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I have just recently started studying German so I was wondering about the Languages spoken by the rest of you.

english and a bit of german

Guten Morgen / Good Morning

Vah! Denuone latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.

I have been known to occasionally speak English.

English, and I can make myself intelligible to chavs as well.

english and a bit of german


Danke

Vah! Denuone latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.


Ich verstehe; I don't understand

I have been known to occasionally speak English.


Me Too

Danke

aber, bin ich nicht sehr gut

English. I don't proclaim to be sufficiently fluent in anything else to hold a conversation, although my written comprehension skills in several languages are somewhat better.

aber, bin ich nicht sehr gut


Entschuldigung Ich verstehe, Ich spreche kaum Deutsch

English. I don't proclaim to be sufficiently fluent in anything else to hold a conversation, although my written comprehension skills in several languages are somewhat better.

I'm not sufficiently fluent in German to hold a conversation either, but I am working on it.

I thought this might be a fun way to learn.

Yes In German is Ja; it's pronounced yah

English and bad english

I am German on my mothers side of the family so I decided to learn the language.

English and bad english


It's not to late to learn another language

I speak to alot of people from all over the world over the Internet, because of that fact I would like to eventually learn to speak other languages too

I speak a million languages.

A million!

I speak a million languages.

A million!

there is a slight problem with that... there aren't that many languages:D

I speak a million languages.

A million!


Ausgezeichnet!

English is my mother tongue, I could probably hold down a conversation with a French person for a while, and I'm currently studying mainly Russian, but also Japanese and a bit of Spanish at uni.

English is my mother tongue, I could probably hold down a conversation with a French person for a while, and I'm currently studying mainly Russian, but also Japanese and a bit of Spanish at uni.


auBerst Ausgezeichnet!

English, and some German.

English is my mother tongue, I could probably hold down a conversation with a French person for a while, and I'm currently studying mainly Russian, but also Japanese and a bit of Spanish at uni.


I'm impressed

I have just recently started studying German so I was wondering about the Languages spoken by the rest of you.

english and 5 years of deutsch :)

i'd like to learn russian though

English, and some German.


Me Too

english and 5 years of deutsch :)


Impressive

i 'd like to learn russian though

Go for it!

French, English, Irish and a bit of Spanish (both Castilian and Catalan) and a smattering of Polish.

French, English, Irish and a bit of Spanish (both Castilian and Catalan) and a smattering of Polish.


WOW ... Cool

I talk 3 langages fluently, english, french and arabic, plus i started learning hebrew and german last month, and you can say a little spanish and italian cuz it's between english and french, so if you know those two you can understand spanish and italian.

English, Italian, Spanish, French, a little German. And I've just started learning to read Latin.

I talk 3 langages fluently, english, french and arabic, plus i started learning hebrew and german last month, and you can say a little spanish and italian cuz it's between english and french, so if you know those two you can understand spanish and italian.


That's interesting, I didn't know that!

Can I say 1.5?

I speak English (obviously) and enough Indonesian to make myself understood, though I'm not fluent. With that, I can usually make myself understood to Malaysians too, but the two languages are different enough that it takes a considerably greater amount of gesticulation to achieve the same result. :p

I'd like to learn to speak Norwegian.

I'm not sufficiently fluent in German to hold a conversation either, but I am working on it.

That's the only way to learn. :)

Entschuldigung Ich verstehe, Ich spreche kaum Deutsch

sorry, i understand, i don't really speak german.

wtf?

german (native), english, latin (wohoa :D), some french (learning for 1 1/4 years now), some swedish :)

and i don't understand is "ich verstehe (es) nicht" in german :D

I speak English fluently (it kind of helps that I've lived in England for my entire life), I can make myself understood in French and German (although I can't talk about anything complicated), I can have a rough stab at reading Latin (although the little that I learned is incredibly rusty), and I'm semi-good at 1337.

