What languages do you speak?

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  • ohpiper
    ohpiper Posts: 697 Member
    American Sign Language. I first began learning formally during my undergrad out of curiousity. Later got my undergrad degree in Deaf Ed. Later I interpreted to pay my way through grad school in a field related to Deafness.

    I'm told Spanish was my first language as we used to live in the Canal Zone, but unfortunately, that wasn't used enough to maintain after moving back to the States. I'd love to be able to bring that back to proficiency so that I could be a trilingual interpreter.
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    I'm not fluent in any language but speak a smattering of Spanish, Italian, French and German.

    Grand Father was Italian so I picked up some of it from him. Took French in high school. Took an online course for German and almost everyone speaks a little spanish these days.
  • liznsmith
    liznsmith Posts: 240 Member
    Fluent in: American English, British English (I lived in Dublin for some time) German and French. My dad raised me speaking Parisian French so I can't understand the Quebecois. I understand a lot of Spanish and Arabic (Syrian dialect) .AlthoughI lived in Italy I can't understand or speak a word of it. I also know some Japanese and Yiddish
  • EHisCDN
    EHisCDN Posts: 480 Member
    English and French. I know lite lite svenska (from my time .studying at Uppsala)
  • Alma_Sana
    Alma_Sana Posts: 453 Member
    English, Espanol, and some Castellano ;)
  • Dead_Darling
    Dead_Darling Posts: 478 Member
    English
    French
    Creole (broken French)
    Lolcats

    I understand a little bit of Hindi, thanks to Bollywood and can understand a bit of Spanish and Italian

    I really want to learn Swahili and be more fluent in Arabic!
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    Lolcats

    Since we're alowing geek languages I know a little Klingon, pig latin and Minnesotan.
  • BabyCerise
    BabyCerise Posts: 70 Member
    I'm french so obviously, I speak french !
    then english, spanish, latin, and a bit of italian and vietnamian!
  • Alma_Sana
    Alma_Sana Posts: 453 Member
    Ebonics.

    lol :)
  • 37434958
    37434958 Posts: 457 Member
    English, Arabic, Hebrew and a bit of German, bit of Turkish, and a few phrases in Spanish.....=)


    OH and I wish someone could teach me Irish <3
  • Kpablo
    Kpablo Posts: 355 Member
    English and Smartass. :)
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    Drunken Bum.

    I was very fluent in Drunk Bum in my younger days, now I'm studying teenspeak and texting.
  • TheNavet
    TheNavet Posts: 162 Member
    Fluently: French, German and English
    Still learning: Mandarin chinese and Spanish (though that last one is pretty easy to learn considering it's so very similar to french :tongue: )
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    English and ASL (American Sign Language). I have a Deaf son.

    I am teaching myself ASL right now through lifeprint. It's very basic stuff but would allow me to get a grasp of the basic stuff before I take actual classes on it. It's not so much the signing I have trouble with as much as deciding which hand to use. Some things are more fluid with my right hand, but because of a short tendon in my pinky I can't make certain signs correctly with that hand.
  • nolachick
    nolachick Posts: 3,278 Member
    English & Spanish & Belizean Creole :drinker:
  • SexyDexie
    SexyDexie Posts: 48 Member
    I speak English and Bad English
  • morielia
    morielia Posts: 169 Member
    English, obv
    French - fluent
    German - Conversational
    Portuguese - Conversational
    Old Norse/Old English/High German - I guess you'd call it working proficiency since you can't converse with anyone in it. It was for my degree

    I took Japanese, but I don't remember any of it. I've learned a bit of Dutch as well, but not enough to get by on.
  • rob1976
    rob1976 Posts: 1,328 Member
    American, High German, some conversational German, and American Sign Language.

    Oh, and Drunk. I speak fluent Drunk.
  • crista_b
    crista_b Posts: 1,192 Member
    Fluent: English (native), French (4 years in H.S. - 3 years in college - it was my major)
    Conversant: Spanish (3 years in H.S. & 3 or 4 semesters in college, I forget how many)
    Basic: Italian (2 semesters in college)

    I also took 1 semester of German and have picked up some Mandarin and Portuguese at work; I work at a translation agency. I can also understand the basic structures of a lot of languages enough to do some HTML editing in foreign language newsletters and other things like that (I've had to do it at work).
  • debbylee_maxine
    debbylee_maxine Posts: 24 Member
    I speak Texan and ASL. ^_^
  • PJ64
    PJ64 Posts: 866 Member
    English (American Both Bostonian & Southern)

    Some Korean & KorEnglish
  • Dead_Darling
    Dead_Darling Posts: 478 Member
    Lolcats

    Since we're alowing geek languages I know a little Klingon, pig latin and Minnesotan.

    I forgot pig latin and Cockney Rhyming Slang :bigsmile:
  • AngelicxAnnihilation
    AngelicxAnnihilation Posts: 336 Member
    English :(
  • DesireeAshley90
    DesireeAshley90 Posts: 137 Member
    English and Spanish representing all the true beaners out there :)

    I know a few cuss words in Arabic too, lol.
  • PJ64
    PJ64 Posts: 866 Member
    I speak Chinese (Mandarin) and sometimes Engrish. :-D


    LOVE Engrish!! :laugh:

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