What languages are you fluent in?

What languages are you fluent in? And I mean actually fluent, none of this "I took Spanish 1 in high school" bullshit.

I only know English. I really wish I knew at least one other language. Right now I am trying to teach myself Dutch. I downloaded Rosetta Stone and I have to say, this program makes learning a new language fairly easy. I've just started, so my grasp of the language is about the equivalent of a preschooler's but I am making steady progress.

I think Dutch is probably the easiest language I've ever studied. It's very close to English. Dutch is the link between English and German. (FYI: All three belong to the Germanic language tree. However, while German is considered a High Germanic language, both English and Dutch are Low Germanic languages. [note: some linguistics consider English to be an Anglo-Frisian derivative instead of Low German])

Other languages that I hope to eventually master:
Vietnamese
Spanish
French
Japanese

I speak Spanish and Australian.

I speak English and conversational German. I would love to learn Russian but can't seem to pick up on it.

Oh and I took Spanish II in high school.

I'm fairly certain that I'm alright with English. I'm semi-fluent in lolcat. I'm currently working on becoming fluent in Java. I hope to some day become at least conversationally fluent in Pearl and C++

Japanese would be cool too.

I speak German and English.
Currently learning Japanese.

English, although, I'm really trying to get fluent at Spanish at the moment.

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Originally Posted by KT_

Other languages that I hope to eventually master:
Vietnamese
Spanish
French
Japanese

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Out of curiosity why do you want to learn vietnamese? Nothing against the language or people(my girlfriend is vietnamese) but when I think about the languages people tend to want to learn vietnamese is not one of them.

More on topic I can speak English and that's it. I would be interested in learning to speak spanish(beyond my high school experience) just for its usefulness. Also I think Japanese would be good to know.

Speaking English and speaking English well are two different things in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Killuminati

Out of curiosity why do you want to learn vietnamese? Nothing against the language or people(my girlfriend is vietnamese) but when I think about the languages people tend to want to learn vietnamese is not one of them.

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My father is Vietnamese. He practically refused to teach me Vietnamese when I was a child because he wanted me to be super American or something. The relatives I visit the most are from my father's side and quite a few can't speak any English.

Edit: Oh! And I can't really use just Rosetta Stone to teach me Vietnamese because the program uses the Northern dialect and all of my father's family is from southern Vietnam. A cousin-in-law used the program to learn Vietnamese and most of the relatives can't understand him (although, the few in-laws from northern Vietnam can understand him perfectly). According to Dad, the Northerners butcher the language.

English.

I speak English...obviously.

I can also hold my own with spanish.(spanish, not Spanish. There's a difference.)

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Originally Posted by KT_

My father is Vietnamese. He practically refused to teach me Vietnamese when I was a child because he wanted me to be super American or something. The relatives I visit the most are from my father's side and quite a few can't speak any English.

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I see now, from what I hear it sounds pretty fuckin hard so good luck with that.

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Originally Posted by Killuminati

I see now, from what I hear it sounds pretty fuckin hard so good luck with that.

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Yes, tonal languages can be more difficult to learn than non-tonal languages.

English fluently, which is more than a majority of British people can claim.

I can also speak varying amounts of French, German, Spanish and Welsh

Irish and Kiwi.

i'm currently struggling to become fluent in english

English is my first language.

I can understand some German, and can get by in French and Spanish when I need to.

ok srsly

i speak italian just barely enough to be conversational sortof

and i speak some francais oui oui

English (obviously), and I'm fairly competent at reading German and Latin, and some French, but I couldn't really have a conversation in any of them.

If you consider dragging your ass through a semester of Spanish II (when Spanish I was fun in comparison) as being fluent, then count me in. Otherwise, my first and most fluent language is English, with both German and Spanish on the back burners. Oh, and the burners are off. Just in time for the oral part of the final exam.

Latin I am not fluent in, but I have noticed that the three years I took of it back in high school have helped immensely in understanding the other languages. Mainly in the etymology of the words I see, but not the exact translations. AKA why I can't translate worth a shit.

I'm fluent in French and English, and I can speak pretty decent Japanese, so long as weird nouns don't start getting thrown around.

