barely know spanish.

[Tagman]

I can barely speak English, how to expect me to learn foreign languages?

[Haggis McSpud]

I know a little Irish, French, Spanish and Latin. Not enough to be proud of though :frown:

[Ercoledi]

Not sure if it's better to make a new one, or just bump this. (http://forums.explosm.net/showthread.php?t=2666)

Either way, I had thought to let in some of all threads that go the primrose way to G&S.

Edit: speaks English, Cantonese and a smattering of Italian.

[Assassin]

My native language is dutch, and my English is awesome. I can also speak basic French

[CreamScreamer]

I can hold a small conversation in Spanish. Im still not very fluent, which is bad considering I've been in classes for it for five years now.

[BathWater]

Estonian, English... A bit of German and Russian :)

[Doa]

my native is urdu and punjabi and i can speak english (duh!) and understand arabic (planning to learn french)

[Niki]

I speak a little bit of French. I've got both my foreign language credits in it, and I'm okay at reading and writing it. It's hard to pronounce though.

[timbot]

I can do a smattering of German. Didn't really apply myself during the four years I studied it in high school. I also know a handful of Korean words now. Still planning on learning more...some day.

[TheHighwaySong]

Spanish, but everyone in Dallas might as well know Spanish. It's nothing impressive anymore. :frown:

[tunacake]

I speak a little French. I'm planning to head up to Rimouski for a month or so in the summer to get bilingual status.

[BurgerKueen]

Turkish is my native tongue. I can also speak French and might start Spanish when it's still free and easy to learn languages in college. I really want to learn Russian or Chinese too but different alphabets scare me.

And I remember posting like the exact same thing in G&S.

[BreakTheWalls]

Je Suis BreakLeWalls. Pause sur les murs. French is my most fluent.

I wish I could speak fluent Polish, so I could chat up all the hot pole chicks without looking like a douche.

I just like to learn foreign swear words, pendejo.

[NitRoDrivEn]

English and Armenian fluently. I can carry small conversations in Spanish and French and I know a little bit of Persian and Russian as well.

[ilovebrownies]

My first language is Norwegian, and I understand Danish and Swedish because they are similar. I did Spanish for three years in school, so I guess I can understand a little.

Also English.

[Benjaman]

My first language is English, although I can speak Spanish semi-fluently and I know a bit of Latin and German.

[triibus]

Minu emakeel on eesti keel <- Estonian is my native tongue. I've also studied Russian, German, Latin, Spanish and French. Oh, and as you can see, I can speak English too.

[Mr. Crow]

I'm sure this thread will be a fascinating collection of "I speak ____ and ____!" posts, vain bragging attempts, and people who speak the same foreign language circle-jerking with one another.

I tried Spanish for years but never got the hang of it. I took some Latin courses as well, and did well, but completely forgot everything I learned within months.

[WoeStorm]

Who needs to learn them, when the Yahoo translator is so convenient? But I know some French too.

[NitRoDrivEn]

I say fuck all that. Everyone speaks English anyway.... right? Right?

[Kass]

I tried learning both spanish and german, but failed miserably.

[Riddlebox]

Ich spreche Deutsch. Drei Jahre und ich vergessen meiste.

It's nice to know I can take 3 years of a foreign language and only be able to have retarded conversations. Seriously, when's the last time two Germans stood together going
"Das Hause ist rot!"
"Ja, naturlich! Wo ist die klo bitte?"
"um die rechsten seite um geradeaus"
"ah, danke, es ist regnet, richtig?"
"ja, wohl."

I wanted to learn how to speak German, not say a few words and loosely be able to construct them into a vague comment on the weather or the color of something.

[javaD]

Espanol.

A mi me gusta tu madre en cama.

Okay, so I barely know spanish.

Pues a mi me encanta la tuya hijo de puta.

Obviously I know spanish, I'm from south america. I also can speak a little mandarin, french, italian and hebrew.

[Dave]

I'm awful at languages. I can speak minimal irish, thats about it.

[Besh]

My native tongue is Bosnian, I can also speak Serbian, Croation, Slovenian. That's not cheating right?

[329don]

I want to learn Latin fluently and resurrect it from being a dead language, but until then I'm only here with English. I know all the crap they teach you in high school spanish.

[Dodger]

English is my second language, but I'm more eloquent in it than in my native tongue, Spanish.

Also I can hold my own in French conversations, but very basically.

[bizzle]

The two languages I was raised with were English with my parents and maternal grandparents and German with my paternal grandparents but we haven't used the German language since my Dad's parents died so I probably couldn't speak it to save my life anymore.

