Subject: Languages
Posted by: thejazzkickazz
Date: Jul 02 03
I'm curious about the language abilities of the Funtrivia populace. What languages do you speak? Which languages have you studied? Which languages do you find difficult to study? What has been your language learning experience?
Posted by: thejazzkickazz
Date: Jul 02 03
I'm curious about the language abilities of the Funtrivia populace. What languages do you speak? Which languages have you studied? Which languages do you find difficult to study? What has been your language learning experience?
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sportsherald 
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I am a native English speaker, am fluent in French, and I use both of those to guess at (and learn) words in numerous Germanic and Romance languages. I've also picked up a few words of Ukrainian, Cree, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Gaelic, Dene, etc., out of interest and the numerous opportunities presented by friends and co-workers in Canada. Reply #241. Apr 14 13, 2:48 PM |
SisterSeagull
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English, French, German and Russian Reply #242. Apr 14 13, 4:03 PM |
blindcat78
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I'm native tongue is English, however, I can speak a few words of Spanish. Braille is a language for the blind & I can also sign the alphabet as well as a few words. Reply #243. Apr 21 13, 5:45 AM |
paa2isback
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My mother tongue is Hindi, though I can speak some dialects of it. Plus I can speak Sanskrit, English & some Bengali. Reply #244. Jun 15 13, 1:33 AM |
halekotsi
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Native language: English In high school: French, German, and Latin In college: Chinese, Portuguese, and Yoruba On my own: Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish The only one I would call myself fluent in today besides English is Korean, since I use it every day. I used to be fluent in French and Portuguese, but I haven't had opportunities to practice them in over a decade, so they've atrophied a lot. Reply #245. Aug 12 13, 10:43 PM |
tiye
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My native language is Greek, I am fluent in English and can communicate and read in French, Spanish and Italian. I understand Turkish but can not speak a word. Reply #246. Oct 15 13, 10:43 AM |
Leeasa
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English, French, a splattering of Spanish and can sign Reply #247. Oct 15 13, 2:09 PM |
queenofquizzes
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Urdu, English. A bit of French and Spanish. Reply #248. Nov 24 13, 6:39 AM |
great2beme
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English Reply #249. Dec 18 13, 4:18 PM |
| Reynariki
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Russian is my native language and English I can speak fluently. I also speak German quite well, know Arabic and Hebrew on an intermediate level and can say a few things in French and Polish. Reply #250. Dec 18 13, 4:48 PM |
alpinesquill
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Romanian is my native language. I learned French since second grade in school and I was fluent in French but that was long ago. ( I have the DALF diploma). From the 5th grade we studied English but only in the past 4 years I learned to communicate a little in English from the net. I tried to learn Spanish and German alone but I failed. Of course we studied Latin in school but only a few distant memories remain after 30 years. Reply #251. Jul 01 14, 1:16 PM |
Shiningstar7
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English is my native language, I took French in school and have learned some Hebrew and Spanish since then. Reply #252. Jul 03 14, 1:39 AM |
chickadee1464
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Fluent in German. A little Spanish and French. I can understand a little Dutch if I read it. Reply #253. Jul 06 14, 8:25 AM |
| Saleo
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I know a lot of Indian languages. Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu. Other than those, I know French, Arabic and a little German. Reply #254. Jul 07 14, 11:56 PM |
LoveAnimals555
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Hindi, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Sanskrit, Urdu and English. Reply #255. Nov 06 14, 12:23 PM |
rockinsteve
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English and a little French. I took several years of French WAY back in high school and college. I remember SOME of it. Reply #256. Dec 19 14, 1:22 AM |
| ElusiveDream
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I speak English but I've also learnt Greek, German, Italian & Japanese. I remember the German classes at primary school because we weren't allowed to use English. Everything we said had to be in German. Here's one question that was heard a lot: Kann ich bitte auf die toilette gehen? Reply #257. Dec 20 14, 10:32 PM |
Creedy
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English. Studied German at university. Reply #258. Dec 21 14, 5:07 AM |
bloomsby
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My mother tongue is English and the only foreign language that I would claim to speak (and also read and write) well is German. I also started Latin and French at age rising 11. I continued Latin till age 18 and French to BA level. At school we were taught German with fanatical zeal and by the end of the first year of German we had learned most of the grammar that we ever needed. A few details and matters of style followed over the next 3-4 years. I continued German at university level. At the end of my second year of German I was introduced to one of the professors of German. He mentioned that he would be teaching me German in the following year and casually asked me which HS I'd attended. I told him, whereupon he said: "In that case your German will be very good". I was thunderstruck! Reply #259. Dec 29 14, 10:30 PM |
| rockinsteve
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English, but also some untelligible mishmash of languages when I'm inebriated! Reply #260. Jan 08 15, 3:45 PM |
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