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Do you speak another language?

Jaffa Cake said:
I've barely been able to master English, so learning further languages might prove a tad ambitious for me.
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I've noticed this with a lot of the English. Just as well you've got that "talking loudly and slowly" thing to fall back on, eh?

😛
 
I speak english and a bit(very limited) german. The german language is pretty nice, because their grammar is almost the same as ours.
My own language is Swedish.
 
i speak english, spanish, y spanglish.

my mother speaks english and spanish fluently. spanish is her first language.

and my father speaks english, some hebrew, and a little bit of spanish.
 
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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I was born in South Africa and my partner's from South Africa - he can speak Afrikaans but I can't. I'm fluent in English and at conversational level in Korean, Spanish, Russian and AUSLAN (sign language).
 
Juan Moro said:
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.
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Está bien. Pero los Argentinos se ponen nerviosos al leer la recomendación de "coger" cualquier cosa. 😀
 
xsedrinam said:
<Dominicano de paseo en Buenos Aires:> "Oye, señor, una preguntita. ¿Dónde se coge el autobus pa' aca?"
<El Ché:> "Pues, me imagino que sería por el tubo de escape." 😀
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Hehe, está genial el chiste. Siempre me cago de risa cuando escucho a los Españoles usando esa palabra de esa manera. 😀
 
xsedrinam said:
Está bien. Pero los Argentinos se ponen nerviosos al leer la recomendación de "coger" cualquier cosa. 😀
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haha so do venezuelians, i am colombian so i say " coger el bus" as in to take the bus, but they see it completely different, or the word "arrecho o arrecha " for them is to be angry, for us is to be horny, so you can imagine how weirded out (and dissapointed) i was when my classmate told me we should leave class early and go to the library because she was feeling "arrecha" and just wanted to get it over with.....lol
 
juanster said:
haha so do venezuelians, i am colombian so i say " coger el bus" as in to take the bus, but they see it completely different, or the word "arrecho o arrecha " for them is to be angry, for us is to be horny, so you can imagine how weirded out (and dissapointed) i was when my classmate told me we should leave class early and go to the library because she was feeling "arrecha" and just wanted to get it over with.....lol
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You learn a new word, every day. For me, Colombians have a cajillion great expressions and dichos. One of my favorites is sort of synonymous with "red neck", etc. "corroncho"....just rolls off the tongue, nicely. 😀

Here in Quito, if one is happy and content they use "muy enseñado". In Colombia they say "muy amañado" pero se asusta el Ecuatoriano. 😀 I read an article a while ago which deals with the on-going problem in the country of Miami. "Los latinos no se entienden por la variedad de usos de la misma palabra." 🙂 Without a doubt, communication is an art form.
 
I speak fluent english and spanish and some french.It has helped me learn this languages living abroad..a language is just practise and by learning different languages you can also learn more about your own language.For example in english there are tons of words and expressions that come from french and french and spanish are more or less the same..only that french is more like old spanish.Is not that french is worse but it was a language which appeared before than spanish and consequently less evolutionated.Languages are really important ...If it wasn't forn english It would have to be stucked in my country my whole life or having difficulties when travelling or meeting new people.The more languages the best!!😎
 
English
Spanish
Arabic (listening to arabic music right now 😀)
French

Want to learn:

Portuguese
Turkish
Italian
And whatever else seems interesting 🙂
 
I speak portuguese (i'm brazilian) and, of course, english, it's not really bad since i lived in california for 6 months.

i'm surprised there are a lot of people who speak or wanna learn portuguese, i thought it wouldn't be anybody
 
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