NationStates Jolt Archive

Title says all. What languages do the people of NationStates speak, whether native or learning.

Please list 'em in the order which you've learned them.

For me, it's English, French, Arabic.

Some one already made a thread about this, but what the hell; I'm currently in my 3rd year of german instruction, hoping maybe to learn Russian or Arabic....

There's already a thread? Oh well.

I know a place that can help you with your Arabic. There's an awesome Arabic site (located here) (http://madinaharabic.com) that is free and easy to understand. It also sells merchandise at low prices to help you continue your learning.

Can't find that other thread, so I'll give this one a go.

German (native), English, (Latin), French, Norwegian. Latin doesn't really count as I've never actually spoken it a lot... We only learned to read and translate it.

EGnegrlmiasnh and French. :D

English, French and German (doing the AS of each atm), Spanish (doing the GCSE in a year and then the whole A-level in a year also) and a tiny bit of Dutch.

Spanish, a wee bit of German and French (enough to get around). And English, of course.

english and passable french. and the odd useful sentence in german.

edit: and i want to learn spanish and portuguese, at least enough to get by

coucou
glibberihs in 5 languages,less gliberish in 3 of them.an multifonctiuonel in one

EGnegrlmiasnh and French. :D

What le frig ist das?! ;)

English. I'm also fluent in Hesronian, but there isn't much call to speak it these days.

english and passable french. and the odd useful sentence in german.

edit: and i want to learn spanish and portuguese, at least enough to get by
Spanish is easy to pick up if you know French ;)

english
latin
french

and we always go to sweden on vacations so some swedish and i want to learn spanish and sign language soon!

English (native), French (somewhere near fluent), Italian (rapidly deteriorating) and a few random words in a handful of other languages.

Icelandic, English and learning Danish.

.... and i want to learn sign language soon!
do and observe

What le frig ist das?! ;)Two languages. Since I learned them at the same time, it felt wrong to put one before the other.

Native English-speaker, been learning french for 9 years. I can make myself understood in shitty broken German. I'm studying Russian, Japanese and Spanish here at Uni.

English and Spanish...I have a good number of languages I plan to learn...

English and Spanish...I have a good number of languages I plan to learn...
Such as...?

English, French and German well.

Gaelic (Irish), Greek and Arabic enough in a simple conversation.

Failte!

Such as...?

Lesse... Geman, Arabic, Korean, Swedish.

German (native), English and a little bit of French.

As I'll move to France soon, I'll improve my French a lot.

English (native)
3rd semester German
about 2 line of latin
and I can understand 1st - 2nd semester French but I can't speak it.

English, bad French, worse German. I reckon I could pick up French and German again fairly quickly if I wanted/needed to. I'd like to learn Spanish at some point, but it's hardly a burning desire.

English = Fluent
Tagalog = Rudimentary
Vietnamese = A little
Thai = A little

The Languages I speak (ordered by fluency)

English-native
Spanish-fluent

the rest are mostly just bits and pieces

German-choir songs/heritage
Arabic-enough to insult people
Latin-choir once again
French-extremely limited
italian-see french

English is my native language, I speak reasonably good French & a little bit of German.

A lot of languages here.

But... I'm stiull the only one who speaks Arabic. HAHAHAHAHAH.

Ok then. I can also speak horrible broken Italian (enough to just meet people) and German (enough to just meet people).

I also know how to say "I don't speak Portuguese". Very useful since I live in a mainly Brazilian town.

English (native)
French (semi-fluent... I was a lot better a couple years ago, but I've stopped using it regularly. I'll probably take an intermediate French course next semester and start picking it up again.)
Italian (pretty basic, but I'm in the process of learning it right now, and I'm heading to Italy this summer.)

I'm thinking of taking Latin next semester, as well... and I pursued Irish Gaelic a few years back, but got nowhere. My boyfriend speaks a ridiculous number of languages, though, for which I am eternally amazed/jealous. English, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, some Russian, some German, really basic French... and his own language, which amazes me on an entirely different level, since it's a fully developed language, with which you could discuss basically everything, from brain surgery to romance. :p Crazy boy.

English, rusty French, limited Hebrew

English, and I used to know a fair amount of maori but most of it has gone.

I'm fluent in Java-Script as well as Klingon.