Mon Francais s'améliore aussi!

[Niki]

I did not know there were so many people here who didn't have english as a first language.

[LandMarkMoon]

I speak, and write fluent English, French and Arabic. Little Spanish here and there.

[Panda]

I'm with Dave. I know a minimal amount of Spanish, but then again everybody does. And I know a few words in Hebrew but no way I would be able to hold a conversation.

[TheHighwaySong]

English is my second language, but I'm more eloquent in it than in my native tongue, Spanish.

This is the same for me. Spanish is my first language, but nowadays I speak English a lot better.

[deicide]

My mother-tongue is English and I can speak a fair bit of Latin, good French, basic German and Russian. I enjoy languages a lot and I can learn them for free at my school, so I might as well learn them now.

[Valkyrie]

Im fluent in English and Afrikaans (a language of South Africa, a mixture of Dutch, German, French and a bunch of other stuff) and I'm fairly advanced in Portugues, though still learning. Aswell as I know the minimal basics of French.

[Ureshii]

Nihongo O hanasu koto ga dekimasu-I can speak Japanese.

And I can speak bits and pieces of Maori

[Cerberus]

I used to learn French in year 8 but was horrible. Haven't tried anything else except a little Jive.

[RainbowKermit]

I'm fluent in English and know a bit of Malay and a few Chinese dialects.

[AntiAnti]

I'm like 90% fluent in Cantonese.
90% because I haven't lived in China/Hong Kong for a while so I don't really use it that much outside of the family, and I'm not really up-to-date with the 'lingo' and some of the grammar.

I don't know what my mother tongue is - I was bought up learning both, and my 'rents forgot what my first word was, haha.

[jewishjosh]

I took some Latin courses as well, and did well, but completely forgot everything I learned within months.

This. And after 11 years of French, I'd still be royally fucked in France. (Quebec not so much, based on experience, i.e. family holiday.) My teachers have given me an abysmal vocabulary base and for all the talk about how it's better to learn a language by speaking it than through writing assignments and grammar (which I actually like and understand), nobody follows through with that method and in the end I lose. I think I could get by picking out pieces of conversation, if not for the godawful accent.

I also don't speak a word of English.

[Loc]

My first language is English, and I can speak Afrikaans,which has been explained

[Gina--]

My native tongue is Bosnian, I can also speak Serbian, Croation, Slovenian. That's not cheating right?

Ej, ja isto!

Serbo-croatian, whatever you wanna call it. As well as a tiny bit of Spanish which I have been learning for about 2 years now.

[Mobius]

I speak Arabic and I'm getting paid for it.

[gannz]

I speak Mandarin(Chinese) and Hindi(Indian) both with relative fluency

[gagins]

First language is Indonesian, I've forgotten some after living in Bangkok for 3 years, but I can still speak and understand it. English, obviously, and basic Mandarin and Spanish, sort of.

[Jackoff Shitler]

I speak english pretty well, and understand most if not all of latin-derived languages (spanish, italian, french).

[lollercaust]

I've been in Spanish for 5 years, and I'm pretty confident that I could survive in a Spanish speaking country. We have a foreign exchange student from Colombia in our class, and I have all Spanish conversations with her often and manage to hold my own pretty well.

Granted, I know we've been learning Spanish based on Central/South American countries, I think Spain would be a little tougher.

Oh, I also speak music. It's tough sometimes to find synonyms for words with letters other than A-G.

[BloodFire]

Well I speak English,Welsh(Because I moved here a few years ago from Manchester and picked it up quite quickly) and some French.

Dwi'n gallu siarad Cymraeg, Ond dwi ddim yn rhy dda.
Je parle petit peu francais.

So I suck in both, so what?

[koots]

I only know english but I want to learn spanish. Maybe when I'm done university I'll take it up. If my gramma's on the phone I can usually catch the topic of the conversation when she speaks in Estonian.

[Godly]

I'm completely fluent in French and English. And I can say some random gibberish in Spanish too.

Habla la puerta? Anyone?

[The1Qtip]

I've lived my entire life in the Dominican Republic with an American dad, so I'm fluent in English and Spanish. I want to learn something else, preferably something cooler, like Finnish.

[Dodger]

I'm completely fluent in French and English. And I can say some random gibberish in Spanish too.

Habla la puerta? Anyone?

Speak the door?

[Raxo]

The door speaks?

[cptlol]

I can speak english, french, german, dutch and a little bit of spanish, because of school though. I didn't choose for grammar school though fucking greek, latin and spanish - fuck that.

