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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
--Joey
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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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01-15-2007, 08:33 AM
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Fluent: English
25 words or less: Irish and Spanish
I've tried to learn another language but it just doesn't work I forget the words as quickly as I learn them, I will attempt to learn Irish again this year though.
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01-15-2007, 11:19 AM
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french touch
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Fluent : French and english
Advanced : German, just one step away from being fluent
Getting there : Russian, but I'm spending four months this year, hopefully I'll get this one into the "fluent" category !
25 words : Nepali, Romanian
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01-15-2007, 03:30 PM
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fluent: Portuguese and English
some: spanish
more than 25 words: french, italian and im teaching myself some arabic (i know some random words, like olive and tall and tree, but the only think i can come up with that is I am a tall olive tree, which probably isn't too useful).
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01-22-2007, 12:06 PM
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Fluent: English
Close to fluent: French
Competent: Lithuanian
Survival: Spanish
25 words or more: Polish, Italian, German, Japanese
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01-22-2007, 06:17 PM
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fluent- english
some- spanish (4years at school)
japanese (some self taught- 1st year level at best, im pretty crap actually)
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01-22-2007, 07:03 PM
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Fluent: English
Getting There: Spanish
Can Understand: French, Italian, Portugese, can't speak them though.
Miserable: Mandrin
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01-22-2007, 08:52 PM
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mentira, does your screen name come from spanish word for "lie" or some other random thing?
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01-23-2007, 02:17 PM
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Yoda
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-Fluent: English and Spanish (depending on the day)
-Can get around passably and understand a fair bit in movies: French
-Can make it through a day without getting myself killed but that's about it: German
-A few words and phrases here and there: Arabic, Hindi/Urdu, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, Hebrew, and a few swear words in Finnish
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01-23-2007, 03:20 PM
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Fluent-English
Some-Spanish...have been taking lessons since living here and I hope to be fluent in a year.
25 words-I probably know about that much in French thanks to school.
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01-23-2007, 03:27 PM
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English, duh, I'm from the states
Spanish, 50 words or so
can be polite and learn the basics for the countries I'm visiting
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01-23-2007, 04:01 PM
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Fluent: English
Some: French, I can hold a conversation but may ask you to slow down
More than 25 words: Spanish, 1 year at the CC
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01-25-2007, 06:34 AM
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Assistant to the Manager
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Fluent in English and French
Some Mandarin. Hopefully fluent in about a year or two.
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01-26-2007, 06:27 AM
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Fluent: English and spoken Spanish
Advanced: Written Spanish
Can hold a shitty conversation(took 1 1/2 years at school): French
More than 25 words: German and Dutch
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01-26-2007, 07:40 AM
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Fluent: English and American Sign Language
Advanced: Latin
I know a few words in Portuegese
I have an uncle who speaks six langauges.
I was thrown out of both my high school and college Spanish classes. I remember calling my high school Spanish teacher a puta. She really was one. I always try to tell the truth, even in another language. I couldn't hear the audio tapes and I asked them if I could just do it face to face outside of class. They all said no. I wonder sometimes if their intention is to educate young people or just be oppressors of the oppressed. Sorry, I'm ranting.
Cheers!
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