How many languages do you speak?

[Greenie]

how many languages do u speak?

[Mordecai]

2, okay maybe 3... But my spanish isn't good at all.

[Max4X]

I speak on two languages: Russian and English. Russian is native language. Though i live in Kazakhstan i don't speak kazakh. 50% of my city speak russian (Kazakhstan was in USSR). French is not counted, i speak only primitives phrases( je ma pele Max and etc.).

[MetalicGuy]

2,5...

Swedish
English
Polish - Though.. i can't speak it but i understand everything... (My mother is from poland)

[Ludicrous Maximus]

Seriously, only French and English.

[AlizéeInMYHeart]

well, 3 official languages....

Swedish, Finnish and English

but then there's the swedish slang I use too, where half the words are swedish and half finnish...this would probably not be that much understood if I would go to sweden and talk it :D

so 3 official, and 1 unofficial :P

also I had German in school, but I suck in it :wink:

[Greenie]

MetalicGuy, to fajnie ;)

[DavidAlizée]

so how many languages do you speak Elmo, and what are they?

[Karsten]

I speak Danish and English.
I had German in school, but I can't speak any German anyway.
I'm planning to start learning french later this year.

[UK Fan 2003]

I only speak 2... Français & English... :wink:

[atti]

german (of course :lol: ), english and i learning at the mom finnish ( german friends of my parents lives in finland, but its very hard :? ) and i want to learn japanese (so hard too :cry: )

[Greenie]

DavidAlizée, me? polish, english, lil' BUT A LIL' german n I was studyin' french but... u know I can olny say : bonjour lol maybe somethin' more ;) n I know some latin lol e.g repetitorum mater studiorum est LOL ^^ 8)

[Prometheus]

I guess four: finnish, english swedish and french. Although my swedish is a bit rusty at the moment since I haven't had to use it in more than six months. :P Oh, and a little bit of russian too but just a little.

[Greenie]

Prometheus, wow CONGRATS ^^

[Ludicrous Maximus]

To the people here who are learning or speaking French, can you read the old French part of the Oath of Strasbourg?



: Old French: Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di en avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in aiudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dift, in o quid il mi altresi fazet, et ab Ludher nul plaid numquam prindrai qui meon vol cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.

: Old High German: in godes minna ind in thes christanes folches ind unser bedhero gehaltnissi fon thesemo dage frammordes so fram so mir got geuuizci indi mahd furgibit so haldih thesan minan bruodher soso man mit rehtu sinan bruodher scal in thiu thaz er mig so sama duo indi mit ludheren in nohheiniu thing ne gegango the minan uillon imo ce scadhen uuerdhen

: Old French: Si Lodhuvigs sagrament que son fradre Karlo jurat conservat, et Karlus meos sendra de suo part non lostanit, si jo returnar non l'int pois, ne jo ne neuls cui eo returnar int pois, in nulla aiudha contra Lodhuuvig nun li iv er.

: Old High German: oba karl then eid then er sinemo bruodher ludhuuuige gesuor geleistit indi ludhuuuig min herro then er imo gesuor forbrihchit ob ih inan es iruuenden ne mag noh ih noh thero nohhein then ih es iruuenden mag uuidhar karle imo ce follusti ne uuirdhit


It was written by Charles the Bald and Louis the German when they pledged allegiance to each other against their brother, Lothar.

It is often mentioned as the first text in French as different of Latin. Sometimes, people also say it's the first text in a romance language that's different of Latin.

[Backinblack]

eLmo: For future reference, make the titles of your topics more descriptive so we know what the thread is about. :wink:

As Ludicrous said, the Oath of Strasbourg was the first document written in what would eventually become modern French, compared to the Latin variations being spoken up until that point in France. After two classes on medieval French, I became quite good at reading Old French, but it's been awhile since I looked at it. Besides the Oath of Strasbourg, I've read some of Marie de France's texts in Old French (actually the Anglo-Norman dialect), Villon's poetry (French from the later Middle Ages), and troubadour and trobaritz poetry (in the Provençal dialect which is closer to Spanish or Portuguese than modern French).

If you don't count those as separate languages, then I speak French and English with a little bit of Spanish. One of my university friends speaks the most languages of anyone I know: German, English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Norwegian.

[Alw]

Danish, english and german (german is my fave though!)

[Pawel]

Polish, English, little French, little Russian.


: Old French: Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di en avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in aiudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dift, in o quid il mi altresi fazet, et ab Ludher nul plaid numquam prindrai qui meon vol cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.
Give me a try, here it goes:

For the love of God and for christian people and for our common salvation, to exist further, in which God saves and directs my dunat(?), if I save my brother Charles from cist(?), and in help and in ...blah blah... for the third brother... OK, enough of this nonsense :P


german friends of my parents lives in finland, but its very hard
I heard that there are 14 cases in Finnish - crazy people! :D
Hyvaa huomenta! Tiedatko mika on lammas?

Pozdrowienia dla eLmo, MetalicGuya oraz mamy :wink:

[atti]

I heard that there are 14 cases in Finnish - crazy people! :D
yeah, germany: just 4!

[MetalicGuy]

Lost In Time: Hehe... greetings to you too!

Hmm... well maybe i should practice my polish? :P

[Greenie]

Backinblack, ok I'm sorry :( I will but I thought my topic r more interestin' ... but ok u r a mod :cheesy:

[Greenie]

LostInTime, wow! (jakiej mamy? :o )

[Ig_Softy]

English, French, "Dutch" ^^

French native language, English from school but i've learned the rest myself lol
Dutch from school, only understand, speak this language, hum, maybe but too long to think how i have to build the sentence lol

And learn Jap this vacation (try to learn :) )

[Manu]

Asturian, Spanish and English, but I think I need to improve my English more :P

I can understand most words in the text written in old French and posted by Ludicrous. Actually, it is not very difficult to understand a language if it comes from Latin, when you speak a Romance language.

[tern]

English and the tiniest little bit of Spanish.

