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01-14-2007, 05:10 PM
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No one regrets traveling
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Which languages do you speak?
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?
--Joey
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01-14-2007, 05:11 PM
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No one regrets traveling
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Fluent: English
Some: Spanish
More than 25 words: Norwegian and German
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01-14-2007, 05:43 PM
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always trippin'
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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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01-14-2007, 08:06 PM
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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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01-14-2007, 10:52 PM
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Minister of Offense
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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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01-15-2007, 12:09 AM
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To Smart For Mensa
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Fluent: Not a damn one
Some: English, Spanish, Portuguese
25 words: Korean
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07-01-2008, 10:05 AM
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Fluent: Dutch
Some: English & German
More than 25 words: Greek
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07-01-2008, 05:34 PM
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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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07-01-2008, 06:46 PM
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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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07-30-2008, 02:24 PM
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That line about CNN is fucking harsh, btw
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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