Poll: Do you know more than one language?
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Dutch, English pretty much fluent
French, German, Japanese (not much experience in conversation though).
With my Latin knowledge I can get by in Spain and Italy too.
I see a lot of people interested in Japanese. Do it, it's not that difficult, as opposed to chinese or so.
French, German, Japanese (not much experience in conversation though).
With my Latin knowledge I can get by in Spain and Italy too.
I see a lot of people interested in Japanese. Do it, it's not that difficult, as opposed to chinese or so.
Talk to some Germans and they'll say Dutch is just a version of Germangertmenkel said:Ehm... Isn't Flemish just a version of Dutch? Well, if you say it isn't...Coraxian said:
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I can only speak Dutch fluently, but all languages I know at least the basics of:
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin and Greek (ancient Greek that is - not sure why we don't just learn modern Greek. Maybe it proves usefull if I ever go to some Greek temple or something like that.)
Also VB6, VB.NET and a little C++
EDIT: Also, why do so many people around here know Dutch? Are we that important?
EDIT EDIT: I really should try to read better. I'm from the Netherlands.
.Had Latin and ancient Greek for a year in high school and from my experience they help to understand the relationship between different languages. In short: it helps you learn other languages more easily.
Im bilingual, so I speak both swedish and finnish fluetly, and the same goes for my english. I also speak conversational german, although I understand it far better than I speak it myself. Apart from those, I speak a little bit french, a little bit afrikaans and norwegian and danish, to some extent. I usually try to learn the basics of any language I visit or am interested in, but as anyone who speaks swedish, it's not particularily hard for me to understand norwegian or danish.
Not really. 2 years of high school French, 2 years of high school Japanese, and 25 weeks of an intensive Farsi course less than a year ago and I barely remember anything about the languages. I could recite the Farsi alphabet and maybe give a short sentence or two, but I hated Farsi so much that when I was done with it my brain just flushed out all the info I learned. Seriously, no offense to any Iranian that may be on here, but your language is awful to learn. It is the English of the Middle East. Yeah, it's that bad.
Nope. That is unless you count a mostly forgotten 2 years of high school french(which you shouldn't b/c of the 'forgotten' part). Or the curse words I know in different languages.
I wish I knew more. If only so when I'm around my friends families and they start speaking Spanish I know what's going on. I'd settle for just understanding another language.
If I manage to get into the military, I'll try to pick up any language I can(starting where I end up stationed).
edit: *looks at poll results* You multilingual bastards.
[sub]making me look bad T_T[/sub]
I wish I knew more. If only so when I'm around my friends families and they start speaking Spanish I know what's going on. I'd settle for just understanding another language.
If I manage to get into the military, I'll try to pick up any language I can(starting where I end up stationed).
edit: *looks at poll results* You multilingual bastards.
[sub]making me look bad T_T[/sub]
Or just sign up to be an interpreter, then the military will PAY YOU just to learn a language. And yes, Spanish is available. BUT DON'T PICK FARSI. I can't stress enough how much it sucks to learn.Gaiseric said:
I'm from Venezuela (I'd me amazed if someone knows where my country is without the mention of out shitty government), and Spanish is my Native. I learned English from watching Friends with Subtitles, and other shows, like Scrubs. Classes really didn't do much. Zero Punctuation REALLY helped my understanding of spoken English, which is nice
I'd rather pick up something else(I could just start bugging my friends to teach me some). I mean I know plenty of dudes who speak Spanish in the military. Maybe Manderin or Russian? Something that has a higher potential for having less people to speak it(in the military that is). Probably because they're harder to learn.Jack the Potato said:
English, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, a bit of German, Some Swedish, some Norwegian, and a snippet of Latin... Yea I know a lot.. and a bit of some more... I'm a mash up of Faroese and Icelandic, lived in Denmark my entire life, learned the other lang's in school or by proximity..