NationStates Jolt Archive

Another random thread, right? God, I swear I'm not even a full-blooded generalite and look what I'm posting...See what NSG has done to me!?

Anyway, thread title kind of gives it away, doesn't it? Poll coming.


I speak English, Spanish, 1337, and a little bit of Japanese.

I speak English. Ech kann Deutsch. Puedo hablar Espanol. Ik praat Nederlands. (No, that last one is not for real..I only know a small tiny bit...though I've been trying to get around to teaching myself it. I can't find any courses that offer it :mad:)

I speak English, and a bit of Japanese... I'd be pretty far along in the latter, though working forty hours a week and playing guitar about three hours a day along with that sidelined it quite a bit.

No second language for me until I get a better-paying job, where I can work thirty hours rather than slave away for forty.

American english and Texan spanglish, plus a smattering of others. Mostly cursing.

Want counts, in your opinion, as ‘speaking a language’?

I mean, I only speak one language fluently, but I can muddle through in one or two others.

EDIT: And as Kalmurstan reminded me, I know a couple of coding languages.

I speak English (well, pretend to) and some French (although I'm badly out of practice). I know the odd phrase in German, and am hoping to learn Russian in the not too distant future.

I'm also resisting the temptation to rattle off what coding languages I know, as I don't actually "speak" them :p

Another random thread, right? God, I swear I'm not even a full-blooded generalite and look what I'm posting...See what NSG has done to me!?

Anyway, thread title kind of gives it away, doesn't it? Poll coming.


I speak English, Spanish, 1337, and a little bit of Japanese.


English and French although it's been two years since I've heard a word of French and three years since I've used it regularly so it's dieing. Hopefully I'll be moving to Montreal in a years time, though. Hopefully it'll improve.

Want counts, in your opinion, as ‘speaking a language’?

I mean, I’m only perfectly fluent in one language, but I can muddle through in one or two others...

Being able to read/write/speak a language (even a bastardized version) without wikipedia/dictionary/translator.

English and semi-decent German. I converse at the level of a drunk 6 year old. Oh yeah, I can also say Tu madre es feo y gordo in Spanish. The only thing I picked up in that class.

That must be fun.

English and semi-decent German. I converse at the level of a drunk 6 year old. Oh yeah, I can also say Tu madre es feo y gordo in Spanish. The only thing I picked up in that class. :p

Being able to read/write/speak a language (even a bastardized version) without wikipedia/dictionary/translator.
I sees, I sees...


can reconize but can’t understand
Russian
Samoan
Italian
Scottish
French
Spanish
Chinese
Korean
Do you mean Scots English, or the Gaelic?

lemmesee...

fluent in
American
British

near fluent in
Australian
Pidgin English

knows enough to get into serious trouble
Japanese
Hawaiian

Knows enough to sound stoopid
1337
Ghetto (or whatever they call it)

can reconize but can't understand
Russian
Samoan
Italian
Scottish
French
Spanish
Chinese
Korean

lemmesee...

fluent in
American
<snipity>

I never did fully get the American language. I mean, to me chips are like chunky fries, and jelly is a semi-translucent wobbly substance. Sure, with a little effort I could speak American, but I find speaking English goes down well enough over there.

Especially if you have the accent to go with the language.

English is my first language, and I also speak C++ well enough to get by. I can speak, read, and write Latin, for what it's worth. Though, several years after formal study, my vocabulary is stercus.

Do you mean Scots English, or the Gaelic?
er... yes. :p

well? I'm gonna say zero.

semi-fluent? English/American

barely fluent but might survive for a day or two? French, Spanish, Japanese and ASL

not at all fluent but might pick up every third word or mis-conjugate verbs nearly coherently? all of the above mentioned but also Dutch, German, and Portuguese. (also, Klingon)

so.........no poll option for zero. :(

The best one of all. *wink*

Klingon?

Oh, and Smunkee, no special poll option for you :)

English (or Texan, close enough), some Spanish and a little Cherokee. Working to improve the last two.

The best one of all. *wink*

I speak English et je parle francais.

er... yes. :p
Oh, jobbies!

;)

The best one of all. *wink*

Cunnilingus?

The best one of all. *wink*

Swedish?

[QUOTE=Smunkeeville;13391988]Swedish?[/QUOTE



About 22 miles away from the right answer.

English and Turkish (which I'm still in the process of learning to speak fluently) and a few words of Chechen and Spanish.

I speak English, French, a bit of Kazakh, and I'm learning Mongolian.

I don't recall the last time I technically spoke.

