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Post by Beelzebibble on Mar 30, 2007 14:00:51 GMT -5
That is, which languages do you speak? Besides English, I mean.
I'm learning Japanese right now. I've also studied Latin for a long time, and a fair bit of French but I've forgotten most of it. And very little Greek and Italian.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 30, 2007 17:22:18 GMT -5
I am passably good in French, which I have 5 years in.
Also, I know enough latin to understand most terms and such from it, though I can't speak it fluently. I plan on taking some in college.
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Post by ch00beh on Mar 30, 2007 18:10:16 GMT -5
I have three years of French, but I've forgotten enough that I can barely not understand speech. I can barely understand written word. I'm also mostly fluent in understanding Tagalog, since both my parents are Filipino, but I can't speak it at all.
And I can swear in Italian.
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Post by Prof. Cinders on Mar 31, 2007 6:59:58 GMT -5
I can speak limited French, severely limited German, and quite a bit of Latin (ancient, not medieval or modern), after having studied it for 4 years or so. And a teeny tiny bit of japanese picked up from various anime ^^"
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Post by Beelzebibble on Mar 31, 2007 11:37:53 GMT -5
We should have guides where people can post some basic vocabulary and grammar. Teach each other stuff. That'd be awesome. I call Japanese.
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Post by Prof. Cinders on Mar 31, 2007 12:50:12 GMT -5
I call Latin!
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Post by Lady Kara on Mar 31, 2007 20:37:00 GMT -5
I know a little Japanese, and can read katakana.
My spanish is limited to food, since I work at Burger King and use it to make it easier on the kitchen staff when I ask for things. I do know a bit more than that, enough to make amusing comments on fellow co-workers, but not as much as I know of Japanese.
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Post by balbanes on Mar 31, 2007 23:31:29 GMT -5
i call french!
i'm fluent in english and french. Took it for four years in high school, can read and write it quite well. I know some spanish, some italien, and some russian.
My fav language which im trying to learn now, and what i already know some thing in is farsi, or persian.
I know swears in just about every language, and know alot of saying in lesser known branches of languages, or rural one, like hawaiian, its not really a launguage, but there is a lingo. You know?
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Post by bulbaboy on Apr 2, 2007 15:14:07 GMT -5
I call German!
That's the only other language I know.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 2, 2007 15:28:22 GMT -5
i call french! i'm fluent in english and french. Took it for four years in high school, can read and write it quite well. I know some spanish, some italien, and some russian. My fav language which im trying to learn now, and what i already know some thing in is farsi, or persian. I know swears in just about every language, and know alot of saying in lesser known branches of languages, or rural one, like hawaiian, its not really a launguage, but there is a lingo. You know? Dude. Revoke your dibs on French and teach us a little Farsi. That is so cool.
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Post by ch00beh on Apr 2, 2007 21:06:01 GMT -5
my friend taught me that "choob" in Farsi means "wood." Complete coincidence, I swear.
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Post by Bub@ on Apr 3, 2007 0:56:18 GMT -5
Spanish was my first language. English was my second one. I also took 3 years of Japanese at my high school, but haven't been practicing that much since then, except by watching anime. I can understand it pretty good, and can talk it, but I suck at writing it. I just keep forgetting all the Kanji.
I'm surprised by how many people actually know more than one language.
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Post by albatrosstrevelyan on May 21, 2007 14:04:38 GMT -5
I would absolutely love to know japanese solely from all the cool japanese stuff I like! So if someone wants to teach me Jap. Then yay!
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Post by Beelzebibble on May 21, 2007 14:08:02 GMT -5
I did post the first lesson of Japanese, but since no one has yet replied, I haven't yet seen fit to proceed to Lesson Two.
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Post by Q on Dec 26, 2009 22:24:08 GMT -5
Pohatu, shaaaaaame for not using a participle in the title of this post. My first language was English, followed closely by French and Latin (which we started at an early age). I'm still pretty good with French, but I've forgotten most Latin. I've studied a little bit of Greek, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Baha Indonesian, and I can read Spanish fairly easily, but my main love is Japanese. I speak it fluently, but my kanji skills are pretty limited...I can only read 300 or so without having to dig through a kanji dictionary. This all came from three years of studying in high school and a summer as an exchange student in Yokohama. Cool stuff. Anyone else been abroad?
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 26, 2009 22:32:08 GMT -5
I have not been abroad, though the rest of my family has. They've lived in England, Belgium and Germany. In fact my Uncle Kip and his family moved back to the states from Germany just this past year. My cousin has been taking German for at least 3 years (it's been a year since I talked to her about it, so I don't know if she does anymore). I've studied it since I was little, but I haven't managed to learn much, though I can typically read it and get some idea of what's going on.
I'd love to take German, but there's no one around my location that can teach me, including my college. Oddly enough they teach Arabic though.... As well as Spanish (least that makes some sense), which I find rather annoying.
My counselor took German for 3 years, and we held a very short conversation about the language, and we also spoke some.
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Post by Q on Dec 26, 2009 22:36:59 GMT -5
German is the shit. I'm totally in love with the compound word "gestaltungsmöglichkeiten."
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 26, 2009 22:45:07 GMT -5
I also took Spanish for a year. Didn't want to though, I'd have preferred taking French, but they wouldn't let me. I lucked out though, they let me graduate with only one year of language (we're supposed to have two years of language in high-school). I say lucked out because I really, REALLY don't like the Spanish language. I'm tired of hearing it everywhere I go.
Also, my high-school only offers Spanish as a second language.
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