The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Amaranthine on January 31, 2010, 02:12:08 AM
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How many languages do you guys know?
As for me...
Primary Language: English (duh)
Secondary Language: Latin American Spanish
And I WANT to learn Russian, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese, just because I am fasincated with languages and how they sound. ^^
Something that sounds terrible in English can sound amazing in another language imo. :lol
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I only know English, but I would love to learn Spanish myself.
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I know English, some spanish, a bit of latin, and a few phrases of French. A lot of romance languages... :)
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I only know English. Bottom line! Everything else just sounds like gibberish to me. I hardly know any words to any other language out there. In truth, I never learned another language. Only English. I just can't grasp any other language out there.
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i know English, and took German for several years, although it has been awhile since I've spoken it consistently..
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I speak... English and Dutch pretty well, I'd say :p
I can sometimes babble something in German and French (but I have a limited word knowledge, so I run out of words quickly)
But I can understand all 4 of them.
And I can read some latin :)
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I only know English. Bottom line! Everything else just sounds like gibberish to me. I hardly know any words to any other language out there. In truth, I never learned another language. Only English. I just can't grasp any other language out there.
You know, that's like me half the time. Although, I know very little French, like Je Mapelle Drake (or however it's spelt in French :p)
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It's spelled like
Je m'appelle Drake.
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That's better than most forum members though, haha :P:
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lol, ah, thanks anyway ^^
I know how to pronounce it, but can't spell it half the time :p
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Indonesia is my native language, but I prefer speaking in English online. XD
I also know a bit of Mandarin, though I still suck at it. I hate writing Kanji letters. :p
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I know English, Japanese, and a bit of Spanish. Though I'm not 100% fluent in Japanese, I can understand it enough to watch movies in Japanese. Though reading it....forget it! I have a hard time speaking Japanese quickly too. The way my pallet is shaped makes speaking Japanese rather difficult for me. I took Spanish for a while. I knew enough to understand the gist of most everyday conversations. Sadly, I've lost it over the years. :( I barely know it at all anymore.
To be perfectly honest, I hate the English language. I have like 4 songs I listen to that aren't in Japanese. My friends think it's so weird that my laptop is full of Japanese songs and movies. I don't think they'll ever fully understand. The weird thing is, if the songs were sung in English, I wouldn't like them. I guess it's because their meaning is so clear that you could sum the entire song up in a few sentences in English. But having them drawn out in Japanese makes them so beautiful and powerful. That's why my friends don't understand. When I translate the songs for them, they look at me like I'm some kind of wacko. :crazy
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To be perfectly honest, I hate the English language.
Really? I LOVE the English language! :lol: It's such an easy language, and the sentences are shorter than in German. If you write a whole text with the same meaning, the German one would have more words than the English text. ;)
Mother tongue: German
2nd language: English
3rd language: Spanish
I have to learn Spanish at school, it's required at the "Fachgymnasium Wirtschaft" (sorry, I don't know the English explanation for that type of school). I'm not very good at it, but the grammar is easy. The problems are the vocabularies. I really have to learn many words. In future I'll use a cue cards system to learn the words constantly.
But I don't like the German language that much. I don't like German movies and songs, I only have English songs on my MP3-Player. :lol
I hope that my English will get better and better, and I hope one day I can write and talk in English fluently.
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English.
I learnt french and some spanish in school...however it's been a while since I spoke french with some consistancy....but I can read it better than I can speak it.
I am learning german. One of the problems that I have is that like my french I do not really have the confidence to speak it. I am afraid of making mistakes..and whilst when learning a language you can make some mistakes at the beginning...it's just something that I need to learn and understand.
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German is my native tongue.
By now I have mastered English in written form and I guess in spoken form too though I still have a distinct accent (I would pay serious money to hear myself talking through "native English ears" so I would really get an idea of what it would sound like to the native speaker when I'm talking).
I had Latin at school for many years and I'm glad I had because it is what you need to be permitted to several study fields. In praxis however I cannot talk Latin, never could and never really needed it either.
