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?
278 replies. On page 4 of 14 pages. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
battleofendor
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My wife and I are at odds on this, but every American should know Spanish. Construction workers are at least 50% Hispanic. I've visited sites that even the superintendant is Hispanic. Most workers know some English, and quite a few supers and foremen with communicate with them in pidgin Spanish. Unfortunately, after four years of Spanish in high school, all I recall is enough to have a good time in the Caribbean. Also, everyone should learn there parents language. Reply #61. Apr 17 04, 4:31 AM |
v_e_olivier
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I am very lucky - I am 20 years old and speak 5 languages. My parents insisted on sending me abroad for my schooling and I am glad they did now. I speak English, German, Italian, Swedish and French. I am in the process of studying Russian, which is not as easy as I thought! VEO Reply #62. Apr 21 04, 9:35 AM |
kurichan
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So is Sinhala similar to Hindi?? Is it close to Tamil? I don't speak either one... haha. I speak Japanese and Mandarin and used to speak German but completely forgot how to speak. I'm learning a bit of Korean now... Reply #63. Apr 22 04, 1:05 PM |
| polisiekar
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I am polisiekar from south africa. The language that i speak is AFRIKAANS. I have two languages that i study. They are XHOSA AND ENGLISH. Reply #64. Apr 24 04, 9:09 AM |
satguru
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Hi poliesekar, just to say (as I have to!) there's no need to use capitals to emphasise a word, on forums you can put them in italics, but here you'll just have to make do with normal letters to make a point. Sorry about that, but those rules are bigger than me or you ;) Reply #65. Apr 27 04, 6:27 AM |
| satguru
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And sorry for misspelling your name... Reply #66. Apr 27 04, 6:28 AM |
| Malamute
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I speak English, French, Spanish, a little Italien, a little Portugese and A little Arabic. Reply #67. Apr 28 04, 2:59 PM |
| Malamute
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Oh yeah, and i am currently studing Chinese and Russian. Reply #68. Apr 28 04, 3:00 PM |
| satguru
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Being a ufo and paranormal investigator, malamute, did you mean Italian, Italien, or... alien? Maybe I have discovered the goal of my search at last! Reply #69. Apr 28 04, 5:58 PM |
| Malamute
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I meant Italien. I'm not very good at it, but i speak it a little. Reply #70. Apr 29 04, 4:51 AM |
| liveandletlive
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I am currently studying Russian and would love to have the time to continue studying French aswell Reply #71. Apr 29 04, 10:56 AM |
| Malamute
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I can teach you some words if you like, liveandletlive. I am very fluent in French, it is my second language. Reply #72. May 02 04, 12:15 PM |
| Malamute
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Oh, i forgot! i can also speak a few words of Inuit! Reply #73. May 05 04, 12:50 PM |
LadyMacb29
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My first language is English. My second 'language' is Canadian, eh? Ok, my real second language is French, which I'm fluent in. My third language is German, which I have an intermediate knowledge of. Fourth language (which I actually learned before German, but it's been a while and I've forgotten a lot of it) is Italian. And I'm learning to read Dutch by reading subtitles of TV shows. Reply #74. May 12 04, 8:41 PM |
| LadyMacb29
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Oh, forgot to state my opinions: Italian only seemed easy because I already knew French. German was hard ("here's the grammar rule, but it's only used 1% of the time..."), but once you got the rules and patterns, learning new words was easy. French seemed easy to me, but I've been speaking it for half of my life so I'm not sure. Dutch is ok learning to read, but I think only because I know German. Reply #75. May 12 04, 8:43 PM |
Hammurabi
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Hi, I can speak Punjabi, Urdu and English. Besides these I can understan Sindhi, Persian and Arabic. And I intend to learn French during nex couple of years. Reply #76. May 12 04, 11:33 PM |
| romeomikegolf
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My first language is obviously English and my second is Gibberish, which I become very fluent in after 4 hours in the pub. As a child I tried to learn German, my mother's language. She felt that it would not be appropriate to teach my brother and myself as we were both born within 10 years of the end of the war. I went to night school to learn, I could quite easily speak some words, but as I had been listening to Platt Deutsch that's the way I spoke. My teachers kept telling me that my pronounciation was not right, and I kept thinking 'how can it be wrong if my family speak this way'. After a few weeks I gave up and it is my biggest regret in life that I never got to really speak with my Grandparents. Reply #77. May 13 04, 8:48 AM |
| battleofendor
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Despite my prejudices, I really wish I knew Faris. So much of my world is Persian, and knowing the language would've made me a more well-rounded person. Truthfully, it doesn't buy much for an American to speak anything other than English. Reply #78. May 13 04, 9:06 AM |
| Stew54
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I'm very impressed by the number of people here who can speak several languages well. I would love to have that skill. I learned German and French at school, and when I was 18 spoke both reasonably but in a stilted bookish way - but now? I can still read (especially German) enough to get the sense of things, but the vocab comes to my mind much too slowly to converse beyond simple pleasantries (and ordering food obviously!) Attempts to learn other languages over the years, Italian, Greek and Hebrew, haven't got past elementary levels. I can manage holiday phrases with confidence in lots of languages so it's not the pronunciation of strange sounds that defeats me, but something does. Like any good Englishman of course, I staunchly maintain that it isn't laziness but simply that so many people speak good English eveywhere I go that I never really have the opportunity to keep in practice. So, who can tell me how to say "who do you think you're kidding, Stew" in the most languages!? Reply #79. May 13 04, 12:17 PM |
snhha
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Many people in my country can speak at least three languages. Malay Language is the official language. Chinese people speak Chinese at home and Indians speak Tamil and Punjabis speak Hindi. We all learn English at school. I found out from my Chinese vendor that she does not understand Mandarin or Cantonese and her dialect is one of the many dialects of Chinese language which I guess is Mandarin. When you call some well-known companies, a machine will answer. It will ask you to press a number on the telephone whether you want to be entertained in Malay,English,Chinese or Tamil. Even Malay language has its own many dialects which are different from one another. I had to learn Japanese for 5 semesters while in college. That was not easy. My American friend said learning Tamil is the hardest. I think it is hard to learn a language when it is using characters instead of letters. snhha Reply #80. May 16 04, 3:30 AM |
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