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Do you speak another language?

Puedo hablar el Español (bueno, es Español Canario) porque vivo en Tenerife para parte del año... Y mi novia cree que es guapo. :p

I'm fluent in English (duh) and Spanish as I live in Tenerife for large parts of the year, as mentioned above, and I can speak small bits of French. I love languages and I've always seemed to have a knack for them but I never seem to get on with any of my language teachers.

May try my hand at Japanese one day.
 
Fluent in English, as with many students in the UK, a smattering of French. I can read Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, but that's not so much use on its own :eek:
Oh, I'm also learning BSL, if that counts.
 
This conversation actually makes sense in Finnish:

"Kokoa kokoon kokko!"
"koko kokkoko?"
"Koko kokko"

:)
 
skunk said:
Your French is a little bizarre, too. :confused:
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Il y a un truc que je ne comprends pas Skunk. T'es français ou tu fais seulement semblant ? Bon, je sais bien que je ne suis pas né en France et que mon vocabulaire ou ma grammaire sont loin d'être infaillible. Mais je n'ai à ce jour encore jamais entendu un seul français qui a "gagné" une examen.

Sauf peut-être une petit veinard qui a joué et Lotto des diplômes et qui s'est retrouvé le grand "gagnant" d'un BAC littéraire.
 
Juan Moro said:
For iMacZealot: a VERY good way of learning a language and getting rid of the kind of mistakes you make, is watching LOTS of episodes of Friends several times:
1st, in English, so you know what they're talking about.
2nd, in French, with English subtitles (depending on your level, you can skip this step)
3rd, in French, with French subtitles.
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I've been refreshing my french by watching House in french. Friends seems like it would be the best choice, though.
 
No problem skunk.
For an english man your french is very impressive. And I mean that in a good way.:)
 
I'm really interested in languages. My first language is English. I started taking Spanish in 6th grade at my middle school. To be honest, I really dislike the Spanish language, but it was the mandatory language (there were no other choices). When I applied for high school, I found out I could easily get into Spanish 2, so I stuck with it even though I don't like it. :rolleyes: In my junior year I think I can start to take two languages at once, so I'm going to continue with Spanish and start German.

I'll try to translate everything I just said now. This might not be good. :D

Me encanta las idiomas. Mi idioma favorita está la inglés. Comienzí aprender el español cuando tengo once años. Honesto, no me gusta el español, pero era la idioma necessita (hay no otras opciones). Cuando entrí por el escuela segundo, aprendí que puedo entrar español dos, asi tomo el español. En mi tercer año, puedo tomar dos idiomas. Tomaré español y alemán.

Phew, that took a while. Some of the verbs are probably wrong, but it should convey what I'm trying to say.
 
French - A in A Level standard (although I'm busy doing the AS course right now)
Italian - Quit after A* in Italian, still that standard
 
Just a couple.

German - native
English and Spanish - fluent
French - advanced
Portugues - basics

I am always aiming to be close to native fluency with the languages. Still working on the French and the Portuguese though, one of these days...
 
Fluently:
English (American and Australian written, i guess)
Spanish
Portuguese
Danish (can understand Swedish and Norwegian since they're similar)

Not so fluent, but alright:
German
Russian
French
Arabic

I do try to keep up with my languages and practice just about every day with one of them. I don't want to loose any of my knowledge of these languages because I think I want to have a good international job so I can see the world and travel.
 
belair said:
Hi there.

I speak four languages, I am fluent in German and French.
My english is getting worse as time pases by and I hardly find an occasion to speak it. But, there's Macrumors to keep me on the page.

If you think you are going to fail a test. You could write.

Je n'ai pas assez révisé. ( I haven't done my homework properly)
J'ai peur que mon examen, devoir, va mal se passer. ( I fear my exam, test, is going to turn out to be a failure)

Again, my english is not so good.
Languages are fun tough. I would love to improve my italien wich is really really bad.
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You think your English isn't good? You must have high standards! :eek:
Juan Moro said:
I've never been in any English speaking country for more than a few hours, but my English is much better than what you'd expect, so I think for me it worked quite well!
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Wow!! :eek:



I'm amazed by some of you.

