Which languages do you know?

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 9:05 pm

Aaron wrote:
Asiamaniac wrote:Indonesian: University and frequent trips and stays to that country
Malaysian: Quite the equivalent to Indonesian. --
But there are several languages in those countries. 8O

So does Finland. But still there's a language called "Finnish" although also Swedish is talked in Finland. There is a language called "Malaysian", and there's a language called "Indonesian". They speak also other languages in those countries, but Indonesian and Malaysian are names of languages, too :)

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 1:07 am

I'Am dutch, but living in italy
Languages:

Dutch, German, English reading, writing and speaking well
Italian Reading and Speaking well, Writing just what i need for work
French / Spanish, what we need on Holiday

tinka wrote:I could see that some regular posters here post in different languages.
I'm curieus how many languages do you speak and how many do you write?
me:
dutch: birthlanguage
English: write will do, speaking is easyer
French : what i learned at school and what i sometimes learn when i have a french client in the store
German : a few words

greetz katie

querty · Post by **querty** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 1:02 pm

Dakkus wrote:
Aaron wrote:
Asiamaniac wrote:Indonesian: University and frequent trips and stays to that country
Malaysian: Quite the equivalent to Indonesian. --
But there are several languages in those countries.
So does Finland. But still there's a language called "Finnish" although also Swedish is talked in Finland. There is a language called "Malaysian", and there's a language called "Indonesian". They speak also other languages in those countries, but Indonesian and Malaysian are names of languages, too

How much languages do they speak in Finland? Do the Sami-people (I think they are called like that) in Lapland have their own language?

airis · Post by **airis** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 8:23 pm

querty wrote: How much languages do they speak in Finland? Do the Sami-people (I think they are called like that) in Lapland have their own language?

FINNISH 4,700,000 in Finland, 93.5% of population

SWEDISH: 296,000 in Finland, 5.7% of population

Three Sami languages are spoken in Northern Lapland (Enontekiö, Inari, Utsjoki and Sodankylä municipalies) :

SAAMI, NORTHERN 2,000 speakers (Inari, Utsjoki, Enontekiö and Sodankylä)
SAAMI, SKOLT 300 speakers (Inari)
SAAMI, INARI 250 speakers (Inari)

KARELIAN 10 000 speakers

More information and maps: Sami in Finland

ellinoora · Post by **ellinoora** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:13 pm

querty wrote:
Dakkus wrote:Woman: Well.. Can speak to people speaking that language but can't understand what they're talking about.
Until now nobody has criticised this. Maybe there aren't many woman on this forum. Or maybe they all agree.

Woman: It's quite hard for us females too

, but fortunately this language is international. As you once learn it, you won't forget it..
Finnish: Mother tongue
Swedish: Speak and write, not as well as mother tongue, but i'll manage with this language
English: Speak and write, not as well as mother tongue, but i'll manage with this language
German: "Ein Bier, bitte" -level

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:56 pm

Dutch: Born there
English: Learned at school at needing for my job
Italian: living here
German: Living Norther Italy (South.Tyrol) where common Language is German
French / Spanish: Those words u need on holliday

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 10:38 pm

Dutch: Mother language
English: 6 years at school
French: 4 years at school
German: 3 years at school
Italian: only vacation words
Finnish: only the word 'paska' (= shit)

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 3:07 pm

Elmo wrote:Dutch: Mother language
English: 6 years at school
French: 4 years at school
German: 3 years at school
Italian: only vacation words
Finnish: only the word 'paska' (= shit) :lol:

kakka = poo
Happy now?-)

BossaNova · Post by **BossaNova** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 10:44 pm

Dakkus wrote: kakka = poo
Happy now?-)

we also have that word in portuguese and it means exactly the same, only we write caca.. but I imagine the sound is just the same..

caca is very international..

bn

groentje · Post by **groentje** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:33 pm

Dutch: native language
French: should be quite good, as I'll be teaching it

English: same here, only I won't be teaching it.
German: speak and read it, but not without difficulty.
Latin: same as French, but I'll have to improve it, the coming three years...
Ancient Greek: fading away, but still not completely gone.
Italian: I can order a loaf of bread in Italian, can read it without many problems (Latin)

Languages I'm fascinated by: Finnish, Gaelic, Turkish, Arab, Portugese. Can't understand much of it, though.

Fundamental · Post by **Fundamental** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:51 pm

Finnish
English
Swedish

I also learned some spanish when I was there but not much..

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 2:11 pm

Finnish - native
English - pretty good
German - sufficient, trying to learn more
Swedish - about the same as German, but I use it quite rarely

lmviterbo · Post by **lmviterbo** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:30 am

Portuguese - mother language
English - main international language for me, written as well as spoken
Italian - getting a little rusty now, but I used to speak/write/read almost as well as English
Spanish - like most Portuguese people, understand most of it spoken, read everything even poetry and Don Quijote, speak a little mixing with a lot of funny-accented Portuguese and some Italian, write the same
French - reading not bad, listening a little hard, speaking enough for any not profound conversation, writing a little hard

And now some languages of which I know some dozen words and idioms:
German
Latin
Ancient Greek

And some more I know just a few words of:
Vietnamese
Dutch
Cape Verde Creole
Russian
Czech
Arab (but this one I can't read...

)

Some other languages I can read with pretty understandble accent, although I have no idea what it means:
Finnish
Slovak
Polish
Hungarian

certo · Post by **certo** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:24 pm

German: It's my mother language. My mothers family is French and Italian descent, but German speaking since more than 150 years.
English: I can read, write, speak and understand well
Danish: Almost the same level like English
Swedish and Norwegian Due to Danish, I can read and understand them... whith some phantasy

French: I had it at school, but I didn't learnt so much, so my level is very awful.
Spanish: I guess I can read it better than French. I had Latin at school

Arabic: I can write it, so I'm not illiterate

But don't ask me, what all the words are meaning. Anyway this is a very beautiful language.
Turkish: I learned a little at school (course for half a year), but only know some phrases.

There were also friends, who tried to teach me languages like Euskera, Catalonian, Italian, Portugese, Polish, Russian, Korean, Thai, Kisuaheli and Hebrew, but except of the romanic languages, I have no idea of them

So in fact, I know German, English and Danish well and have basic knowledge in some other languages.

certo · Post by **certo** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:44 pm

Chiel wrote:In a few weeks I'm going to study Norwegian, Swedish and Danish at the university of Groningen in the north of the Netherlands.

I did the same almost 20 years ago at the Freie Universität Berlin. My main subject was Danish. It was very interesting. I never bought a dictionary Danish-German or German-Danish in my life. My teacher said, there is no good one, and we don't need it. He was right. I still have my two volumes of the Nudansk ordbog. That's enough, even for translations

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