How many languages do you know?

[Rossiya]

When a French is making a poor immitation of the Belgian accent, he feels compelled to add "une fois" in every sentence

What does "fois" mean?

 

[Steph]

What does "fois" mean?

In that context, "une fois", "one time"

 

[Swedishguy]

2.1

Swedish

English

A little german

 

[Ansar]

Not to nitpick, but your custom user title should be: "Parlez-vous anglais?"
And it's: Je ne parle pas français.

Just helping...

Heh, well, I dont exactly have that c-with the tail key.
Didnt really think of the "s" at the end. Thanks!

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Do you plan to study Arabic in Warsaw to achieve this goal?

No, first my hometown, then East Lansing, then Alexandria (Egypt).

Why Warsaw?

 

[Mirc]

English and Romanian fluently.

Can understand Italian (almost perfectly), German (70% if spoken not very fast), Spanish (80%, if spoken slow), some French (if spoken slow) and various other Romance languages.

Can speak a very basic Italian and German (with a horrible grammar, but I can be understood, most of the times).

 

[Steph]

Why Warsaw?

Warsaw seems a good place to Polish your Arabic

 

[Mirc]

ack, forgot to add something.

i don't know why anybody would want to learn german (if it isn't out of necessity) but i am so glad that i do not have to learn it as a second language and i take pitty on anybody who has to. it should be reserved as a penalty for mortal sins. deepest respect for anybody who has mastered it (as far as that is possible, heck, many natives don't speak it well) as a second language!

I love German. I love how it sounds, and its grammar. I learn it out of pleasure.

 

[Mirc]

I always thought English was worse, as it was a half sorted mishmash of French and German. To bad old Ben Franklin's gave up on his idea for an American language...as I understand it people were rather pissed off when Ben would send them something like this in the mail.

I can read most of that...

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Warsaw seems a good place to Polish your Arabic

:smackhead: Funny.

 

[Gogf]

Just English and French.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

English, the only one worth knowing.

 

[Rossiya]

English, the only one worth knowing.

Great A-Merican narcissism.

 

[CaptainF]

English, the only one worth knowing.

Are you kidding me?

 

[Findus]

1. Swedish
2. English
3. Very little spanish

This is what you learn in school in sweden. Swedish, English and one other big language(Well swedish isnt that big, i was refering to english).

 

[phoenix_sprite]

@Steph

I wrote I know how to speak, but not read or write it. Note it would be very difficult to speak English into a voice recognition system without knowing how to speak...

This was a smartass answer... In an English speaking forum, I doubt anyone would not include English in the list of language.

So I wrote an obvious false statement to see who would react to the inconsistency.

I write, read and speak English fluently, which is a good think given my job and the travelling I have to do.

Well you obviously fooled me...next time I'll re-read the details...

BUT! I assumed that you could read English (This IS an English forum) and I understood that the 'machine' you were using automatically translated french to english when you spoke.

By the way, I think that the some french accents are hard to understand...today at work, a guy asked me where the 'boissons' were (drinks), I heard 'poissons' (fish)...and directed him to the seafood section!

 

[MjM]

2.2

English, and Pig Latin fluently, then some French.

 

[Reno]

Wow, you're the first person ever I hear saying something like that. Of course, being a native german speaker makes it a lot easier for me, but I always thought german grammar is horrible.
Just wait till you have to figure out whether to capitalize a word or not, or if it's written together or separated

Those are the more easier parts of German. I'd say the dative, accusative and genitive cases, plus their various inflections, are the most difficult parts of the language. But once one masters those the whole language is relatively simple after that.

 

[aneeshm]

English, the only one worth knowing.

You're absolutely right.

 

[PHSikes]

I speak English and Navy. I also know how to order 'beer' in several languages.