In all seriousness, however: English, with only basic understanding of French, Latin, and dormant knowledge of Serbo-Croatian and some Albanian (which would probably be revitalised if more people in my immediate neighbourhood spoke said languages).

I speak 4 languages. I speak English. Ech kann Deutsch.

Puedo hablar Espanol. Watashi wa nihongo o hanashimasu. (For those that

don't know, that last bit was Japanese.

Ech kann Deutsch.
Was für ein Dialekt hascht?

I'm native in English and fluent in French (although my vocabulary is rusty) I know enough spanish to curse pretty fluently and play soccer/football. I'm planning to learn Swedish because I'd like to study abroad there sometime in the future.

Was für ein Dialekt hascht?

Alright i lied about the german.:confused: but Japanese is the coolest language ever, I love it. Anata wa ketsuyobi desu.

Alright i lied about the german.:confused: but Japanese is the coolest language ever, I love it. Anata wa ketsuyobi desu.
Das hab ech gedacht. Warscheinlich hascht du auch über Spanisch gelügt.:rolleyes:

Alright i lied about the german.:confused: but Japanese is the coolest language ever, I love it. Anata wa ketsuyobi desu.

あなた の ナマエ わ なん です か?

English. Very little Spanish. And even less French.

Alright i lied about the german.:confused: but Japanese is the coolest language ever, I love it. Anata wa ketsuyobi desu.You is speaking in tongues.

Me knew a good cure.

*Takes a barrel of radioactive apple sauce and dumps it on Tedthehunter.*

English. Very little Spanish. And even less French.│││+7Bm⌠Ö⌠╔Ñ5╠W≤n◘

Si, tu no hablo Espanol?

Tamil, Hindi, English - fluent. Malayalam - can understand and speak haltingly. Telugu even less so.

English (fluent), can write too :p
Mandarin (badly)
Cantonese (can't write it though)

(I am Jeruselem)

Ich kann Deutsch, aber es ist nicht mein erste Sprache.

My first language is Enlgish (American, though I interject 'u's unto words such as 'colour' so I might throw some people off).

I have learned a small amount of Latin, and thlIngan Hol (bonus points if you know what that means without looking it up). I can turn an odd phrase is French, Spanish, or Japanese, I know how to say 'no' in Russian, have a fairly strong interest in, but no experience with Sindarin, or Sanskrit.

I speak Dwarvish as well as anyone alive (assuming that I am correct in my belief that the only known Dwarvish exists in my sig, and the mind of Tolkien himself).

I know the odd phrase in the Old Tongue (Wheel of Time).
I can also speak a phrase of Old D'Haran (even though Goodkind is very, very linguistically challenged).

Can I speak any of them well (aside from German and English): If you try to converse with me my reaction might be Dovie'andi se tovya sagain. (bonus points if you know it without looking it up... bonus ponts are cumulative... but worthless).

Malayalam

I spent days learning to say Thiruvananthapuram only to discover it was generally called Trivandrum - I cursed, I understand they've switched back now to the original.

I can still say it perfectly though.

I tried picking up Malayalam, guide book phrases really but it's all forgotten.

I speak English, and probably enough Spanish to speak to someone (assuming I'm allowed to gesture, point at things, and say phrases like, "a house for people who give money in order to sleep"). I know enough German, Latin, French, and Tagalog to get by.

How much is "enough to get by?" Well, if you're an American, think of all the times you have had to use any of those languages in your hometown. That's how much I speak. :)

English, French and Arabic fluently. However some disagree on NSG about my French skillz. I speak enough Spanish to get me around Mexico. I also speak a bit of Portuguese and Italian.

German as mother tongue, English fluently, some French, little Spanish - and then there was Latin once.

I speak Dwarvish as well as anyone alive (assuming that I am correct in my belief that the only known Dwarvish exists in my sig, and the mind of Tolkien himself).Axes of the dwarves! The dwarves are upon you!

*Dwarves appear out of the stone and then begin drinking instantly.*

Just English. And enough Spanish to say "No hablo Espanol".

I'm fluent in American English,
I know British and the language of Cthulhu,
I can get by in German albeit not well,
I can understand French, but not speak or write it,
I know the "tourist vocab" of Russian,
...and I want to learn Arabic. :P

Englishと日本語 (でも僕の日本語下手です) and enough tlhIngan Hol to insult people.

あなた の ナマエ わ なん です か?
Er, I THINK you mean: あなたの名前は何ですか?

:(Englishと日本語 (でも僕は日本語下手です) and enough tlhIngan Hol to insult people.


Er, I THINK you mean: あなたの名前は何ですか?

