Well I just wanted to know if you speak many languages or in other words, multilingual.

I only know Tagalog and English. Trying to learn French, German, Italian and Spanish but I don't have the patience >.<

i speak russian, slovak, bohemian and this poor english :D

Only Norwegian and English for me, though I understand a great deal of Swedish and some Danish (since these two are close to Norwegian). Funny thing is, Swedish is easy to understand when spoken while Danish is more difficult, but when reading , it's the other way around :huh:

I did once try to teach myself Welsh, for some obscure, long forgotten reason, but the grammar was hell, and I just couldn't figure it out.

Oh, and I speak fluently gibberish too :P

I understand a few spanish words, especially "Descargas"

Me speak Polish of course and English. Me think, that me speak english very good :bleh: Me also know a little bit of German. Ugh! ;)

i have learned deutsch at school for 4 years but the only useful phrase i remembered is "Ich mochte mich entschuldigen, aber ich habe keine Hausafgabe"

That's true, I also know a little German (no, he's not sitting over there...). It goes something like this:
"Ich habe sauerkraut in mein lederhosen", "Ich habe keine angst" and "Scneller, Helga! Schneller!" (don't ask, I was framed to watch that). Also, I used to know a few "catchphrases" from Derrick, that German copper on the telly. But all in all, nothing that would actually be remotely useful in an everyday situation...
What's more? Yes, I was tought to count to ten in Spanish and Farsi. Really helpful that, if I found myself playing ping-pong with a Spaniard or an Iranian.

And I was tought "cheers!" in Finnish, it sounded a lot like "get pissed!".

Es tut mir leid ;)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Aug 18 2007, 03:41 PM) [snapback]305331[/snapback]</div>you did not have a girlfriend in germany, did you :D

No, but she bought her purse there :D

Just Spanish, English and a bit of French (very well written, poorly spoken).

Uhm, German, that's it. :unsure:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ianfreddie07 @ Aug 18 2007, 03:14 PM) [snapback]305319[/snapback]</div>L0L

Spanish and then chiefly English.

I've studied several years of German but I've got very little vocabulary and some more is lost every passing year so I can't have a conversation with a German, although I've done so succesfully with people who use so basic a vocabulary as me (some in Czechia and Hungary).

I also studied some French for a short time but it's way easier than German for a Spaniard. Anyway it's the same, it's not worth it to learn very deep into a language if then you're not going to practice it.

I even started Italian. Anyway that's extremely easy for a Spaniard because of the similarity, even before studying anything I talked with Italians, me in Spanish and them in Italian, and we understood each other perfectly if we talked clearly enough.

The same goes for other Spanish Latin languages (Catalan, Galician) since they're even more similar than Italian. Plus we're mighty used to hear them in the news over here.

By the way I heard that when we Spaniards don't understand and say, "that's Chinese to me", Germans would say, "that's Spanish to me". LOL

Well...Italian, Engrish and sometimes Teletubbies.
(And I like to learn useless word in other languages like German, French and Spanish)

Finnish, English and Swedish, as well as some words and phrases from some languages that serve no actual purpose in life.

Ich bin ein Wiener!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Japofran @ Aug 18 2007, 06:07 PM) [snapback]305370[/snapback]</div>No, we say: "Das klingt wie Chinesisch für mich."/"That sounds like Chinese to me." "Das kommt mir spanisch vor."/"That appears Spanish to me." means "I think there is something fishy about it."

Speak Swedish, Danish and English... know SOME French and German aswell.

Tried both Dutch and Spanish.. totaly jibberish in my ears ;)

Native english speaker who speaks/reads/writes in french, as well. When I do not run into a hole in my vocabulary, I am easily mistaken for a parisian (or so I was told by native french speakers in Provence).

thats cool, where did you learn your french?

Darn... looks like I'm the only guy who knows S.E. Asian Languages (I only know one)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ianfreddie07 @ Aug 19 2007, 02:09 AM) [snapback]305427[/snapback]</div>At least those are languages spoken by loads of people. Try being stuck with a language spoken by 4 millions only LOL

LOL

Yeah, we're about 3 billion in Asia

Afrikaans, Spanish, and English.

And Pirate.

Shiver me timbers.