English and pig-latin, I can also understand almost everything a New Zealander says.

I'm highly fluent in English, and I have enough French that I can communicate what I need to, when I need to. I just don't understand a word spoken to me, although I have a reasonable level of reading comprehension. I have a smattering of cree that I learned from my mom when she would yell at me as a kid.

I think I'm going to resume my french learning soon, though.

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Originally Posted by linkinkampf19

Latin I am not fluent in, but I have noticed that the three years I took of it back in high school have helped immensely in understanding the other languages. Mainly in the etymology of the words I see, but not the exact translations. AKA why I can't translate worth a shit.

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I took two years of Latin and it was a godsend when I took the ACT and SAT.

I'll kill myself though if I have to translate another Latin passage into English.


Latin Joke Time:

Q. What sound does a Roman owl make?
A. Quis Quis

A Latin professor walks into a bar. He says to the bartender, "I would like a martinus." The bartender replies, "Don't you mean a 'martini'?" The professor replies back, "No, I only want one."

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Originally Posted by KT_

My father is Vietnamese. He practically refused to teach me Vietnamese when I was a child because he wanted me to be super American or something. The relatives I visit the most are from my father's side and quite a few can't speak any English.

Edit: Oh! And I can't really use just Rosetta Stone to teach me Vietnamese because the program uses the Northern dialect and all of my father's family is from southern Vietnam. A cousin-in-law used the program to learn Vietnamese and most of the relatives can't understand him (although, the few in-laws from northern Vietnam can understand him perfectly). According to Dad, the Northerners butcher the language.

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Vietnamese and and the millions of Chinese are the most annoying sounding languages ever. Japanese and Korean sound epic.

Only incentive for learning Dutch is to move to the most liberal country in the world.

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Originally Posted by Absolution

Only incentive for learning Dutch is to move to the most liberal country in the world.

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That's my plan.

THE NETHERLANDS

I wanna bone a Danish.

Engrish and some spanish, 2 years in Latin helped with a few other languages when I'm reading it.

Yeah, they're from Denmark.

American

Vietnamese and American English. Can't read Viet all that well though. As to KT_'s comment that Rosetta Stone uses the Northern dialect, I find that really odd, because only Northerners can understand that dialect, whilst everyone can understand the Southern dialect. While it's true that Viet is tonal, it also doesn't have tenses or plurals, so that should make it easier to learn.

I really want to learn French or one of the other three main Oriental languages (Korean, Japanese, Chinese), but Asian languages are hard and living on the West coast doesn't give much opportunity to use French.

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Originally Posted by Silverhand

While it's true that Viet is tonal, it also doesn't have tenses or plurals, so that should make it easier to learn.

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Right, but I'm not really talking about grammar or reading/writing.


As far as reading Vietnamese, it's fairly easy to read if you can speak the language. Vietnamese is completely phonetical, thanks to the French.

True to the dot. I guess when I read, I don't know the vocabulary well enough to understand it (after all, words/literature concerning politics, religion, and philosophy are not exactly part of everyday conversation, you know? :) ) I should count myself lucky that they don't use the pre-French characters anymore. Good luck on learning your languages!

English, French, and Spanish.

I can understand some Italian but its hard because my grandparents are usually yelling when they speak it.

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Originally Posted by paulyt

English and pig-latin, I can also understand almost everything a New Zealander says.

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Oh yes I forgot about pig-latin. I can speak enough spanish to get both our asses kicked and let's not forget ebonics (although I'd like to). Other than that it's boring English for me even if I don't always speak/type it properly.



Edit: my 420th post- interesting.

English and I know some ebonics and some spanish

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Originally Posted by pringles

English and I know some ebonics and some spanish

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Ebonics is not a hard dialect to learn.

Granted I cannot speak any without looking like a stupid white boy, I can understand what's said to me.

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Originally Posted by BLMWolby

I'm fairly certain that I'm alright with English. I'm semi-fluent in lolcat. I'm currently working on becoming fluent in Java. I hope to some day become at least conversationally fluent in Pearl and C++

Japanese would be cool too.