[Benjaman]

The 'la' was obviously a typo, he meant 'al' which would mean he speaks to the door. :facts:

[lollercaust]

The 'la' was obviously a typo, he meant 'al' which would mean he's speaking to the door.

That actually brings up a thought I'd never considered:

If you're not very fluent in a language, it must be hard to notice "obvious" typos like that.

If someone said in English "I want to go to a store", meaning "that store" and pointing toward it, we would figure out what they meant easily. But if someone in Spanish said that to you and you weren't fluent, you'd be thinking about what store he meant even if he was pointing at it. At least, I know I would. It's an awkward example, but I think it makes sense.

I don't know how good you are in Spanish, Benjamin, so maybe you're just an exception having noticed it. But I would have considered that phrase for a while and moved on figuring I didn't understand it. Instead of catching the typo.

[Tastychainsaws]

I have about three months of Chinese behind me. So at this point I can say hello, I'm doing well, may I use the restroom, and I don't or you don't speak Chinese.

[Raxo]

The 'la' was obviously a typo, he meant 'al' which would mean he speaks to the door. :facts:

It would then be "Habla al puerta?" which makes no sense because the tense is wrong in the verb "hablar" and there is no article for the noun "puerta", it would translate to something like "speaks to door"

"El habla al la puerta?" would mean "He speaks to the door?".

:facts:

[Benjaman]

Ah, true, it would have to be a masculine noun, so as that the 'a' and 'el' would form together, but alas, it is feminine and therefore it would not. Learn something new everyday, eh?

[TheHighwaySong]

Granted, I know we've been learning Spanish based on Central/South American countries, I think Spain would be a little tougher.


Most Spanish classes teach Mexican-based Spanish. To comprehend Spanish from Spain (and to some extent Argentina) you'd just need to learn Vosotros which is just a different way of using you/them, as well as picking up the different slang. It's almost like differentiating American and British English.

"Concha" in Mexico and some Central American countries means "seashell" but in Argentina it is a slang for "vagina". Same with "coger": in Mexico it is a slang for "fucking" but elsewhere it means "to pick up."

[Metalhead636]

English is my first. I am learning Japanese and speak a broken Spanish (Mexico).

[Raxo]

Also the Argentinians speak like faggots.

I'm trying to learn French and I do seem to be progressing well since it shares many things with Spanish, my native tongue. Ican understand Portugeuse very well too.

[Zero]

I speak English and Latin, always wanted to learn French though.

Seriously do not ever take Latin, its way too fucking hard. We don't even speak it, we just translate in school.

[Besh]

I want to learn latin, seems like a challenge worthy of me, an average C student.

[Dodger]

The door speaks?
There would need to be a comma after "Habla" for that translation to be correct.
Also the Argentinians speak like faggots.


They seriously do. I hate it when they say "ll" like their tongue is too big for their mouths.

Also that whole "coger" in Ecuador it isn't a cuss word, it just means to take. So when I came to the states and all the Mexicans were like "Wtf? Why's he cussing lololol", I figured they were all retards and started hanging out with other people.

[kwomack]

I butcher Korean and English.

[kwomack]

I speak Arabic and I'm getting paid for it.

Good job becoming a target.

[Battery Patient Xib]

I can speak English, a bit of Spanish, and French.
Also know American Sign Language.

[Sinicious]

My native language is Finnish. I also speak Swedish, English and few words of Russian and French, but only few. My English is as fluent as my Finnish :)

[ButlerBoy]

I speak Afrikaans, English, a bit of Zulu and a few words in German

[fat-red-chicken]

Daar is soveel Explosmers wat Afrikaans kan praat! Sies!

Afrikaans is the only other language I know. :( But I could probably survive if I wanted to go buy a tomato from a Zulu street vendor :D Unless they killed me :(

[Mr. Wink]

I'm fairly fluent in french and I know one word of german.

[lafuriaroja]

My first language is Spanish, then I learned Italian from my uncle. Came to the US and learned english. Took French in High School, taugh myself portugese, and learned alot of German while staying over there.

I know six laguages, which means I can insult alot of people.

[Pencil]

My native language is Dutch and in school I learned to speak English, French en German. I speak a little Italian, too.

[Mirrorman]

Well theres Estonian, English, a little Russian, a little German.
If my gramma's on the phone I can usually catch the topic of the conversation when she speaks in Estonian.
:hf:

[Revocracy]

English, portuguese, french and a bit of dutch and spanish.

[Cyan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS THIS THREAD IS SO AWESOME AND EXCITING TO READ!!
First language is danish and I, obviously, speak english aswell. This year I began learning spanish in school. I don't want to, but I had to choose between that, french or german.

