How many of you know more than one language?

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:55 pm

Oh. Can I go too?

Caroline · Post by **Caroline** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:10 am

i know a little bit of... french, german, korean, japanese, and spanish... english is my first language!

ZombieBunny · Post by **ZombieBunny** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:09 am

I know English and French. Working on Japanese @@

Boy....we are a diverse bunch of people lol

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:09 am

How do you know? I like the English language.

ZombieBunny · Post by **ZombieBunny** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:10 am

Cloud wrote:How do you know? I like the English language.

I do too. I just know....mwhaha

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:14 am

Majored in college with German, though I took two years of French and a year of Russian (all at the same time - that was fun!).
Living in the Marshall Islands for six years, shamefully, I only picked up enough Marshallese to make up some good (terrible, but useful) words, and be polite.

Hm... mostly a smattering of these anymore. But since I work with a bunch of folks from Cuba and the Dominican Republic, I'll be picking up some Spanish.

syan · Post by **syan** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:53 am

I've forgotten most of my French and Chinese.

I just finished my first year of Japanese, which I'll continue in the fall. I wouldn't mind learning Hindi if just to gossip with my mom.

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:15 pm

English is my first language. I was almost fluent in Spanish. I've slacked on that language lately so I can really only read it and listen to it. I fumble speaking it now.

I wanted to learn Russian but we moved before I got registered for the class. I was living in Alaska at the time so it just seemed like the cool thing to do. I'm currently learning Japanese.

klet · Post by **klet** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:38 pm

duotrouble wrote:I was almost fluent in Spanish. I've slacked on that language lately so I can really only read it and listen to it. I fumble speaking it now.

That's pretty much what's happened to me.

My vocab has gone down the drain, but I know what things mean when people are speaking to me.

Joost · Post by **Joost** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:05 am

first of al, my speaking languages are much much better than my writing with you all can see is not my strong point

I speak Dutch, French, English, some German and a word of two Spanisch
We learned this al at school

Belgium is a small country but we have 3 official languages: dutch french and german

I would love to learn Japanees, like most over here I think

Zetsuai · Post by **Zetsuai** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:13 am

german as native language ... learning english, french, spanish and japanese ...

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Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:15 am

"Speak" is a relative term

I pronounce the Japanese I've learned much more correctly than any of the German or French I studied formally.

But I have a reasonable reading knowledge of both German and French, enough to do my former work as a cataloger. I can also work with Italian, Spanish, Latin, and a couple other languages, but I'm not fluent in ANY of them. It's what we used to call "bibliographic knowledge" of the language, enough to pick out the information necessary for the database and for assigning subject headings

shellie · Post by **shellie** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:38 am

I'll use the line my dad always used when I was taking Spanish in high school...

Yah, I know spanish: taco, burrito, enchilada...

So obviously, NO, I don't speak any other languages. But I looove listening to other people speak different languages. Some are so musical, and some have sounds that come from so far down in the throat that I know I could never speak them.

For me, that is one of the best things about travel: getting to hear a foreign language spoken by the native speakers. I am very impressed and jealous of all you guys who speak many languages.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:38 am

Who is your favorite character?

shellie · Post by **shellie** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:42 am

Of course, YOU are my favorite character, Cloud.