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Sothilde wrote: four
which four?
Two fluently. Bits of a dozen others.
i've spent most of my life learning 'american' which is somewhat different than 'english'. Learned the 'street' japanese which is different than formal. Some formal french and formal german. Now am learning some blended native american tongues.
american only because I am lazy and that's america
Mar 31, 2008
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same as likesforests: two fluently (english, spanish), and understand bits here and there of others (french, portugeues, guarani).
My first language is not english, I learned 2 preety good (Arabic and English and of-cousre I also know hebrew) and a bit of other 2 ( Greek and Japaneise)
Yeah, I speak American-English which is pretty cool cause you ain't got to gots the bestest type of grammer when ya speak. LOL, it's pretty fun
I also like how people from other countries speak English better than those raised with the English language. The reason being is because they take it more serious and it doesn't help when an American grows up around people speaking slang English and incorrect grammar in their words.
I love you all who are not American.
I also am taking Latin. So that makes it easier for me to comprehend words from other countries. Latin is the root of all languages. And it's not dead, a new word has been made recently.
Unfortunately I ONLY speak English.. and I feel terrible for it.
I've taken a few months worth of a spanish course and know some of the basics...
I also know a tiny bit of French, simply from living in an area with a lot of french speakers.
First language: English
Beginner level: Irish
Basic level: Russian
Basic level: Swedish (needs some revision tho!)
Studied French at school but have no interest in that language =)
Russian is by far my favourite at the moment since i have exams. I hope to improve my Swedish over the summer. Farbror and some friendly swedes here have a group which helps.
Working on German, bits of Spanish
Dutch, German, French, English
Mar 31, 2008
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I speak American English natively, and read and write Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek and Neo-Latin. Also, I know tiny smatterings of French (mostly rude words ice-hockey terms), Italian, Swahili, and Russian. But I haven't used any of those last four in ages, and I find that if I'm not using a language regularly, I lose it pretty quickly.
fluently, swedish and English
In german I am also quite good, and my spanish i pretty poor but I am learning :) Still goes to school and I am hoping to learn all four fluently.
a generational issue... nowadays children in USA are told that foreign languages are essential job skills. when i grew up, it was a hobby and a way to bump up your SAT scores because of the latin roots. i took Spanish for the field trips to the ONE mexican restaurant in my city. I imagine the same mindset shift is going on in England and Australia. i don't believe people change, but i do believe they eventually disappear.
I can't really speak any language other than English. But at a site like this you can fake it with babelfish and other translation pages, but I think it makes speak me terribling maybe.
I think that people whose first language is English, are quite lazy about learning other language's, and I am just amazed that so many people on this site whose first language is not English can speak and write in English. (ferlop excused, but I love his postings) (No really, really I do). How many Language's have you learnt, to speak?