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Poll Question: What languages do you know, fluently or not?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2007 at 17:43
Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

Originally posted by ProgRobUK ProgRobUK wrote:

English as mother tongue
French - un petit peu
Scot Gaelic - no prog bands sing in gaelic as far as I know
Greek (modern) - or so I fooled myself until a recent visit to Cyprus proved I'd forgotten it all
Latin - all now well forgotten despite 4 years of it
Once was a member of a small group trying to learn an invented language called Loglan
 
Think that's it...
 
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Horslips are one Gaelic Prog band that springs to mind, though I'm sure there must be others (Runrig and Capercaillie fall short of being prog)
 
Thanks for the suggestion.  I've heard of Horslips and probably heard some of their music but don't really remember it.  I'll have to take a listen.
 
As to Runrig, there's some experimental, sort of proggish stuff opening the album Mara - but not enough to make them proggers!
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2007 at 12:06
Italian (native language)
English (not bad at all, I'd sayCry...)
French (used to be better, but it's still pretty decent)
German (not as good as the former, but OK)
Finnish (somewhat rusty after a few years, but when I lived there I got quite fluent)

Like most educated Italians, I can understand written and spoken Spanish, and can also speak it to some degree, though I've never had any formal tuition. I also have a smattering of Swedish that I acquired during my stay in Finland (took classes for three years). Anyway, languages used to be my daily bread until 2001, since I was a language teacher for over 15 year (English, then Italian).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2007 at 17:25
I'm fluent in English and Spanish, and I'm taking Portuguese at the moment.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2007 at 19:47
Me llamo Espanol un poco, pero nada mucho. Despues de mi clase de Espanol este semestre, mi Espanol (will be)....mas o menos. Big%20smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2007 at 19:53
English.... both the southern and 'normal' dialects LOL


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Q. What do you call a person who speaks three languages?
A. Trilingual.
 
Q. What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A. Bilingual.
 
Q. What do you call a person who speaks only one language?
A. American.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2007 at 20:25
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

Q. What do you call a person who speaks only one language?
A. American.


That's not true any more. The majority of young Americans will take Spanish as their foreign language requirement in school. And beyond that, we really don't need anything. That's not snobbery...we hardly ever run into the continental Europeans unless we're on vacation (or when using the internet).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2007 at 20:25
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

Q. What do you call a person who speaks three languages?
A. Trilingual.
 
Q. What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A. Bilingual.
 
Q. What do you call a person who speaks only one language?
A. American.
 
 


hahahha.. yeah something like that.... the question is.... which language is it.  Half the country speaks English.. and we have those enlightened folks who, like me, studied languages like French and German..... only to find that 20 years later... the French and Germans never invaded and the other half of the country speaks Spanish AND English LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2007 at 20:36
I am fluent in English and semi-fluent in Kobaian.  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2007 at 22:58

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Me llamo Espanol un poco, pero nada mucho. Despues de mi clase de Espanol este semestre, mi Espanol (will be)....mas o menos. Big%20smile

Nice name that, Espanol...

Does anyone speak Esperanto?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2007 at 01:03
^ Embarrassed
 
Dunno what I was thinking then. All I know is I was tired. Sleepy
 
Should be "hablo" or a similar verb.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2007 at 03:27
Most Malaysians, like me are trilingual (our national language = Malay + English + native language).
 
As for me, I'm an ethnic Chinese, so naturally Mandarin is my mother tongue.
Know a tiny bit of French. Hope to learn it "properly" as well as Hindi and Italian.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2007 at 17:44
LANGUAGES!!!!!
I love languages
My native tongue is English but I speak Greek and German fairly fluenty (I live in Greece and studied German at University), I studied French to advanced level when I was at school and Spanish for two years (though I really can't remember all that much). 
 
Actually I have a strange problem with languages.  When I hear music from another country which I really like, I want to understand the lyrics, as I feel that understanding them is really important to appreciating the music.  I will go to extraordinary lengths to try to understand them, such as buying a dictionary and grammar reference book.  I think it is also partly curiosity.
 
Actually, it might even be worth starting a thread to see if any other members have had the same experience.
 
Thinking or changing my login name to "Babelfish"  Why didn't I think of this before?
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2007 at 22:46
Dutch (native speaker)
English (very good, allmost like Dutch)
German (reasonably well, I live within 1 km of the German border)
French (I get around...)
Portuguese (not good enough, wish it was better...)
 
Other languages I'm crap.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2007 at 19:45
English + some italian ^^
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2007 at 14:27
A speak:
Danish
English
German
Portuguese
 
In addition I can read
Swedish
Norwegian
French
Spanish (to my big surprise since I've never studied Spanish)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2007 at 22:48
English is my native language. Besides that, I speak German, but I could polish it a bit...or a lot. I'd like to learn Spanish and Arabic as well, so I'll see how that goes. Maybe something else....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2007 at 23:21
I grok Tralfamadorian. Wink
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2007 at 00:37
Croatian (and naturally therefore manage the rest of the languages from ex-yu, and understand at some point most slavic languages)
Spanish
English

Read:
Portuguese
French
Italian


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2007 at 21:53
I only speak French, I can't even write English. 
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