English, Irish, German and a handful of words in various other languages.

sorry, i understand, i don't really speak german.:D

and i don't understand is "ich verstehe (es) nicht" in german


I just started learning German from a Berlitz tape and book ... that German phase came from the book. :eek:

English, French, and I'm proficient in Latin and Ancient Greek.

I just started learning German from a Berlitz tape and book ... that German phase came from the book. :eek:

that's the only good way to learn german as an english-speaking person cause a lot of them (mostly americans) sound like they try to imitate hitler and rammstein at the same time.. :D

that's the only good way to learn german as an english-speaking person cause a lot of them (mostly americans) sound like they try to imitate hitler and rammstein at the same time.. :D


I would never knowingly imitate hitler, and I assume you are talking about rammstein; the german band. I have never heard them so I couldn't
imitate them if I wanted too.

I know a little French and Japanese - I can read French with some accuracy, but have difficulty in verbal exchanges, wheras I have the opposite problem with Japanese.

I know a little French and Japanese - I can read French with some accuracy, but have difficulty in verbal exchanges, wheras I have the opposite problem with Japanese.


I was always told that practice makes perfect, so just keep on keepin on.

English and Swäbisch. Kinda like German, but it sounds like you are speaking German under water.

English and Swäbisch. Kinda like German, but it sounds like you are speaking German under water.

Cool

I was always told that practice makes perfect, so just keep on keepin on.

That's my exact problem; all of the Japanese and French people I encounter speak English as well as I do. :p

Fluent in French, and I speak bits and pieces of German, Italian and Russian.

Still working on my English though:D

That's my exact problem; all of the Japanese and French people I encounter speak English as well as I do. :p


Hopefully better then my German at the present time

Fluent in French, and I speak bits and pieces of German, Italian and Russian.

Still working on my English though:D


Way to go

I speak some french, english, and can understand some arabic.

I bought french and russian language kits too. I gave the french to my grand daughter because she is in her second year of french in high school. The russian I haven't started on yet, I figured I better go one at a time.

The only language I can speak fluently is English, but I can read and write in Latin.

The only language I can speak fluently is English, but I can read and write in Latin.


What do you use Latin for?

What do you use Latin for?

School one assumes.

School one assumes.


Rewritting old texts was what I was thinking

What do you use Latin for?

School one assumes.

Yes. I'm in my third year of Latin at school, AP Latin. We're reading Ovid's Metamorphoses now. Learning Latin has also helped me to better understand how Romance languages function, as well as to increase my understanding of grammar in general and my vocabulary. Also, I like to translate things into Latin sometimes.

Yes. I'm in my third year of Latin at school, AP Latin. We're reading Ovid's Metamorphoses now. Learning Latin has also helped me to better understand how Romance languages function, as well as to increase my understanding of grammar in general and my vocabulary. Also, I like to translate things into Latin sometimes.

Sounds interesting

English and Swäbisch. Kinda like German, but it sounds like you are speaking German under water.

My mum might understand that, it'd be at least somewhat similar to Alemannisch.

Sounds interesting

Yes, it is. It's amazing how similar in tone Ovid is to Monty Python, as well as how much songwriters stole directly from Ovid.

Yes, it is. It's amazing how similar in tone Ovid is to Monty Python, as well as how much songwriters stole directly from Ovid.


I have no doubt of that songwriters stole directly from Ovid It seems that people don't seem to be able to do there own work now days.

I have no doubt of that songwriters stole directly from Ovid It seems that people don't seem to be able to do there own work now days.

The thing is, Ovid also used stories that weren't his own. Like Pyramus and Thisbe, which was really a Babylonian story. Romeo and Juliet is basically a Pyramus and Thisbe story, as is West Side Story. And if you look at some of the lyrics in West Side Story, parts of it are directly from Ovid. So I suppose people are just modernizing a very old story, using words from the old story itself.

language is a way to formulate an image,you use word or not
I'm more proficient in emotionel language as well as body languages,but i can speak french,english,dutch, spanish...
Well some would disagree, because they can not read between the lines,
the fact is,i understand them.

language is a way to formulate an image,you use word or not
I'm more proficient in emotionel language as well as body languages,but i can speak french,english,dutch, spanish...
Well some would disagree, because they can not read between the lines,
the fact is,i understand them.