[K3nn3h]

I'm fairly fluent in french and I know one word of german.

Learn the phrase Bumsen sie einen Baum. It means 'Can you help me hail a taxi?'

[Amazingly]

I speak English and a bit of spanish, although I could probably pick up a language fairly quickly if I were ever dropped off in a foreign country. I know a few words from several other languages, and I'm about to start taking some serious Spanish courses.

[_Atheistic_]

I speak Spanish extremely well (seeing as how I'm 75% Mexican). I also understand a bit of native Apachean which I've been self-teaching myself.

[ViolenceFetish87]

I speak Southern English. haha I really want to learn German. My lil bro is learning it in school, i went to a little crappy country school though so they didnt teach anything besides spanish when i was in school and they didnt teach that very well. So i just learn random german words through random German bands.

[Puritan]

The other language I speak is violence. Get used to it.

[Dacada]

AMERICAN.

Also, other languages are pointless as everyone is going to know English in 30 years anyway. We should have took on Interlingua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua) when we could have.

[WoeStorm]

HOLY SHIT GUYS THIS THREAD IS SO AWESOME AND EXCITING TO READ!!
First language is danish and I, obviously, speak english aswell. This year I began learning spanish in school. I don't want to, but I had to choose between that, french or german.

:ahe:

On topic: So why can't everybody just learn English? When somebody tries to talk to me in Spanish or some other language, it gets awkward.

[gizzalove]

My first language is English. I've taken French for almost 8 years in school But I can barely speak a word of it.

[1zabest]

English and puppetry of the penis

[Mirrorman]

My first language is English. I've taken French for almost 8 years in school But I can barely speak a word of it.

I feel your pain. Been studying russian for like 6 years and I suck at it. Probably because I never use it.

[K3nn3h]

:ahe:

On topic: So why can't everybody just learn English? When somebody tries to talk to me in Spanish or some other language, it gets awkward.

Because this world isn't one giant version of England or America. At least there are English speaking people everywhere. I doubt you'd find many Russian speakers in Guatemala.

If you want everyone to speak a universal language, it has to be Latin or German, because, not including Asia, that's what all languages have been derived from. Not including Asia. We don't include them.

[fat-red-chicken]

If you want everyone to speak a universal language, it has to be Latin or German, because, not including Asia, that's what all languages have been derived from. Not including Asia. We don't include them.

Why not derive a new language from all of those? Afrikaans is kinda like that, but it has a disproportionately large amount of Dutch...

[Ercoledi]

They tried that with Esperanto, the building a new language thing, and everyone was like "what fuck that" - I'm not sure such a thing would ever be successful.

[Tweek]

Plus it is detrimental to separate national cultures and I will personally assassinate anyone who moves to turn the colour of the world into a mass of grey.

[Skim]

German - Ich sprechen zie deutch
English - I are to be speaking english
Zulu - Sawubona, unjani? Sekona.
Sotho - Dumela, okai? Keteng.
Chinese - Nihau! Wo shing wang?
Hindi - Namaste!
Porteguese - Bondia!

[prf007]

I took 4 years of Japanese so my speaking ability is that of a Japanese 5th grader, but enough to get by in Japan.

[Mirrorman]

German - Ich sprechen zie deutch
English - I are to be speaking english
Zulu - Sawubona, unjani? Sekona.
Sotho - Dumela, okai? Keteng.
Chinese - Nihau! Wo shing wang?
Hindi - Namaste!
Porteguese - Bondia!

It's Ich spreche zie deutch.

[lafuriaroja]

German - Ich sprechen zie deutch
English - I are to be speaking english
Zulu - Sawubona, unjani? Sekona.
Sotho - Dumela, okai? Keteng.
Chinese - Nihau! Wo shing wang?
Hindi - Namaste!
Porteguese - Bondia!

Great way to use Babel Fish Translator (http://babelfish.yahoo.com/).

[NitRoDrivEn]

German - Ich sprechen zie deutch
English - I are to be speaking english
Zulu - Sawubona, unjani? Sekona.
Sotho - Dumela, okai? Keteng.
Chinese - Nihau! Wo shing wang?
Hindi - Namaste!
Porteguese - Bondia!
:indiff:

[Leberkaese]

It's Ich spreche zie deutch.
I speak you German?
"zie" isn't even a word, but I assume you mean "you".

I speak German. - Ich spreche Deutsch.
Do you speak German? - Sprichst du Deutsch?

@ Topic: English and German.

I think a universal language would be badass. You can still use your own language in countries were your language is spoken, but you only need to know one other language to speak with everyone else in the world.