Don't blame me, I've never understood Kanji and I never will :(

:(

Don't blame me, I've never understood Kanji and I never will :(
Normally you wouldn't write なまえ in katakana and while the particle after it is said as わ you're supposed to write it as は (Says the man who had to endure a terrific but VERY picky Japanese teacher).

Englishと日本語 (でも僕は日本語下手です) and enough tlhIngan Hol to insult people.


Er, I THINK you mean: あなたの名前は何ですか?

:(

Don't blame me, I've never understood Kanji and I never will :(

Welcome to another edition of your favorite NSG game show, "My Computer Does Not Render Japanese Characters and Thus I am left to stare at ???s"

I speak English, nerd speech, redneck, Waspish, Spanish, Welshyin, Valgardian, and Flanderish.

English, British, Australian, Canadian, Jamaican, Anglo-African, Anglo-Indian, American, United Statespeak, Southern States, Northern Statespeak, Californian, New Zealandic, New English, Old English, Middle English, and Pig-Latin.

Welcome to another edition of your favorite NSG game show, "My Computer Does Not Render Japanese Characters and Thus I am left to stare at ???s"
Why don't you just load the Japanese language pack then? :confused:

I speak english, je parle le français, e parlo italiano.

However, je parle seulement un peu de français, e parlo solo un po' d'italiano. Plus de français que l'italien.

Why don't you just load the Japanese language pack then? :confused:

Lazy.

enough tlhIngan Hol to insult people.

Dejpu'bogh Hov rur qablIj!

Just one, English.

I knew a bit of Spanish, but that all went out the window after high school.

I wouldn't mind learning a language or two, probably Swedish and Gaelic, and maybe Russian and German. Maybe. I get by just fine with just English, so there isn't any great pressure to learn more.

English (American), German, Dutch, mostly Norwegian, mostly Dutch, some Afrikaans. I would like to learn Swedish, Finnish, French, and Russian some day. I have no interest in learning Spanish or Mandarin/Thai/Korean/Cantonese/etc.

Two, English & French (and a smattering of German, but nowhere near enough to say that I can speak the language).

German and English as first languages and French as a third.

E Oh yeah, I can also say Tu madre es feo y gordo in Spanish. The only thing I picked up in that class. :p

Speaks volumes about the quality of either your class, your learning ability or both that you got that sentence wrong - assuming the being you call your mother is a female, it ought to be feA and gordA :]

dormant knowledge of Serbo-Croatian and some Albanian (which would probably be revitalised if more people in my immediate neighbourhood spoke said languages).

Get together with Fassitude; IIRC he's looking for people whom he can revitalize his Serbo-Croatian with, and even made a thread about just that recently.

Speaks volumes about the quality of either your class, your learning ability or both that you got that sentence wrong - assuming the being you call your mother is a female, it ought to be feA and gordA :]


I blame it on my incompetent teacher who has since been fired and now works as a truck driver in Wyoming.

English, Tagalog, Filipino. (yes, the last two can be considered as one, but legally they aren't the same... oh well...)

I speak british english natively, et je parle courrament français, bon vaut mieux dire je parle le français belge, et je comprend un peut le wallonian*. Ik heeft neederlands in school geleert maar ik heb het niet gespreeken voor acht jaaren.

*Wallonian is the belgian french dialect, no it's not the same and pretty much no one near where I lived actually spoke it in any real capacity but you occasionally come across it in the older generation

English, Dutch, Italian, French, and am currently learning Kiswahili as I just moved to Tanzania!

Ik heeft neederlands in school geleert maar ik heb het niet gespreeken voor acht jaaren.

Sue your school ;)

For me English and Dutch. I can in addition comprehend and read Spanish, Latin, French & German. I am pondering studying some Japanse.

EDIT: I also have a rudimentary knowledge of Dutch sign language. Does that count as speaking ?

from very good to very bad:
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin

English, a little Punjabi, and a smidgen of Hebrew.

I speak English. Ech kann Deutsch. Puedo hablar Espanol. Ik praat Nederlands. (No, that last one is not for real..I only know a small tiny bit...though I've been trying to get around to teaching myself it. I can't find any courses that offer it :mad:)

Ofcourse we don't offer it. We're like dwarves from Tolkien, noone else should understand us, muhahahaha! :p

That said, I know Dutch and English very well. And Deutsch et Francais on moderate level, more than enough to get me in and out of trouble. But my grammar in those languages is horrible. Not that my English grammar is very good, but I like to think it is ;)

3-4.

Danish, English, French, Dutch.

Sue your school ;)



Hey I never said I was any good at dutch, and I haven't actually used any in about 8 years or so. But I can mostly understand what people are saying.