Reading body language can be helpful at times

German and English fluently, French when I'm drunk enough, and I took Spanish for about a year but can't remember much.

German and English fluently, French when I'm drunk enough, and I took Spanish for about a year but can't remember much.


I don't drink anymore, I haven't since my early 20's but I remember I sometimes had trouble speaking english when to I got to wasted so I understand.

speak fluently? English

I speak enough Spanish to probably get by, I can communicate, but I can't write it (bad grammar) and can only sometimes read it, I can understand a lot more spoken than I remember how to respond to. It seems to work out for me though, my broken Spanish + their broken English= a fun ESL class (I haven't taught in 2 or 3 years though, I used to be better back then)

I understand a fair amount of French, can read some, can't speak it worth a flip.

I know a song in Japanese.

I know about 30 songs in German, but don't know what they are about.

I can read latin, greek, and a small amount of hebrew, but can't speak it... haven't ever tried to listen so I don't know....

short answer? English. :p

Two, German (native) and English.

As for the rudimentary rest (French, Spanish, once upon a time Burmese) this is way too true: I don't proclaim to be sufficiently fluent in anything else to hold a conversation, although my written comprehension skills in several languages are somewhat better.

I don't drink anymore, I haven't since my early 20's but I remember I sometimes had trouble speaking english when to I got to wasted so I understand.
It's not so much pronunciation. It's more lowering my inhibition threshold so I dare actually speak it.

It's not so much pronunciation. It's more lowering my inhibition threshold so I dare actually speak it.



Oh Ok

English and a small amount of Spanish. So.. one. Plan on changing that in the future.

The fact that I'm writing this in my second language should be answer enough..:D

Do speak a smattering of Danish, Japanese, and a few words of a couple of others, but not enough to count as third, or more, languages.

one and a bit

English (of course, of the Boston accent)
A few words in German
A few words in Irish Gaelic
A few words in Japanese
A few words in Russian

Dutch and English fluently and German not nearly fluently, but I can hold a decent conversation.

Je parle un peu francais, et j'espe etudier japonais.

Je parle un peu francais, et j'espe etudier japonais.


I know of you now :D

I have just recently started studying German so I was wondering about the Languages spoken by the rest of you.Three. English, German, and then French as my foreign language.

Yes. I'm in my third year of Latin at school, AP Latin. We're reading Ovid's Metamorphoses now.

I remember having to memorise Echo and Narcissus last year. I recently had to drop Latin so I could do sciences unfortunately :(.

English, semi-fluent in French, some Esperanto, some Russian, and random words in about a dozen other languages(Hebrew, German, Arabic...).

Entschuldigung Ich verstehe, Ich spreche kaum Deutsch


what i said

aber, bin ich nicht sehr gut

which mean: but, i am not very good

English: I speak English!
Mandarin: Wo hwei jiang Guo Yu!
Cantonese: Ngor sik gong Gwong-Dong Wah!
French: Je comprends un peu de français!
German: Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch!

:D

what i said

aber, bin ich nicht sehr gut

which mean: but, i am not very good

I looked for some of the words in my language book, but didn't find them. So I appreciate the translation.

Vah! Denuone latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.
Latine minime loquor; melior lego. Olim puer arae ("altar boy") fui.

Ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch.

Parlo un po' Italiana.

Hangugoreul kongbuhago ajik aju chal mot hamnida.

I can speak English.

Y yo puedo hablar en Espanol.

Ich spreche ein kleinen bischen Deutsch.

And I'm trying to learn Irish but I really don't know much at all yet (Mostly just the greetings).

English, Japanese and whatever bits of Spanish I may have picked up over the years. I took Latin for three years, but I got very annoyed at it, so now I'm just coasting through a Japanese course for my language at a local college.

Dutch - Mother Tongue, mijn moerstaal jah...
English - Fluent
German - I can order beer and sausages and ask the way
French - I can order beer, wine and cheese and ask the way
Spanish - I can order beer and sangria :D I will get lost though...

