Which languages do you know?

ag_pt · Post by **ag_pt** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 3:59 pm

Anonymous wrote:Portuguese: native language, with the most perfect accent from Lisbon city...
English: you can see it's true, I really speak and write it!
French: "comme ci comme ça..." medium level, I hope I'm able to mantain a conversation fluent with the minimum amount of words.
Spanish: every portuguese can speak a confuse spanish-like cocktail mix and be understood
Italian: Understand a bit, talk a bit... "grazie, prego, arrivederci, ciao belissima"!
German: On a "auf wiedersehn"-basis like isolated words
Hungarian: "Viszontlátásra" and "Köszönöm szépen" and that's all folks!

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:02 am

(Flemish) Dutch - mother tongue
French - Father tongue
West-Vlaams (Belgian dialect, i'm one of the few people outside able to understand perfectly in the rap songs of 't Hof Van Commerce)
English - very fluently (speak it daily, work in international place)
German - don't speak it, but can read it fluently
Finnish - struggling with it, starting to be able to read easy sentences, but making my own sentences is impossible (tooooooo many conjugations !!!)
Latin - had to study it for 6 years in high school
Italian - if you speak French and Latin, it's no problem to understand it (except of course for all the weird dialects)

Aylah · Post by **Aylah** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:25 pm

German: my birthlanguage
English: I'm still learning English at school (since 5 years) and I've been to an english familiy two years ago.
French: I'm also learning French at school (since 3 years) and I've been to France a few weeks ago. It worked as good as english and I'm going to visit France again in next summer.
Latin: I'm learning it since a few months...

Van Geel · Post by **Van Geel** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 6:46 am

Dutch
English
(a little bit) German.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:10 pm

Finnish: mother tongue
English: understanding very good, pronounciation could be better
Swedish: sufficient, but trying to forget it completely, I have no use for the language
German: needs some refreshing, but I still understand quite well words related to murder investigations thanks to certain tv shows
Spanish: trying to learn more, I can make simple sentences and sometimes even understand what the hyperactive spaniards are saying

Prynde · Post by **Prynde** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:30 pm

Finnish: birth language
English: very good on both spoken and written
Swedish: i was forced to study it but never learned it... was lucky to pass all the exams

French: some words

nti Täti · Post by **nti Täti** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:48 am

I'm more into science and art than languages, but I can:
Finnish
English
understand and read a bit German (studied for 5 years, 3 years with not-so-good teachers)
remain silent in Swedish

It would be really cool to learn sign language, but I haven't got time to start studying it.

I've never really got that womanlanguage-thing, either because it comes so naturally I haven't even noticed it, or because I've never heard/saw it or if I have, I haven't recogiced it. All I know is that I have to ask all the time what my friends mean with what they say, and that they are nearly always boys whose messages remain as mysteries... Touché.

avij wrote:Finnish: My native language. I read, write and speak Finnish fluently, unless I'm talking to an attractive young girl in which case I typically forget what I was saying and make a fool of myself. Well, c'est la vie.

Hooray, no stupid beautiqueen-competitions are needed anymore: every girl who wants to know, are they attractive or not, simply go and talk to avij and find out what their unsure minds have dersired to know!

Marvellous.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 6:43 am

My first language is polish
my second language is engilsh
I also speak and read russian
I also speak hebrew
and i also speak arabic
oh and i speak romany(gypsy)

avij · Post by **avij** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 10:24 am

Anonymous wrote: My first language is polish
my second language is engilsh
I also speak and read russian
I also speak hebrew
and i also speak arabic
oh and i speak romany(gypsy)

Cool, would you like to help translating EBT into one of those languages?

By the way, I'd recommend registering on the forum (see the links on the top of the page), it makes your life easier in the long run.

village · Post by **village** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:12 am

German: mother tongue
English: quite fluently, sometimes problems understanding strange pronounciations
Russian: understanding, small-talk and a bit more
French: difficult, but trying hard to improve. Already a bit more than "tourist's minimum" (reading seems to be a bit easier)
Polish: asking for the way with a chance to understand the answer or to ask for more clarity
Czech: a bit worse than polish, but was already usable in some situations
Dutch: some ability to read, but could be better[/list]

brett · Post by **brett** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:18 am

English: my birth language. born and raised(and sadly still living) in toronto, canada.
(Quebecois) French: yes there is a difference between quebec french and france french. quebec french has a lot more english influence. Ive studied it all my life in school. a good thing about living in canada is that everything is in english and french which made it a lot easier for me learn it.
Norwegian: thanks to my grandmother and some books, i know norwegian well enough to get buy for a while in norway.
Czech: the girl i like is from Czech republic and shes taught me a few words.

aplfi · Post by **aplfi** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:02 pm

Suomi: on äidinkieli
English: a little bit
Deutsch: Einige Wörter
Svenska: Inte so bra

Ning · Post by **Ning** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 11:35 am

French : mothertongue
Alsacien : local language (2nd language) in Alsace
German : very very close to Alsacien so it's ok. (I live at the border between France and Germany).
English : I understand written english and I can write in english easily (with a few mistakes) but listening or speaking is very hard for me.

I'm going to learn also Spanish or Italian some day. That's one reason why I want to learn French. They don't teach Spanish or Italian in our school and I can use French to learn then later

Yeah, when I'm drunk I can understand Spanish and Italian though I've never learned these languages

!Pretfles! · Post by **!Pretfles!** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 11:38 am

!Pretfles! wrote:I've recently started studying russian in evening school
it is good fun
but very difficult

Now I passed the first module and had my first exam, and started the second,

reading and writing it + simple sentences don't pose a problem anymore, I really start to enjoy it.

Jarin · Post by **Jarin** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:12 pm

Czech (birth language)
Dutch
English
German
French (a little bit)
Polish (some words)

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