[Zeka]

I speak Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian (all the same anyway,like English,American and Australian language :mrgreen: ),English and some basic French.I used to study Latin before,but it was just for one year and it was long time ago,didn't like it anyway.
So I guess I know 5 different languages with cheating :cheesy: ,and only 3 without cheating (for real).Not bad,ha?One more and I will catch up with your friend,Backinblack :lol:

[Greenie]

Zeka WOW :cheesy: 8)

[Zeka]

I know,honey,I know... :rasta: :afro: He he,sorry but my ego just striked through the roof :prop: :boff:
(for me from me: :wub: )

(Ok,now I will :shutup: :thumbdown: )

[Greenie]

:arrow: Zeka, yeahhh... :roll: :afro: :bounce: :cheesy:

[Tyza]

I only speak german and english. :|

[AlizéeInMYHeart]

oki... I'll add Norwegian and Danish to mine :P

I can't speak them, but I almost fully understand to read it :P

then I have been starting to take Japanese lessons over internet, but I still suck in that

so I guess that makes it Swedish, Finnish, English + Norwegian, Danish (reading) + Japanese, German studied but almost no understanding in them yet :P

[loff]

spaking; norwegian and english only.
reading/understanding: danish, swedish and some very simple written german. taking french next year, so i can probably add that to the list in 2006.

AlizéeInMYHeart, hvordan har det seg at du fårstår norsk? =) slektninger i norge/annen familie/venner i norge? morsomt å høre, ante ikke at det var andre her, bortsett fra svensker/dansker som forstår meg.

@ others, nothing interesting really, just trying out AlizéeInMYHeart's norwegian skills :P

[AlizéeInMYHeart]

loff, I am "swedish".....I have lived all my life in Finland, but I belong to the 5% minority that has got swedish as their "main" language :D

so I find it quite easy to read norwegian, as it's pretty similar to swedish

so no relatives in norway, not that I know of....but I have a lot of norwegian friends over internet thx to gangsterhood, an online game, and they usually write in norwegian to me on Mirc...so I get my practice....oh, and I got a couple of norwegian TV channels that I watch regularly, so there I read the subtitles all day long too :P

[loff]

fu, i thought you were american for some reason :D

[AlizéeInMYHeart]

hehe....I have noticed that on every forum I am, or in every game I play, people want me to be an american or in some cases a German...they don't even wanna beleive me when I say I'm from Finland....guess I was born in the wrong country :P :mrgreen:

[Alw]

It's just so rofl to listen to someone who speaks norwegian!

[AlizéeInMYHeart]

I think it's more rofl to listen to a Danish guy speaking :P :mrgreen:

[MetalicGuy]

I think it's more rofl to listen to a Danish guy speaking :P :mrgreen:

I agree with that!

[Sert]

English and German...

I also understand a few words of french,norwegian and japanese but not enough to have a real conversation...

[loff]

Sert, do you understand anything of what i said? :P

haha awl ! win ! 3v1 ! =)

[Zoomer]

Just English and French (although my French is by no means fluent - just good enough to get by...)

I hope to pick up more french - as my vocab/understanding/listening is vastly inferior to how it used to be. Then again, 10 years of not speaking/reading/writing it can have that affect. I could say that I speak German - after taking classes for 2 years... BUT - the test: Stick me in Germany, and I would have no hope of living without any aid/books etc. At least I can say with confidence that I could in France :)

(by the way, how many actually speak the languages you mention well enough to live unaided in that country? Cause I get the feeling some will mention languages as being 'spoken' by them, when they mean they know a handful of words only).

What gets me is how flippin excellent every other countries English is!

[loff]

english is the #1 language for international communication imo :) i think i could live unaided in england/the us/other similar english speaking country. atleast i could if writing was what you were doing. the way i pronounce words isn't exactly the best (well, actually it sucks big time :D), but it should be understandable.

[Ludicrous Maximus]

I can follow an historical debate over Richard I and Philip II sexual life in English with an Australian so I assume I can speak English.

French is my 1st language, so I bet I'm ok in.

[tern]

the way i pronounce words isn't exactly the best


The Nowegian accent when speaking English is :lol: .

Ludicrous you type great English, you could fool me.

[MetalicGuy]

the way i pronounce words isn't exactly the best


The Nowegian accent when speaking English is :lol: .

Ludicrous you type great English, you could fool me.

Then you haven't heard mine... lol :lol:

[Steve]

All I speak is English, a little Japanese, Maori (the native tongue to New Zealand) and ja chcę na rolki ;)

[Greenie]

steveNZ, wiesz... ja tez cem ^^ choćmy rozem :cheesy: :cheesy:

[esceka]

Dutch, English, French, German, Latin and ancient Greek. But I don't speak French and Latin and ancient Greek fluently. I can have a conversation and I understand people or I can read it. But I don't speak it fluently, tough my French is getting better and better:)

[Greenie]

esceka, :surprise: congrats

[Ayan]

I speak a couple of random languages, I can also understand some others almost completly yet cannot speak them myself. However, if I could, I would change all my knowledge of these languages to the possibility of being completly fluent in French, the most kickass language ever.

[Starski]

Swiss German, German, French, English and Spanish....well I also hat lessons in Italian and some weeks Russian.

[Piece Of Paradise]

Just 2. English and Mandarin, but I have to say my mandarin speaking skills are starting to fall apart, as I speak English most of the time.

[blueslover]

how many languages do u speak?
Salut everybody!
Wo! I guess I have outnumbered you guyz out here. I am not tyring to blow my own trumpet. Well honestly, I am acquainted with 7 languages. Yo! That's right...But don't freak out. Out of them 4 are Indian Languages and 3 are foreign. You must be knowing that any Indian on an average can speak 2 languages, one is Hindi (Official Language) and the other is their mother tongue.
So here is my list:
--->Telugu (My mother tongue)
--->Hindi (National Language)
--->Urdu (This is the language mostly spoken by Muslims in India and this language is spoken by quite a few in my city)
---> Sanskrit (No doubt you must have heard about this language...All the prayers in my school were recited in Sanskrit and I have also taken up this language as a course in my high school)
--->English (Do I know English????)
---> Farsi ('Coz I have stayed in Iran for 11 years)
--->German (a lil' bit...my neighbours were Germans)

phew! There's my list. Now I am trying to learn Spanish. I can speak a few phrases. But you know what, I can't speak a word of French. I wish I could. I am so eager to learn this language. But I have no clue if it will ever chance me to learn French. Despite all these, I am a DIE HARD FAN OF OUR BELOVED ALIZEE...ha ha! But anyways, I am looking forward to befriend any French who knows a bit of English and is a fan of Alizee.
So, Au Revoir Guyz!

