What Languages Do You Know?

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2002-09-13 01:04pm

I speak bad English, good American, and have a good dialect in sailor-ess, though was not a sailor. Spent time in Japan though only picked up a few phrases, and I know broken Spanish the Mexican varient.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2002-09-13 01:57pm

Native English, can comprehend and make basic conversation in French, German and Japanese, given time.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2002-09-13 02:25pm

English is my first language, but I'm nearly fluent in German (nothing six months in Germany couldn't fix

) and as such, I can understand Dutch were I ever stuck in Holland.

A Big Flying Fish · Post by **A Big Flying Fish** » 2002-09-13 02:37pm

lets see. native language is english, but I can also speak/write/read/listen french to a half decent level, know a bit of german, a fare bit of cockney and can understand but not speak most essex spoken words

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2002-09-13 02:37pm

-English Fluently

-Intermediate French with mild to semi heavy accent depending on the time of day

-I can understand some spanish due to my knowledge of French cuz they're so damn similar.

-Basic Basic Japanese. I just had my final in on wednesday. Then It's off to Basic Japanese

Sandoitchi to biru de ikura desu ka?

20 bucks to the guy who translates that.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-09-13 02:40pm

On the subject of Portugues: Check this out. Especially the hobbies.

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2002-09-13 02:43pm

-English Fluently

-Intermediate French with mild to semi heavy accent depending on the time of day

-I can understand some spanish due to my knowledge of French cuz they're so damn similar.

-Basic Basic Japanese. I just had my final in on wednesday. Then It's off to Basic Japanese

Sandoitchi to biru de ikura desu ka?

20 bucks to the guy who translates that.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-09-13 02:47pm

Sandoitchi to biru de ikura desu ka?

How much for a sandwich and beer?

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2002-09-13 02:53pm

XaLEv wrote:
Sandoitchi to biru de ikura desu ka?
How much for a sandwich and beer?

Got it in one Xalev

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2002-09-13 02:56pm

XaLEv wrote:
Sandoitchi to biru de ikura desu ka?
How much for a sandwich and beer?

Truly amazing, you're really o deus das galinhas
[mad cackling]

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-09-13 03:03pm

Colonel Olrik wrote:
XaLEv wrote:
Sandoitchi to biru de ikura desu ka?
How much for a sandwich and beer?
Truly amazing, you're really o deus das galinhas
[mad cackling]

Indeed.

Boku wa niwatori no kami desu yo!

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2002-09-13 03:36pm

Let's see... fluent American, near-fluent Thai (I have a very hard time with it written -- haven't got the character set committed completely to memory despite it being my first language, probably because I grew up in the U.S.), passable Japanese, and a year's worth of Spanish. I'm surprised at the high concentration of Japanese speakers on this board, though.

Shadow Warchief -- shouldn't the particle be wa (in the general case -- "Kono BIIRU wa ikura desuka?") rather than de (used for indicating means and locations of a specific action -- "Kissaten de tabemashita." or "Hikouki de kaerimashita.")? I have been wrong pretty often with particles, though, despite my experience.

ZaLEv -- you're god of the chickens?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-09-13 03:51pm

Fluent English(obviously) and learning Latin.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-09-13 04:21pm

Evil laughter

I speak English (being as I live in the US), can speak slow-medium conversational Spanish (and read it at about the same level), can fluently understand (does that make sense?) Spanish, if spoken to me not-very-fast, can read a bit of Portuguese (thank you Spanish, and Orson Scott Card), can count to ten in Chinese (thanks to Mr. Nuzum, my English 12 teacher), say the alphabet in German (I've known this since 3rd grade), count to ten in French (since the end of 6th grade), as well as say "red" (also since the end of 6th grade), have an interest in Japanese, HTML, learning JAVA, am minoring in Russian, can say "so much, so little" in Gaelic, and also would like to know both of "my" languages: Hopi and Tewa. I think I win over you all.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-09-13 04:51pm

Datana wrote:Shadow Warchief -- shouldn't the particle be wa (in the general case -- "Kono BIIRU wa ikura desuka?") rather than de (used for indicating means and locations of a specific action -- "Kissaten de tabemashita." or "Hikouki de kaerimashita.")? I have been wrong pretty often with particles, though, despite my experience.

The entry for de in my dictionary says this: "5. (price) at; for."

ZaLEv -- you're god of the chickens?

Yeah. Read the exchange between Colonel Olrik and myself here, and see the post of his I replied to earlier in this thread. 'Sou o Deus das Galinhas' means 'I am the God of the Chickens' in Portuguese. After his post here, I decided to say it in Japanese too.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-09-13 05:24pm

I speak English and high school French. If my mother is to be believed, I used to speak Khmer. I find that odd, as I don't remember ever knowing a single word of it. I'm making it a project to see if I can reacquire some phrases by December.

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2002-09-13 05:44pm

The particle should be "wa" if I was only using one object. For example.

Sandoitchi wa ikura desu ka?

Is "how much for a sandwich?

But with another object, you have to use de.

Ryoho de ikura desu ka?

"How much do they both cost?"

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-09-13 05:48pm

English, North Eastern America dialect

Limited Spanish
Very Limited German

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2002-09-13 06:14pm

Edi wrote:Just out of curiosity, how many and what languages do you people speak? I know most people here are Americans or Canadians, and obviously everyone here knows English to communicate, but what's the spectrum on other languages?

Finnish is my native language, but in addition to that and English I speak a Swedish and German (both of them very badly due to lack of practice).

So, what about the rest of you?

Edi

English is my first language. I can speak French, and I can speak just enough Spanish to make it clear that I'm looking for someone who can speak English to me. I can read French, Spanish, some Italian, some Latin, and some Portugese.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-09-13 06:19pm

I STILL think I win...

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2002-09-13 06:36pm

Well, I know a little bit of Italian. I've always pushed myself to learn more but laziness gets in the way

I studied French for 7 years but I haven't used it in a conversation for over a year.

Bean, I'm interested that you knew some Italian. What country were you in at the time when you were speaking this language (if you don't mind me proding)?

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2002-09-13 06:46pm

Shadow WarChief wrote:The particle should be "wa" if I was only using one object. For example.

Sandoitchi wa ikura desu ka?

Is "how much for a sandwich?

But with another object, you have to use de.

Ryoho de ikura desu ka?

"How much do they both cost?"

Ah. Again, I always mix up my particles, even after six years; I don't think I've ever run across the situation of asking for the price of two separate objects at once before, though. I stand corrected.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2002-09-13 07:53pm

Primary=English
Secondary= Mandarin
Learning Spanish *second year of learning*
Hope to learn German sooner or later.

Cyaround,
Jason

Darth Eris · Post by **Darth Eris** » 2002-09-14 12:44am

Lessee... Spoken languages:
English - Fluent American (Southern Dialect), some British English, various accents
German - 2 years high school
Japanese - Mostly little tidbits from watching too much anime. I can also recognize a couple written characters, and can say "Where is the key?" and "That is a secret."
Russian - Three whole words

Computer Languages:
BASIC - QBASIC, PBASIC, and Visual BASIC to varying degrees
Pascal, C, C++ - All fairly fluently

I can also recognize about half the letters of the Aurebesh.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2002-09-14 12:53am

English - Fluent speaker of, poor spelling
Greek - Fluent speaker of, even poorer spelling
German - Understand it better than I speak it, can make sense of written material
French - Understand it well enough to get by day to day.

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

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