As a full language, only English. But thanks to various coworkers, I do know a few words of Turkish, Spanish, Japanese, and some dialect from Pakistan.

English, and I do a rather hilarious impression of a Japanese accent.

English, and some German.

English (native)
French (near fluent)
Welsh (rusty, so I can understand more than I am speak myself nowadays)
German (basic, but I am learning)
Spanish (limited, took 3 years of it in school and haven't used it much since)
I can curse in Greek as well as result of living with Greek people for a long time. :D

English
GCSE level French (It's enough to get by, and read French stuff and understand).

It's incredible how many people here speak German...

English, French, German, and a very little bit of Irish, Welsh, and Quenya.

English, Irish, French, passable Spanish, bit of Polish.

Japanese, English, almost Spanish then almost Latin.

English, Italian, Spanish, French, a little German. And I'm currently learning to read Latin.

What language is this:


..Nu ka pilokika Laaaku pulaki'uka ikikeelupa aanu kiaapu ape ikike nuu maunukienu, koluokiinhu nu wuaalonhu inu ikike nuu meika kepulenukala.

Keeka ka Laaaku, "Lu'uaku aeki mi, Oluka Maunukienu! Luuaku aeki mi, nuulii piolanu aeko'u mai ONU maunukienu..!"

Keeka ka Oluka Maunukienu, "Hi'u pauulike'u laaaku, lu'uaku piniiwi hi'u aeki hi'ula wuiiku nuu maunukienu. Iki kuaenaaki keapolaki hi'u!"

Ka Laaaku lu'uakuka piniiwi iki aeki ikike paiipiulu nu pa'ulaeilu maunkienu, nu keao iki wuako'u kilauu, aeko'u iki ku'uaka hiila aolu ka likilu laaakuke ape ikike nuu pulaki'u kolaonuinhu piniiwi ikike weiki.

Ka Laaaku keeka wuiwi keelupa-laaiki'uakenuke, "Ai mu nau a MAUNUKIENU, aeko'u ai keeki auki ki piikuamu, nu haepe meika la'iilu mai kalaiimu, iipeenu wao mai nuu maunukienu iko'u wuiiku, iki IKO'U a maunukienu..!"

Ka Oluka Maunukienu aekekuka, "Hi'u haeka luaiki aanu mai kelopu, wuiwi ka wuinukako'u kualaekeinhu hi'u, nu ka maoke likuinhu hi'u, nu nau huwuaki haepe hi'u, Laaaku, ki luaku pa'olawualaka ki aanu kiaapu ape hi'ula wuiiku nuu maunkienu?"

Ka'uakeki wa'enu ka Laaakuke nuu maunukienu kulaamupiluka, kenukanhu ka laaaku ikikeelupa palakeki ki lo kolaaunuka. Aolu ka likilu laaakuke pa'aaloka pihainuka iki, nu ku'apelaka iki aanu epela'ii keaika, nu ka'iipulii pilo wa'emu.

Ka Laaaku wako'u pielaiika piniiwi ka pa'iipilu maunukienu ape laaakuke ape ikike onu meikuinhu, nau maki'u mola kekieipilu, pi'inhu pa'olamuka piai neiki'ula inukekieka ape ikike pa'uulike'u wu'aanuki'inhu.

Ka Laaaku lei aeki ka paaunuka'eike'unu ape wa'ike nuu pu'ailu, huwuela iki ka'ika naaki wu'aanki ki piii.

Ka Laaaku puliikaka, "Oluka Maunukienu, helupu mii!"

Ka Oluka Maunukienu lapulu'aika, "Ai ka'uu naaki muupe laaakuke palaamu wa'ela ulanuka puleikeke. Hi'u ula a laaaku, nu haeka a kouaka puleike aan mai kelopu, piaki hi'u wiaoki hi'ulakelupa a MAUNUKIENU, nu kekilaope ki pulauupe iki, akoenukeki aolu keiinhu."

"Nau hi'u haepe pu'lauupa waaeki hi'u ula huwuaki hi'u ula, piaki wilauu kekilaaipeinhu inuku'olaekukilii hi'u haepe aolukeo wulakeenuka hi'ula poko'uike'unu."