[Piece Of Paradise]

My guess is that you are from North India, because you don't speak Tamil. But 4 Indian languages is quite a mean feat.

[blueslover]

My guess is that you are from North India, because you don't speak Tamil. But 4 Indian languages is quite a mean feat.

Ha Ha! Danke! But the fact is that I am a South Indian. Telugu is spoken in a state in South India (Andhra Pradesh). Right now, I am studying in a University (IIT- Kharagpur) which is in West Bengal, Eastern Part of India. But you know what, I have never ever ventured to know atleast a few words of Bengali :-(

[Piece Of Paradise]

I am confused, isn't Tamil spoken in South India?

But if you are in West Bengal, don't the people speak Bengali?

[blueslover]

I am confused, isn't Tamil spoken in South India?

But if you are in West Bengal, don't the people speak Bengali?

Well, you must be knowing that there are 5 native South Indian Languages:
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html
1. Tamil (your fav :wink: )
2. Telugu
3. Kannada
4. Malayalam
5. Sanskrit

The first four of them come into a category of languages which is popularly known as "Dravidian Languages".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages

Ya, I am staying in West Bengal, but I never felt the need to talk in Bengali. There are students from all over the country. So, mostly I manage with Hindi and English as well, as long as I am in the University. But yea, everyone can speak Hindi, so that isn't a big deal as such.

[Piece Of Paradise]

Okay thanks for clearing that up for me. :D

[tern]

Just 2. English and Mandarin, but I have to say my mandarin speaking skills are starting to fall apart, as I speak English most of the time.

Are you in Singapore right now? I know a lot of people there do but I didn't know it was a major daily thing.


@Blueslover

That's quite a list.

[staos]

I can speak english and taiwanese. I can also understand alittle bit of mandarin but only when I hear it; i suck at speaking mandarin. I'm what my parents call a disgraceful chinese (aka ABC). haha
I also took 2 years of japanese so i have a little of that too.

[gaston_alizee]

I speak Arabic, French, ans English. I think later, I'll study Spanish.

[Franka]

I can speak Chinese and English. I understand Taiwanese but I can't speak it fluently. I want to learn French and Cantonese at high school.

[Karsten]

It's just so rofl to listen to someone who speaks norwegian!
I agree.
Norwegian is just a "Wannabe Danish" language :)

[krazykanadian]

For those of who can speak French, feel free to participate in the French section. We are always looking for more people.

[Ned]

I speak two: romanian, ofc, and english.

[Rlyeh]

:arrow: Que qué idiomas hablo?, pues un poquito de éste, un poquito de aquello, ya saben lo más básico de todo.... :lol:

hablo un poquito de chilango, norteño, pocho (pa' los cuates!) y de pueblo (ya saben por la familia...jaja)

I speak fluently English and my native idiom (Spanish), but I got to practice my English frecuently 'cause it's getting rusty.

[senelgor]

:cry: I can only speak English here. I was going to take Japanese but ultimately, screwed myself over in school and tried to drop out for some unfathomable reason. Then I tried to again earlier this year. So now its a struggle for me to survive as it is. :?

Then I found Alizée and Japanese turned to French, and dropping out turned to graduating. :wink:

Though I wouldnt mind still taking Japanese, Im not sure if I could keep 3 languages straight and in my head. :P

[blueslover]

Then I found Alizée and Japanese turned to French, and dropping out turned to graduating. :wink:


Yo senelgor Yo!!!

[britkit]

Almost three I can speak french, english and italian. I am currently teaching myself german. and as for dialects I can speak both standard and breton french.

[Ludicrous Maximus]

Almost three I can speak french, english and italian. I am currently teaching myself german. and as for dialects I can speak both standard and breton french.

Breton French? It's not exactly a dialect, it's a Celtic language and is very different of French. If you can understand it then you're very good because I can't (and my mother is Breton), it might be interesting to learn though, as Britons and Cornish are now dead languages it might be the closest language at the moment of the one that Arthur, Lancelot, Galahad and the gang spoke.

[britkit]

kept trough my family. I was raised speaking it. then again, nothing in the Azoulai family is normal. we are a bunch of french jews from egypt. lmao, c'est la vie! I could help you some time if you'd like. I'm better with speaking it then spelling.

[Ludicrous Maximus]

Well, I was raised in a French mixed family. With family from Brittany, Burgundy, Normandy and Gascony, but everyone speak standard French there only are differences of accents.

[dana007]

i speak romanian (my language), english, french, spanish and a little portuguese

[Ned]

So you are a polyglot, dana007! I see!
I like portuguese, you now.

[dana007]

i don't speek them very well
you can see that i have sometimes some mistakes at writing...

[Ned]

But it's important that you speak them. And with the time you'll speak them better, due to the daily practice.

[dana007]

i hope so
but i can't practice them every day..i only speek them at school

[dana007]

omg
i saw your profile and there sais: Bucharest - petit Paris
do you live in the same city like like me?

[Ned]

Yes I do, girl! OMG now you know, and I've got nowhere to hide now! :prop:

[dana007]

tu chiar locuiesti in bucuresti?

[Ned]

Da, dar mai bine sa nu vorbim aici in romaneste ca poate se supara moderatorii. ;)

Yes but we better not speak in romanian here or we'll upset the moderators.

[dana007]

:) super
Message too short.

[Ned]

Yes I know! Feel free to contact me anytime you want, via Yahoo.

[Bondius]

Well, I speak Romanian (duh), English (very well) and some French (just a bit ... I can understand it but the talking part is harder).

I might not be the brightest pea in the pod but at least I speak more than 1 language :wink:

[Ange]

I know

English

Patois

Russian

French

Spanish

Dutch

and
Italian

[crydamoure]

Speaking: Dutch, German, English
Reading: French, Spanish, Latin, Greek

Though my Latin/Greek skills are rapidly fading, as I don't need them and never do anything with it. But except for Spanish this is what almost everybody gets at school in the Netherlands. 8)

[Shibby]

Polish ..... ++++++
English ... ++++
German .. ++

:)

[PayBays]

Reading:

French
English
Dutch
Germany

Speaking:

Dutch
English
Germany
French ( a little bit )

[croolik]

Reading:
Polish
French
English
Italian
Spanish

Speaking:
Polish
French
English

[PayBays]

you're really good Croolik!You want to be a translator later?

