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Do you speak another language?

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  1. Spanish (native)
  2. English (I keep telling myself that I'm fluent on it)
  3. Catalan (I think the english name for catalá is catalonian, but I'm not sure if besides a demonym is also the name of the language). I'm not fluent on it, but I'm learning every day a little more
 
hey hey, I thought this was a new thread... maybe I posted in this thread, but if I didn't here it goes:

Fluent:
Chinese - Mandarin
Good old British English

Intermediate:
French (I passed DELF B2 - I was so happy when I passed)
German

Beginner:
Learning Japanese.


And accents:
English: everyday - South African, formal - British, for fun: Australian, American
Chinese: everyday - standard Mandarin, for fun: Beijing/Hong Kong


Oh, I dropped Afrikaans off that list a few days ago. I can still speak it -- but I need to forget it in order to make space for Japanese (brain reached max capacity???)

P.S. South African English is pretty much British English except we don't drop the occasional 't' and it's spoken slightly more flat than the Brits.
 
Telp said:
Is Rosetta Stone good? I know of the program but I have never heard what real people think of it.
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Yeah, it is pretty good. I've used it for French and Spanish, I'm not fluent in either but it certainly helps and etches itself in your mind. However, I'd recommend supplementing it with other sources like coffeebreakfrench podcast and if possible speaking with somebody that is french/fluent because that is where I fall down in my languages and the reason that I'm not fluent.

I really want to become fluent in French and Spanish over the next 5-10 years. I'd like to build on my German, too.
 
German (native language) and English. Could have learned French, Chinese and Latin, but I quit all of them.
 
I speak Portuguese fluently (I studied for a while after high school, then moved there for a few months).
I can understand spanish pretty well (mainly because it's pretty much identical to portuguese) but I can't speak for one reason or another.
I can also understand Italian and French for the same reasons.
I took 3 years of German in High School, but I've all but forgotten it.
My native language is English.


And I'm great with Pig Latin too! :D

SLC
 
I can speak read newspaper in Mandarin and speak it fairly well, but I haven't wrote in Mandarin for quite a while. My most fluent one is obviously English, and I know some French. I speak with accent in both Mandarin and French though :eek:.
 
English is my first language, and I've been learning Spanish formally and informally throughout my life. Lately, I've had an interest in Italian so I'm taking it in college.

Anche ho voglio di imparare il francese, perché mi piace le lingue [romance]. (ahh, don't know how to say that last word :eek:)
 
Native English speaker and about 6 years into learning Japanese. In the future, I'd like to also learn French. :)
 
I have learned/am learning the following:
  1. British English (Is there any other?) ~ Mother tongue
  2. French ~ Just enough to get me by in France
  3. German ~ Almost fluent
  4. Russian ~*Not fluent but getting there

I would love to learn Arabic some day but I don't know:confused:
 
obviously english..
i also have picked up on spanish enough from my dad..(whose fluent and can read, write, and speak, even though hes not spanish at all.. it came from owning a farming company i guess)

but using the Thai,mandarin, and japenese lonely planet aps, i am trying to pick up on the key phrases of all three..:)
 
xsedrinam said:
My wife says I often do. :)
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Gibberish and Technobabble are not recognized as other languages... yet.;)

I took 2 years of French in high school but walked away knowing more Spanish from Sesame Street than French.

I understand a little bit of German, and used to know a Polish song (I'm relatively certain it was a lullaby) in my younger years.

Sadly, beyond that I'm purely a geeky monolingual person. I do however possess a gift for understanding broken english. I worked for the English as a Second Language program at my College for one summer and could frequently translate the broken english of the students for other english speakers who were befuddled.
 
andreab35 said:
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Of course, I fluently speak English.
I know a but of Spanish.
I speak Armenian.
I can speak and read Greek.
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Ditto except for the greek.
 
I studied French from high school until junior year of college. I should've kept going/went abroad as I've forgotten much of what I've learned.
 
I speak English (native language), and I can speak French fairly well (taken French since 1st grade, now in my junior year of high school).
 
Why are so many of you learning Latin? It's totaly usenelss. As far as I know it's a dead language.
I speak English, Spanish (fair) and German (fair)
 
I speak English, only English.
In middle school I was forced to take Spanish; failed it.
My freshmen year in high school I took German; got a c- the first semester and a c+ the second semester.
 
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