do you speak any languages?

[Emp.Napoleon]

Fluent : French, English, American, C++, C#

I never knew us Americans spoke a differant language than english

 

[airrahul]

Marla, I was on a train in Switzerland this summer and one kid in my group who had no idea what he was saying started saying that (voulez-vous couchez avec moi) to some little girls sitting across the aisle from us. It was so embarrassing, especially since he was a bit drunk and being obnoxiously loud anyways. Trying to explain to the moron that he sounded like a child molestor by saying that to 8 year old girls didn't seem to make him shut up unfortunately.

 

[jonatas]

English and Portuguese... i can understand French fine, i just have a really poor speaking ability because im out of practice... i have a fair reading ability at Latin, but im out of practice there too

 

[Adler17]

Marla, when I was at school I had to prepare for a test in French. On this day my Latin teacher was ill and my former class teacher (maths and physics) took over the lesson. Because were from different classes and some were preparing for the test, we were allowed to make homeworks or preparations. So a few classmates and I learned for the test. But since it had to be a written test we had to know how the word was written and not spoken. So we pronounced the French words German, saying for instance au_ re_vo_ir instead of au revoir. My teacher came to us and asked what language did we learn. We answered French and she responded half resignated and half emberassed who we had as teacher after replying "Französisch?!?". Then we explained it and she was accepting it. Nevertheless she stayed a little bit shocked...

Adler

 

[Sims2789]

I speak only English, but I am learning Spanish. This is my second year studying it, so I am nowhere near fluent. Seeming that a tenth of my country speaks Spanish (We have the fifth most Spanish speakers of any country in the world) and the fact that I live in California, learning Spanish is a pretty good idea. But all of the Spanish-speakers I know, and probably a majority in the country, also speak English.

 

[Steph]

I never knew us Americans spoke a differant language than english

Watch again the first few minutes of "'My fair lady"

Or check the difference between American and English

 

[Megabyte]

Hi !

I am speaking/reading/writing German , Danish and English fluently.

Have Fun!

 

[Inter4]

Italian, Spanish, English...and learning C

 

[brandon749]

In addition to English, I speak quite a bit of Spanish, but I'm not fluent.

 

[Stapel]

Dutch, English, German, French (in that order).
I just returned from France yesterday and must admit my French is rather 'dusty'.

And I won't die in Italy or Spain.

 

[Drakan]

It's more like "au revoir"... The french sound "oi" is globally the english sound "wah".

By the way, this has no link with you Tomoyo but a general information to all people reading these lines. We don't say "voulay-vooh couchez avec moi se sior", we ask "voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir ?".

For us French people, spelling is important.

How about, "t'en veux baisser chez moi", or is that too rude and vulgar ?

@cuivienen: in Spanish, you don't write down: "soy Americano". The correct spelling is "soy americano", it has ho capital letter as in English. And, there's no need to add the "bien" at the end of the phrase. Accents are paramount in Spanish, not knowing how and when to place them is a spelling mistake. I reject any CV's that come to my Law Firm with such mistakes. It's like saying you master French and not knowing when and how to put the accents.

Besides, most people are interested in a conversation rather than writing it down.

 

[King Alexander]

I don't need to speak any languages, because I "read" the other's mind!!!

I speak English, German and Greek.

I love learning both formal and informal words/phrases(good/bad) from English/German(or any language I want to learn)

 

[MaisseArsouye]

How about, "tu veux baisser chez moi", or is that to rude and vulgar ?

I guess you mean "tu veux baiser avec moi". And this is very rude and vulgar, advoid it...

 

[Drakan]

ooops, sorry. Will not use it again.

 

[10lire]

I speak Italian, English (not fluent), German (very not fluent), Latin (REALLY not fluent), Napolitaner

And as every Italian, I find Spanish very simple to understand..

Good : Swiss

What do you want to say with Swiss? German, French, Italian or LADINO?

 

[Stapel]

I speak Italian, English (not fluent), German (very not fluent), Latin (REALLY not fluent), Napolitaner

And as every Italian, I find Spanish very simple to understand..



What do you want to say with Swiss? German, French, Italian or LADINO?

Well, my guess is that he means Schwytzerdutschz (spelling?).

Yesterday, I took a plane from Geneva to A'dam, and I was sitting next to a Swiss couple, speaking this 'result-of-German-language-rape' thing. My German is fiar, but this might as well have been Chinese.

 

[10lire]

Well, my guess is that he means Schwytzerdutschz (spelling?).

Schweitzer Deutsch? Swiss German?

I like your avatar, it was my uncle's car!!

 

[Stapel]

Schweitzer Deutsch? Swiss German?

Yup, the term is pretty familiar, I think. It is a very strong German dialect.

I like your avatar, it was my uncle's car!!

I do have a copy of the Italian certificate of the Ministerio dei trasporti e dell'aviazone civile which tells me that mr. Badaracco Gian Battista Luciano (I suppose Badaracco is his family name?) became the first owner of this Ottocentocinquante on 10th of june 1967.

 

[10lire]

No, Mr. Badaracco is not my uncle

ehm.. since we're talkin' about languages..
ministeRO, aviaZIOne, ottocentocinquantA ..
(spelling is important for us italian people too )

 

[Blasphemous]

My first and best language is American. I can also understand English perfectly in writing, while the spoken form sometimes requires a tad of concentration for me to fully comprehend. Likewise, I can read Australian but usually have a very hard time understanding it when it's spoken to me.
My second language is Hebrew which I speak, read, and write completely fluently and almost as well as English (I don't read much Hebrew literature, so my vocabulary and grammar are not at a high level of perfection, though better than many.)
I'm currently learning German at Goethe Institut, and can usually understand what's said to me if I concentrate enough. I can read well but can not always understand due to my lacking vocabulary, while grammar is less of a problem for me to understand because it somehow makes sense to me (to my utter amazement.) I can usually express myself to an understandable level, given enough time to think (I have a bit of a hard time building my sentances correctly and my vocabulary is often missing the words that I need.) But I'm gonna be learning non-stop for the next year and a half and may well live in Germany for a few years once I dodge/complete Army service here.
I did a one-year course in Visual Basic but have rarely ever used it in the two years since, so it's very rusty.
I can recognize a few scattered words in Arabic and Japanese.