[grnick]

- Greek (my native language)
- French (very well, almost fine)
- English (just good, but sometimes I can't form sentences or I don't understand some parts of what people say)
- Italian (some words and phrases)

[DavidAlizée]

Speaking: Dutch, German, English
Reading: French, Spanish, Latin, Greek

Though my Latin/Greek skills are rapidly fading, as I don't need them and never do anything with it. But except for Spanish this is what almost everybody gets at school in the Netherlands. 8)

can you tell me, what is the best audio, book or learning material to learn latin? speaking and reading.. I really need to know this, very soon. I want to start now, rather than next year. Any help would be great!!

[Le Fidèle]

today, this lady came up to me at work with a complaint about her order, it was obvious that she was not from america, but tourist, and i noticed that she spoke with a French Accent, her enligh was soo bad and "Broken up" we were unable to help her because of this. as she walked away i felt really bad.
IT's times like these when i wish i new french,
If i new french, i wouldnt need things translated for me either,
LANGUAGE IS A B**CH!!!!!
if we all spoke the same language alizee would be famouse everywhere!!!! :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:
Any one ever come across the same situation?

[PayBays]

@crydeamoure:

I don't had any Spanish lesson....
We COULD have Spanish lessons,but that ***** from German-class always bombs us with so much tests....

[Le Fidèle]

oops, :oops: :oops: :oops: i accidentaly posted a thread just like this one, good thing some one deleted it. :oops:

well anyways, like i was saying, anyone ever come across a situation where you wished you knew that language.

i was a work and some lady came up to me complaing about her order(food). it was obveouse that she was not from america, but from France because of her accent. her english was soo bad, i couldnt help her and after that i felt really bad, cause she seemed so nice, but yet so lost.
damnit, LANGUAGE IS A B@#CH!!!!!
i wish there was one universal language!!!!!!!

hears a question, Which language is spoken the most around the world? what is considered the universal language of Business? if you answer those right......i'll give you a smiley. :cheesy: <= theres one already for free...the next one will cost you...........

[Takran]

My guesses: Spanish most spoken, English universal language of business.

I speak one language, would like to add French to that though.

[PayBays]

My guesses: Spanish most spoken, English universal language of business.

I speak one language, would like to add French to that though.


No...the most spoken is Chinese

Remember..... 1.2 Billion ( lol we call it "Miljard" ) people

[AlizéeInMYHeart]

Mandarin Chinese is most spoken I think....

[Snatcher42]

oops, :oops: :oops: :oops: i accidentaly posted a thread just like this one, good thing some one deleted it. :oops:
Not deleted, merged (two threads joined into one). Look up a bit on this page... your original post is there.

[PayBays]

Mandarin Chinese is most spoken I think....

Correct...i was looking up to a file where says how many people have spoken which language!

But this shocked me...

http://www.educ.state.ak.us/tls/frameworks/wrldlang/image8.gif

It's about American classes,in 1996 and about the world there

Here you can see World Language

http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/world-languages-map.gif


It's to big to post.But We,Netherlands and Belgium,don't belong to German Language

We have a slight difference between German and Dutch language


And this.........

What can i say about it.............

It has nothing to do with languages........but with this forum.... :oops: :wub:

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8994/cxvxcvxxcv5kn.gif

[Greenie]

PayBays, hahaha it's funny :P:P:P

[350km/h_no_problem]

the languages i can speak:

ROMANIAN(don`t ask why?!?!)
ENGLISH(very well...i think)
FRENCH(not so well...i must admit it)
ITALIAN(romanian language is very similar to italian one....it`s like latin to italian)

[AlizéeInMYHeart]

the language I speak most fluently has to be the "Bullshit" language.... :roll:

[D13U]

Just English and French, still learning French.. so I'm not entirely fluent. I've also just begun learning a little Spanish, not enough to keep up a full conversation yet, though.

[DavidAlizée]

the language I speak most fluently has to be the "Bullshit" language.... :roll:

hehehe, i guess we were in the same class? 8)

[lumines67]

geeze, you Europeans speak so many languages, i feel like a dumb american :cry:


I'm learning spanish right now. I live in Arizona, which is right on top of mexico, so i get to practice daily at my highschool. There's a ton of kids here that cannot speak a word of english, so i try to converse with them with my little spanish. Like today in my computer class, this girl was so confused and had never seen a computer before. I helped her log on and get on the internet, and she showed me a map of Honduras and her hometown, and we had this weird conversation, which consisted of my amatuer spanish and her nodding or shaking her head :shock:


I eventually want to learn spanish and french, i wanna think in English, pray in spanish, and listen to Alizée in French :cheesy:

[FiEsTa]

Turkish, English, German and a bit french for now
4

[higa323]

English(pri)Chinese Japanese Spanish learning french only cause of alizee music 8)

[Roberto]

1: dutch (heel goed)
2: english (not too bad)
3: french (un petite peut)
4: german (auch ein klein bisschen)
5: the language of love ;-)

[atti]

5: the language of love ;-)
hahaha thats great :P

[Achilles]

English(pri)Chinese Japanese Spanish learning french only cause of alizee music 8)
Great!you can speak so many languages,would you mind telling me which country you come from?You 've learned Chinese ?
你好啊，欢迎你来中国，可能的话，希望能和你交朋友

[Achilles]

My motherlanguage is Chinese,I can also speak some English(very bad,though I can type some English here),and because of Alizee,I 'm studying French now myself.I save one hour each day for learning . Yeah,it's so difficult that I almost rather to give up sometime,though French has many common things with English.

[Franka]

yeah, higa323, where are you from? You can speak Chinese?! That's great!!!

And Achilles, which city do you come from? Because I am going to Beijing in August, and I've been to China many times. Just wondering :wink:

[tern]

English Language for teh win. o/

[PayBays]

I think you have to know English

it's world language.