I had French at the university for a mere semester so my command of the language doesn't go far beyond the obligatory "Bonjour, je ne parl pas Francais" :oops
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Obviously, English is my native language... :p
I learnt Indonesian for a while at my old primary school, and learnt French for my first two years at high school... regretfully I have forgotten much of what I learnt. :(
I do remember how to count from one to ten in Indonesian, however... satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, delapan, sembilan, sepuluh.
Like that's going to help me in my future pursuits. :lol
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Haha right ! I can count to 3 in turkish and know like 3 other words, how's that? :D
Okay... fine :P:
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I speak English,Malay,I(Chinese,mandarin,hokkien,cantonese,teochew) and german
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My primary language is English, I can speak a bit of German but not really enough to converse with someone. I know a phrase in Russian. I know a little Spanish. I also know three words in Japanese.
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Prime: English
Secondaries: Latin and Chinese (Tiashanese and Cantonese)
I know exactly 2 words in German.
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1.) English
2.) French (took a long time ago), American Sign Language (again, a very long time ago)
My chances of remembering anything very useful from #2 is very unlikely at this point. I could relearn it but its not a priority. ;)
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I do remember how to count from one to ten in Indonesian, however... satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, delapan, sembilan, sepuluh.
Tepat sekali! (Exactly!) :lol
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I speak English and Spanish. Took five ears of Spanish from junior high to high school, and I'm still going to have to take another year in college.
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Primary language is English and I do know enough Spanish to get by in a Spanish country (Castillian Spanish that is). Would love to speak Japanese so I could import Japanese games and play them without trouble understanding what's being said. :D I know a few tid bits but that was all through karate practice I used to do when I was younger (all our instructions and commands were in Japanese). So technically I could ask someone to roundhouse kick me in the face :lol
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I speak german and english.
I also speak a little the philippines language... which is kinda weird because I'm from the philippines. :p
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Just 1. English. English rulez!
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English and about half of Latin.
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Finnish, English, half decent Swedish, and some Russian and German.
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My native language is...American English :p. I learned up to an intermediate level of Spanish, but due to a combination of not having room for additional Spanish courses and not being around Spanish speakers, I'm starting to forget some of it :neutral. I at least know enough to get me around in a Spanish-speaking country, though ;).
I know a couple of phrases in French, and three phrases in German ("Thank ya very much", "Good morning/afternoon/evening! Do ya speak English?" and "Where is the toilet?" :lol). I also know random words in several languages, and some German, French, Italian, and Spanish profanities/vulgarities :lol.
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Prime: English
Secondaries: Latin and Chinese (Tiashanese and Cantonese)
I know exactly 2 words in German.
I'm cantonese. Ok tell me what is the 4 word chinese phrase commonly used to describe a messed up anyhow atitude
(SouthPawRacer @ Jan 31 2010, 09:48 PM)
I do remember how to count from one to ten in Indonesian, however... satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, delapan, sembilan, sepuluh.
Tepat sekali! (Exactly!)
Really that is exactly the same as Bahasa Malay
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Really that is exactly the same as Bahasa Malay
Yeah, most words in the Malay language have the same meaning as when they are in Indonesian. They're VERY similar, believe me. :p
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Man when I took malay back then I should have opt for indonesian when I had the chance. Oh yeah I'm back.
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Bumping a necro thread. :p
I know English as my native language and have taken two years of French and a year of German academically. However, the only language I can currently use to anywhere near fluency is English. I would love to learn Latin American Spanish at some point but I am a bit uncertain about how to go about that as my finances do not really permit immersion or private tutoring as an option. I might dedicate an hour a day to that enterprise when I finally come to a decision on the best study plan for Spanish. If there are any native Spanish speakers on the forum who might have some ideas I would be glad to hear them. :)
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I wasn’t originally born in the US so I do know more than one language from my home country, even tho English is my first:
1) English (obviously)
2) Punjabi
3) Hindi
Although I’ll admit that I’m not extremely fluent in speaking Hindi, but I can understand what people are saying when they speak to me in Hindi :DD
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Pretty much only English for me. Not sure what other Canadian provinces are like but in Alberta it was mandatory to take French from grade 4 to 6. Never continued with it though so I only remember a handful of words. Took a German course in grade 10 as well but didn't have the room to continue it in subsequent grades so I of course don't remember too much of that either :p
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I basically just know English and a little bit of Spanish. I will be taking some Italian next year though (hoping my Spanish background will help me :p ).