English
Punjabi

And a bit of German so 2 and a half.

Fluent in English, can make myself understood in Spanish, have some rudimentary Japanese, and can generally catch the gist of a conversation in Italian (similarities to Spanish and all).

It's a pity, too, because at one point I was planning to be a linguistics major and focus on learning languages. But then I learned that to do that I would have to spend a lot of time speaking in front of people. Since I have horrible stage fright, I opted to hide behind a nice quiet lab bench instead.

one. poorly. i know half a dozen words in as many other languages, mostly having to do with trains.

something, i'm not sure what, happened in my early childhood, to give me a kind of mental block against learning languages. maybe it was the way they were/are taught. maybe it was/is the way the one i do read, write and speak was taught. i'm just real glad i was able to learn how to read it BEFORE i started even kindergarten. i have serious doubts i'd have even the tenuous grasp of verbal communication i have no had i not.

i think, in principal, we should all, in addition to our growing up in language, and whatever 'universal' language might be adopted, be they the same or different, speak to who ever we want to communicate with in the language THEY grew up in.

unfortunately, my mental blocks seem to run contrary to that 'should'.
for which i must embassedly appologise, but am forced to recognize and acknowledge none the less, my own limitations.

=^^=
.../\...

Well, I speak English, German, Danish, a bit of French, a bit of Japanese and I know binory coding :D

Well, I speak English, German, Danish, a bit of French, a bit of Japanese and I know binory coding :D

Oooh - programming languages ! Do those count as well ;) ?

English (Native speaker), Spanish (Taught by Hispanic dad) and Russian (wanted a challenge in high school... Spanish would have been an easy 'A')

I speak English. American English is my mother tongue, but I am fully proficient in British English. Which one is the "true" English depends on which side of the pond I am.

I speak some French, but I'm really out of practice. My best language after English is Hebrew. I also speak a few words of Japanese, including the most important phrase, "Tore wa doko deska?"

I can read the Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, allowing me to sound out words.

Which one is the "true" English depends on which side of the pond I am.

Umm surly that is the English wot us English people speak innit!

Im fluent in both English and Welsh my native tongue...though I find it hard to believe that the majority on here speak more than one language as the poll suggests...I think alot of you are stretching the truth a little ;)

Err I can blag my way through talking to people pretty nicely in German (my written German is a bit pish, mind), am quite good at French, although nothing like Fluent, can hablo un poco Español, and can understand Flemish, Dutch and Luxembourg...ish..., as well as speaking a very tiny amount (hello, that kind of thing) in most European languages and Arabic.

And I'm English, so I can speak and write in that, albeit with too many commas in my written work.

Native speaker of Flemish/Dutch (counts as one or two, depending on whom you're talking to) Pretty much fluent in English, reasonable French and German, lamentable Italian, and just a couple of words from some more exotic languages.
I read Latin tolerably well, though with disuse, I'm now keeping a dictionary close.

I spent days learning to say Thiruvananthapuram only to discover it was generally called Trivandrum - I cursed, I understand they've switched back now to the original.

I can still say it perfectly though.

I tried picking up Malayalam, guide book phrases really but it's all forgotten.

endha saare...ningal enna parayuthu...

Malayalam is one of the sweetest languages to hear. I lived for some time in a border city between Tamil Nadu and Kerala and that's when I picked up Malayalam. I can still understand when somebody speaks it...but I have become rusty from not using it for a long time.

British Sign Language, English and Lallans for the patriots who will insist it is a separate language (though according to Wikipedia it is! :D )

I speak, read, and write English fluently.

Je ne suis pas assez bon en français, mais je l'utilise souvent. Plus souvent que mon espagnol.

Aunque como lo aprendi como primera lengua, no tengo muchos problemas. Me gustaria tener mas oportunidades para practicar.

English, Spanish, Cree, French, in order of fluency.

British Sign Language, English and Lallans for the patriots who will insist it is a separate language (though according to Wikipedia it is! :D )

Pfft if you get Lallans then i'm claiming Ullans

Oh and English (native speaker) and i'm not too bad at German

I speak Danish, my native language. Then I speak English and extremely poor German :p

English which i hate, used to do a bit of German at school "Wo ist das Rathous?" but my teacher was rubbish, er not much French only "nul points", i know body language does that count?

Do computer languages count?

Italian, german, russian and english (with an accent coming right out of a Wehrmacht manual, my fiancee says), so it's 4.