[Le Fidèle]

very true PayBays, !!!!!!at least, thats the business language, you want things done, you need to speek english. i hoping, that the english language will take the world by storm, and soon within 3 decades, every one will speak english!!!!!!!muahahahhahahahahaahha!

[BerndPfe]

I speak : German (native language)
English (as a learnt language 1st degree, i think very fluent)
French (as a learnt language 2nd degree, not as perfect, but Alizée
would understand me at least 8) - and vice versa.
Dutch (just for fun, caused by a ancient fandom to a belgian artist and
also in use here at the forum recently, very slow)



Bernd
:mrgreen:

P.S. Blueslover : your aniGIF Signature is beautiful! Alizee is an angel
with these stripes around her neck.

[mtmckinley]

I *wish* I could speak French or at least understand it. I'm afraid I'm a dumb English-only American. :cry: Lousy American school system! I took one year of Spanish in highschool, but pretty much lost all of it.

[yingying]

of cause i can speak very excellent chinese,my writing skills is very good .

also english ,though my english skill is not as good as chiese,but it is good enough to communite with a ameracian .ha ha

i can only read french ,also i can understand the meaning of french .but i can not write french .the french grammer is very complex.

also i can not follow the french,the french people speaks so fast .i only can read the passags of french ,,,,

[Nestonia]

estonian... english... little bit russian... and sometimes i understand even finnish :D

[xWindwalkerx]

Let see.

1. Korean (Can't Write it :( ).
2. English (Read and Write :D . ) .
3. Learning Spanish ( Hola, Como estas? Tu quiera puta?).
4. Small phrases of umm, Deustch. umm, ...French (Je ma palle uh... ya.) ...

[Henrik]

Swedish, english, norwegian(Almost like Swedish and I live close to Norway) and a little spanish but I have almost forgotten everything now, it has gone 3 years since I studied spanish. Now I almost know french better thanks to Alizée :cheesy:

[RMJ]

Finnish - Fluent
English - Not too bad?

Swedish - Well... I passed the Swedish classes at high school... with lowest possible grades. :P
Japanese - Started studying this recently. Can read and write katakanas/hiraganas (not kanjis). And of course can speak some.
French - Well... I haven't had time to study this yet but I have learned to read it. Can understand small texts, altho, don't know many words yet. Understand basic grammar. Can't write nor speak.

Norwegian - Understand it as much as Swedish.. So very little. Friends lived there some years so I heard it time to time.
Estonian - Well... As this is very close to Finnish, I can understand it somewhat. But problem is words that looks similar as in Finnish but doesn't mean same thing.

[dana0_7]

I speek Romanian (dohhh), English and French. I understand Spanish and i also know reading in Spanish, but i don't know writing it right... I also took clases of Portugues, but not enough to speek it well...

[staos]

1 English - Fluently
2 Taiwanese - I can sort of speak it but only the basics to get around
3 Mandarin - Same but not as as well. Can't write except maybe a few words.
4 Japanese - Only took two short semesters. I can write Hiragana and Katakana, and I can only understand very few words.
5 Spanish - heh Only indecent words.

[quentin lee]

I speak english, french, code and eLmo.

[Arreat]

I speak: Deustche(Germany),Espanol(Spanish), English...
And native-Polish :D
Germany--eee
I say for german none too well...
Spanish-i study SPANISH :D
English-too study....
NATIVE-ALWAYS STUDY :D

[PayBays]

In the couple of months here,and with so much conversation with my Deutsche freunden i'm very positive changed into the German language

1.Dutch ( omg if i didn't knew this i couldn't follow school )
2.English
3.German ( almost very good now,thanks to Venus :oops: )
4.French
5.Language D'Amour ( i'm expecting comments on this )

[RMJ]

4.French
5.Language D'Amour ( i'm expecting comments on this )
Well... You'll get your comment. You listed French twice. :P

[quentin lee]

4.French
5.Language D'Amour ( i'm expecting comments on this )
Well... You'll get your comment. You listed French twice. :P

computer monitor and naughty websites arent considered a language... =)

[PayBays]

4.French
5.Language D'Amour ( i'm expecting comments on this )
Well... You'll get your comment. You listed French twice. :P

computer monitor and naughty websites arent considered a language... =)

OMG!




4.French
5.Language D'Amour ( i'm expecting comments on this )
Well... You'll get your comment. You listed French twice. :P

haha you weren't the person i though that would react :wink:

[Ekasra]

4, English, Dutch, French and Nord

[RMJ]

computer monitor and naughty websites arent considered a language... =)
:cheesy:





4.French
5.Language D'Amour ( i'm expecting comments on this )
Well... You'll get your comment. You listed French twice. :P

haha you weren't the person i though that would react :wink:
Quite likely but I was faster. :)

[Nestonia]

i can´t speak but i can read little bit javascript language

[gaston_alizee]

Ah yes, I forgot! I can read HTML language too!

[vonstar]

i can´t speak but i can read little bit javascript language

:mrgreen:

for me, english, a bit of spanish(3 years in HS), java, c++, html, VB, SQL. lol.

[YCZ]

2 lanuages,
Mandrian
English
plan to speak at least 4 lanuages in my life, French of course, but it's too late to start now in high school so got to wait till univercity.

[Señor Villa]

I speak English and Spanish fluently. I speak some French but I am better at reading it.

[maxt23]

It's impossible to read.

:roll:

[Le Fidèle]

i can read german pretty good now :wink:

but sometimes i still need help (Atti) :cheesy:



but my oral skills are just plane garbage! speaking and reading are two different things!!! :shock:

[Nestonia]

smbdy here can "speak" gesture language ?

[Le Fidèle]

i know one sign of signlanguage. . . . . :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


btw, isnt signlanguage universal?

[Señor Villa]

I had classes in Spanish,French, and German. I did really good in Spanish and French but German I struggled a little. I wish I knew more languages.

[RMJ]

btw, isnt signlanguage universal?
There's many variations of it, too.

But there's one standardized universal language. Not everyone speak it, tho.

[Bizz]

I Speek two languages

French canadian And French Of france :P

[Nestonia]

i can´t read but i can read music language... piano language, i mean notes... :D

[Ekasra]

i can´t read but i can read music language... piano language, i mean notes... :D

Nestonia, who is the girl in your signature btw?

