I speak some Japanese, a number of programming languages, and I feel like I'm talking in another language any time I speak to somebody outside of my industry. Does that count?
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The kanji is a ***** though. Still can't read the newspaper, but I only use 10% of what I know.KingofallCosmos said:
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Though the hiragana and katakana are far easier. And the grammar isn't too bad from Spanish or even German.
(I know English and Japanese)
I can speak Swedish and English, I used to know some basic French, but I've forgotten most of it. I also picked up some Japanese from watching anime, not much though.
English, French, Spanish (Spain spanish, not S. America spanish) and Arabic.
I can also get the general gist from written italian because of its similarity to spanish.
Although I can count to ten, ask for a white coffee, say hello, goodbye, please, thank you and "my darling" in a handful more
I can also get the general gist from written italian because of its similarity to spanish.
Although I can count to ten, ask for a white coffee, say hello, goodbye, please, thank you and "my darling" in a handful more
"Pfft. Another language? I'm American - we don't need to learn another language, 'cause we got every other country learning English just so they can mimic us, the cool kids. Trendsetters, *****!"
Is what I'm tempted to say, but no, unfortunately, I don't know another language. The main reason for this is my own laziness and contentment. When I was younger, I studied both French and Spanish for two years each, and I can't speak either of them fluently. I should be ashamed, but...
Is what I'm tempted to say, but no, unfortunately, I don't know another language. The main reason for this is my own laziness and contentment. When I was younger, I studied both French and Spanish for two years each, and I can't speak either of them fluently. I should be ashamed, but...
I believe you were referring to Ebonics, yes?AMX58 said:
I am from Ireland, I speak fluent English, i'm learning Spanish & Irish in school.
I hate learning Irish & i'm terrible at it but I like Spanish.
I hate learning Irish & i'm terrible at it but I like Spanish.
my native language is Dutch but I also speak English (I actually prefer English over dutch when using electronic devices like phone,s or computers)
Oh. One of these again. I suppose it has been almost a year now... XD
But yeah, I speak multiple languages.
English. Dutch.
German, though not as well.
Also fragments of Japanese.
(And a couple of computer programming languages, which I won't bother mentioning)
That's actually a bad record considering I have over the years been exposed to a lot more than that, and have also spent non-trivial amounts of time learning Indonesian and French...
You'd think having spent about a year learning those two, I would actually remember a word or two of it...
Contrast this to German, which I studied for 3 years or so, where I can understand most of what's being said, and respond in an understandable, if definitely odd manner should it be the only language I have in common with another person...
What's best about learning languages is the subtle things it tells you about a culture though...
But yeah, I speak multiple languages.
English. Dutch.
German, though not as well.
Also fragments of Japanese.
(And a couple of computer programming languages, which I won't bother mentioning)
That's actually a bad record considering I have over the years been exposed to a lot more than that, and have also spent non-trivial amounts of time learning Indonesian and French...
You'd think having spent about a year learning those two, I would actually remember a word or two of it...
Contrast this to German, which I studied for 3 years or so, where I can understand most of what's being said, and respond in an understandable, if definitely odd manner should it be the only language I have in common with another person...
What's best about learning languages is the subtle things it tells you about a culture though...
Whether Flemish is an accent or a separate language I'm not too interested in debating.-Torchedini- said:You should have quoted the guy who said he speaks Flemish.Kargathia said:It's a rather funny question to ask on an international forum. Per definition anyone who doesn't come from one of the English-speaking countries is bilingual.
And to be nice and answer your question:
Fluently: Dutch, English. Dutch being my first.
I can sort of understand: Latin, Old Greek, French, German.
Talk to some linguists and they'll tell you the same =) Would've been helpful though for the Dutch if High German didn't become standard in Germany itself.Talk to some Germans and they'll say Dutch is just a version of German
Why ? Coz if Dutch is a version of German. Flemish isn't a language at all.
Flemish is just butchered dutch
The confusion here seems to stem from the difference between modern German, and Germanic languages as a whole.
Thing is that both Dutch and German are Germanic languages, both descended from a different branch. Dutch, Flemish, Fries, etc are Low-German languages, whereas German as we know it today is actually High-German.
Afraid not. People from Scania usually understand it, from what I've heard, but I'm from Stockholm and up here we can hardly even understand what the Scanes say when they speak with their full dialect. I don't want to spark this discussion here, but to me Danish sounds like random sounds from the back of the throat. I can on rare occations make out a word, but mainly it's jibberish to me. I've heard that Danes have the same problem with Swedish though.HappyTreeFriend said:
