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How many languages do you speak?

של Darkmaster127, 3 בפברואר 2011

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Hispanio (הצגת פרופיל) 17 בדצמבר 2012, 19:18:47

Spanish (natively), Esperanto (almost natively, got it? okulumo.gif ) and English.

Other languages I use for hobby or whatever: Russian and recently Ukrainian.

MikeDee (הצגת פרופיל) 17 בדצמבר 2012, 23:18:23

German, Esperanto and English, but English not so good.

Hispanio:Spanish (natively), Esperanto (almost natively, got it? okulumo.gif ) and English.

Other languages I use for hobby or whatever: Russian and recently Ukrainian.
Nice Avatar. ^^

LiveandLetLove (הצגת פרופיל) 17 בדצמבר 2012, 23:28:01

Let's see...English is my native language, and I plan on making Esperanto a second language. Alongside that, I'm steadily improving my Spanish, and on the sidelines, I can speak bits of French, German, Italian, and Russian(mainly the basic phrases though..I have a much easier time reading them). ridulo.gif

Aubright (הצגת פרופיל) 17 בדצמבר 2012, 23:54:25

English fluently and my Japanese is pretty high up there. Other than that I've dabbled in lojban and esperanto. Perhaps I'll try my hand at French later on down the line?

Fenris_kcf (הצגת פרופיל) 19 בדצמבר 2012, 14:37:10

  • German (mother-tounge)
  • English (learned (or "learnt"? ridulo.gif) it since the 3rd grade - still learning new vocabulary if i encounter it by chance)
  • Esperanto (about to overtake English)
  • Norwegian (began to learn it not long ago, but since it has many similarities to German and English i'm catching up quite well i guess - en fin språk)
  • French (only basics, but i was told that i'm quite talented to manage the correct pronounciation - don't know if that's true)
  • Latin (well, i can translate most Latin written sentences, but hardly the other way round)
I'm thinking about learning Lojban and Folkspraak (if there will ever be a "stable" version of it).

Vilius (הצגת פרופיל) 19 בדצמבר 2012, 18:20:20

Lithuanian. That's the way to talk to my Mom.
English. As far as I'm concerned it's the real lingua franca.
Russian. Helps to buy some lepyoshka in Dushanbe.
Esperanto. What I learned instead of Polish, because I'm lazy.

At different times in my life I also tried my tongue with Polish (technically I can't speak the language, but you'd be surprised how far "dzień dobry" and "k*r*a" can get you!), French (OMG it's worse than English!), Tajik (ongoing project).

scorpjke (הצגת פרופיל) 19 בדצמבר 2012, 18:44:24

1. Russian - native.
2. English - who doesn't?
3. Japanese - the language of anime and also my fiance lol
4. Spanish - a little.
5. Ukranian - it's really similar to Russian so I'm not really sure if it counts.
6. Esperanto - does it count?

razlem (הצגת פרופיל) 20 בדצמבר 2012, 04:29:43

English (native)
German (semi-native)
Spanish
Mandarin
Angos
Esperanto and Danish I'm learning slowly.

creedelambard (הצגת פרופיל) 20 בדצמבר 2012, 14:35:29

English. My native language. Growing up in the United States, it would be difficult to get by in society if I didn't know English. (Not impossible, but difficult.)

German. I learned enough German in five years at the pre-university and university level to get by. Well more than get by, I was reading Hesse and Schiller and Borchert and a few other well known guys in the original. That was 40 years ago and I've since lost much of that, but I can still follow simple conversations and catch a little bit of the dialog on Deutsche Welle and podcasts and the like.

Mandarin. I took about a year at university and enjoyed it but I can't do much more these days than counting to 99 and saying "Thank you", which highly amuses the woman serving sesame honey chicken at the company cafeteria.

And of course Esperanto.

PS I didn't include computer languages like Perl and Ruby because I don't often hold conversations in them (except with computers of course).

Tempodivalse (הצגת פרופיל) 26 בדצמבר 2012, 16:38:59

English - native, the dominant language for most of my life since everyone speaks it where I live.

Russian - also native, but slightly weaker than English because I use it far less frequently.

Esperanto - proficient.

Ido and Interlingua - passable writing and reading abilities provided I have a dictionary.

Bulgarian and Spanish - I can read most texts but am hopeless at trying to write or say anything myself.

I'm also slowly learning Volapük but my ability is nowhere near sufficient to hold more than a simple conversation. (Yup, conlangs are a hobby of mine.) 18/19th-century German is also on the wishlist so I can read the great German philosophers in the original, but that's a long way off.

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