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Noah930 05-15-2008 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Hugh R (Post 3944993)
As an ugly American, I just speak slowly and loudly.

Ha ha. Very funny.

For myself: Chinese (Cantonese), English & Spanish. Fluency is another matter.

Arizona_928 05-15-2008 05:11 PM

german and mubble

Joeaksa 05-15-2008 08:00 PM

English, Spanish (lived in Mexico as a kid), German (lived in Germany later on), a bit of Dutch, a bit of Danish (again... you guessed it), understand fair Italian and French and if I am drunk enough try to get along in Russian.

HardDrive 05-15-2008 08:49 PM

I talk ***** all the time.

Wickd89 05-15-2008 08:54 PM

Fluent: English and Spanish. Worked in Lugano and picked up a tiny bit of Italian

My wife is Swiss and speaks quite a few:
English, German (high and swiss), French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and is knowledgeable about Latin (father was a university Latin Professor)..

nostatic 05-15-2008 08:55 PM

Can get around in German. Working on Mandarin but it is slow going. I find Pimsleur to be problematic because I'm a visual learner. I also often can't tell what consonant they are using in the conversation. If there was a booklet with pinyin that accompanied it I'd be a lot better off. I think someone actually did transcribe them...have to google that. I also have chinesepod, which is podcasts.

No substitute for immersion though. The g/f does speak some to me but I don't understand enough. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin (though her Mandarin isn't great according to her). I love listening to Cantonese...Mandarin is kinda harsh by comparison.

JV911SYDNEY 05-15-2008 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Minkoff (Post 3944686)
Who speaks more than one Language?

english (1st)

italian (2nd - dad was born here of italian parents)

conversational spanish (took lessons & spent 3 months in south america)

learning turkish (my Mrs is turkish...speaks fluent arabic, german & french too)

took latin in high school but forgotten it all

svandamme 05-15-2008 09:05 PM

native dutch,
english just as well (speaking and writing, full grammar, spelling, vocabulary, accent, all there),
really fluent french (@speed and accentless when speaking, vocabulary not really fully expanded, reading is good, but writing it i just can't be bothered with all the accents and verb forms),
german, well, i get around speaking it, and understanding it, just went to germany yesterday,
360 km drive, 4 hours project, and right back marathon... i'm sure they understood most of what i said, but equally sure my german efforts have hurt their ears..

Bill Douglas 05-15-2008 09:46 PM

I speak English, and are presently learning American.

I can do a simple phrase like "thank you", "see you later" "Hello" "Thank you my friend" in about 20 different languages. Great for traveling as the locals love it. I can do enough German to get by and if Europeans don't understand English they seem to understand German so that's a good backup.

"Tatenda sharmari" That's "thankyou my friend" in Zimbabwe's Shona language.

red-beard 05-15-2008 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jriera (Post 3944845)
Can ask for the bathroom and order a beer in Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Japanese, Bahasa, Endebele, Russian, Latin and Texan

Hey, whar's the bathroom at? It is distinctive.

English, passable Spanish, get around French and get around Romanian.

However, I can read and write French very well...

Noah930 05-15-2008 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slodave (Post 3944944)
I have been known to speak drunk on occasion as well.

Ah, the true universal language. With enough social lubrication, everyone speaks it, after awhile. ;)

Lil Black Car 05-18-2008 12:29 AM

Fluent in German, Spanish, French Creole and learning Hangul. Can ask for the toilet in French.
My wife is fluent in Hangul, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, English and Thai. She has not learned any German at all since we have been living there because everywhere she goes people automatically respond to her in english.

Dottore 05-18-2008 07:35 AM

...a lot of cunning linguists on this board....

alf 05-18-2008 07:53 AM

Fluent:
English
Mandarin
Cantonese

Enough to get in trouble but not out of:
Japanese
Taiwanese
Malay

alfadoc 05-18-2008 10:29 AM

English
Italian, from when I was a buyer of vintage Italian car parts
German, very rusty, from hoch schuler
Southern, from living in Virginia

cantdrv55 05-18-2008 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dottore (Post 3949266)
...a lot of cunning linguists on this board....

lol

Jeff Higgins 05-18-2008 04:35 PM

English and German.

mkaraoglan 05-20-2008 01:27 AM

English, French, Arabic and some spanish

masraum 05-20-2008 05:00 AM

English, but I can speak a little Japanese and Spanish. I've got Pimsleur for both and work on them from time to time.

charleskieffner 05-20-2008 07:52 AM

rusty on the latin/german, pretty good on the espanol.


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