maybe You should be learning a second language!

[SckizoBoy]

So i guess my question to you guys is
1. Do you live in an area where more then one language is commonly used?
2. Do you know more then one language?
3. If yes, what other language do you speak

Well, seeing as I live in an affluent neighbourhood of north-east London... no, it's all English around here. However, I am fluent in the prestige dialect of Yue (see below). Also fluent (though I can only write in kana) in Japanese, I can get by in German and French, and I can understand Italian, just don't expect to have a coherent conversation with me.

2. Half yes (Cantonese Chinese however I never went to this Chinese speaking school so I can't speak it proerly. At most a few sentences.

At last! Another Cantonese speaker. Gawd... why so many Mandarin speakers?! (Yes, I know why... hell, I started a thread on why...(!))

 

[Evill_Bob]

Starting to learn Spanish. You'd be surprised how many people that live in Kentucky that doesn't understand a word of english. Right after our spanish speaking neighbors that claim to come from Chicago is Korian i think. I only know a hand full of words of Japanese and Chinese, very few of which are flattering, so Asian language recognition is a little weak. Being bilingual is a good idea, everyone should pick up a second language ESPECIALLY THE LANGUAGE OF THE NATION WHERE YOU LIVE. Top reason why I've never visited Japan, Mexico, or Russia.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Well finland is a bilingual country, and your obligated by law to learn english and swedish at school. You also can't get most job without speaking both, and at the very least swedish since 6 % of the population speaks swedish. I've learned English from visiting my father in england, and watching english tv shows, books and from the internet. I learned swedish from school and books, although I'm still learning. And I learned german from living there, although I've forgot most of it and I'm currently learning it back. I'm also trying to find somewhere I can learn latin. I don't know why I just really want to learn latin.

Honestly I coulnd't even imagine what it's like not speaking english.

I plan on learning even more languages through my life because it's something I honestly enjoy doing. And I like having something to brag about.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Unless you count the heavy unintelligible southern drawl, then no not really.

I would love to learn another language, not sure which one. Probably should learn Chinese, kinda want to learn German & Japanese.

 

[Ledan]

I am proudly trilingual but wish i was quad-lingual.
1. I grew up all over the world, and all of them were multilingual. Guinea-Bissau, Belgium, Switzerland, Zambia, Kenya, Sudan. So I've picked up a bit.
2. i know Swedish, French, and English. Learnt in that order.
I wish i could speak portugese, spanish, arabic, and japanese. Oh! and swahili. I guess i should go with spanish first, or portugese, since they are pretty useful.

 

[gertmenkel]

1. No, just Dutch here
2. Yes,
3. Dutch and English

 

[Creator002]

No. I live in Australia and, as such, pretty much every person I've met speaks English to a fairly good degree. Only notable exceptions are my Chinese friend's parents.
I'm quite competent in German. Could probably hold my own for a while in a German speaking country, as long as they slowed their speech down a little. I'm quite good with writing in German though.

 

[JadeWah]

1) Well as said previously in a post, english is pretty common is Sweden.
2) Swedish(can understand Norweigan aswell), English, Hungarian(from my parents), Spanish, German

 

[Move127]

1. Only English
2. Yes
3. Chinese

 

[hermes]

1. No, only Spanish here.
2. Yes.
3. English and some Portuguese.

 

[Boba Frag]

I agree with you completely, but I did find it amusing that you used 'chock' instead of 'chalk'
As in, 'chalk it down' etc.

But like you very fairly said, human error. It happens!

Lazy text speak on forums pisses me off no end. It's like reading something written in dodgy crayon...

Well, shit...

Hell, and I pride myself on damn near flawless grammar. Oh well.

It's the effort that counts! Your grammar is flawless, it was just that particular word. Phrases like that always throw me as regards how they're actually written down.

Example:
Play it be ere

Play it ear

Play it by year

It's the same phrase (like, means wait and see) but for the life of me I have no idea how to spell the damn thing. Maybe it only appears in Britain and Ireland.... (which means I'll never know!!)

 

[hermes]

I am proudly trilingual but wish i was quad-lingual.
1. I grew up all over the world, and all of them were multilingual. Guinea-Bissau, Belgium, Switzerland, Zambia, Kenya, Sudan. So I've picked up a bit.
2. i know Swedish, French, and English. Learnt in that order.
I wish i could speak portugese, spanish, arabic, and japanese. Oh! and swahili. I guess i should go with spanish first, or portugese, since they are pretty useful.

If you know French, Spanish is not that hard... Also, once you learn Spanish, jumping to Portuguese is pretty easy.

 

[Pinkamena]

1. Do you live in an area where more then one language is commonly used?
Nope.

2. Do you know more then one language?
Yes.

3. If yes, what other language do you speak
I can speak English, Norwegian, and Danish fluently.

 

[Nickolai77]

Living and working in Beijing, having a Chinese best friend and studying the language at uni haha.

Ah that figures. My housemates bf is studying Chinese at UCLAN, if you see a small dark haired guy, first name Dom, obsessed with martial arts, then do me a favour and freak him out by telling him Nick say's hi!

 

[Versuvius]

Tried it. German for 5 years, spanish for two. Can't speak a word of either. My brain is awful at retaining a second language.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

1. i live in central scotland and there are a lot of polish people here
2. no, but my mum (a teacher) has had to learn very basic polish to talk to polish parents.
3. none yet, but ive thought about learning french (if i move to Montreal for university)

 

[PatrickXD]

I only speak English. I've studied Spanish for my GCSE's and got an A* but can't remember any of it, and don't particularly want to.
I live in England, so it's all English here. Up until I was about 6, I was fluent in English and Welsh. I'm told that I'd still be fluent in both now but I left Wales at too early an age for it to stick permanantly.

 

[hwarang]

I'm currently living in China teaching English. I'm learning Mandarin (just got enough to get by), it is kinda humbling to be improving kids English when my foreign language at that age (German) was rubbish. They come into the office for help and stuff while I'm getting my Chinese lessons, I'm almost embarrassed.

And yeah, I'm teaching some scary well learned kids who could well take over the world. We have pretty complex jokes and words games in my classes, they are all headed to foreign universities. These guys could take over the world and they know the only way to do well is by learning English.

 

[Fayathon]

It's the effort that counts! Your grammar is flawless, it was just that particular word. Phrases like that always throw me as regards how they're actually written down.

Example:
Play it be ere

Play it ear

Play it by year

It's the same phrase (like, means wait and see) but for the life of me I have no idea how to spell the damn thing. Maybe it only appears in Britain and Ireland.... (which means I'll never know!!)

I'm fairly certain that it's "play it by ear" in regards that you should wait to hear for more information before making a decision. I always thought that was a really common expression, I mean it has been everywhere I've lived. Granted that's all in the States, but my old man was Army, so I did a lot of moving, it seemed to me that that was a fairly universal saying.

 

[newwiseman]

I know English and German. English being my native tongue and German being my grandparents only tongue.

I can also read and write Hiragana and Katakana but I never had the opportunity to actually learn to speak Japanese. I have also memorized the more common Kanji names, pronunciations, and meanings used in Japan. The characters are about the only thing I could get from books while I was in school, and a few basic greetings. It's kind of fun reading a book aloud and being complimented on annunciation by native speakers when I have no idea what I just said.