Poll: Do you know more than one language?
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I'm from Norway so I speak norwegian, but my english is far better. I also speak fluent german. Though I can't speak them, I can completely understand swedish, danish, dutch and yiddish.
haha i wasn't even thinking about this, but it is true technically, and me and my friends sometimes do nerd speak in java..so why not? it's a language, it has "grammar" technically.duktapeman90 said:
I know, You should really fix your th too, It makes reading your post almost almost a jobho Huios tes Moiras said:Speaking as a linguist, no, Dutch is not a version of German; þey're just boþ members of þe Germanic language family, which makes þem cousins. Related is not þe same as derived. Flemish... is a little more iffy; I'm tempted to call it a dialect of Dutch, but as Max Weinreich once said, "אַ שפראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמײ און פֿלאָט" ("A language is a dialect wiþ an army and a navy.") In oþer words, þere's not really a concrete definition of a difference between language and dialect. For example, Cantonese is generally considered a dialect of Chinese, even þough by most definitions it would be considered a sister language to Mandarin; whereas, Thai and Lao are considered separate languages even þough þey're mutually intelligible.-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
Since Dutch isn't my field, þough, I'm going to go wiþ þe general consensus of linguists who do deal wiþ þe subject and say þat Flemish is a set of related dialects spread geographically from Flanders. In English it can also refer to þe dialect of Dutch spoken in Belgium, regardless of region.
Dutch and English at what essentially amounts to native level, French, German and Afrikaans at 'understandable but with mistakes' level, and I can understand Spanish, Italian and Greek relatively well, maybe even say a few words.
RE: The Flemish thing, as a linguist specialising in English and Dutch I'm tempted to say that it's a variety of Dutch, but still very much the same language. 'Northern' Dutch and Flemish share dictionaries and a linguistic standard. They just differ slightly in vocabulary and grammar, and fairly significantly in pronunciation. But unless you're going to claim that British English and American English are two different languages, neither are Northern Dutch and Flemish, because they're exactly the same thing: varieties with a common standard.
RE: The Flemish thing, as a linguist specialising in English and Dutch I'm tempted to say that it's a variety of Dutch, but still very much the same language. 'Northern' Dutch and Flemish share dictionaries and a linguistic standard. They just differ slightly in vocabulary and grammar, and fairly significantly in pronunciation. But unless you're going to claim that British English and American English are two different languages, neither are Northern Dutch and Flemish, because they're exactly the same thing: varieties with a common standard.
English, Hebrew, Russian and some Arabic.
When I say 'some Arabic' what I mean is that I can read signs and I can converse with people... kind of. I can manage as a tourist, and I can even haggle in a market, but you won't see my shining rethorics in Arabic.
I would gladly learn any European language, since they all have much in common. Latin is second after that.
Or perhaps polish my Arabic some more.
When I say 'some Arabic' what I mean is that I can read signs and I can converse with people... kind of. I can manage as a tourist, and I can even haggle in a market, but you won't see my shining rethorics in Arabic.
I would gladly learn any European language, since they all have much in common. Latin is second after that.
Or perhaps polish my Arabic some more.
I think you might had some problems with my Norwegian. Currently staying in Oslo and they have problems with my dialect.DanielBrown said:
I speak English and Norwegian fluently, and as the guy over me stated, Scandinavian languages are easy to understand among us, so we'll live. I also speak a little German, some very limited Latin.
I'm from England. I am fluent in French and English. I know bits and pieces of many other languages, but nowhere near enough to have a decent complex conversation in any of them.
I speak Danish and English fluently, have the meekest understanding of Chinese, German, Thai, Spanish and Japanese.
English, Dutch, Japanese, some German and French. Tiny bit of Bokmal (imagine the funny character is in there ).
Want to learn Mandarin and Korean. Also got an interest in Old Greek.
).Want to learn Mandarin and Korean. Also got an interest in Old Greek.
Canadian.
Pretty much only speak English, but if I were to hear or read something that's in French I'd have a vague idea of what's being said based on what few words in the French language I do know.
And I'm pretty sure I know how to say I don't speak French...
Je ne parle pas Francais.
I never really learned the language entirely because my local area is a pretty bland small town which mostly just has Caucasians who only speak English, mostly due to the fact that such a large portion of them are Americans living in Canada and the area is so near the border. I would hear the language all the time if I were to just walk down the street of a major city like Toronto or Vancouver, but I've only ever gone to a city for family gatherings and the rest of my family only really speaks English.
Slightly unrelated fact: My area is so non-multicultural that I've only seen about a dozen or so people in my life who weren't white in person, and most of them I barely know or see and most of them I only met after meeting them in a city. About 7 of them are Asian friends of the family who I only see every couple of years or so, I had one friend who was from the Philippines that moved away a few years ago, 2 Black guys and 1 Black girl who I had met at the mental ward at a hospital and haven't really seen again ever since I left there and 1 Asian kid and a couple of Black girls who I pass by regularly but rarely talk to.
Pretty much only speak English, but if I were to hear or read something that's in French I'd have a vague idea of what's being said based on what few words in the French language I do know.
And I'm pretty sure I know how to say I don't speak French...
Je ne parle pas Francais.
I never really learned the language entirely because my local area is a pretty bland small town which mostly just has Caucasians who only speak English, mostly due to the fact that such a large portion of them are Americans living in Canada and the area is so near the border. I would hear the language all the time if I were to just walk down the street of a major city like Toronto or Vancouver, but I've only ever gone to a city for family gatherings and the rest of my family only really speaks English.
Slightly unrelated fact: My area is so non-multicultural that I've only seen about a dozen or so people in my life who weren't white in person, and most of them I barely know or see and most of them I only met after meeting them in a city. About 7 of them are Asian friends of the family who I only see every couple of years or so, I had one friend who was from the Philippines that moved away a few years ago, 2 Black guys and 1 Black girl who I had met at the mental ward at a hospital and haven't really seen again ever since I left there and 1 Asian kid and a couple of Black girls who I pass by regularly but rarely talk to.
I know a fair bit of Chinese, Italian, French and Latin, but I'm far from fluent in any of them. So, I just voted for one language only.
English, French, Spanish from there i can mash things together to get by in Italian and Portuguese to a VERY limited extent... can't remember much German from School but it's in there somewhere.
My grandfather was Swiss my parents French grew up in Scotland and now live in Mexico.
My grandfather was Swiss my parents French grew up in Scotland and now live in Mexico.