Native English speaker, Thai (though I desperately wish I was more fluent) a small amount of Malay and for some reason I can read French but have a difficult time speaking it.

Oh yeah, I'm also proficient in Aussie Slang :)

Ian, yay for the SE Asian tongues!

And get this: I spoke English so good around the community, some people thought I'm American. It also has to do with the looks LOL

Hilarious, you said "I speak English so good" when talking about you well you speak English.

Sorry but that's really funny :P

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Luchsen @ Aug 18 2007, 08:15 PM) [snapback]305385[/snapback]</div>OMG that's even worse :whops: LOL

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Aug 18 2007, 10:09 PM) [snapback]305415[/snapback]</div>That is the funny part. I grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. French was taught in the schools, but outside of immersion programs, it was not taught well. I made the special effort needed to get over the hump for two reasons: all the anime that I could watch had been dubbed into french, and I thought that the Gaston Lagaffe strips were the funniest. A third reason was that my parents would both speak french, when they did not want us to listen in (they both spoke english, french, and german).

The joke is that I could walk to a large community (Hull, now called Gatineau, part of the province of Quebec) that diverged linguistically from the french spoken in Brittany, about three hundred years ago, yet I was taught how to speak parisian french. The quebecois dialect of french is not unintelligible to a parisian, but it requires careful attention to understand what the speaker is saying.

The marvelous thing about trying to learn french in Canada, is that all commercial packaging is labelled in both languages. This was not a popular idea with the english speaking majority, when it first came in, and gave rise to the anglo reflex, rotating any package (usually a box of breakfast cereal) so that one is facing the english side. Needless to say, anglos travelling in France, where both sides are in french, are set up for an embarrassing surprise (it took me four half turns of the box to realise that they were both in french and I thank my lucky stars that no one saw me do it).

Official bilingualism in Canada was also less than fully popular among the english speaking majority, and for many years the expression "Excuse my french" was used as an apology for swearing. The expression was later used as the title of a sitcom that was based on either an anglo family in a french neighbourhood, or a french family in an anglo neighbourhood.

French native, grew up later in Dutch, some English and a bit of German ( As plenty Belgians).

Eurh, rlbell, if you pronounce your French as most Canadians it must be HORRIFIC in the ears of a native French. Really.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dosraider @ Aug 19 2007, 07:21 PM) [snapback]305520[/snapback]</div>Either the people that I met in France were excessively polite, to the point lying to my face, or my teachers were successful in teaching me parisian french. That was the joke-- they did not teach anglos to converse with quebecois, when I was growing up!

No, I do not pronounce my French as most Canadians, not even most French Canadians.

While my teachers deserve much credit, most of my classmates would be hard pressed to order food in a restaurant, but they could all conjugate the regular verbs. I have the possibly useful gift of being able to quickly master the rules of pronounciation for most languages written in the roman alphabet. I do not speak german, but I can read it aloud in a manner that is understandable to those that do.

Finnish, english and very rusty swedish! :D

German, English (I like local accents, aye!), a tiny bit Norwegian and some Latin.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ianfreddie07 @ Aug 19 2007, 12:09 AM) [snapback]305427[/snapback]</div>I too know one - Indonesian. only a little as i am still learning, but my learning proces is pending. i can mostly understand what they are saying but it's hard to say anything back. lovely language in it's simplicity.

Otherwise aside form my native slovenian i also speak english and german and i guess that is now called croatian.

French mostly just so i can be referee on a fencing match and a bit more (had to learn it at least a bit cause it was official langauge in all fencing correspondence).

since i Spanish and Italian are lating they can somehow also be understood if they are saying them slowly or if i can read them. i know enough to find my way arround. too bad there isn't more time to learn more lanuages. i guess games, work and school eat up too much time.

Taking german right now (this'l be third year in high school, personally I wouldn't really count that as being able to speak it tho LOL), and English of course.

Probabally take some random language (as well as german still) in college, I've got a bunch of chinese uhhh "teach youself" junk, but haven't really gotten down to it yet as its all audio (not really what I wanted but ok) so I'm waiting to put it on my MP3 player.

