What Languages Do You Speak?

English (UK only - no US) "What is your favourite colour?"
Some French (Ah, Paris, la ville la plus belle du monde!)
A tiny amount of very rusty German (Schade dass ich habe so viel vergessen)
I'm completely fluent in C, C++ and Pascal ( main() { printf ("Hello world\n" ) ; } )

i speak english <---- example

and i also speak spanish...'mandame todas tus mujeres' = send me all your women

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Originally posted by Atavist

I'm completely fluent in C, C++ and Pascal ( main() { printf ("Hello world\n" ) ; } )

Ahh - didn't even think about that...
html,css,asp,VB,sql,perl,javascript, and a bit of Java

english

limited french (aka: 2 years in highschool and 1 in college)
also asm, c, c++ and html if you count that

I also took german in high school but can't remember schize of it, high school language classes are nicht sehr gut!

I speak Finnish as my native language and am almost as fluent in English. I can quite well manage with Swedish, but am not quite fluent in it anymore due to lack of practice.

Oh, samples...

English : Island, island, grassy island. Grassy Islands bride.
Finnish : Saari, saari, heinäsaari. Heinäsaaren morsian.
Swedish : Ö, ö, hö ö. Hö ös mö.

The Finnish and Swedish samples are translations of the English poem above.

I can also muddle my way through most texts written in German and understand most of what is said in it.

I should be able to get a hotel room and breakfast in Italian and a cold beer in Spanish. I know how to confess undying love in Russian and how to compliment a girl on her nice figure in Japanese... Very usefull skills indeed, in case I happen to be in Spain staying at a hotel owned by an Italian, fall in love with his Russian Au Pair, whose mother was Japanese and taught her the language... A likely situation to come across, wouldn't you say?

well good luck on that situation jta, but impressive nonetheless


Swedish looks hard!

polish as native tongue,
german and a little of czech as i dwell direct at the polish - german - czech border

dutch: ik ben Nicolas en dit forum is de max!
english: I'm Nicolas and this forum rox!
french: Je m'appele Nicolas et ce forum est chouette!
german (broken): Ich bin Nicolas und diese forum ist toll!
flemish(dialect: ik zin Nicolas en da is ier zwinnig!

thats al :p

haha its funny...almost every1 other than ppl from the US speak 2 or more languanges fluently...

I Was born and raised in the US but, Espanol era mi primer idioma (Spanish was my first language). My parents didnt speak much english when they first came here from Uruguay. So my sisters and I learned english in school. The ironic thing now is, my son started kindergarten this year and I put him in a Spanish Imersion program to learn espanol.

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Originally posted by Níkos.

well good luck on that situation jta, but impressive nonetheless


Swedish looks hard!

I took the samples from a joke that goes around here in Finland where a Swede and a Finn argue about whose language is more beautiful. To decide the matter they asked an English poet and linguist to judge their translations of his poem...

I speak English and Afrikaans.

Baie dankie vir hierdie wonderlike webblad. (Thank you for the wonderfull website)
Ek laaik naai kwaai (I Like Sex Alot)

Native official langage: french
Native (from family) langage: briton (old langage from brittany, west of France)
alternate langage (for work): english, but better at reading than speaking
learnt at school but almost forgotten: german, ancient greek and latin

i try to speak English as good as i can ..
je parle parfaitement français..
falo português correctamente..
ich kann also in deutsch sprechen .. (ein bischen)
and understand spanish and italian (can even talk a bit)

English - You have beautiful eyes = I want to get inside your knickers

Here in the u.s. you are chastised if you speak more than one language other than english. Unlike the rest of the world. Many states have tried to make "english" the official language. Of course the english know we dont speak english. we speak american english or alabamian or new yorker english etc etc etc

english of course
croatian želim ševit sve žene do kojih mogu do&#263;i (I want to fuck all women i can get my hands on)
and all languages that are similiar bosnian, serbian, slovenian

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Originally posted by I-love-girls

I always have problems when French Canadians or people from Marseille are talking French.
Then I'm like what language is that ?

Do people from Marseille speak a different type of French? My family is from there but didn't realise they don't sound the same as someone from Paris

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Originally posted by mlcdr13

Do people from Marseille speak a different type of French? My family is from there but didn't realise they don't sound the same as someone from Paris

In fact, people from Marseille speak same french than Paris ones, same words, same places, but the pronounciation can be really different. French people aren't tricked by those accents, it only signs where peope come from. But i can understand that for foreigners it could be a real mess. Same for me when i hear american people. I fully understand CNN journalist, and i'm totally f***d when i hear Texas people