I read/write/speak English, Italian and Czech fluently...
My spoken French, Slovak and Latin are a little rusty...
Hehe... I understand almost any other european language if given time ;)

Er... Do VisualC, Pascal, Java, Javascript and APL count?

I talk 3 langages fluently, english, french and arabic, plus i started learning hebrew and german last month, and you can say a little spanish and italian cuz it's between english and french, so if you know those two you can understand spanish and italian.

Italian between french and english?!?!
You must have been talking to english speaking italians :D

English: mother-tongue.
French: I got an A at AS-level (an English exam taken at the age of 17), currently studying for my A2 (18 years old).
German: I got an A at GCSE (16 years old) but I can't remember much of it.
Ancient Greek: studying a little in my spare time.

Ancient Greek: studying a little in my spare time.

Hellenistic or Byzantine?

English - Native speaker
French - Fairly good
German - I can ask directions and order in a pub etc.
Spanish - Going to be studying it during my Gap Year.

Unfortunately I'm only fluent in English T__T

I do know a fair amount of Spanish- half fluent I guess? I'm taking AP Spanish now.

Some Mandarin Chinese (umm 8 weeks so far at school?) and slightly more German + random words in several other languages.

*Pout* I wish second langauge education was a lot better here. I *heard* it was good in Finland =D *moves*

Parlo un po' Italiana.

Er...
Parlo un po' italiano.

And, before any arguments arise... I'm italian ;)

English, Irish, German (done it for the last 4 and a half years)

Hellenistic or Byzantine?

Hellenic. The book I'm reading uses a mixture or Classical and Koine Greek to provide a general introduction.

Italian between french and english?!?!
You must have been talking to english speaking italians :D

I can understand quite a bit of French and Italian (pretty much only in written form) because of my understanding of Spanish.

I speak English, and like half a semester of high school spanish.

English, French, Spanish, and a bit of Japanese.
My German student tried to teach me German last year, but it resulted in me on a bus to Victora.

English, French, Spanish, and a bit of Japanese.
My German student tried to teach me German last year, but it resulted in me on a bus to Victora.

And what exactly were you taught by this German student of yours?

English, French, a bit of Italian (enough to survive if I got dropped in somewhere in the middle of Italy, but not nearly as fluent as I used to be), and just a few random words here and there in other languages (not enough for me to claim that I speak them).

-Frisian; native speaker
-Dutch; native speaker (raised biligually)
-English; I don't have much opportunity to speak it, so it's hardly fluent. But I can follow most movies/TV without subtitles, and I can write it fluently.
-German; some (Although I'm apparantly better at it than I care to be.)
-French; a wee little
Various programming languages, but I guess that's not what meant, and people look at you funny if you speak them.

native English, some spanish, tiny bit of french.

I'm trying to pick a language to really learn...something European, but I haven't picked one.

nerd, geek, idiot, and and computer technicianian. All the languages i need to know ;)

Two--English and bad English.

English - Fluent
French - Good
German - Good
Spanish - Crap
Dutch - Just a little
Greek - Just a little
Japanese - What they have in anime ^^

I live in the Netherlands, so Dutch comes with the package.

Somewhere in my childhood I picked up English, probably from TV, improved with computer/internet use. (My teacher told me I had a good vocabulary, but lousy pronunciation)

German and French I can read reasonably, and stammer enough to be understood (hands and feet required). German is close enough to Dutch to be able to understand (hearing) it reasonably. As for french speakers: "Lentement S'il vous Plaît".

Latin from school, rusting as we speak. I never paid attention to the deflections* (ServUS, servI, servO, etc...).
Same for ancient Greek, but to illustrate: There's a difference between ancient greek and ancient greek?!? (ref: Hellenistic and Byzantine)

Most Germanic languages (Dutch, German, Frisian, Norwegian, Swedish etc.) are similiar enough to be readable to me, but I do wish paper had hands and feet...