I only speak english
My gf speaks english, malay, sarawakian, some dialects like kenyah and iban and understands conversational cantonese and indonesian.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(STFM @ Aug 22 2007, 06:12 AM) [snapback]305964[/snapback]</div>That's one educated lass! :ok:

I speak my native Slovene, English and German... and then all of a sudden I found out I speak a whole variety of other languages as well... Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrian (all used to be classified as one language Serbo-Croatian). Anyway, the good thing about slavic languages is that if your ears opens up to two or three of them, you'll be able to understand quite a lot of other slavic languages too, so I kindda catch some Czeck, Slovak, Russian, Polish, Macedonian...

Tried Latin (can't really say I'm able to use it apart from quoting) and ancient Greek (and it's all Greek to me) and tried to learn Italian, but lacked the willpower and time...

i think all the slavic people kinda understand each other=)

Ja, to je dobro!

:sneaky:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Aug 22 2007, 01:41 PM) [snapback]306001[/snapback]</div>Prdež. :D

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Aug 22 2007, 09:37 AM) [snapback]305990[/snapback]</div>That's one educated lass! :ok:
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She might be from Singapore.

yah slavic is understandable if you know a few.

Speak spanish Woooto!

I also (like many other Finns) speak Finnish, English and Swedish. I also speak some German. :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sebatianos @ Aug 22 2007, 01:22 PM) [snapback]306000[/snapback]</div>I can help you if you want...it's not too late Professor :whistling: :)

Gracias.

E mia molie parlate Italiano multo buene.
Io sai stupido per Italiano...

That's about the level of things I can do with what I've picked up so far... :wallbash:

ME NO ONLY ENGLISH! ME GOOD AT ENGLISH TOO!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Aug 22 2007, 10:52 PM) [snapback]306014[/snapback]</div>That's one educated lass! :ok:
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She might be from Singapore.
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She is a native from Sarawak on the island of Borneo - tribe of headhunters and all that

I dont know what she says, but i know when im in trouble

what is Tagalog?

Português ( is my language)

Spanish and Italian (it is seemed to Portuguese, with calm and good will we understand some to the others) :brain:

English (I talk and understand better that I write) :)

French (I learned 4 years in the school (many time a go), but already I only understand some things)

I tried learning Spanish...failed miserably. After 6 years I learned that it just wasn't meant to be.

It's the other official of the Philippines (aside from English.)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lulu_Jane @ Aug 24 2007, 05:16 AM) [snapback]306358[/snapback]</div>I didn't know that either... Is that common knowledge or do you have to roam these places to know that? :huh:

I knew it. :bleh: But it's common knowledge as long as you just have to search for it in the Wikipedia.

Darn. and I live there.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(estica @ Aug 24 2007, 12:53 AM) [snapback]306312[/snapback]</div>A graffiti magazine? :ph34r:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Aug 24 2007, 07:21 AM) [snapback]306378[/snapback]</div>I didn't know that either... Is that common knowledge or do you have to roam these places to know that? :huh:
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I live in S. E Asia, you'd be surprised who I come across :)

i speak Swedish (my native language), English and German :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Nodal @ Aug 24 2007, 02:37 AM) [snapback]306332[/snapback]</div>try learning Portuguese :) :titan:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lulu_Jane @ Aug 24 2007, 04:16 AM) [snapback]306358[/snapback]</div>Sory i didn know!!! :tomato:

Well, I speak my native Hungarian, English and German. I'm also learning Japanese, and it's easier than I thought.

There is this thing with us Hungarians. We live in the exact centre of Central Europe, and we are a linguistical puzzle. Like, we are surrounded by all slavic, latin and germanic languages, but Hungarian is totally unlike any of our neighbours. Furthermore, Hungarian language sounds more like Finnish, or Swedish. Yea, good luck with that one :D

I read it somewhere that Hungarian is the second hardest language on this planet, after some Asian language. And I thought Japanese is an insane hard language, but as it turns out, it's no big deal. Only the written Japanese is a nightmare, but something for something ;)

Who did you come across, Lulu?