Ka Laaaku laekepu'aanukaka, "Piaki piiinhu a maunukienu wako'u mai kalaiimu. Wii ula aaluweiko'u kioluka ki haepe nu kekilaaipe paola aulu kalaiimuko'u..!"

Ka Oluka Maunukienu laipuluaika, "Ki kalaiimu ape kaepaainhu neiki'ula, inukekieka ape wulaku'inhu wu'iwi iki, iko'u ki inupeaiki piinhu pielaiika piai iki.

Ka Laaakau anukalakekiuuke paainulii nu paolaepela waaeki iki wu'ako'u a laaaku, nu nepela piokekika ki ka Oluka Maunukienu akoenu, piaki wu'ako'u pulaeiko'uka, inu kiaimu, piai ka Oluka Maunukienu aeko'u ka piekeki pu'ailu paaunukaeike'unu laaaku epela keiinu.




..And the bloated Rock perched itself on top of it's new mountain, gloating and wallowing in it's new made splendor.

Said the Rock, "Look at me, Old Mountain! Look at me, newly born as my OWN mountain..!"

Said the Old Mountain, "You foolish rock, look beneath you at your weak new mountain. It cannot support you!"

The Rock looked beneath it at it's feeble and frail mountain, and saw it was true, as it could hear all the little rocks of it's new perch groaning beneath it's weight.

The Rock said with self righteousness, "I am now a MOUNTAIN, as I set out to become, and have made real my dream, even though my new mountain is weak, it IS a mountain..!"

The Old Mountain asked, "You had light on my slope, with the winds caressing you, and the moss licking you, and now what have you, Rock, to look forward to on top of your weak new mountain?"

Just then the Rock's new mountain crumbled, sending the rock itself first to low ground. All the little rocks followed behind it, and covered it on every side, and deeply below them.

The Rock was buried beneath the feable mountain of rocks of it's own making, now much more stable, being formed by nature instead of it's foolish wanting.

The Rock lay at the foundation of this new pile, where it did not want to be.

The Rock pleaded, "Old Mountain, help me!"

The Old Mountain replied, "I do not move rocks from their earned places. You are a rock, and had a good place on my slope, but you thought yourself a MOUNTAIN, and strove to prove it, against all seeing."

"Now you have proof that you are what you are, but through striving incorrectly you have also worsened your position."

The Rock responded, "But being a mountain was my dream. We are always told to have and strive for our dreams..!"

The Old Mountain replied, "To dream of defying nature, instead of working with it, is to invite being buried by it."

The Rock understood finally and forever that it was a rock, and never boasted to the Old Mountain again, but was praised ,in time, by the Old Mountain as the best pile foundation rock ever seen.

my native language is English. I've been studying Spanish for about 8 years now, started learning German in January 2005, and a little bit of Irish (just moved away from my teacher though )o: ) My roommate in college was a Russian major, so I know an extremely small amount of Russian.

What language is this:
<snip>


Looks like Hawaiian or some similar Polynesian language.

English
Croatian
French

English (native)
French (near-fluent)
German (can order beer, which is all one really needs in Germany)

German (can order beer, which is all one really needs in Germany)

Ich moechte ein Bier, bitte.

Looks like Hawaiian or some similar Polynesian language.

It's english. Just highly re-encoded english.

It is interesting that languages have a "look" to them, rather as if they were visual art, if spelled, or have a "music" to them if spoken.

And that "art" is recognizable, even if it's entirely "constructed".


Conlang's are fun. :)

It's english. Just highly re-encoded english.

It is interesting that languages have a "look" to them, rather as if they were visual art, if spelled, or have a "music" to them if spoken.

And that "art" is recognizable, even if it's entirely "constructed".


Conlang's are fun. :)

languages do have a cadence or kind of "musical" quality to them. Even if I don't know what Croatian sounds like, I can tell what language family it's from or what languages it's close to just by sound.

Part of the reason I study Spanish is because I love the way it sounds. I speak it much more slowly than most native speakers do (but I also speak English and even German slowly - it's what happens when one grows up in Texas), so it probably sounds slightly different when I speak it, but I still love the way the words sound and the cadence and feel as they roll off the tongue and past the lips.

I know English, German and a little Lithuanian, so I can communicate with all the Lithuanians in Chicago.