Also bits of czech, spanish, portuguese and french (I can understand these languages more than I can speak them). Among dead languages, ancient greek and latin, but I have been taught to read them, not to speak them (I can read aloud a text, but cannot conversate). As for minor languages, milanese (that is, the milanese variant of insubric aka western lombardic). But I don't think these count.

3 languages fluently (Dutch, German, English), so I voted 2-3. I do know some French though, and my own conlang, which is developed enough to rival with my French knowledge. I could speak a bit latin if needed, and I know a few words in a variety of languages (such as Polish, Czech, Italian, Farsi and Behasa Malaysia)

Italian, german, russian and english (with an accent coming right out of a Wehrmacht manual, my fiancee says), so it's 4.


Also bits of czech, spanish, portuguese and french (I can understand these languages more than I can speak them). Among dead languages, ancient greek and latin, but I have been taught to read them, not to speak them (I can read aloud a text, but cannot conversate). As for minor languages, milanese (that is, the milanese variant of insubric aka western lombardic). But I don't think these count.
Where did you learn Russian? Also, do you mean your German accent comes right out of a Wehrmacht manual? Or your accent in English sounds like a German (who speaks German coming from the Wehrmacht manuel) trying to speak English? Or what did you mean, exactly?

Where did you learn Russian?
Associazione Italia-Russia Итальиа - Россия (formerly Italia-URSS Итальиа - СССР) in Milan.

Also, do you mean your German accent comes right out of a Wehrmacht manual? Or your accent in English sounds like a German (who speaks German coming from the Wehrmacht manuel) trying to speak English? Or what did you mean, exactly?

The underlined one. ;)

Associazione Italia-Russia Итальиа - Россия (formerly Italia-URSS Итальиа - СССР) in Milan.
Ah, interesting.


The underlined one. ;)
Vielleicht genauso wie diese zwei ;) Oder?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBIKNRVSHxo

Sadly, just the one. I've been working on Mandarin, but it just doesn't seem to take.

Ideas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8REgV59PKc

...auf Sturmtruppenitalienisch!

Ah, interesting.



Vielleicht genauso wie diese zwei ;) Oder?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBIKNRVSHxo

"...oder wollt ihr DAS TOTALE SIEB ?!" (??? Sieb, richtig?).
"SAFT DURCH FREUDE!"
Toll!

"...oder wollt ihr DAS TOTALE SIEB ?!" (??? Sieb, richtig?).
"SAFT DURCH FREUDE!"
Toll!
Ech find's vollll lustig.
Und Sieb ischt richtig. Das heißt, like a filter/sifter thing. I don't cook so I'm not really sure what the exact word is in English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8REgV59PKc

...auf Sturmtruppenitalienisch!
:D Das hab ech noch nie gesehen. Gut zu sehen, weil jetzt ech beginne Italiansch zu studieren.

Ech find's vollll lustig.
Und Sieb ischt richtig. Das heißt, like a filter/sifter thing. I don't cook so I'm not really sure what the exact word is in English.
.

Sieve

Sieve
I guess? I don't know what that means. Like I said, I don't cook.:p

Sadly, just the one. I've been working on Mandarin, but it just doesn't seem to take.

Ideas?

Deutsch.

With varying degrees of competence, English, Spanish and Japanese.

I guess? I don't know what that means. Like I said, I don't cook.:p
http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/English/blettiere/451_sieve.jpg

Da is' es.

Another random thread, right? God, I swear I'm not even a full-blooded generalite and look what I'm posting...See what NSG has done to me!?

Anyway, thread title kind of gives it away, doesn't it? Poll coming.


I speak English, Spanish, 1337, and a little bit of Japanese.

I'm only fluent in English, although I know a bit of French and Russian, not even enough to get by in an a desperate situation at this point - I'm horribly out of practice :(

I'm a 4th year Linguistics major, so I've been exposed to more languages then I can count. So let's see.

Speak fluently:
- English (Canadian, British, Aussie, and American dialects)

Understand (Speak a little, can read a little and communicate a little):
- Arabic
- Spanish (Mostly Latin American)
- Taino
- Sumerin
- Assyrian
- Latin
- German
- French
- Newfie

Have been exposed to (Meaning I know scarttered words and technical grammar):
- Swahili
- Xhosa (A click language)
- Turkish
- Russian
- Japanese
- Navaho
- Inuktitut
- Every other Bantu family language I forgot
- Tagalog
- Sanskrit
- Greek
- Romanian
- Dutch
- Finnish
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- At least 30 other endangered languages from New Guinea and South America that I can't remember the names of
- Maori
- Arawakan
- Miqmaq
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Korean
- Urudu
- Hindi
- Kurdish

My god I've had a busy four years.