*Is that the right word?

I speak one and two fractions.

d035 1337 (0\_//\/7?

- Deutsch, allerdings mit Schweizer Akzent (German, but with Swiss accent)
- Schwizerdütsch aus Muettersprach, faus das aus eigeti Sprach zeut (Swiss German as mother tongue, if this counts as a language on its own)
- English
- J'ai oublié le plupart de mon français (forgot most of my French because I don't use it, though I can still read and write... but speaking or understanding don't really work very well)
- Latinam lego, sed non comprehenderem si locuta esset (I can read Latin, but wouldn't understand if it were spoken (how the hell are you supposed to build the passive of one of these passive verbs?)

d035 1337 (0\_//\/7?Depends, do you pronounce it differently than the normal english if you try to speak it?

Latin from school, rusting as we speak. I never paid attention to the deflections* (ServUS, servI, servO, etc...).

*Is that the right word?

The change in noun ending looks like cases (nominative, accusative etc.), by deflections you probably mean declensions such as first (e.g. ancilla),and second (e.g. servus).

I can speak english, and some french/japanese.

I speak 1 fluently (English, obviously), 1 decently (Tagalog), 1 so-so (Vietnamese), and 1 barely (Thai).

Er...
Parlo un po' italiano.

And, before any arguments arise... I'm italian ;)

Like I said, I only speak a little Italilan :D

btw: I'm Italian by ancestry. My dad understands but doesn't speak much, I've studied a bit from time to time. Obviously my grammar needs improvement.

[QUOTE=Lerkistan;11813855- Latinam lego, sed non comprehenderem si locuta esset (I can read Latin, but wouldn't understand if it were spoken (how the hell are you supposed to build the passive of one of these passive verbs?)[/QUOTE]

Maybe use passive of dico instead of loquor. Also use present tense, not imperfect: non comprehendam si dicatur.

Maybe use passive of dico instead of loquor. Also use present tense, not imperfect: non comprehendam si dicatur.

ARRGGGHHH! I'm only Level II! SPARE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

English is my first language. I speak pretty good French & a smattering of German.

In total I speak 1.8 languages.
1=English
0.5=Chinese (Mandarin)
0.25=Italian
0.05=mixed smatterings of french, bahasa malaysia, cantonese, and single words in countless others.
1+0.5+0.25+0.05=1.8 :p

spoken: italian, german, english, russian, milanese, bit of french, czech, spanish, portuguese, also I can understand, but not speak, ticinese and rumantsch

written: as above, plus latin and ancient greek

(I'm waiting for someone asking me what milanese, ticinese and rumantsch are)

Er...
Parlo un po' italiano.

And, before any arguments arise... I'm italian ;)

also you're a Moravian Czech, and also partly Russian;)

I'm fluent in Dutch and English.
I can understand German and hold a decent conversation. (I still find it difficult to integrate all the grammar into the talking.)
I can also understand French because of school and my trips to Belgium. Actually speaking it is still difficult though.

I can read Latin. I'm in my fourth year of learning it now, translating writings from Ovidius, Caesar and Plinius.
On the the servUS, servI,... thing: In Dutch their called "verbuigingen" which also means deflections. Hence the use of the word deflections by my fellow Dutchman :)

I can also speak a little Gronings, although that's more of a dialect and I can imitate Flemish quite well ;)

Just one person who speaks Esperanto btw? :(
I really want to learn that language. It's just that I don't have the time and that nobody speaks it...

I also want to learn Spanish and Russian but that'll have to wait I guess

I have just recently started studying German so I was wondering about the Languages spoken by the rest of you.

English, obviously.

Spanish, A little German, and some Russian.

I speak English. A few words of Spanish (minimal basic words and of course some bad words.) Also, a few French words, not nearly as much as I used to know.

English, obviously.

Spanish, A little German, and some Russian.

Heh...like me, but with Russian replaced with Latin and a smattering of a bunch of other languages.

Heh...like me, but with Russian replaced with Latin and a smattering of a bunch of other languages.

