The where have you been and what languages can you speak thread!

[Yared]

Yapp. But it's not like I wouldn't have told you if you'd asked me :3

 

[Cheetah]

Stalking is no fun if you invite the stalker to follow you!

 

[gangleri2001]

Let's see the largest cities I've been

Spain: Madrid, Barcelona, Tarragona, Bilbao, Pamplone, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Cáceres.
France: Montpellier, Lyon, Besançon, Strasbourg.
Germany: Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg, Mainz, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Würzburg.

Languages
Native: Catalan and Spanish.
Fluently: English and German.
Intermediate/Advanced: Chinese (though I don't get how they organize their sentences).
Elementary: Basque.

 

[Godwynn]

United States: St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Memphis, Washington D.C., Orlando, New Orleans, Paducah

Germany: München, Würzburg, Nürnberg

Austria: Salzburg, Melk Monastery, Vienna

English and German

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

US: Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Annapolis, Richmond, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Jacksonville, Raleigh-Durham, Charlottesville, Scranton.

Germany: München

Russia: Moscow, Novgorod, St. Petersburg

Languages: English, Redneck, German, Russian, Arabic.

 

[Yared]

Stalking is no fun if you invite the stalker to follow you!

At least then I know who my stalker is

US: Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Annapolis, Richmond, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Jacksonville, Raleigh-Durham, Charlottesville, Scranton.

Germany: München

Russia: Moscow, Novgorod, St. Petersburg

Languages: English, Redneck, German, Russian, Arabic.

Is it a pre-requisite to speak Arabic if you want to study Arabic Studies? Or do you get taught along side Arabic Studies? Or did you just learn it because of how helpful it is?

 

[storealex]

Major cities - there's no major cities where I go Mountains and glaciers FTW!

I've been to, however:

Turkey: Ephesus (Was a major city once)
Greece: Thessaloniki
Kosovo: Mitrovica, Pristina, Pec
Serbia. Just in the mountains.
Macedonia: Skopje
Italy: Rome, Salerno
Spain: Madrid
France: Paris
England: London
Ireland: Dublin, Cork, Galway
The Netherlands: Amsterdam
Belgium: Brussels
Luxembourg: Luxembourg
Germany: Only seen the autobahn and military establishments
Czech Republic: Prauge, Pilsen
Denmark: Copenhagen
Sweden: Malmø, Goteburg
Norway: Oslo
Iceland: Reykjavik
Greenland: Nuuk

Edit:

Speak English, Danish and a little german.
Understand German, Swedish, Norweigan.

Used to speak French.

 

[Cull]

Oh, what's it like in China, you've been there. I'm interested in foreign cultures and what-not.

In the major cities, honestly, if you stay in the "tourist" areas not much. People will smoke like its nothing, even in the tourist areas though, so that's a little different. If you ever get to go, you're get used to the smoking. The people drive like crazy. Maybe its just because I live in a pretty small town in the US, but people will drive like they are drunk IMO, and, unlike the US, where the drivers will heed to walkers, I doubt that the drivers here would. On that note, there are a lot more motocycles, and bikes.

Food is different. The steroetype that the food is spicy, sadly, is true. Compare to some of the Chinese places where I live, the food here actually is spicy. You can eat armidillo, snake, and dog here. Its good. I haven't noticed this in the big cities, but in some of the smaller towns, people can and will throw stuff down on the ground when their done eating. Eating an apple, finish it, and now matter where you are at, you can just throw the core on the ground if you're outside. I've gotten used to it now, and even I just throw the remains of whatever I'm eating on the street when I'm done. Have to readjust to Hong Kong now.

 

[Yared]

I barely understand spoken Norwegian. Danish is even worse.

Though written is a different matter.

 

[storealex]

You learn it quickly when around other Scandinavians, though I admit the Swedes I usually talk to are from Scania.

 

[Cheetah]

I barely understand spoken Norwegian. Danish is even worse.

Though written is a different matter.

Seriously? I can understand Swedish perfectly well. There are a few words that I don't know, but I can usually get the meaning from context of the rest of the conversation.

Danish is mostly ok, except when they talk to fast. Reading it (or Swedish) is piece of cake.