[YCZ]

i can´t read but i can read music language... piano language, i mean notes... :D

Nestonia, who is the girl in your signature btw?
i also wanted to ask that, looks like a 50's model.(just a guess)

[Nestonia]

i can´t read but i can read music language... piano language, i mean notes... :D

Nestonia, who is the girl in your signature btw?

Twiggy, one of the most famous model from 60´s

she is know as first supermodel

[YCZ]

i can´t read but i can read music language... piano language, i mean notes... :D

Nestonia, who is the girl in your signature btw?

Twiggy, one of the most famous model from 60´s

she is know as first supermodel
so i was off by 10 years, well close enough.

[Nestonia]

i can´t read but i can read music language... piano language, i mean notes... :D

Nestonia, who is the girl in your signature btw?

Twiggy, one of the most famous model from 60´s

she is know as first supermodel
so i was off by 10 years, well close enough.

lol, 50´s and 60´s are different as you and eLmo :cheesy:

[Kyoshiro]

I too speak only two languages... Finnish and English.
My dream is that someday i could speak Japanese, and maybe little bit French too :D (but i've heard its extremely difficult for finnish people to learn :roll: )

[Adi King]

I speak 3 languages english, finland and a bit russian too.

[fallenONE]

English, Chinese, Spanish.

Gonna take French 1 next year :cheesy:

[Le Fidèle]

LMAO, why is it important to know how to speak spanish, in california, new mexico, arizona, and texas?

hummm.. . . . i wounder :?

[Draven]

well, I speak finnish, english and a little bit swedish..

[gourmandises12]

i speak dutch and english and a litle bit french an german

[Nestonia]

I speak 3 languages english, finland and a bit russian too.

Lol, typical estonian! :cheesy:

[RMJ]

I speak 3 languages english, finland and a bit russian too.

Lol, typical estonian! :cheesy:
Typical Estonian doesn't speak Estonia ? Sounds more atypical than typical to me.

[jayjayboo08]

Hmm well i speak English and Tagalog..and a bit of french because im taking classes...and would like to atleast speak french fluently :cheesy:

[revil]

i speak English and Greek.

[Nestonia]

I speak 3 languages english, finland and a bit russian too.

Lol, typical estonian! :cheesy:
Typical Estonian doesn't speak Estonia ? Sounds more atypical than typical to me.

I ment english, finnish and russian... why should someone who´s native language is estonian post that he/she speaks estonian!? :what:

[RMJ]

I ment english, finnish and russian... why should someone who´s native language is estonian post that he/she speaks estonian!? :what:
Because the topic askes it ? And maybe because everyone else has done it, too ? And if you don't say what's your native language is, how can people know it's that ? Not every country has it's own language and some has many...

I bet 90% of the people doesn't know what is Estonia's official language. Their best guess would be Russian (assuming that they knows where the Estonia is located) or some germanic language.

[Bizz]

I Speak french only !

[AimLXJ]

I Speak french only !

Then why are you here? and your speaking English :roll:

[Nestonia]

I ment english, finnish and russian... why should someone who´s native language is estonian post that he/she speaks estonian!? :what:
Because the topic askes it ? And maybe because everyone else has done it, too ? And if you don't say what's your native language is, how can people know it's that ? Not every country has it's own language and some has many...

I bet 90% of the people doesn't know what is Estonia's official language. Their best guess would be Russian (assuming that they knows where the Estonia is located) or some germanic language.

Of course RMJ, everything have to be so perfect... god dammit! sa oled ikka eriline tra

[Bizz]

I ment english, finnish and russian... why should someone who´s native language is estonian post that he/she speaks estonian!? :what:
Because the topic askes it ? And maybe because everyone else has done it, too ? And if you don't say what's your native language is, how can people know it's that ? Not every country has it's own language and some has many...

I bet 90% of the people doesn't know what is Estonia's official language. Their best guess would be Russian (assuming that they knows where the Estonia is located) or some germanic language.

Of course RMJ, everything have to be so perfect... god dammit! sa oled ikka eriline tra

yes you right

Stop Be a fanatic fan Rmj

Crisse de tabarnack Stasser Fifage a la francaise ! Battar

[RMJ]

Stop Be a fanatic fan Rmj
LOL :lol:

Like it's something you can choose to be... You either are or you are not. It's not your to decide.

Beside, what the hell does me being fan of Alizée have to do with this toppic ? This is about languages what we can speak, not about Alizée.


And Nestonia, if you want to start insulting then atleast do it in language that everyone can understand. Otherwise you are insulting them.

As well as Bizz...

[Bizz]

Dunno I never read .

[Señor Villa]

I puedo parle Inglés, Spanish, a peu French.

[Nestonia]

Stop Be a fanatic fan Rmj
LOL :lol:

Like it's something you can choose to be... You either are or you are not. It's not your to decide.

Beside, what the hell does me being fan of Alizée have to do with this toppic ? This is about languages what we can speak, not about Alizée.


And Nestonia, if you want to start insulting then atleast do it in language that everyone can understand. Otherwise you are insulting them.

As well as Bizz...

I´m not insulting anyone, did i insult you, so sad, cos it was ment so... and yea, i´m doing it in my language, cos i´m not going to get a warning! And at the moment we´re not talkin´about languges anymore, are we? I´m not waiting for answer.

[Señor Villa]

Terre Nestonia,

Kas te räägite hispáania keelt?
I am the new Estonian moderator 8)
Tänan väga Snatcher42.

[Nestonia]

Terre Nestonia,

Kas te räägite hispáania keelt?
I am the new Estonian moderator 8)
Tänan väga Snatcher42.

Spanish, nope, sry!

[stefanie]

Chinese & English
a little Japanese........

[loff]

I stick to norwegian and english.. but swedish and, to a degree, danish is understandable.

[Ekasra]

I Speak french only !

Then why are you here? and your speaking English :roll:

he's actually speaking Bizz, theres a huge difference

[Nestonia]

I Speak french only !

Then why are you here? and your speaking English :roll:

he's actually speaking Bizz, theres a huge difference

We´re calling it as engrish!

[Bizz]

I Speak french only !

Then why are you here? and your speaking English :roll:

he's actually speaking Bizz, theres a huge difference

We´re calling it as engrish!

no frenglish

[Nestonia]

I Speak french only !

