NationStates Jolt Archive

Hi all,
After having read a thread on francophonia in the UN forum, I would like to know which is the usual language of the members here.
Thank you for your answers.

Mine is English, but I often speak Italian with family. I barely ever get a chance to practice my German, which is why it sucks.

Hi all,
After having read a thread on francophonia in the UN forum, I would like to know which is the usual language of the members here.
Thank you for your answers.

Well, on a daily basis I speak Swedish, English, French and Serbocroatian.

English but Irish at school

English, except for a few rare moments when I speak en francais.

Where's Hebrew?
I speak English and Hebrew, but it isn't there.

English. I know enough Spanish to make small talk/polite conversation, and express basic wants and needs, but am far from fluent (though I would like to be).

Where's Hebrew?
I speak English and Hebrew, but it isn't there.
Sorry, but there's only 10 possibilities.
Note that Israël is in Asia. So i think we could say that Hebrew is an asian language.

German

English is my primary and defaultr language. However, I use Japanese on a daily basis in a very functional role (hard to avoid seeing as I live in Japan :)).

I use Polish. It's my native language. But as you can see, I can also use English. I know a little German ( Ich spreche Deutsch ein bisshien (bisschien?) :)

English. I know enough Spanish to make small talk/polite conversation, and express basic wants and needs, but am far from fluent (though I would like to be).

Ditto. My step-family speaks all Portuguese, but then again, this isn't about them, its about me. ^_^

I forgot to say that i usually speak french. :D

Freaky Freakers,

fast (almost) - bischen - a (little) bit

Sorry, I don´t speak any Polish (Polska, Polski?)

You left out Aboriginal languages. I speak English and Cree as mother tongues, and also Spanish as a third language.

Turkish.English.
Are turkish and russian european or asian languages?

You should've put Semitic instead of Arab...

or at the very least Arabic/Hebrew

Maybe we should count Arab for this case.. despite his folly?

You should've put Semitic instead of Arab...

or at the very least Arabic/Hebrew

Maybe we should count Arab for this case.. despite his folly?
I thought of that too late.
Arab and Hebrew would have being in Asian languages and a place would have been released for others languages, sorry.
Russian is a slavic language and Turkish is an asian language.

I speak a special form of English... American. Beyond that, even though I live in Florida, I once had a North Florida gentleman ask me where I was from. When I told him, he said, "Oh, you're one of those southern yankees."

I don't have a southern accent.

Normally Finnish, also English on the net. I can speak Swedish too, but not very well... Mostly because I dislike the language. :p

Dutch :D

Where's "American" on that list? ;)

Hi all,
After having read a thread on francophonia in the UN forum, I would like to know which is the usual language of the members here.
Thank you for your answers.
why you don't had Hebrew? ?למה אין עברית

happy Hanuka, anyway. .חג חנוכה שמח בל מקרה

and that was minute about hebrow with translation.
good bye.

English seeing as I am English, oh and i can speak a tiny bit of Spanish.

Entweder Deutsch of Nederlands.

Turkish.English.
Are turkish and russian european or asian languages?
Russian is a European and Turkish an Asian language.

English.

...mais aussi, je parle Francais.

Well, one school term's worth.

English, except for a few rare moments when I speak en francais.
Same here, actually, I think this applies to many in English-speaking Canada.

English, Urdu, and Punjabi (although I'm hardly even fluent in the last 2)

French

Well... I speak English and Cantonese... I speak English with my friends and Cantonese with family and family friends....

So it's either or, but I picked asian languages since there have been no votes for that so far lol.

English, except for a few rare moments when I speak en francais.

I'm the same way.

dude! you forgot to put in 1337 5|>3@|< as a choice other than that english :rolleyes:

English, but I also speak French and Swahili. Can cough up a few words of German where required.

I speak Polish with friends and family, and only speak English when I have to.

I can also speak Icelandic, French, a little Swedish, and Persian/Farsi :)

I speak English most of the time, aber manchmal spreche ich Deutsch!

Where's Hebrew?
I speak English and Hebrew, but it isn't there.
Hebrew goes under "Arab", no matter what the politics would imply. It's a Semitic language. Alternatively, it could be "Asian".

Finnish.

Notice that Finnish is "Other European language", like Estonian, Hungarian and Basque.

It is not "Scandinavian". Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic) are so close to English and German that they're almost dialects. And if you make the mistake to classifying Finnish as Slavic, we will personally kill you. :mp5:

My native language is Greek, but I can also speak English, Italian and French quite fluently.

And l33t 5p3@k definitely h@x00rz j00 :P

I speak English, because I live in America. But also because I live in America, I know a good bit of Spanish. I also some SOME French, Italian, German, and Russian.

I speak mostly English et un peu de francais.

Portuguese! :D

Caralho, somos mesmo bons! Esta merda de lingua é que nenhum caralho de estrangeiro é que é capaz de entender! :p

I'm personally surprised that so many people speak at least two languages...or maybe just the bi-tri-lingual people choose to post here. Most people I know speak only one language.

Me? I speak Polish first, then English.

So my native language is French, and I can speak English too.

Dutch. Obviously I can do English too. And German and a little French

English is my normal language, although i can converse pretty fluently in German...although my written german sucks big time.... :D

hmmm, American... but I also know English, Bad English (which is different from American), Pidgen English, some Australian, and a smattering of Japanese.

English, all the time - but I also have conversational German (starting to rust again after my summer work placement :( ). Plus I can say "Thanks be to Allah", "In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most beneficent" and "No thank you, I don't want a camel" in Arabic.

Not to mention "Strange kiss - I don't understand" in Hungarian.

I speak Chinese with my parents, English with everybody else.

Russian is a European and Turkish an Asian language.
Russian is Slavic, but Slavic languages are European so yes, Russian is European.

I speak Finnish (Perkleenmaa, I'll join you if needed) and almost every day some English too (exchange students and teachers). I can handle everyday situations in Swedish, German and Spanish too.

Estonian. The only language it is similar with is Finnish. And these languages are very similar. :)

Estonian. The only language it is similar with is Finnish. And these languages are very similar. :)

Not so similar we'd understand each other... "Räägiiks keegi teineka sinunga eesti keelt?"

(No, I don't know Estonian. But that's supposed to be "Does someone else speak Estonian with you", and misinterprets in Finnish as "Does someone bray keegi(?) with a teenager with you Estonian language?")

The false friends are numerous and embarrassing, especially such that the Finnish word has a "funny" meaning, while it's something perfectly normal in Estonian. Räägi = to speak = rääkyä "to bray". Ahmiainen = breakfast = ahmia "to glut". Hakka- = to begin = hakka- "to beat". I suspect the naida is the same in both. (object in accusative: to marry, but in partitive: to fuck)

English, well technically Hiberno-English cos its that wierd english-with-irish-slang-and-a-bit-of-the-gaeilge thrown in....

'Nederlands'

English, then French, huh? Interesting.

I speak in English, but I can also speak in French. There were vanishingly small numbers of francophones in Toronto when I first moved here, but there is now a growing francophone presence, and my long-unused language skills are serving me well.

To keep up my listening skills and comprehension, I just watch the movies on TV5 and Radio-Canada. This works out well when I can't bear what's on the English-language channels - which is most of the time.