Portuguese
English
French
German
Spanish
and a bit of Dutch
Which languages do you know?
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Titania_eu
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Maybe the combination of the Welsh username "croeso" and "Welsh- a few words". I found that funny.Dakkus wrote:What's there to blush about?croeso wrote:My languages:
Portuguese
English
French
Spanish
Welsh- a few words
But speaking four languages is certainly nothing to be ashamed about. On the contrary.Christian
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- Portuguese at a mother-tongue level
- Quite fluent English
- Average Spanish. I've been unrustying it for the past few weeks
- I can make myself clear in French and Esperanto (and thus Ido too)
- I understand the Cyrillic alphabet, but not any of the languages that use it, which renders my knowledge virtually useless
- With some effort, I can read a text in Italian, Catalan or Interlingua and get the point of it
- I once bought a Greek grammar, but I've put it aside quite some time ago
- And maybe this Summer I'll resume my Swedish learning.
I do know the odd word out, though, like in several other languages.De férias por período indeterminado...
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pepitopulpito
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You're wise, manZé da Silva wrote:Somehow German is still missing in that list, even though my father was born and raised in West Germany, and my mother teaches German at school... When people ask how comes I don't know German, my father says he didn't want to torture me.
- Portuguese at a mother-tongue level
- Quite fluent English
- Average Spanish. I've been unrustying it for the past few weeks
- I can make myself clear in French and Esperanto (and thus Ido too)
- I understand the Cyrillic alphabet, but not any of the languages that use it, which renders my knowledge virtually useless
- With some effort, I can read a text in Italian, Catalan or Interlingua and get the point of it
- I once bought a Greek grammar, but I've put it aside quite some time ago
- And maybe this Summer I'll resume my Swedish learning.
For me...
Spanish
English (Spent one summer studying in Santa Cruz, California) I write/read it every day and I speak it very frequently
French (Spent two summers studying in Nancy and Saint Etienne) It's been a very long time without using it in a continuous way... Today I suffer a lot for writing something en français... But when I try I can speak it fluently and also can read it without problems
Italian... Well, my sister, who lives in Rome, says I have Sicilian Italian, which seems not to be very nice... I learnt it from many Italians that I've met in my life. I can have a conversation in Italian, I can read it without problems but I can't write it
I can understand and read but cannot speak Catalan, Galego, Valenciá... and all the languages spoken in Spain excepting Euskera, which is just like chinese for me...
I can read Portuguese without many problems but I can't understand a conversation (they tend to join all the words)
I had one year of Latin at school but thanks God I erased it all from my memory...
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Dakkus
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No, knowing only cyrillic letters is not useless at all. If you ever go to some country with cyrillic letters, you must be able to read them in order to stay alive. In shops you need to conversate a lot more than in European shops. You can't just point a product, because the product is far away behind the counter. But if you can read the text next to the product, you can just say that and everything will be fine. And try navigating in the metro without understanding the alphabets.Zé da Silva wrote: [*]I understand the Cyrillic alphabet, but not any of the languages that use it, which renders my knowledge virtually useless
Believe me, knowing cyrillic enables you to travel to east. And that is no small thing.
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