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Old 01-14-2007, 05:10 PM   #1
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Subject is pretty selfexplanatory.

Which languages do you speak fluently?

Which languages do you speak some of?

Which languages do you know more than 25 words in?

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Old 01-14-2007, 05:11 PM   #2
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Fluent: English
Some: Spanish
More than 25 words: Norwegian and German

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Fluent: I speak English and Malay fluently, although my Malay gets rustier and rustier the longer I am away from home.
Some: Chinese; definitely enough to survive and have little conversations here and there.
More than 25 words: I'm pretty sure I know 25 random French words.
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Fluent: Spanish and English
Some: Italian... i looove it. And I can understand most everything, though I speak with some difficulty.
More than 100 words: French... Some day... someday i'll get to speaking more than 4 phrases in a row... in the future or past tense!
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Fluent: English, Farsi, French

Decent: Spanish

A little, but can pick back up when immersed: Czech, Dutch, German, Japanese
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Fluent: Not a damn one
Some: English, Spanish, Portuguese
25 words: Korean
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Fluent: Dutch
Some: English & German
More than 25 words: Greek
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Fluent: English

Some: French. I'm going into French 5 AP next year, but I'm not really close to fluent. I can have pretty decent conversations, though. (:

More than 25 words: Japanese, maybe? I took a class a couple of summers ago, and if I thought about it I could probably get 25 words, haha.

My friend at work is attempting to teach me Farsi. I can count to ten and and say 'My name is Paula', and 'There is a dog in the trash can'
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Fleunt : English and Spanish

Some: French - working on it again with a few courses after a 4 year hiatus in coursework.

More than 25 words: Italian?
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Fluent - English (native), German
Capable - French, Spanish, Dutch, Czech
Know some (swear) words - Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Serbo-croatian (Austrians lump Bosnian onto S-C, making Bosno-serbo-croatian. Anybody know if that's legit?), Italian, Afrikaans, Polish.

I learned French from my mother and in high school, German from my grandfather and in college, and I'm currently trying to teach myself Dutch (to use with a fellow American who seems to know it by virtue of having the name Hoogerhuis) and Russian, but Russian is slow-going. I've been working on it off and on for a month, but only really have the alphabet and numbers, and half a dozen phrases (thank you, my name is..., how to call somebody a dick). However, if anybody out there is trying to find ways to verbally defend themselves, they need to check out the Swearsaurus. Last I checked, it had curses and curse words in at least 150 languages. The Serbian ones are some of the best, I used them to impress south slav flatmates a ton this year. My favorites for sheer brutality were "may god make you to look for your children with a geiger counter," "may your mother recognize you in a hamburger" and "I hope you see your house on CNN."
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