What language do you speak and/or write?

[Tomoyo]

Speak: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, [Tarric], in order of proficiency.

Write: English, Latin, [Tarric], Ancient Greek, in order of proficiency.

That means I don't know Chinese, since Chinese is an exclusively written language, so I can't check it on the poll.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

Well I can't really read or write Russian, I just listened to a whole bunch of those Pimsler lessons so I can speak enough to carry on a basic conversation. Ask me to read Russian and I don't know what's going on. I mean I know a few of the characters that differ from English, but not enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Alphabet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Russian/Lesson_1

 

[Trajan12]

Why do people learn latin anyway?

 

[Trajan12]

język polski. I still havent decided my fourth language but I like how unique polish is. Other people would never dream of stringing so many consanants togerther.

 

[GenMarshall]

Why do people learn latin anyway?

Well Latin is the offical language of the Vatican City. Also many of our terms from medical, philosophical and legal derived from Latin.

 

[Trajan12]

Well Latin is the offical language of the Vatican City. Also many of our terms from medical, philosophical and legal derived from Latin.

I knew we got many words from latin but I cant understand why people would learn the whole language besides being able to say "I know latin and you dont". You cant use it on a resume or anything.

 

[GenMarshall]

I knew we got many words from latin but I cant understand why people would learn the whole language besides being able to say "I know latin and you dont". You cant use it on a resume or anything.

Perhaps for the Clergy in the Roman Catholic Church or studying text from Ancient Rome as a Historian.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian are all descended from Latin, so learning Latin makes them easier to learn.

 

[Trajan12]

I think ill go with Italiano

 

[emzie]

English and German. I imagine I could pick up Swedish or Dutch with some time

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

I speak english... yay for not being different.

I also used to be able to speak and write very mediocre Japanese.

 

[raen]

Portuguese - fluently
English - more or less fluent
Spanish - reading or writing I understand better, never learned, it is somewhat similar to Portuguese.
French- I have learned, but I almost never used so I dont speak at all, but can understand written french.
Italian - just some words, maybe some sentences.

 

[Trajan12]

I would learn french...Then again I never want to go to France. What a dihlema.

 

[MjM]

I speak write english as a first language.

Then Im taking French and Spanish.

 

[Chaos_BF1942]

Right now I only can speak/write english, but I do plan on learning Japanese, because I kinda hoping to get a job for the US goverment in Japan, and also I want to watch anime in Japanese without subtitles.

 

[tomsnowman123]

English for me, with some simple spanish.

 

[Steph]

that makes me unusual in England, most of us are lazy about language, sadly.

How do you call an European who speaks 3 language? A trilingual
How do you call an European who speaks 2 language? A bilingual
How do you call an European who speaks 1 language? An English

 

[Steph]

I would learn french...Then again I never want to go to France. What a dihlema.

La Francophonie has 53 members states, 2 associates and 13 oberservers. Pick one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophonie

 

[Reno]

Speak and write fluently: Finnish, English and German.
Can understand when spoken: Estonian and Karelian
Currently Learning: Swedish

When I get to university, I'll probably pick up studying Japanese. Japanese pronounciation is quite close to the Finnish one. The only difficult part, I could see with that, is learning all of the three alphabets. (Katakana, Hiragana and Kanji.)

 

[Trajan12]

La Francophonie has 53 members states, 2 associates and 13 oberservers. Pick one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophonie

UUUUUMMMMM lets SSSEEEEE How abOOOUUUUT Whats that country in southeast asia, Vietnam! I hear they have great food. I wouldnt go to france because.
1.As an American, I dont think I would be very well accepted.