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I speak... English and Dutch pretty well, I'd say :p
I can sometimes babble something in German and French (but I have a limited word knowledge, so I run out of words quickly)
But I can understand all 4 of them.
And I can read some latin :)
I'd like to upgrade French from 'run out of words quickly' to 'can get around in France, no problem'
And then add Portuguese to the list of 'run out of words quickly' :P
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Russian is native.
Then comes EngRish I studied "properly" thanks only to videogames and forums like this for more than decade. (I had English during 9 years in school and 2 years in university, but it gave me only simple basis)
I also was learning Spanish a school for 5 years.
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Heh! English is my forte!
It's actually rather surprising that I'm quite adept at English. It's quite the unusual achievement that a lot of my irl friends are surprised at considering that where I live, our locals tend to royally butcher the English language, even managing to add our own local Singaporean stew to it and turning it into our own colloquial equivalent: Singlish... a mishmash of local culture, colloquial vocabulary, accents, and verbal tics. So of course I would know it too! :celebrate
Ah, I'm just joking! I know that's not an official language... :p
In all seriousness, I do know Chinese as well, although I'm not the best at it. I am literate and can read Simplified Chinese, but Traditional Chinese used in Mainland China? Bleh, I'll be screwed! Not too confident in writing it though...
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Native is german.
English is like my second native language by now. Still haven't learned all the words ofc but I'm very fluent in writing, talking and thinking :D
I had latin for a few years in school but remember close to nothing.
Thx to anime, I have a vocabulary of about 100-200 words in japanese, however I haven't studied either the unique writing nor any grammar or the likes so I can only write a few very basic sentences. Aiming to learn a little more though :lol
Few random words of various languages :P
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Finnish is my native language but I also consider myself quite fluent in English. As is mandatory here, I've also studied Swedish for years but I still consider myself terrible at it. :sducky In addition to those, I also tried to learn Russian but my skills in it have vanished quite completely since then. :OhYou
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Another Finnish here, so obviously it's also my native language. I have been studying English for quite long and as a result, I do believe that I am good at it. When it comes to Swedish, I can concur with Sovereign, I was never good at it. I have also studied some Russian and Spanish during college and well... let's just say that I'm not that good with either of them. Lastly, I can say a few words in Greek without making a complete fool of myself.
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Primary Language: English
Secondary Language: 中文
Und ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch sprechen. Danke LBTfan90, ich glaube er nicht mir im hier :(
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I'm boring. I only know English.
I did take French in Grades 4-6. But that was only because it was mandatory, and I never tried to learn French again after that because I had an absolutely horrible teacher. :p Although maybe things would've been different if I'd had a better experience.
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I only know English as well, with a tiny bit of French.
I don't know how far I'll actually go with learning French in school honestly. Only time can tell.
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Have you enjoyed learning French?
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Well, I guess not exactly. It can be fun at times, but overall it's tedious.
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Hopefully your teacher is better than mine was.
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Oh trust me, she is much better than yours, judging by the way you're describing him/her. But still, I don't really feel too committed of learning the language though, plus the fact that I have 8 other periods of different classes with different things to study and learn.
By the way, why is your French teacher horrible?
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I don't remember a lot of specifics. He was just stern and grumpy and an unpleasant person all-around. One of those people who gave off a consistently cold vibe. And nobody else I knew liked him either. It almost seemed like he hated kids despite, you know, working in an elementary school.
My step-sister had him in one of her classes many years later, and evidently no-one in her class liked him either. I remember she told us how the class came up with a couple nicknames for him: Père Noël (French for Father Christmas) and Mister Money Mart. :p
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Eh, you know, you gotta earn a living to survive, right? But your French teacher should not be teaching children, seems like the type of teacher that brings out the worse in these kids probably.
Also, why not nickname him Scrooge? It reminds me of him.
Bah! Humbug!
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Well I like Père Noël and Mister Money Mart because of their randomness. :p But Scrooge works too. And yeah, he just wasn't good with kids. Thankfully though, I'm pretty sure he is retired now.