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Poll Question: What languages do you know, fluently or not?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
72 [4.60%]
27 [1.72%]
26 [1.66%]
17 [1.09%]
6 [0.38%]
580 [37.04%]
1 [0.06%]
9 [0.57%]
1 [0.06%]
2 [0.13%]
5 [0.32%]
6 [0.38%]
13 [0.83%]
784 [50.06%]
17 [1.09%]
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    Posted: August 21 2007 at 23:04
Just a simple poll. Myself, I know English, a bit of Spanish and very little French. I'd like to try learning Italian, German and Russian though.
 
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 English and  Spanish both fluently, I am taking a Japanese course next semester.


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english is primary
 
in spanish class for 4 years
 
knwo about twenty words each of french and german
 
and wanna learn japanese



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Points: 12288 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2007 at 23:16
My native Portuguese plus a few of English and Spanish and a bit of French. I may read Italian and other neo-Latin languages like Catalán and Gallego (the last one is very close to Portuguese).
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Spanish is the only  i can speak fluently LOL, English is close, and Italian a bit

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Originally posted by memowakeman memowakeman wrote:

Spanish is the only  i can speak fluently 



We can tell.  Wink

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I speak English.  That's it.  

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English, and expect me to get better with my Spanish really soon once I start my college course in it. It's been 3 years....
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English...and Indonesian obviously
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Spanish my native language,..english like the indians in cowboy pictures..italian only for read and write(50%).     .I can read and  understand portuguese of Brazil (40%) ,but  I dont understand   the portuguese of Portugal(5%)...and some words in other languages

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English is my native language; I am equally fluent in German meanwhile after having lived in Germany for 14 years. I can make myself understood in Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch


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I speak Romanian (of course), English (not bad I'd say), but I have a problem with French; I've studied a lot of French in school and theoretically I have the basics, but if I start the TV or radio on a French station, I understand nothing of what those people say, they speak very fast and intertwine words. This is very annoying and inhibiting and it turned me off from trying to improve my skills; if I ever get to France, I'll speak English, damn it. There are actually many middle and old aged people here in Romania that speak perfectly French, slower and with mouth fully open and actually using their tongue to differentiate between different sounds as everyone should; when they I listen to them it's pure bliss, seeming like the spirit of the French language and culture survives in the wrong place.
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Français, mon ami. Gotta love that Canadian education.
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My native language is German; I lived in the UK for some time when I was a little kid, so I speak English equally well. Jean and I switch between English and German at home all the time. I understand a lot of Italian, French, Spanish and almost all of Dutch (Dutch is very close to German, and it is quite easy for me to read a Dutch Newspaper, but I don't speak it myself).


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English for preference, plus a minute smattering of Arabic - I always try to learn how to say hello, goodbye, please & thank you in the native language of anywhere I visit - we loved Tunisia so much, it just went on from there... I can order a beer & ask for a packet of cigarettes too, now.

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Fluent in English.
 
Native Serbo-Croatian which all of a sudden turned into 3 or even 4 "different" languages - Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian (Montenegrin on the way), so I kind of became polyglote...LOL
 
Learnt some French and German but can only read some simple sentences.
 
Can understand related languages to my native: Slovene, Macedonian and Bulgarian.
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Points: 5871 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2007 at 07:35
Russian is the one I usually speak, Ukrainian is my native one (I use it rare,'coz I live in area which is almost Russia, and everyone uses Russian only), English and German are my profilic languages (I'm a would-be teacher of both), but I know German very bad, to be fairly honest(got a prove this summer on Loreley fest!!! ). I'd like to learn Italian since I fell in love with all these bands like LOCANDA DELLE FATE and PFM...


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Just mine (spanish), but my english has been improved along this year (thanks to PA, I'd say)
The best you can is good enough...
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English aside, I can manage OK in French (although French speaking members who have met me may disagreeWink) plus odd phrases in Spanish, Italian and Japanese. 
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I just show it with a ranking

- German (because it's native) Embarrassed
- English (could be better - I'm working hard) Big%20smile
- Italian (enough for small talk in Italy) Shocked




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