Język Polski, English Language

English
Croatian
French

congrats on not having a gun smiley in your first post. remember not to have one in your second post, your third post, your fourth post, your fifth post, your sixth post, and so on.

Conlang's are fun. :)

*GASP* Elation! A fellow conlanger. :fluffle:

Actually, I never get very far with mine. I'm trying to work out a case structure using suffixes and eclipses that won't get to out of hand.

languages do have a cadence or kind of "musical" quality to them. Even if I don't know what Croatian sounds like, I can tell what language family it's from or what languages it's close to just by sound.

Part of the reason I study Spanish is because I love the way it sounds. I speak it much slowly than most native speakers do (but I also speak English and even German slowly - it's what happens when one grows up in Texas), so it probably sounds slightly different when I speak it, but I still love the way the words sound and the cadence and feel as they roll off the tongue and past the lips.

Downright TACTILE, isn't it..!?

I hear you, brother,.. or sister,.. or whatever.

I really NEED to get cracking on being less addicted to english by working on something else.

It would be good for my rather unstable mind... if you know what I mean.


(( Sometimes I feel somewhat like the inverse case of that weird polyglot servant guy, played by Ron Perlman, in "The Name of the Rose". ))

Quote:
Originally Posted by Govneauvia
Conlang's are fun.

*GASP* Elation! A fellow conlanger.

Actually, I never get very far with mine. I'm trying to work out a case structure using suffixes and eclipses that won't get to out of hand.

I haven't bothered too much (at all) with formalizing any grammars, as it would be really fun BUT WAY TOO much strain on my puny grey-cells.

I've just done some rule based phonetic substitution models of english, with a few grammatical "tweaks" for appearance and simplification.

That way,.. I don't have to think too much. Which hurts.

When I have more time, I'll probably get more masochistic, but for now, I'm too much a weenie.

Downright TACTILE, isn't it..!?

I hear you, brother,.. or sister,.. or whatever.

I really NEED to get cracking on being less addicted to english by working on something else.

It would be good for my rather unstable mind... if you know what I mean.


(( Sometimes I feel somewhat like the inverse case of that weird polyglot servant guy, played by Ron Perlman, in "The Name of the Rose". ))

Indeed!

English is a crazy language, so much mish mash from everywhere. I think other languages make much more sense (to me at least).

oh, and just fyi.. it'd be "sister" ;)

Native English-speaker, been learning french for 9 years. I can make myself understood in shitty broken German. I'm studying Russian, Japanese and Spanish here at Uni.

University of Northern Iowa?

Oh, and I only speak 1 language, try and guess what it is.

Dead Thread!

Dead Thread!

Dead Head!

Dead Head!

Lead Fred!

Native English (Southern, english, scottish, and english accents. ;) )

Spainish (Just enough to get out of South America if I ever wake up there one morning >.>)

German (My sister's teaching me.)

Latin (Not a spoken language today but it is read.)

Oh and bits of Russian.

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

I can say thank you in English, French, German, Turkish and Arabic. And pretty soon I should be able to say it in Czeck

I haven't bothered too much (at all) with formalizing any grammars, as it would be really fun BUT WAY TOO much strain on my puny grey-cells.

I've just done some rule based phonetic substitution models of english, with a few grammatical "tweaks" for appearance and simplification.

That way,.. I don't have to think too much. Which hurts.

When I have more time, I'll probably get more masochistic, but for now, I'm too much a weenie.

Oh. I go for the grammar. I dislike English grammar, so any excuse to change it.

Spanish is easy to pick up if you know French ;)

that's what i'm hoping for. except i only really have a vocabulary in french. grammar escapes me :(.

1) Luxembourgish
2) French
3) German (remeber that French is used of officialdom in Luxembourg, German for a lot of media and churchy stuff, and Luxembourgish for normal talk)
4) English
5) Mandarin Chinese
Picked up a bit of Spanish and an eensy-weensy bit of German as well.

EDIT: didn't mean to say German, in the eensy-weensy bit, meant to say Welsh.

Good proper Mumbled English.

that's what i'm hoping for. except i only really have a vocabulary in french. grammar escapes me :(.
Spanish grammar is comparitively piss easy.

And to whoever said that Latin is no longer spoken - IIRC in Finland it's the second language and there are newspapers written in it and such. Cool, eh?