Then why are you here? and your speaking English :roll:

he's actually speaking Bizz, theres a huge difference

We´re calling it as engrish!

no frenglish

Lol, yeah! :D

[Excellence knows no age]

funny thing is that I am active in three languages on this forum (english, dutch, français), but if I am in France (and I would meet Alizée) I would not be able to have a conversation ... it is so much harder to understand and talk a language than to read and write it ... while using a dozen of internet dictionaries! :cheesy:

btw Nestonia how did you learn Finnish?!

[Bizz]

funny thing is that I am active in three languages on this forum (english, dutch, français), but if I am in France (and I would meet Alizée) I would not be able to have a conversation ... it is so much harder to understand and talk a language than to read and write it ... while using a dozen of internet dictionaries! :cheesy:


oh yeah that is true !

But your french become really good whan you post in the french section

continue !

[Ekasra]

funny thing is that I am active in three languages on this forum (english, dutch, français), but if I am in France (and I would meet Alizée) I would not be able to have a conversation ... it is so much harder to understand and talk a language than to read and write it ... while using a dozen of internet dictionaries! :cheesy:


oh yeah that is true !

But your french become really good whan you post in the french section

continue !

Posting in the english section hasn't helped your english in the past 6 months :P why start now

[Le Fidèle]

answer:



just enough to get my by. . . the soon to be, universal language.


english

[Ekasra]

answer:



just enough to get my by. . . the soon to be, universal language.


english

It already is a universal language, 8/10ths of the worlds countries speak it

[Nestonia]

funny thing is that I am active in three languages on this forum (english, dutch, français), but if I am in France (and I would meet Alizée) I would not be able to have a conversation ... it is so much harder to understand and talk a language than to read and write it ... while using a dozen of internet dictionaries! :cheesy:


oh yeah that is true !

But your french become really good whan you post in the french section

continue !

Posting in the english section hasn't helped your english in the past 6 months :P why start now

Why should he speak perfect english... i understand everything he´s writing here.

[mjatdublin]

Chinese,ofc,my native tongue,and a little bit english,as you see,just a little. :? now im planning to learn french,but i heard its very difficult cause its grammar is pretty complex or obscurity,could someone(espacially who learn it by yourself), tell me more about french and how to learn it? thaks a lot :D

[stefanie]

Chinese,ofc,my native tongue,and a little bit english,as you see,just a little. :? now im planning to learn french,but i heard its very difficult cause its grammar is pretty complex or obscurity,could someone(espacially who learn it by yourself), tell me more about french and how to learn it? thaks a lot :D
the some situation.....
8)

[yingying]

Chinese,ofc,my native tongue,and a little bit english,as you see,just a little. :? now im planning to learn french,but i heard its very difficult cause its grammar is pretty complex or obscurity,could someone(espacially who learn it by yourself), tell me more about french and how to learn it? thaks a lot :D
the some situation.....
8)
YOU should edit it as follow:

the same (NOT some) situation.

[Isa]

deutsch, english a little bit and francais

[uty]

Slovenian, english, german and some ex yugoslavina languages (serbian,croatian...)

[Don't Cry]

Lithuanian & English...and a bit Russian... :roll:

[J[Koo]]

I can speak Finnish, Swedish, English and German

[Hrvoje]

I am learning english, german and french at school

[MightyMaréchal]

lol, good ones people :)

well for me.. its english, some french and spanish, Arabic and Swedish, and liiiitle Japanese and Chinese, but very very liittle :cheesy:

[rka]

Portuguese, English, Spanish, French here i come.


---------- EDIT ----------




Lithuanian & English...and a bit Russian... :roll:

sry doublke post but..Lithuanian = russian???

I got many lithuanian friends that speak perfectly russian


[Posts merged by Moderator.]

[RMJ]

Lithuanian & English...and a bit Russian... :roll:

sry doublke post but..Lithuanian = russian???

I got many lithuanian friends that speak perfectly russian

Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union which official language was Russian (because big part of the SU was Russia).

So it's not big suprise if they still can speak Russian.

[vespaincant]

i speak italian and english...

(RMJ exscuse me for take your image in my sign.....)

[zigabric1]

Well are you planing to take it off too, beacause RMJ made it himself.

[Orion]

oh . . . this doesn't look good . . . you should ask before you do such things vespaincant. ALWAYS, ask first.

[PayBays]

oh . . . this doesn't look good . . . you should ask before you do such things vespaincant. ALWAYS, ask first.

Yes never mess with a Moderator... in case of RMJ you get lucky if he doesn't smack you hard with comments.

I'll pray for you. I hope you will return from the death. But i won't help you

[RMJ]

oh . . . this doesn't look good . . . you should ask before you do such things vespaincant. ALWAYS, ask first.
It's settled in another thread already. :) I promised to make him own sig. :)





oh . . . this doesn't look good . . . you should ask before you do such things vespaincant. ALWAYS, ask first.

Yes never mess with a Moderator... in case of RMJ you get lucky if he doesn't smack you hard with comments.

I'll pray for you. I hope you will return from the death. But i won't help you

:lol:

[Orion]

Hey RMJ, ever since you have become MOD, PayBays has become afraid of you *cough* :lol:

[SWE_Psycho]

Swedish,English and German. In descending order.

My German is very bad though.

[Isa]

please write something in german... then we will see how good or bad your german is ;)

[Lía]

i speak:

french
a bit of spanish
a bit of irish gaelic
i learnt welsh in skool
i am learning bristolian (the language of Bristol!)

so i can say that i speak 3 languages. :D

[SWE_Psycho]

please write something in german... then we will see how good or bad your german is ;)

Ich heisse David, ich wohne in Schweden, ich bin sechstzen Jahre alt.
Meine Deutsch ist slecht aber ich glaube das Sie verstehen mir.

Ja, ich brauchen keine antwortet, ich wissen das meine Deutsch ist über alles.


I BLAME MY TEACHER! (AND SOCIETY)

[narayan]

I can speak Lithuanian and English, understand a bit in Russian, Polish...also learned German for 5 years, but it was more about making fun of teacher than learning so the result is that I didn't understand everything what SWE_Psycho wrote. :cheesy: I tried to learn some Japanese words while watching anime but I've forgot most of them until now. :(

[axxu]

I speak finnish, english and swedish.
I'm not very good in swedish, even though I have studied it alot more than english. It's because I use english every day, and swedish very rarely.