Hanoi Jane? LOL

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Playbahnosh @ Aug 24 2007, 11:50 PM) [snapback]306558[/snapback]</div>ugrofins. nomand ugrofins "mysteriously appeared on many places, traveling from the north. we have few ancient ugrofin migrants like marijcy or chuvashy in russia as well ("surrounded" by russia) and my dad speaks one of the languages. its QUITE simmilar to hungarian

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Playbahnosh @ Aug 24 2007, 09:50 PM) [snapback]306558[/snapback]</div>A rare find! mostly Hungarians speak German if you can actually find any that speak a foreign language :(

then again it's been a while sicne my last visit. I can't wait for next year when we enter Schoengen area along with Hungary i believe. So we i can go visit Budapest again this time with my wife. It's a nice city, specially the old part.

Huh where did you get that?

I think mandarin is quite hard because of pronounciation. Our language give foreigners problem because of the "double". all words conjurgate in singular, double and plural. and also pronounciation is quite hard. for example the bumble bee: "ÄŒmrlj" (chmrlj), yup no vocals in there :bleh: but hen again i think russian has some similar wording or at least pronounciation.

still i think it's not that hard, but probably not many foreigners are interested in learning it, so it makes it quite rare to find a foreigner with fluent Slovenian.

Fluent Slovene? I've met native Slovene speakers who are anything but fluent. It's not among the easiest languages to get down right (many rules with sille exceptions), but I've met people from abroad who came to Slovenia and were quite capable of talking our language.

Yea, QUITE. Sure as hell sounds like almost Hungarian, that ugrofin languages. But the writing is dead different. Well, somethings gotta give.

Yea, sad but true. Hungarian people are stupid as stones when it comes to foreign relations. Most of them anyway. The older generation tends to be mistrustful or even hostile towards foreign people. Given our restless history, this is not a surprise. When it comes to diplomacy or foreign relations, our country made all the wrong choices in the past :( Both WWs, before and after them...look it up if want to know the whole deal. So a great deal of people here are rock-headed nationalists, who think that all the foreign people who come to visit want to take our country away, or whats left of it anyway. There are continuos internal battles with the minorities, mostly the gypsies, and people are always complaining about everything. Now the political situation is even worse, with the two main parties clearly at war with each other, and the country going to pieces in the process.

So it is true, that people here don't learn foreign languages that much, only the younger generation. But aside the fact that they do speak languages, it doesn't mean they want to either. So, I'm ashamed for all my people because of this. Hungary is not what it used to be, and I'm not the one who can change it either :(

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Aug 25 2007, 08:02 PM) [snapback]306617[/snapback]</div>Ive heard among the hardest are mandarin, navajo and kalahari bushman

Yes / oui / ja / si / sÃ* / da

*edits a bit*

English is my first language, then French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and various bits of other languages after that. I know how to say 'hello' and my name in quite a few langauges, including Arabic (just because I think it's nice to be polite and say 'hello' in whoever you're talking to's language).

Among the most exotic languages I've ever heard of, was an artificial language, in the sense it was contructed by this one fellow: It was a "music language" where the pitch, length and all that decided the meaning of the "word". So, basically, what it meant was that you could whistle a conversation... IF the other one had perfect pitch :rolleyes:

wow, actualy imagine that i played on a guitar and, all of a sudden, some guy comes to me and fists my face for being rude

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Aug 31 2007, 08:12 AM) [snapback]307880[/snapback]</div>You mean like japanese or mandarin? One word can mean many different and varied things simply by changing its pitch, volume and duration

STFM: Not quite. I mean, literally, a music language where you have no words in the classical sense, but music, like if you whistle.

I'm quite fluent in Slovenian, thanks to their television that I used to watch a lot when I was a kid. :D

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Aug 31 2007, 05:39 AM) [snapback]307901[/snapback]</div>http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/11/18...e.ap/index.html

Ah yes I heard that shepherds in many places of Spain formerly used that kind of communication.

For any other purpuse then calming the sheep down (while ... them)?

Yes, to communicate between people. And it seems that the language supported quite sofisticated messages, like the article says, although I don't quite know about it.

quite a message it was
:tomato:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Aug 30 2007, 11:15 PM) [snapback]307888[/snapback]</div>This reminds me of something I saw in a comedy routine by a really funny guy confined to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy:

I was in a restaurant and suddenly found that I was choking on my food, so I waved my arms to get someone's attention and accidentally proposed to a deaf woman across the room. So now I have a wife that never listens to me!

Perfect finnish (mother tongue), almost-perfect english (with several accents) and passable french. I also know couple of words of german, japan and swedish.