What Languages Do You Read Or Speak?

[Veritas]

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Yes, out of the 57 people who answered this poll, only 50 spoke English. Interesting...

[Selah]

You know what? I want to learn how to read ancient egyptian hyroglyphs...now that would be fun

[Groo the Wanderer]

English - master level
Spanish - gringo level
German - nur kinder Deutsch
French - all I need to know is 'Surrender!'
BASIC
Pascal
IOS
CatOS
JunOS

[CatherineM]

does anyone speak COBOL anymore?

[Madame Vengier]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' post='1609803' date='Jul 27 2008, 08:06 AM']French - all I need to know is 'Surrender!'[/quote]

LOL!! Ouch...

[RosaMystica]

Aside from English I can speak the Aramaic pretty fluently and I'm learning how to read and write it as well. I'm also learning Latin, too. I can also sing and pray in Arabic, and I also picked up some Spanish during the four years I studied the language in high school

[SJRod55]

English and SPanish fluently. A little Amharic (Ethiopian) and Albanian.

[dustthouart]

Native speaker of English, have what I call a "working fluency" of Mandarin Chinese. Studied Spanish and Latin in high school but didn't mark them down on the poll.

[Balthazor]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' post='1609803' date='Jul 27 2008, 09:06 AM']English - master level
Spanish - gringo level
German - nur kinder Deutsch
French - all I need to know is 'Surrender!'
BASIC
Pascal
IOS
CatOS
JunOS[/quote]


Is "gringo level" a technical term?

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Selah' post='1609784' date='Jul 27 2008, 12:50 PM']You know what? I want to learn how to read ancient egyptian hyroglyphs...now that would be fun [/quote]
It is fun. If you really want to learn some, I'd suggest picking up [url="http://www.amazon.com/Read-Egyptian-Hieroglyphs-Step-Step/dp/0520239490/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217339200&sr=8-1"][i]How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-step Guide to Teach Yourself Hieroglyphs[/i][/url] It's just the basics, so you'll be able to read offering formulas when you finish it. It's really great if you have access to the British Museum, since all the examples are from stelae in the BM, but the stelae are all illustrated very well in the book. And I know one of the authors (a prof at my university) One of the fun things about hieroglyphs is that they can be written right to left, left to right, or vertically. It's fun.

[pan!c139]

Most of the time I speak English pretty well, but I can also speak a little Spanish and Latin.

[misereremi]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='1604356' date='Jul 21 2008, 11:56 AM']With the addition of Dutch and German with some smatterings of Japanese and Tagalog.[/quote]
Tagalog? Ako rin- but probably more Visayan dialect than Tagalog.

[quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1605154' date='Jul 22 2008, 05:09 PM']Maybe I should add that I'm good at understanding (and occasionally imitating) [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouse"]Scouse [/url]now. [/quote]
LOL! Me, too then. Love it!

I like mastering accents, dialects, slangs, and the in-between languages of bilinguals (e.g. Taglish, Patois, Spanglish, Itaglish ). Most of my knowledge of languages outside my mother tongue (Italian) is colloquial vs text-book. At the moment I'm learning Twi. I think Portuguese is a beautiful language, and would like to learn that next.

[puellapaschalis]

[quote name='misereremi' post='1611720' date='Jul 29 2008, 10:32 PM']Tagalog? Ako rin- but probably more Visayan dialect than Tagalog.[/quote]

I do research in Tagalog Tagalog - it's what my family speaks and they're bang in the middle of that area. And then come the discussions about language and dialect status. It's enough to drive a linguist batty.

And then there's the music to [url="http://www.vimeo.com/1211060?pg=embed&sec=1211060"]this video[/url] which just makes me want to speak Bengali

[StColette]

[quote name='jiyoung' post='1607340' date='Jul 24 2008, 11:18 AM']I speak English and Korean fluently, and I know some Spanish from school. In the future I have to learn French, German, and Italian for opera...whee...[/quote]

Oh Clara!!! I miss hearing you speak to your family in Korean. It was always so much fun to listen to

[Elijah]

English, Arabic, Chaldean, and Syriac

[Norseman82]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1610384' date='Jul 28 2008, 12:27 AM']does anyone speak COBOL anymore?[/quote]

Yes.

Assembler as well.

[mommas_boy]

So, funny story.

I live in a very Mexican neighborhood. I'm also very Irish ...

Anyway, I'm walking on the main strip through my neighborhood, and this woman standing in front of a "Learn English" business stops me.

Her: "Disculpe senor, quisiera aprender ingles?" -- "Excuse me, sir, would you like to learn English?"

Me:
Me: "No, puedo hablar ingles muy bien. Es mi primera idioma." -- "No, I speak English very well; it is my first language."

Her: "Verdad? Esta cierto que puede hablarlo?" -- "Really? Are you sure that you can speak it?"

Me:
Me: "Si, estoy cierto. Soy guerro." -- "Yes, I'm certain. I'm a 'white boy'."
Me:

Her:
Her: "Oh, buenas noches." -- "Oh. Good night."

[Norseman82]

[quote name='mommas_boy' post='1613615' date='Jul 30 2008, 11:34 PM']So, funny story.

I live in a very Mexican neighborhood. I'm also very Irish ...

Anyway, I'm walking on the main strip through my neighborhood, and this woman standing in front of a "Learn English" business stops me.

Her: "Disculpe senor, quisiera aprender ingles?" -- "Excuse me, sir, would you like to learn English?"

Me:
Me: "No, puedo hablar ingles muy bien. Es mi primera idioma." -- "No, I speak English very well; it is my first language."

Her: "Verdad? Esta cierto que puede hablarlo?" -- "Really? Are you sure that you can speak it?"

Me:
Me: "Si, estoy cierto. Soy guerro." -- "Yes, I'm certain. I'm a 'white boy'."
Me:

Her:
Her: "Oh, buenas noches." -- "Oh. Good night."[/quote]


You should have answered in Polish.

[mommas_boy]

[quote name='Norseman82' post='1613723' date='Jul 31 2008, 12:31 AM']You should have answered in Polish.[/quote]

[Nun of That]

"Disculpe Senor, quisera aprender ingles" really means: "Excuse me Sir, I would like to learn English"

Edited August 1, 2008 by Nun of That