[Dacada]

Why not derive a new language from all of those? Afrikaans is kinda like that, but it has a disproportionately large amount of Dutch...

They tried that with Esperanto, the building a new language thing, and everyone was like "what fuck that" - I'm not sure such a thing would ever be successful.
I think a universal language would be badass. You can still use your own language in countries were your language is spoken, but you only need to know one other language to speak with everyone else in the world.
INTERLINGUA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua) GODDAMIT. It's PERFECT.
They taught it to some Dutch kids and they could translate more Spanish after 6 weeks than they could after taking Spanish for 6 months holy shit. Plus it takes like a month to learn, whereas English takes 7 years to perfect. INTERLINGUA!!

[Con-Con]

Me speak english can. And can speak Irish pretty well, and I'm learning geman in school. It's still kind of crappy though

[linzy]

Im fluent in English and Afrikaans (a language of South Africa, a mixture of Dutch, German, French and a bunch of other stuff) and I'm fairly advanced in Portugues, though still learning. Aswell as I know the minimal basics of French.

English is my first language, can also speak Afrikaans and Xhosa (which is one of our african languages) and thats only 3 of the 11 official South African languages

[Derelict]

I speak pretty fluent Galactic Basic.

[K3nn3h]

I speak pretty fluent Galactic Basic.

It's the Huttese that'll bust your balls.

[_Atheistic_]

Does anyone know Gaelic? Its another language I've been wanting to learn, wondering if its difficult.

[lolguy]

I can speak French like a retard.
Other from my native language, that's about it.

[Oofie]

Does anyone know Gaelic? Its another language I've been wanting to learn, wondering if its difficult.

I do. It's as difficult as any other language, and it's fairly pointless. Put your effort into a language you might actually use. I only know it because in Ireland it's mandatory in schools.

[Haggis McSpud]

I hated learning Irish at school, I dropped it after three years because it was so difficult. Luckily I live in the North where it doesn't really matter, but I kinda wish I had kept it on now..

[FoeoftheUniverse]

D035 1337 C0UN7Z?
English, L337, basic Spanish, some French, and a little Chinese

[Fluzz]

I'm awful at languages. I can speak minimal irish, thats about it.

I'm about the same, my grandfather taught himself Gaelic though. It's too bad it'll always be a second language.

I hated learning Irish at school, I dropped it after three years because it was so difficult. Luckily I live in the North where it doesn't really matter, but I kinda wish I had kept it on now..

My moms from the North, Belfast. And my grandma was from Bangor. Where are you from?

[BadassMOFO]

My native language is Hebrew. That's about it.

הבה נגילה!

[koots]

My native language is Hebrew. That's about it.

הבה נגילה!

Serious question; Jewish?

[K3nn3h]

Who else speaks Hebrew?

[BadassMOFO]

Serious question; Jewish?

Most of the Hebrew speakers are Jewish, and yeah.
Not just a Jew, an Israeli Jew!
:D

[BlackHawK]

My native language is Portuguese, so I can speak some of what we call here "portuñol" (a mix of spanish and portuguese, due the similarity of them). I also speak English (obvious) and I know something about German.

German - Ich sprechen zie deutch
English - I are to be speaking english
Zulu - Sawubona, unjani? Sekona.
Sotho - Dumela, okai? Keteng.
Chinese - Nihau! Wo shing wang?
Hindi - Namaste!
Porteguese - Bondia!

It's "Portuguese - Bom dia!"
and
"Ich spreche deutsche"

[BlackHawK]

Could anybody delete this, please?

[The Ripper]

My native language is Hebrew and i can pretty much understand basic Arabic and Yiddit (Yiddish, Iddit whatever).

[BadassMOFO]

^
האמנם מדבר אתה עברית?

[LandMarkMoon]

I speak Arabic and I'm getting paid for it.

You can understand all the dialects? Or just the standard? If you can understand the varying ones i.e difference between Gulf rough accents and easy ones like the Egyptian/Middle eastern ones.

[Con-Con]

I do. It's as difficult as any other language, and it's fairly pointless. Put your effort into a language you might actually use. I only know it because in Ireland it's mandatory in schools.

Like I'm still in school and I like learning Irish, not really because of the language but about the culture and history of it. It really depends on the teacher you have imo, because my one hates english and everything about England so it kind of rubs of on me.

[Metalhead636]

It's the Huttese that'll bust your balls.

As a proud Huttese speaker I find that very offensive. Yousa bantha poodoo!

[Quadros]

I can speak english slowly and loudly which is all I really need to know.

[K3nn3h]

As a proud Huttese speaker I find that very offensive. Yousa bantha poodoo!

