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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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Old 01-14-2007, 05:43 PM   #3
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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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Old 01-14-2007, 08:06 PM   #4
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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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Old 01-14-2007, 10:52 PM   #5
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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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Old 01-15-2007, 12:09 AM   #6
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Fluent: Not a damn one
Some: English, Spanish, Portuguese
25 words: Korean
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Old 01-15-2007, 08:33 AM   #7
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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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Old 01-15-2007, 11:19 AM   #8
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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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Old 01-15-2007, 03:30 PM   #9
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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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Old 01-22-2007, 12:06 PM   #10
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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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Old 01-22-2007, 06:17 PM   #11
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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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Fluent: English
Getting There: Spanish
Can Understand: French, Italian, Portugese, can't speak them though.
Miserable: Mandrin
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mentira, does your screen name come from spanish word for "lie" or some other random thing?
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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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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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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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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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Fluent in English and French

Some Mandarin. Hopefully fluent in about a year or two.
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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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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.

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