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How many languages do you speak?
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portuguese (native), english, spanish.
can read OK italian and french... but never had or tried to speak those
had to learn a bit of romanian also as I was stranded there for a while, numbers and such to buy stuff, but those funny characters elude me
English (Primary)
Spanish (Slowly learning)
Apple (As my family says #)
I also know the two important phrases that you must know in some of the major languages (as an old friend told me years ago):
1) Where's the bathroom?
2) I need a beer.
Number two isn't as important.
Spanish (Slowly learning)
Apple (As my family says #)
I also know the two important phrases that you must know in some of the major languages (as an old friend told me years ago):
1) Where's the bathroom?
2) I need a beer.
Number two isn't as important.
Chinese (cantonese), French and English.
I can understand Mandarin if one speaks slowly and I can get by reading Spanish.
I can understand Mandarin if one speaks slowly and I can get by reading Spanish.
English (native), and basic conversational French and Hungarian. I started learning German, but I've decided to improve my French and Hungarian before adding another language - I'd rather be fairly competent in 2 non-native languages than fairly poor in 3, and maintaining without constant use is difficult.
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You forgot "Where is my lawyer?"
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You forgot "Where is my lawyer?"
It is rare that someone learns a language of such a small country.
(Gratulálok. Örömteli, hogy tanulod a világ egyik legszebb és leggazdagabb nyelvét. Sok sikert!)
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Fluent in: English, French, Russian, Hungarian.
Understand and read in some other languages.
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English. I've had several years worth of Spanish in high school and am taking it in college again to fulfill a foreign language requirement for my degree so hopefully by the end I'll be somewhat fluent.
C#, Python, Ruby, Obj-C, Javascript ... oh wait ...
I was looking for this post.
I nearly failed English and it's my mother tongue.
I can speak enough Mandarin to get slapped or, if dropped in the middle of China, to survive for maybe a few weeks. I can read & write some pinyin but otherwise nothing.
My Spanish is ok if I stay in the United States.
My old job exposed me to many different languages and we'd have to find a way to communicate. Humans are pretty resourceful in that way. If all else failed, though, it's amazing how pointing a gun at someone while flailing your free hand all around with a wild crazed and fearful look in my eyes could help teach English.
Deutsch als Muttersprache
English, meanwhile also in my dreams
Two years of School-French I totally forgot
Some Latin from Asterix & Obelix. And singing in several choirs in the past
Constant struggle with 日本語
my counter for computer languages is higher
English, meanwhile also in my dreams
Two years of School-French I totally forgot
Some Latin from Asterix & Obelix. And singing in several choirs in the past
Constant struggle with 日本語
my counter for computer languages is higher
Köszönöm!
I confess I had to Google Translate some of what you wrote as I'm not quite there yet.
I'm learning Hungarian because I think Hungary is a beautiful country and I want to be able to travel there more, and once you get out of the tourist sections of Budapest, very few folks speak English. It's such a beautiful language and unlike anything else I've ever learned or heard before.
Köszönöm!
I confess I had to Google Translate some of what you wrote as I'm not quite there yet.
Yes, it is a wonderful and unique country. Like its language. It's close to nothing. There are some similarities with Finnish grammar and about dozen of almost identical words (vesi-víz=water, kivi-kő=stone, sarvi-szarv=horn, veri-vér=blood, kala-hal=fish etc.). Finno-Ugric languages...which is lately questioned. I don't agree as the grammar of these two languages is absolutely unique and they more than resemble.
I had a chance to compare as I have lived for years in Finland.
Know natively or fluently, either now or in the past:
Know a few words:
- English: Native.
- Spanish: This was half of my double major in college/university; nowadays, I can somewhat understand the general subject of a conversation on a telenovela, but would struggle to hold a meaningful conversation with a non-English-speaker without making serious grammatical errors.
- French: This was the other half of my major; I'm now rustier in it than in Spanish because of lack of exposure, although when I graduated I was better at French.
Know a few words:
- tlhIngan Hol, i.e. Klingon: I have the basic Klingon conversation audio CD as a gift; I still couldn't hold a conversation with a serious Trekker, though.
- Korean: I know very little beyond standard hello/goodbye/thank you, though I taught myself how to read the jamo (Korean symbols) so that I knew what I was ordering when reading a menu.
- German: Only from Kraftwerk songs.
I love the way in which the inhabitants of your part of the world modestly state that they speak 'just' three, or four or five languages.
Most of monolinguals who are the inhabitants of the British Isles would love to be as modestly polyglot and proficient in several languages.
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Honestly, I wish I had a reason to learn more, but I haven't been out of the country in almost 16 years.