That's Gunganese, not Huttese. Huttese would be more Choochamwa Dikanda Coloradocanda, Solo.

[CKY_BamFan]

I can (of course) speak American, some German, and little bits of Spanish.
Explosm ist der Platz für Leute, die mögen im Internet streiten.
*Explosm is the place for people that like to argue on the Internet.*

[BlackHood]

I can (of course) speak American, some German, and little bits of Spanish.
Explosm ist der Platz für Leute, die mögen im Internet streiten.
*Explosm is the place for people that like to argue on the Internet.*

And Apparently practice Necromancy.

I speak a little French, German, Spanish, Greek and Latin.

[Hats of!]

I can understand Norwegian and to some extend Danish (which sounds like someone speaking Swedish with a potato down their throat) and I can speak Swedish (native) and English.
Och jag är jävligt besviken att inte mer medlemmar här talar svenska, jävla jänkare!
Yeah, and I'm planning on learning German, and perhaps Icelandic/Old Norse.

[ultrasoundchick]

Hablo un poquito espanol, pero es muy mal. Also english and even some hilljackian.

[SizzlingNickel]

Espanol and learning German.

[Septem]

Slovenian, German, English, Latin, basic Croatian.

[SizzlingNickel]

Slovenian, German, English, Latin, basic Croatian.

GUTEN TAG!

[Tyler_Legrand]

I can (of course) speak American

How?

[Laurence]

I speak English and a moderate amount of French.

[SourChicken]

I'm fluent in English and Canadian.

Also taking a class on German, some random bits of Spanish and Hebrew, and trying to learn ASL and Russian.

[Tyler_Legrand]

Australian or American?

[Leberkaese]

I can (of course) speak American, some German, and little bits of Spanish.
Explosm ist der Platz für Leute, die mögen im Internet streiten.
*Explosm is the place for people that like to argue on the Internet.*
Replace the verb "mögen" with the adjective "gerne", because you already have the verb "streiten" in the sentence and you should only use one verb.

I think it would be nice, if we had a language forum here in which people who are learning a foreign language can ask questions about it. Native speakers or people who have more experience with this language can easily help them.
E.g.: There is a thread for each language (English, Spanish, German, French, ...) and in these threads people can ask questions about the respective language.
So, why not do something educational on Explosm too hm? ;)

[littlefoot]

Im fluent in english and irish, spent nearly 8 years learning german but iv forgotten most of it cause i never use it.

[Astronaut]

I speak enough spanish to carry a conversation, and enough french for you to think I'm a slow fellow.

[Acciaccatura]

I can (of course) speak American.

I didn't realise that "American" was a language?

I speak English, some Spanish and a little Auslan.

[box-of-toast]

I speak English, school level Japanese, DISMAL french and horrible, horrible latin. Actually i can't speak the last, just read it. Either way, horribly.

[SourChicken]

Australian or American?

American and a touch of Australian.
But British is pure gobbledeegook to me.

[darklord5000]

My native language is Laotian, but I was born in America.
I speak English, Laotian, and German.
I learned German in school.

suh bai dee
guten morgen.

[abbey]

I can speak English. I can understand quite a bit of French and read it, but I can't speak it. I also know about 30 words of Swahili.

[Audioslave]

English speaker, I'm pretty well fluent in French.

I'm debating learning Norwegian and/or Chinese. Norwegian because I want to move to their hippy Socialist paradise and Chinese because they will be our overlords soon enough.

[Stealth Prawn]

Je parle en Francais tres bonne.

[TheHighwaySong]

Nobody speaks Espanol. Maybe Español, but not Espanol.

[Arthenon]

I speak English and that's about it for the moment. I want to learn Japanese at some point and I'll definitely be in Afghanistan within a year, so I'll pick up Arabic/Urdu/something like that from that from being there.

[dirkadirka]

dirka dirka muhammad jihad

[InnerDemon]

Je parle en Francais tres bien.

Fixed.

[user]

You can understand all the dialects? Or just the standard? If you can understand the varying ones i.e difference between Gulf rough accents and easy ones like the Egyptian/Middle eastern ones.

I can understand arabic with all its dialects
I also speak french and english fluently

[Warsaw]

Spanish, English, some French, a little German.

[Tyler_Legrand]

Fixed.

Ahe, even the way English speakers use "good" isn't reliable.

"How are you feeling?"
"I'm feeling good", or "I'm feeling well"?

[InnerDemon]

Yes but French people don't have that problem. Never can adverbs be replaced by adjectives. "Je parle en Francais tres bonne" would never be correct. Maybe "mes facilites en Francais sont tres bonnes" but that's a complete different story.

