What languages do you speak?

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  • alantin
    alantin Posts: 621 Member
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    Finnish
    English
    Japanese
    Swedish

    Some words in about a dozen other languages.
  • CrazyDaisysMommy
    CrazyDaisysMommy Posts: 472
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    Speak or butcher?

    1) English (native)
    2) German (high intermediate)
    3) Spanish (conversational if the person I'm speaking with doesn't mind being confused)
    4) Arabic (used to be intermediate conversational in Palestinian dialect; can read fussha very, very, very slowly)
    5) multiple languages-- (I know enough to start an awkward conversation and then stare blankly at the speaker as they respond)
  • wijac10
    wijac10 Posts: 47
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    Dutch and English, some German
  • k2quiere
    k2quiere Posts: 4,151 Member
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    English, Spanish, Spanglish, and Sarcasm in ALL 3!!!

    That is speaking...understanding brings in even more.
  • k2quiere
    k2quiere Posts: 4,151 Member
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    Speak or butcher?

    5) multiple languages-- (I know enough to start an awkward conversation and then stare blankly at the speaker as they respond)

    THIS^^^
  • BRISAjustAltered
    BRISAjustAltered Posts: 260 Member
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    English
    Spanish
    Spanglish
    Texan (yes, it's a language)
    Getto (but strictly on as needed bases, cause every once in a while it's needed)
    American sign language (beginner level)
    I understand Redneck, Hillbilly and Coonass but don't speak them
  • Lunachic77
    Lunachic77 Posts: 434 Member
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    1. German
    2. English
  • JeninBelgium
    JeninBelgium Posts: 804 Member
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    English and Polish

    How did you put the spriockets dance thing on?

    LOVE THAT!
  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
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    English, and some very basic spanish. Enough to survive on my own for a week or so
  • Jessamin
    Jessamin Posts: 338 Member
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    English, decent French and basic Maori.
  • JeninBelgium
    JeninBelgium Posts: 804 Member
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    English is my first language (American)
    Enhanced English is sort of what I speak now (British words, phrases, some pronunciation)
    Dutch is my second language (what I speak every day in the country I live in)

    I have studied German in the recent past but because of the Dutch completely taking over my brain I have a really hard time speaking it. I understand a LOT though and even have full conversations with colleagues with me speaking English and the other person speaking German.

    I've studied other languages as well, but never practised really, so I would never claim to speak those languages.

    Ditto- Exactly DITTO- for the English, Dutch and German comments. I will say that when I lived in the Netherlands (10 years ago now) I never NEEDED to speak Dutch as all of the Dutch seem to be fluent or near fluent in English, however, my Dutch grammatical structure and accent was better than it is now. I currently live in Belgium on the border of three provinces and my accent has suffered for it- very flat Flemish now (yuck) but my vocabulary is better for it in the sense of knowing so many various dialect words for the same thing.

    In addition to the above, between living in the Netherlands and Belgium I lived in Madagascar and thus know a little bit of Malagasy (to speak it, not to write it) and some French- though since moving to Belgium (where 40% or so of the population speak French as their first language) my French has deteriorated- probably because I have concentrated on Dutch (nearlyu 60% have Dutch as a first language here) as I think it is important to speak the language of the area you live in (I live in Flanders) and also to be able to communicate with my inlaws

    I seem to understand Italian when I am in Italy and can really butcher a Spanish sentence quite impressively as I learned two weeks ago whilst attending a wedding in Spain

    :-)
  • Jade_Butterfly
    Jade_Butterfly Posts: 2,963 Member
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    English & sign language. . .Would love to learn spanish and french though.
  • PegasusDeb
    PegasusDeb Posts: 665 Member
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    I'm fluent in sarcasm. What's it to ya?
  • PegasusDeb
    PegasusDeb Posts: 665 Member
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    I do want to learn Spanish though... I don't think I can get my tongue to roll those rrrrrr's though!
  • HollieDoodles
    HollieDoodles Posts: 678 Member
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    Besides the obvious.... English, Sarcasm, and broken Spanish....

    I am pretty good at speaking Teenage Boy

    Whale

    Lame Gangster Rapper

    Hillbilly after suffering a bad concussion

    Sleep deprived student slur

    I'm also quite good at speaking... The Look of "Oh crap! Mom's pissed!" ....
    most children easily understand me when I speak that :)
  • JDNOX
    JDNOX Posts: 619
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    Sarcasm and English
  • Fatchickslim
    Fatchickslim Posts: 396 Member
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    English and Body.
  • gnan87
    gnan87 Posts: 10
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    hmm interesting topic.........i can speak these languages fluently..
    telugu
    kannada
    english
    tamil
    hindi
    urdu
    the ancient language of sanskrit
    and apart from these
    some french and spanish
  • PBJunkie
    PBJunkie Posts: 652
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    Afrikaans
    English
    German
    A bit of Xhosa
  • goron59
    goron59 Posts: 890 Member
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    English English
    Most other variants of English
    Bollox
    A little bit of Dutch, Spanish, French, German
    Restaurant Italian (but then, who doesn't?)
    I can read Russian but don't know what it means.

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