I speak English fluently, understand Cantonese fluently (but speak at the level of a 6 year old :confused: ), can pick up some Mandarin words here and there, and am trying to learn Japanese, which is difficult. I'm definitely not a language person, and being in sciences all my academic life means that I haven't had much time to work on the other parts of my brain. I feel weak at this, but I still try to learn Japanese.

Juan Moro, I don't know how you learned English so well without ever going to an English speaking country, but it's amazing.
 
psycoswimmer said:
Me encanta las idiomas. Mi idioma favorita está la inglés. Comienzí aprender el español cuando tengo once años. Honesto, no me gusta el español, pero era la idioma necessita (hay no otras opciones). Cuando entrí por el escuela segundo, aprendí que puedo entrar español dos, asi tomo el español. En mi tercer año, puedo tomar dos idiomas. Tomaré español y alemán.

Phew, that took a while. Some of the verbs are probably wrong, but it should convey what I'm trying to say.
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My eyes hurt, and my brain is trying to get out of my head. No offense intended, but let me edit your text:
Me encantaN lOs idiomas. Mi idioma favorito ES EL inglés. COMENCÉ A aprender el español cuando TENÍA once años. EN SERIO, no me gusta el español, pero era EL idioma OBLIGATORIO (hay HABÍAN otras opciones). Cuando ENTRÉ EN segundo, ME DÍ CUENTA DE que PODÍA IR A español dos, asi QUE ELEGÍ español. En tercero, PODRÉ ELEGIR dos idiomas. COGERÉ español y alemán.

Abstract said:
Juan Moro, I don't know how you learned English so well without ever going to an English speaking country, but it's amazing.
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Lots of hours watching Friends, and the internet. Although, to be honest, I speak quite slowly when I try to imitate your accent instead of just letting the French guy inside me speak on my behalf.
I've been two times at LAX and London Heathrow for a few hours between flights, and last week I hosted two couchsurfers.
 
I speak English (native) and a little bit of French, which I studied for five years in high school and college. Unfortunately, that was 10 years ago, and I haven't been exposed to it much since then, so I don't remember much at all. If I'm looking at a French text, I can recognize a lot of the words, but I have a terrible time comprehending spoken French at this point. I used to be better.
 
My tip to learn French: listen to France Info all day long. At least that's how I did it, when I moved to France back in '96. It's a 24-hour news radio station that repeats the headlines eight times an hour. So even if the first time you catch about 10%, by the time you've managed an hour you've heard the same thing eight times and have a fair idea (i) what they're talking about, and (ii) what's going on in the world - or in France, anyway. You'll be a bit lost at first, what with all the French politicians, celebrities, etc. they keep talking about, but you'll soon figure out who's who. OK, it's not as amusing as Friends, but it's much more educational, and at least it's authentically French and not dubbed American. Listen online at http://www.france-info.com/

Bon courage !
 
skunk said:
Tu as raison, belair. On peut réussir un examen, pas gagner. Gagner, c'est le résultat. J'avais tort.

Je suis anglais, btw.
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From the little I remember at school, it was always "réussir à un examen" A quick Google shows that French is getting less strict in its grammatical constructs. I like the Danish for to fail an exam "dumpe" - it says it all.

I can speak a number of languages to varying degrees of fluency, but am pleased to see another Ukrainian speaker here. Here's hoping we get Ukrainian support for Mac OSX by 10.6
 
Jasonbot said:
I speak more than one language, living in a country with 11 official languages can be quite tricky but it's alright. I can't speak any African languages but I can speak Afrikaans.

And in Afrikaans:

Ek praat meer as een taal, as jy in 'n land bly waar daar 11 tale is kan dit 'n bietjie moelik wees maar dit is orrait. I kan nie eenige tale van Afrika praat nie maar ek kan Afrikaans praat.
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or,
Ik praat meer dan één taal, als je in een land woont waar er 11 officiele talen zijn kan het een beetje moeilijk worden maar dat is niet erg. I kan geen enkele taal van Afrika praten maar ik kan wel Afrikaans praten.

That would be dutch :p like me :)
je parle aussi un peu de Français, pas que je apprende le Français dans mon école. :p Everybody in Belgium has to learn French, and we even have a French speaking side of Belgium, so do we have a German speaking part.
 
heh nice thread OP, looks interesting already! :)

I speak English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Hakka (Chinese dialect..so I don't know if that counts :confused:)

My high school French is long gone :p
 
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