[TheTacticalBadger]

English and Drunk.

[Ihduh]

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[KeyboardSpastic]

I would love to be able to speak New York English.
Me - English, un po d'italiano kai lixo ellhnika. Abit of Italian and Greek.

[Skipidiveinau]

I speak Finnish (native), English and Swedish. Some Norwegian too because it's pretty similiar to Swedish and I have many relatives there.

[Tyler_Legrand]

Yes but French people don't have that problem. Never can adverbs be replaced by adjectives. "Je parle en Francais tres bonne" would never be correct. Maybe "mes facilites en Francais sont tres bonnes" but that's a complete different story.

Eeh, doesn't matter. Just realised once again how stupidly complicated English is; there are exceptions.
For example, "This smells good", which implies the thing in question has a pleasant aroma, and "This smells well", which implies the thing in question has a good sense of smell. Apparently, both "I feel good" and "I feel well" are correct.

That's not to say I haven't experienced any irksome surprises in French. E.g. mostly the adjective is given after the noun, but there are exceptions. (le chat blanc, le petit chat)

Can you think of any more French surprises like that, InnerDemon? I'd like to learn :hmm:

[Kritza]

Being Canadian I can speak a moderate amount of French. My grandfather is the last member of my family that can speak Irish Gaelic. I regret never learning it and I doubt I'd be able to learn it now. I heard its a tough language.

[InnerDemon]

Can you think of any more French surprises like that, InnerDemon? I'd like to learn :hmm:

As far as I know French is pretty rigorous. Of course, they have their mind-fucking grammar stuff like, say, les verbes de mouvement which, at the passe compose tense (simple past) are conjugated with "etre"(to be) unlike the rest of the verbes (except for reflexive verbs) which are conjugated with "avoir" (to have). For instance: I came = Je suis venu

whereas

I ate = J'ai mange

Maybe there's some native French on the forum who could shed some light upon this matter.

[callmegod]

I speak english, spanish, portuguese (mother tongue), and a few italian words.

[Kashew]

Speak French pretty well...want to learn Arabic.

[Leberkaese]

Nobody speaks Espanol. Maybe Español, but not Espanol.
Oh come on. Not everyone is as cool as you and has this fancy "wave above the n"-key on his keyboard.

[Benjaman]

Oh come on. Not everyone is as cool as you and has this fancy "wave above the n"-key on his keyboard.
It's called a tilde, and it's in your character map :facts:

[freakygirlhere]

Conversational French and a bit of Spanish from holidays in the Canary Islands, and I can speak but not write very well Finnish, Czech, Slovakian, Croatian and Hungarian - all of those are because I work in an insanely multi-cultural environment.

A friend of mine moved to England for Belgium 2 years ago, and he can fluently speak and write French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese and Dutch. I feckin' hate him for it.

[Iiro]

English.

[dudesta69]

English, i'm currently learning manderin(ni hao), i can speak a bit of Polish, Italian, french(crossont), jive and chipmonk...

[Tyler_Legrand]

je voudrais un croissant

[Glowstick]

I've only just begun learning Japanese. I stll suck, but I'm getting there I guess.

[Lextreme]

I can speak English, some Spanish (Spain dialect, not Hispanic, which is pronounced differently), and I know a few German phrases here and there. I really want to learn Portuguese or continue learning Spanish.

[Pencil]

I speak Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. Dutch and English fluently.

[DoctorButt]

I'm extremely fluent in French and Spanish. Like enough to carry a conversation with a native.

[VioletSadi]

I stink at it, but I speak, write and read Italian. I can't listen in Italian though- I have to translate what people say.
My signiture means "the pineapple dances Flamboyantly(literally very very fast, but close enough) on my fridge.

L'anans Balla allegrissimo sua il frideffero

[olmiolo]

I speak Kiswahili.
And English, but that's not a forgeign language so doesn't count.

[Deadhappy]

French and english and my native spanish

[CKY_BamFan]

How? Sorry, meant American English, not like British English.

[Gorby]

English and semi-fluent in Russian.

[TiredOne]

Since I'm a native Japanese, I'd say English as my semi-fluent language.

[AOB]

I'm a native Spanish (not from Spain, spain's spanish isn't the best)
Also learned English as a child too, so I guess I'm fluent in both (except for the ocacional mistake or 1rst grade english grammar).

[dAmieu]

I only speak English fluently, and Spanish is the only other language that I really knew (I forgot most of it because I don't use it). I like learning any language that doesn't roll the letter "r" (eliminates a lot of the easier ones), because I can't do it.