:)


I'm working on Arabic....that shits hard though!

:)


I'm working on Arabic....that shits hard though!

I was working on Polish, but meh, fuck it.

Fluently: english, spanish french.

learning norwegian (slowly but surely)

I can speak spanish (I'm trying to work away from my very Cuban accent ^^;;), english, spanglish (in my household and in miami, it's necessary).

I took a bit of latin some time back though so that backround mixed with my spanish helps me to understand many of the romance languages (especially italian)

I was working on Polish, but meh, fuck it.

Yeah, my friend speaks it, but we can have mini conversations (Him in Polish, me in Russian) its not easy, but we manage. :D

I'm an American. I don't need to speak any languages. ;)

Fluently: english, spanish french.

learning norwegian (slowly but surely)

A good friend of mine was Norwegian. He was trying to teach me, and I was learning some, but then he was hit by a semi truck....:(

Yes In German is Ja; it's pronounced yah

I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know that to be honest.

A good friend of mine was Norwegian. He was trying to teach me, and I was learning some, but then he was hit by a semi truck....:(

sorry to hear that.

I'm an American. I don't need to speak any languages. ;)

Congrats on the most ignorant post of the month.

Congrats on the most ignorant post of the month.

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:)


I'm working on Arabic....that shits hard though!


I concur, I am working on a text right now...

perfekt Deutsch
fluent English,
Francais touristique,
verschrikkelijk Nederlands
quid Latini.

Congrats on the most ignorant post of the month.

Thank you. But it's been an active month. Surely there's a post somewhere that tops mine. :D

I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know that to be honest.

I didn't until I started learning German, so I would say that there are others who don't know. Romanar might be one of those people.

I have just recently started studying German so I was wondering about the Languages spoken by the rest of you.
I speak a little bit of German after doing a school year in that course. I had wanted to do it for GCSE, but because of the fact that I wasn't qualified enough at my school (I had to be in Set One Chinese in order to take two courses in language, which I was not in, I was in Set Three Chinese), I had to drop it.

Chinese, I've learned it since I was little, but found it difficult and as a result it was a second language for me. The only reason why I picked it for GCSE was an issue of face: being ethnically Chinese I did not want to look like a banana. The reason why I've always found Mandarin Chinese difficult is thanks to the pinyin of it, and the draconian years of my primary and kindergarten years. Having a strict mother didn't help and hitting me due to impatience caused me to panick about it even more.

Hence why English is my mother tongue as a result. I used to use British English, but changed over to American soon afterword thanks to the fact I've always had an admiration for the United States and what it stands for to me. (And no, I'm not from the United Kingdom, but my family background came from a former UK colony and I was born in a place that was a UK colony not too long ago....care to take a guess people which places are those?)

Tamil - native language.

Speak English and Hindi fluently.

Can understand Telugu and Malayalam - and can speak both enough to get by in day to day life.

Trying to learn Spanish, because I am in Mexico now.:eek: :p , California, I mean....:D

I think this topic's been done to death, but oh well...

I speak English and Spanish, English as a native speaker and Spanish relatively well. I also studied Latin and a little German.

Jag talar svenska och engelska och har studerat franska.

English is my first Language. I've taken Spanish for more then 8 years, so I speak it quite well. I took Arabic for 2 years and learned next to nothing. I can understand some and speak a little Italian, so that's probably what I want to make my 3rd language if I can.

Jag talar svenska och engelska och har studerat franska.

Ugh...Swedish... :p

It's good you've learned some English and French, though. ;)

English and Portuguese....duh:p

Ugh...Swedish... :p

It's good you've learned some English and French, though. ;)

Hmm.. it could be worse, it could have been Danish! :p

Fluently? One. English.

Languages that I learned, but barely remember? One. French.

Languages in which I know how to say a few phrases, but wouldn't be able to spell without assistance? Four. Polish, Spanish, German and Portugese.

I speak English and French.

I speak english fluently, German poorly, and Spanish... well, not really well enough to qualify as speaking so much as "knows a few words."