How many languages do you know?

[LucyDuke]

I agree with Steph. Using smilies to indicate sarcasm or that he's just joking would spoil the humor. Besides, after reading enough of his posts in the Offtopic forum, it should be easy to realize when he's just joking.

Well, now that I've been used as fodder, I'm in on the joke.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

English natively.

I studied German for three years, but we managed to focus more on grammar than on vocabulary, so I'm not exactly fluent, and I need a dictionary, but my sentences are spot on gramatically!

I know more Latin than I do French, but neither is noteworthy. I'm usually very good at speaking both languages, but I have no idea what I'm saying.

The only Italian I know are musical terms.

I know a few words and memorized phrases in Spanish, Vietnamese, and Russian.

And, of course, gangsta.

my next task: learning to understand a Bostonian.

 

[Ansar]

Spanish (Mother tongue).
English (fluent at it too, learned it at a very early age).

French - So far I know only a few phrases.
Of course, the lifesaver one is je ne parle pa francais. Parle vous anglais? = I dont speak french, do you speak English?.

I can understand spoken Italian, but can't read much.

 

[Azash]

English, Swedish, Finnish. I used to have some German at school, and given time, I can translate from most germanic languages and latin to English/Swedish/Finnish.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

English (obviously), polishing my rather rusty Arabic, plan to complete my Chinese within the next 2-3 years (I can order in a restaurant and leave a message with a friend's grandma...). I plan to learn at least all six UN official languages (Spanish and French should be easy, Russian a little harder, though I've learned most of the letters), and maybe German and Japanese, too.

 

[Perfection]

Just my native language (Klingon)

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

English,semi-fluent in Japanese and Chinese. I would know cantonese, malay, and mandarin if my mother had bothered to teach it to me while I was a child but thats gone now.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Two. Russian and English. And a little bit of German.

 

[phoenix_sprite]

Well look at how this thread turned out to be... Im pretty sure that it will grow even more. Now there's a debate on humor and the eternal conflict between the French and the English?

@Steph: you can read English, but can't speak it or write it? Pourquoi que tu prends pas le temps d'apprendre l'anglais (écris) au lieu de dépendre sur une machine? C'est utile de l'apprendre!

 

[bode404]

Portuguese (native), English (I believe I'm pretty good), Quenya (hey, it's great!), and little little Latin.

I love languages

 

[phoenix_sprite]

Steph:
French is hard to learn, that's why English is more spread out. Only the smartest can speak French, the dumb ones speak English.

Right on the dot. Simple language for simple minds. I picked it up in 4 months only (I was 9 and learning English for me was a horrible experience, I cried but now I laugh at it). Once you learn French you basically have the base for all other Latin languages! I speak, write and read it perfectly although I still forget to put capital letters for formal adjectives (canadian = Canadian).

 

[Steph]

polishing my rather rusty Arabic,

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

 

[Steph]

@Steph: you can read English, but can't speak it or write it? Pourquoi que tu prends pas le temps d'apprendre l'anglais (écris) au lieu de dépendre sur une machine? C'est utile de l'apprendre!

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.

 

[Steph]

Portuguese (native), English (I believe I'm pretty good), Quenya (hey, it's great!), and little little Latin.
I love languages

I can't speak that, but I can write and read in Tengwar, with my own mode adapted to my Role Playing Game.

 

[Berrie]

Spanish (Mother tongue).
English (fluent at it too, learned it at a very early age).

French - So far I know only a few phrases.
Of course, the lifesaver one is je ne parle pa francais. Parle vous anglais? = I dont speak french, do you speak English?.

I can understand spoken Italian, but can't read much.

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

Just helping...

 

[Steph]

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

And if you want to translate it in Belgian, just say
"Je ne parle pas français, une fois. Parlez-vous anglais une fois?"

 

[ParkCungHee]

EDIT: I can't read that paragraph of your last post. jejeje.

Yeah, Like I said, Ben Franklin had this crazy idea that if we're having our own country, we should have our own language, and began creating a system of writing in "american".
For a while he insisted on sending his mail this way, but people just got rather annoyed at him for it

 

[Berrie]

And if you want to translate it in Belgian, just say
"Je ne parle pas français, une fois. Parlez-vous anglais une fois?"

I'm struggling to get the joke and this time you even used a smilie. Care to explain?

 

[Steph]

I'm struggling to get the joke and this time you even used a smilie. Care to explain?

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

 

[GoodGame]

English fluently.

Used to know French with some fluence in high school (about 6 years of it with native speakers). Completely forgotten.

Taken short stabs at Italian and Spanish and Russian.