I can't talk or write Swedish or Danish though, I'll continually misspell and mix in to much Norwegian.

 

[onemoreturnmike]

Major cities?

US: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, (theres basicly pretty much no place in California I haven't been), Las Vegas, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, El Paso, Dallas, San Antonio, Chicago, Boston, Savannah, Orlando, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Charlotte, Washington DC, Atlanta, Indianapolis.

Germany: Munchen, Wurzburg, Berlin, Bamberg, Nuremberg, Franfurt

Fance: Paris, Calais

England: Dover, London, Southhampton

Spain: Barcelona

Middle East: Amman, Cairo, Haifa

Languages I speak: English, Arabic, Some German, French and Spanish

I say some, because aat times Ive been good in those languages, but now...non-use and time have delegated them to tourist phrases I find the more Im around them stuff bubbles back to the surface, but otherwise *shrugs* 'ein bier bitte'

 

[madviking]

North America - NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Richmond, Hotlanta, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Houston, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec
Latin America - Panama City, Lima, Rio, Sao Paulo
Europe - London, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Sankt Peterburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Strausbourg

Langs: English, pretty fluent in Russian, still remember bits of Spanish and Portuguese.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Atlanta, Washington D.C., NYC, Boston, Las Vegas, Toronto, San Fransico, Seattle.

I speak English and Norwegian.

 

[sophie]

Lessee:

US:
San Francisco
San Jose
LA
San Diego
St. Louis
Washington DC
Norfolk
New York City
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Phoenix
Portland

Britain:
London
Cardiff
Edinburgh
York

Amsterdam
Oslo
Bergen
Munich
Vienna

I speak English, Spanish, a little bit of Welsh, and a little bit of French.

 

[Yared]

Seriously? I can understand Swedish perfectly well. There are a few words that I don't know, but I can usually get the meaning from context of the rest of the conversation.

Danish is mostly ok, except when they talk to fast. Reading it (or Swedish) is piece of cake.

I can't talk or write Swedish or Danish though, I'll continually misspell and mix in to much Norwegian.

Did you watch Swedish shows as a kid from time to time?
Maybe it's just that I live in Stockholm which is far away from Norway and Denmark compared to Gothenburg resp. Malmö.


Yeah.

 

[Zack]

I've been all over the US, and I speak some basic espanol.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I don't travel much and I've never left the continent.
I've only been in
Germany: Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Mainz, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Berlin, Hamburg
England: Hastings, London
Holland: Amsterdam, Rotterdam
Former Jugoslavia: Belgrade, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Banja Luka
Switzerland: Zurich Austria, Vienna

I speak serbocroatian with my relatives and german with eveyone else, I stll know a tiny bit of french I learned in school and I've been learning mandarin since October 2008 and plan to spend a year in China 2011-2012, peferably in Beijing.
Obviously I'm also quite proficient in english...

 

[bathsheba666]

I speak English, French, German, Russian

been to:
London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield, York, Newcastle, Manchester, Swindon, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Dublin,

Paris, Marseille, Lille, Lisbon, Brussels, Bruge, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Helsinki, Berlin, Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Basel, Florence, Venice, Rome, Naples, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Leningrad

Cairo, Riyadh, Istanbul, Bombay, Aurangabad, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Sydney, Canberra, Tokyo

Honolulu, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Washington DC, Orlando, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Boston, Toronto

 

[W|M]

I speak English, Portuguese and Spanish, and I know some words from LOADS of different languages.

I've been to: Niterói (Brasil) (born there), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Belo Horizonte (Brasil), Petrópolis (Brasil), Teresópolis (Brasil), London (England) (live in the suburbs), Porto Alegre (Brasil), Unisinos (Brasil), Cambridge (England), Brighton (England), Biatrriz (France) (sp?), Roses (Spain), Cadaqués (Spain), Paris (France), Leipzig (Germany), Dresden (Germany), Rome (Italy), Venice (Italy), Milán (Italy), Pisa (Italy), Naples (Italy), Veneto (Italy), Hastings (England), somewhere in the Southern Welsh countryside, and Algarves (Portugal).