Languages
 

So, what languages do you know? I can speak German well, and Czech not so well. Will start learning some Spanish v soon for a holiday later this year.

German
Dutch
French
English

Spanish and English

dutch
english
french

i can understand a lot of german and spanish too

serbian/croatian/bosnian
english
dutch more or less
spanish not very well.

Can we say which is our native Language?

I feel I need to learn more languages.

speak: spanish, english, french

read: all of the above plus portuguese & some italian (w/ dictionary)

other: with enough alcohol, any language

well don't mind your language knowledge based on the replies in this thread: trasher and i are both belgian and its very common to learn french, english and german here (definitely the first two) and from what i understood, king_buzzo comes from serbia.. its always useful to know languages of course. but with spanish and english, you're doing pretty well i think :)

Yeah, Spanish is my native language, while English is my second one.

American.

no pig latin?

me don't knows much numbers of them.
onely italiano end sum others things for others langues, like inglish and spagnish and gherman, and her stand?

I speak three languages. each more poorly than the other.

engrish (no idea where I got it), mexican (self taught) and german (3 years wasted in high school).

please note: I do not speak spanish. I speak mexican (although it was close enough to get me by in spain).

My mastering of the English language scares people off. I read and to an extent undersdand Spanish and French fluently. My first language is Italian, which i master way better than most Italians.

My first language is English, which is...well...um...look, I speak German damn well. Isn't that enough?

No. I adore languages, spellings and their meanings.

I


:p

[just taking the piss, don't flip out]

:D

It's the internet. I'm lazy. And you're not that important.

Me starts crying like a spoilt brat. (Uh, by the way, me agrees with ya).

Look at the different spellings and marvel. I can only compare stars to that.

sarramkrop - clearly I owe you a drink. Why? Who cares, I just do. Are they any languages you'd like to learn right now?

I have a muslim prayer stuck on my front door. Tomorrow?

Yeah, why not?

k. I'll pm.

Coolio.

YOU WOUND ME, KIND SIR.

You speak the language of fire? Ye gods, what other unearthly powers do you possess?

i make a mean bloody mary

!@#$%! - clearly, you have skills beyond any Englishman. You shall be my new god.

PS. Can you make a decent curry?

im afraid the term "curry" eludes me, because i've never been to britain-- but i've been know to make chicken tikka masala -- does that count?

Yes, it will, if said curry has no sultanas in it. Otherwise, I'm forced to downgrade your status from god to emperor.

Never been to Britain, eh? If you do get the chance, you do need to check out Brick Lane (i.e. curry central) in London.

i had to google sultanas -- apparently in america known as thompson seedless raisins.

can i saw "eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww"?? oh chicken tikka masala??

please-- worship me as the sun.

Sun God, eh?

"Hey Homer, I'm worshipping the Sun God now. Making plenty of scratch from it".
"Scratch, eh?"
"Yep, me and Maude are making plenty of dough"
"Maude, eh?"

I'll do it!

Re. the sultana thing - in the 70's, English people thought that any curry was not complete without sultanas. The very idea of that makes me want to heave.

I speak English and psychobabble fluently.

I can speak okay-ish Russian, but I can't read it.

I can get by in French, German and Italian ("get by in", in my case, means I can sing a few songs in those languages and hold a very boring conversation in them.)

I know how to say a few "useful" things (ie: "hello, goodbye, yes, no", "you are disgusting", "fuck off", "happy birthday", "where's the toilet") in Welsh, Swedish, Spanish, Dutch, Cantonese and Japanese.

I want to learn (properly learn) more Slavic languages. Polish, Czech/Slovak and "Serbo-Croatian", mostly, because I want to do some more traveling around that part of the world.

UK English (colour)
US English (color)
Olde English (coloure)
Australian (malonga gilderchuck)
Canadian (colour, 'eh?)

Katy - Czech is a bit of a headache to learn (I've been doing it for 5 years now), but I really enjoy it, and it was dead useful in my last time in the Czech Rep. If you have enough (or any?) money, the Czech Centre in London does good courses.

Funny you mention that. My Mum and I were talking about it yesterday and she said if I was serious I should look up classes at (I think she said) the Czech Centre. I was just looking at what evening classes are available at UCL's school of Slavonic and Eastern European studies too.. they look pretty good.

I haven't done a lot of research into the specifics yet, but I'm sort of hoping it won't be TOO hard to learn any of these languages since I've already got a good basic grasp of Russian. (Though I'm sure the reading and writing part will screw me..)

Good luck. Mastering Russian goes hand in hand with mastering the Cyrillic alphabet, which intimidates people from learning an otherwise fairly easy language. I've struggled for years with trying to be 'fluent', but I'm constantly relearning the alphabet, what with the soft and hard vowels from outer space.

If you know Russian, it's a least a start to getting to grips with Czech (the grammar and all that). We have a student in my class who speaks Russians, and he sometimes goes into Russian, which doesn't impress our Czech teacher (who has a degree in Russian).