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What kind of languages can you speak?

de ceigered, 2010-januaro-22

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ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 10:27:34

What kind of languages can you speak? Are you able to speak from a large variety of language families, to the point where you could be put in any part of the world and still get by? Or are you monolingual and trying to diversify and branch out linguistically? If you are fluent, choose "Fluent in .." in the poll, and if you are learning or don't know completely, choose "Some of ..". No doubt it'll be interesting to see what other languages English speaking Esperantists can do!

If you're not sure where a language you speaks belongs, chuck it in "any other language" or in the region you reckon it belongs. (Sensibly) Forum limitations won't allow for any more categories, sorry!

(Fluent = 2 points for the lang. family, Some of = 1 point, "other" category 2x points, then tally them up to see the most spoken family by our forumers!)

(Also, well learned English speakers may feel free to put down "some of a romance language" even if they never studied a bonafied Romance language, because of the sheer amount of Latin roots in English. This would technically apply to some conlangs as well, but because they're all practically latin based minus the 'Pük and Lojban, it's pretty self explanatory that some knowledge of romance languages is had by someone who speaks a latin-based conlang lango.gif)

Rogir (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 11:33:24

Why is there a category of 'Asian languages'? How are they related?

ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 12:12:37

Rogir:Why is there a category of 'Asian languages'? How are they related?
Haha I can understand your concern - geography, politics, cultural similarities - I didn't want to put them all in the same box (I wanted at least Korean and Japanese to be seperate from China, and I wanted an "east-indo-european" category and an Austronesian category), but I couldn't put in any more categories and had started with the European languages first (due to their relations to English) so now there's some dodgy bias there.

By no means as comprehensive as I wanted it, but in the words of Australian Shadow Prime Minister Tony Abbott: "Life's a b_____" rido.gif

LyzTyphone (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 12:18:43

Then I will check for
fluent in Chinese
fluent in English (have stayed in US for 1 year)

learning Japanese
learning German (nowhere near competent though)

and certainly Esperanto

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Wait, Gothic and Old English? Do they count as Classical? I think Arabic/Hebrew will be much more Classical than they are.

ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 12:42:17

LyzTyphone:Wait, Gothic and Old English? Do they count as Classical? I think Arabic/Hebrew will be much more Classical than they are.
By "Classical" I'm just trying to find a fancy word for, what are essentially, dead languages (but I figured that'd cause a massive problem if I said "dead"). So if you know classical arabic as well as a modern dialect of arabic, you can put that down. Proto-Germanic, on the other hand, might not be regarded as classical because there was no literature written in it, let alone that we don't even know what it was spoken like exactly okulumo.gif - once again, I apologise for some of the ambiguities ridulo.gif

joewolz (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 13:47:43

niko-tina, in the Catholic hcurch they have Latin fluency requirements. Church Latin and classical (Ciceronian) pronunciations exist, and then debate continues, but there are certainly folks (usually clergy) who are fluent.

ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 14:30:17

Well, we know enough about the language to be fluent in the writing if we study it, and you might be able to attain what romans would find as "fluent" if you're willing to live with the fact that there's no chance of attaining a "native" accent lango.gif

But for most things, I'd doubt there'd be problems if you pronounced "meae vaccae mē ēdit" as "meaj uxakkaj me* e*dit" in Esperanto with less emphasis on stress. Just, yeah, no chance of "Native" fluency ridulo.gif

*could be followed by e/j depending on era, dialect etc I guess....

Ironchef (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 20:06:45

I am curious what the 2 votes were for for "fluent in other language". I wonder if we have any "fluent" Celtic/Gaelic speakers in our midst.

Matthieu (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-22 20:14:05

I think I can say I'm fluent in French, Esperanto and English.

And I am learning/learned/more or less tried to learn German, Spanish, Chinese, Finnish and Polish.

ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-23 09:06:32

Ironchef:I am curious what the 2 votes were for for "fluent in other language". I wonder if we have any "fluent" Celtic/Gaelic speakers in our midst.
NOOO! Argh why did you have to mention the celtic languages! Now I feel even MORE guilty of forgetting some of the best languages on earth! rido.gif

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