[Henrik]

I speak finnish, english and swedish.
I'm not very good in swedish, even though I have studied it alot more than english. It's because I use english every day, and swedish very rarely.

If you don't speak swedish that well maybe this is you :lol: :wink:
http://rapidshare.de/files/20271747/1608.avi.html

Haha it's damn funny!
Rough translation:
Interviewer: Whats best with the Internet?
long haired finn: Yes, ptju(means nothing) yes, yes, it's actually, yes, yes it is, have eaten soup in. I... Am gay.
Short haired finn: We don't speak so much swedish, we come from Finland

Haha so damn funny :cheesy:

[Azyriel]

only 1 right now but gunna start learning french soon !!

[RMJ]

long haired finn: Yes, ptju(means nothing) yes, yes, it's actually, yes, yes it is, have eaten soup in. I... Am gay.

The guy speaks better Swedish than me. :shock:

[mafqa]

Lite Svenska, some English und ein bißchen Deutsch :shock:

[Le Fidèle]

i swear, i'm stickin to it this time. . .

learning german, and i'll be able to have a a convo. by end of summer, I SWEAR IT!!!! MAUAUAUAHAHAHA

adi i'm gunna need your help again!!! :P

[zigabric1]

I want to learn French, but it will take me at least 5 years to learn. That is a lot of $$$ :shock: . That is a big problem then. I will see. First I need to know how much does it really cost + I need to have time for it.

[Isa]

but you also can learn it for your own... like me.

[zigabric1]

ok HOW :?: :?: :?:

[Przemyslav]

I speak Polish :D English, some German and Russian :) I'm learning Spanish :)

[Hrvoje]

I am learning English, French, and German at school.
I speak Slovence, and Russian a little.

[zigabric1]

Why dont we learn French in school? :cry:

[zeppy]

1. English
2. Ukrainian
3. Russian

Languages I would like to learn:
1. Spanish
2. French


Also, might I add, its quite funny to see some people correcting others English, when they themselves make a mistake while doing so, haha :)

[german_alizee]

i speak 3 languages:
french, english and german. I live in Germany, i have learnt 11 years english, and 4 years french. But I want to live in France in my future, so i need to lern more and more french...but its fun!

[zigabric1]

Do you learn French in school?

[SWE_Psycho]

Why dont we learn French in school? :cry:

Actually in Sweden you can choose to learn it. h4x.

[zigabric1]

Cool. We only have english and german.

[german_alizee]

Do you learn French in school?No, only for myself...or better: with Isa (AF-Member) par telephone

[Julian101]

I speak English, Chinese, and some Spanish.

[Le Fidèle]

so, um.. ..

where did jew jew go?

[Julian101]

where did jew jew go?
lol, what is the jew jew?

[YCZ]

where did jew jew go?
lol, what is the jew jew?
one of our member, but that was too random

[Acer]

when i order from a waitress in korean; they nod, smile, and immediately switch to english... >.<

[mjatdublin]

i can spesk a few kind of dialects :cheesy:

[HumbleHero]

All I can speak is Spanish and English.

[Señor Villa]

I can speak English and Spanish and a little French. I also studied German in 8th grade but most of it I forgot except for the basics.

[Black Star]

I speak fluently english and french and off course romanian , wich is my mother language.More than that , I do speak spanish and german , and also know a few things in japanese.I also know latin , greek and egyptian a little.

[Señor Villa]

I know a little Romanian when I sing O-Zone songs. :roll:

[Black Star]

Really?I can teach you more , if you like!
If you already know either italian or french , then you have one more step to learn romanian also...
These three laguages are very alike.

[Señor Villa]

Black Star, that would be great. I have studied Spanish, French, and German in school. Spanish I can speak well since I lived in Mexico for a year. French I speak a little, I'm better at reading it, and German I forgot a lot since I took that language when I was in primary school. I have always wanted to learn a lot of languages since I travel a lot. I always try to learn the basics before going to a certain country like Greek when I was there in 2005 and Italian when I was in Italy in 2004. I think that is the least a tourist should do before visiting another country to be able to at least say hello, thank you, and so on.

[zigabric1]

Really?I can teach you more , if you like!
If you already know either italian or french , then you have one more step to learn romanian also...
These three laguages are very alike.

Italian and French? :?

[mjatdublin]

I speak fluently english and french and off course romanian , wich is my mother language.More than that , I do speak spanish and german , and also know a few things in japanese.I also know latin , greek and egyptian a little.
are you a translator? :cheesy:

[Señor Villa]

Blackstar, I waiting for my Romanian lesson. :wink:

[AimLXJ]

Ooo, heres a funny lesson for you

A-E-I-Owned-U
:lol:

[Señor Villa]

:lol:

Now that is a lesson I'll never forget. If there are any teachers here, that is a good one to teach our children of the future.

[Black Star]

Senor Villa , we are going to make that lesson in public or through some PM's?

[Señor Villa]

Senor Villa , we are going to make that lesson in public or through some PM's?

We can pm each other, thanks Black Star for taking the time. 8)

[Baraek]

Speaking 3 languages. Estonian, English and little bit Russian. Can speak Russian really bad lol, but i have studied it like 5 years allready and there are many Russian language in my country :roll:

[alizeebest]

I speak Italian (native language), French and English... I want to learn Spanish...it won't be difficult for me because it is "kinda Italian"...

[M_B]

I guess you could say I speak one and a half. I can somewhat understand German, but I can't write it or speak it. English is my primary language, though.

[mjatdublin]

in an english-speaking country,is there any compulsory lesson for foreign languages?

[M_B]

in an english-speaking country,is there any compulsory lesson for foreign languages?In my city you have to have atleast 2 simmesters of a foreign language in highschool to graduate.

[AlphaDevil2]

in an english-speaking country,is there any compulsory lesson for foreign languages?

In England, when I went to school (8 years ago) it was compulsory to study and take a GCSE exam in at least 1 foreign language which was usually French. But now it isn't as brother who is at high school now has dropped all foreign languages.

I feel this is wrong and just highlights how ignorant us english can be.