[Snowland]

I speak some German, and some French. But mainly English and Dutch.

[John Travolta]

English, some Spanish and I can read Cyrillic and have no idea what I'm saying.

[javaD]

Also that whole "coger" in Ecuador it isn't a cuss word, it just means to take. So when I came to the states and all the Mexicans were like "Wtf? Why's he cussing lololol", I figured they were all retards and started hanging out with other people.

The thing is that "Cojer" is a synonim for Fuck, the same in my country, when somebody uses that word everyone bursts in laughter.

[Kevdog]

Im Fluent in Javaspeak and Klingon.

[javaD]

Im Fluent in Javaspeak and Klingon.

Say something in Klingon!

[White_Ninja]

I was born in Poland so my native language was Polish. Now being in the states for most of my life has made my polish rather terrible. I took French and German in high school and got C's in both. =p Hoping to learn some Chinese sometime.

[Scimitar]

Apart from my native language (from a lil' insignificant country which nobody gives a damn about anyway),I speak English (d'oh!),semi-fluent French and the basics of German and Japanese.

[winston_nuts]

Hebrew (well Hebrew is my language)

[Prawnatron]

English, French and Spanish.

[Yoroi]

I can speak english(not a surprise, but my motherlanguage is finnish :3), some really bad swedish and some japanese.
I don't know much japanese, but I learn it when I watch anime with original voiceacting(I hate dupping), but I mostly watch Hagaren(FMA), so I can say renkinjutsu, kensa no ishi, yoroi, shinjitsu and so on :3.

[Annimo]

Ich spreche Deutsch. Drei Jahre und ich vergessen meiste.

It's nice to know I can take 3 years of a foreign language and only be able to have retarded conversations. Seriously, when's the last time two Germans stood together going
"Das Hause ist rot!"
"Ja, naturlich! Wo ist die klo bitte?"
"um die rechsten seite um geradeaus"
"ah, danke, es ist regnet, richtig?"
"ja, wohl."

I wanted to learn how to speak German, not say a few words and loosely be able to construct them into a vague comment on the weather or the color of something.

learning by doing. just have to make some conversation with some germans. and this "conversation" just funny.

when you want some small talk in german:

Hallo - Hello
Wie geht es dir? - How are you?
Was machst du da? - What are you doing?
Mein Name ist... - My name is...
Wie heißt du? - What's your name?
Tschüss. - Good bye.

so my first language is german. my first foreign language was french, then english then spanish and i know some words in malayalam, but just a few, and i just can write my name in malayalam and the few words i know i just can say.

Oh and as you can see in my terrible english i'm not really good at languages

oh and gesundheit is a german word ^^

[Frobes]

English, some Spanish, and I took Latin but you don't really speak that.

[Mague92]

English, Spanish and basic French

[lollercaust]

English, some Spanish, and I took Latin but you don't really speak that.

Maybe you don't. Here in Ancient Rome we speak it all the time.

[osirisko]

Native Slovak, fluent english and czech (well it's almost the same as slovak), somehow fluent german, can understand polish and a little russian

[Tyler_Legrand]

Sorry, meant American English, not like British English.

No dammit it was a joke. American language. "How". Native Americans? Never mind.

[Slomo]

I know english and spanish and i know how to say french fries in french. Pumme Frites:lol:

[KaOzWomBaT]

I speak leet. kk?

[White_Ninja]

Is 'lol cat' a language? If so, I'm pretty good at it =D

[Blxorz]

I speak leet. kk?


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(This is leet bruh!)



Is 'lol cat' a language? If so, I'm pretty good at it =D


And no, no it isn't

[n3fast]

Being born in a two-language country gives you a head start. My mother tongue is Dutch, the Flemish version. In primary school we started learning French quite soon. That made it a lot easier to start learning other languages like German and English. But alas, my German been proven fairly rudimentary. My English is mostly self-taught, as you can see. I have tried Italian and Spanish, but never really pushed trough.

je voudrais un croissant
Foux Da Fa Fa?

Maybe you don't. Here in Ancient Rome we speak it all the time.
Indeed, as do I. When in Rome, I'm reminded of the fact I've forgotten most of the Latin I learned. That's a pity. I can feel that dead language dying once again in my head.

I know english and spanish and i know how to say french fries in french. Pumme Frites:lol:
I'd hate to be a grammaire membre du Parti national-socialiste des travailleurs allemands, but it's spelled pommes frites.

[Blueandgrey]

Living in a Somalian and Muslim household, I speak Somali and Arabic.

[Yamakashy]

I only speak romanian , english and a little bit french.