Languages!

Blancie · **Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:17 am Languages!**

Do you speak/are you learning/would you like to learn any other languages? If so, how many and what are they?

I did German in High School and a little bit of French and I'm currently learning Russian which is going really well! I love it...it seems complicated at first...but it's pretty simple once you get going.

I really wanna get fluent in Russian. In the future I'd love to try Polish! And I wouldn't mind giving German a second chance too, I really enjoyed it in school. Hungarian's another I'd like to try. I'm just obsessed with Europe! I really wanna travel and I don't think I'll ever get bored of learning new languages. Being able to speak another language opens up so many doors! However, there was a time when I totally hated it. So yeah...I wanna hear what you think.

squiggy · **Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:22 am**

I speak English to a finer degree than most english teachers, not that you'd pick it up with my typing skills, as my writing, and typing both, are rather horrific.
I can speak both common, and old tongue S'cwmp'c((The tribe I belong to)), but I do it with a "White man accent", as I have my mother's european tongue, and can't stop the damn r's from rolling.
I can also curse in an additional two languages. It used to be 7. lol

Blancie · **Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:11 am**

Awesome

IntrepidIsMe · **Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:36 pm**

I took spanish for eleven years, but I've forgotten nearly all of it and I wasn't all that great. After a while I just didn't care anymore I guess. I've always wanted to know how to speak French, though. I took a course a couple semesters ago but the teacher was eh.

Birdy · Socialist Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 13502 Location: Here.

I speak Dutch & English very good and a little French, Spanish and Italian. I'd like to speak Italian better because it's such a beautiful language. I'm going on a holiday this summer for 3 weeks so I'll get more into it then I guess

Pan13 · **Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:16 pm**

My native language is German.
I took English throughout all of secondary school (duh, it was manditory), French from 7th to 10th grade, Russian from 11th grade til the end (we have 13 grades), although I already knew some Russian as I am half-Russian (also, I believe I can speak it way better than my fellow students...it's because I could really practise at home and stuff), and last summer I did an intensive 6-week-course in Dutch and now I'm fluent

Well, I have to be, I attend university in the Netherlands, and that was sort of the entrance requirement (we had to take an official state exam called NT2 (Nederlands als tweede taal).

deltaflyer3 · Lieutenant Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 137

i only scpeak English, Spanish, and very little French

squiggy · **Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:17 am**

You aren't missing much.

((Sorry, I know it's a national language, here in Canada, but I'm not personally a fan.))

Lt. Saavik · Lieutenant Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 196 Location: Europe

Well, I can speak Italian (my mother tongue), English and German. I've also studied French, Romanian, Dutch and Finnish.

Thomas · **Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:25 am**

I can speak English and I've studied French for the last 9 years (current in my second year of a university degree involving French, so I'm pretty good, but not quite fluent). I studied Spanish for four years until I left school but I can still understand a lot, as I proved to myself in Barcelona in January. I also speak a little bit of Welsh, coming from Wales and being obligated to study it in school, and two weeks ago I signed up to a Beginners' Catalan course, so jo parlo una mica de Catal�,

Debra · Sweetest Angel Joined: 26 May 2007 Posts: 444

I can only speak four words in German

squiggy · **Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:00 am**

Valathous · **Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:16 am**

lionhead · **Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:28 am**

My native language is Dutch and i speak fluent English.

A little bit of German and French.

Monkey · **Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:39 pm**

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Long time, no see.

I'm finishing up the three year Japanese program here at uni, and considering taking second years of study in German and Russian.

Seven of Nine · **Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:26 am**

I speak English, and at the moment that's enough for my brain

I can understand a bit of French (studied at school for 5 years) and Dutch (not studied at all...). I also can translate from the Scouse and Geordie dialects of English, which do sound very much like other languages when spoken properly, with a heavy accent

Ntypical · **Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:51 am**

I speak English, bad English, redneck, Spanish, Russian, and can not speak it, but can understand Japanese pretty well. Though it has been a long time.

You will enjoy Russian. It is a very powerful language and you should have fun with it.

B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9 · **Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:36 am**

I know some American Sign Language. I took it whilst in college. I really enjoyed those classes!! My prof was deaf, so the entire class was always taught via ASL. You were very much forced into paying attention and learning it. I hope to take more classes one of these days!

Lord Borg · **Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:55 pm**

I really only know English, but have seen Spanish in text enough to get the idea of certain sentences, and thanks to a couple other people I know, have an idea on some french terms. Can I speak it or understand it? No, not really. So pretty much, it's just English.

Captain Dappet · **Wed May 27, 2009 7:17 am**

I know a bit of German, fluent English and fluent Swedish. And bits and pieces from a few other languages. Que hora es?

Da zvidania!

minituvok · **Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:23 am**

My first language is English. Being from Alabama and all, I have a harsh Southern accent.

I am fluent in Korean, partially fluent in Chinese (I can't read or wrote Chinese, but I can do both in Korean!) and am currently learning French. After I get the basics of French, I want to try either going back and learning Spanish again (I took one year of it a couple of years ago) or try my hand at Russian.