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So i was just wondering how many people here are bilingual. Peudo hablar un poco espanol pero no he tocado una clase por mucho tiempo.

I speak spanish, and am learning hebrew. :)

Doing A-Level spanish in school

english french german

a little spanish dutch japanese greek

So i was just wondering how many people here are bilingual. Peudo hablar un poco espanol pero no he tocado una clase por mucho tiempo.

Just bilingual? What if you speak more?

I've got four years and a month of German, and I'm going for a minor in the language so I'll eventually have eight years under my belt plus whatever I learn through other sources. I want to eventually spend time in Germany to perfect my language skills.

english, 6 years of French which left me perhaps slightly fluent, am presently learning Russian and speak it very badly.

So i was just wondering how many people here are bilingual. Peudo hablar un poco espanol pero no he tocado una clase por mucho tiempo.

You haven't played (like an instrument) a Spanish class in a long time? Say it isn't so :D

crap german and worse french

I can't speak more than one language fluently, but I can read in two different languages: English and Latin.

Is someone considered bilingual if they can read in two different languages, or is it required that they can speak both languages fluently, as well?

Just bilingual? What if you speak more?

bilingual = two languages

yet the poll gives you an option of 3 languages, which is more than 2... self contradiction from the topic starter

I'm trilingual, and partially fluent in a fourth language. Bow down before me.

I know enough Spanish to say I dont know how to speak it lol and I can understand VERY LITTLE French.. german maybe one or two words. :D

I speak a half dozen languages in a half assed manner, Spanish being my best I only lack vocabulary on.

You haven't played (like an instrument) a Spanish class in a long time? Say it isn't so :D

Hay circa siete definiciones de tocar pero si quieres, no he estado en una clase

Hay circa siete definiciones de tocar pero si quieres, no he estado en una clase

Si pero nunca se usa 'tocar' en este sentido. I think you meant 'tomar'.:p

Si pero nunca se usa 'tocar' en este sentido. I think you meant 'tomar'.:p

Eh, en mi libro es la misma cosa. Me sorpresé con como mucho yo recuerdo.

I speak English und Deutsch (aber nicht sehr gut) et francais (un peu) agus Gaelige.

(English, German, French, and Irish)

English, German, French, and I can understand Italian (but can't speak it); also I was forced to learn Latin for 5 years at school and despite all my sincere efforts I still haven't forgotten all of it yet.

English, Slovak, Czech, Polish, some German, some Spanish, some Latin. A bit of Esperanto, plus Fortran 77, Perl, Pascal, and some C.

But show me a cute girl with a Staten Island accent, and I fall to pieces speaking gibberish.

English et un peu de Francais.

I can passably read latin, though there isn't much occasion to speak it. between elementary school, in which I took beginning level spanish 3 years in a row (hurray for moving alot when I was a kid...) and the latin, I can understand a little bit of spanish. I understood everything that crazy polyglot monk in "the name of the rose" said - where he switched back and forth at random from italian, french, spanish, latin, greek, and german...I'm also passable at old and middle english, but that's not really a seperate language, exactly.

So i was just wondering how many people here are bilingual. Peudo hablar un poco espanol pero no he tocado una clase por mucho tiempo.

Nope, I only speak english. Poorly.

why is the title of this thread "foreign languages"? what if you're bi(+)lingual in languages that aren't foreign?

What's with all the language theads these days? Much more than usual.


Oh, and English, Irish and German.

I speak English und Deutsch (aber nicht sehr gut) et francais (un peu) agus Gaelige.

(English, German, French, and Irish)

*impressed*

just a little bit of french. irish. does english count as a foreign language?

just a little bit of french. irish. does english count as a foreign language?

It does for us.

WE have had another thread like tis just this or last week. I have had enough.

just a little bit of french. irish. does english count as a foreign language?

Only if it's not your first language ;)

I speak English
Mówię po polsku.

WE have had another thread like tis just this or last week. I have had enough.

We've had like 50 on the fact that people are retarded and can't figure out where John Kerry is directing his shitty jokes, including two from the same person on consecutive days. It's the nature of the board sadly.

italian, german, russian, english
ancient greek and latin (only written)
bits of french, spanish, portuguese, czech (if you already know italian, german and russian, then almost any neolatin, germanic and slavic language can be understood, although not easily)

I got English, French, a sprinkling of German, and a few phrases in Czech, Slovak and Esperanto.

basic French and marginally conversational Japanese.

Swedish, english, serbian, croatian (bosnian, montenegrin) and I can understand a little bit of german.

Jeg taler Dansk
Ich spreche Spanisch
Io parla Tedesco
Je parle Anglais
Tengo habla Frances
I speak Italian
and Russian and some Arabic. And some bloody african dialects (woloff) and some European local jargons (Nizarte, Platt Deutsch(Lotharingia), Schwabig, etc...

But the only voice I can understand is the Voice of our Lord.
I just re-write his fucking scriptures to let you know what he's saying when not to drunk. I hate his mathematical transcendental aphorisms.

*impressed*

Don't be. All I can say is "Ni thuigim" (I don't understand) and can't spell any of it to save my life. There are some other things I can say, but they're all introductory conversation stuff.

Don't be. All I can say is "Ni thigium" (I don't understand) and can't spell any of it to save my life. There are some other things I can say, but they're all introductory conversation stuff.

Ni thuigim ;)

Ni thuigim ;)

See! I told you I can't spell. At least I got "broad with broad, slender with slender" right.

Dutch, English

A little German, bad French, a few words Quebecois... oh and I know the word for beer in several languages

Only if it's not your first language ;)

its the offical language. so what about chinnese in china? alot of chinnese dont speak it.

See! I told you I can't spell. At least I got "broad with broad, slender with slender" right.

My spelling is usually useless too, though the caomh le caomh and leathain le leathain bit is semi-familiar.

Rarrgh goinscweyxz bortckzio fpri tffit mor !

No its' no Polish but Klingon...
(sorry for the spelling)

I speak a half dozen languages in a half assed manner, Spanish being my best I only lack vocabulary on.

This sounds about right.

Finnish as a native language, and English as a foreign one.

I've also studied Russian for a year, but not enough to actually be able to speak it. I wasted many years in school being force-fed Swedish, but I've been actively trying to forget it. So I picked the middle option.