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Ha, I love how no one picked up on that. I know Python and C++, and learning Java next semester.

As for actual languages, I am fluent in both English and Spanish.

I've heard dirty dirty things about Python. How is it?

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Originally Posted by Vengeful Scars

Ebonics is not a hard dialect to learn.

Granted I cannot speak any without looking like a stupid white boy, I can understand what's said to me.

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ironically I have a similar problem

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Originally Posted by BLMWolby

I've heard dirty dirty things about Python. How is it?

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Lol I'm not sure what you mean, but it's not that bad. It's a lot easier than C or Java

don't make me start writing in assembly

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Originally Posted by jared

don't make me start writing in assembly

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Picoblaze?

I speak English pretty good.

i am pretty good at tongues

I speak amurrican cause these hurr are the you-nite-ted stares of amuurica and I don't trust none of them foreign types. I also struggled through 4 years of spanish. It was terrible.

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Originally Posted by Mr. E

ironically I have a similar problem

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oh ok i know what kind of black guy you are now

at least you don't pretend to be black, thats good

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Originally Posted by Atomic

I speak English pretty good.

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LOL

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Originally Posted by Absolution

oh ok i know what kind of black guy you are now

at least you don't pretend to be black, thats good

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I would not be caught dead acting black.

Well, actually, more accurately, I would only be caught dead acting black, because dead is the only time when I cannot influence perception of myself.

i am cunnilingual

edit: I really gotta lay off of these one-line posts

Why do nerds always have to come and ruin things.


Edit: I do BASIC and COBAL.

ARG! N3Rd5 UN1T3 A5 ON3.

the closest I ever came to a programming language was MatLab. Anyone who enjoys matlab should be shot.

Irish and English.

If gwahir comes in here and says yiddish I quit.

Fluent in English, German and Mandarin Chinese.

I suppose I can speak a little French as well.

I can understand german to a certain extent, but I can't speak it. My grandmother used to always yell at me in german when I was younger.

But i'm fluent in the language of bullshit. I can speak that like it's nothing.

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Originally Posted by Kal El

I can understand german to a certain extent, but I can't speak it.

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i almost think about telegu the same way, but more like i can pick out the meaning through context, the 5 words of telegu i know, and the couple of english words sprinkled in.

in b4 "lol wuts telegu"

Telegu I imagine is some hindu related language or one of the many languages spoken in south asia.

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Originally Posted by Rainmann

Ha, I love how no one picked up on that. I know Python and C++, and learning Java next semester.

As for actual languages, I am fluent in both English and Spanish.

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Oh but we did unfortunately no one cered enogh to respond.. Jfyi.

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Originally Posted by HopeYouDie

Oh but we did unfortunately no one cered enogh to respond.. Jfyi.

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cared* enough*

Well I can speak this here English pretty dern good

I'm a little upset that noone has said anything about Arabic. I guess it's not the most popular second language in America, it's becoming increasingly popular as more and more Arab people move there. I was trying to learn it, having our interpreters and the Iraqi Police teach me what they could. I was actually getting pretty far with it, even being able to almost translate written Arabic into english letters, then figuring out what the word was. Then they picked up our unit and moved us, and I haven't had any interaction with interpreters or the Iraqi population in over a month. If anyone has experience with the Rosetta Stone program, please let me know what you thought of it, and if it's worth the money.

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Originally Posted by DickStivers

Well I can speak this here English pretty dern good

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Beat you to the English pretty good one.

I did buy a Teach yourself Spanish book and hope to learn it one day. I know a few words and if the whole Mexican population would slow down I could understand a little bit of it. I want to know it mostly because I want to know what they are talking about when we are in the same room and no one but them speaks Spanish.

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Originally Posted by TPLefever

I'm a little upset that noone has said anything about Arabic. I guess it's not the most popular second language in America, it's becoming increasingly popular as more and more Arab people move there. I was trying to learn it, having our interpreters and the Iraqi Police teach me what they could. I was actually getting pretty far with it, even being able to almost translate written Arabic into english letters, then figuring out what the word was. Then they picked up our unit and moved us, and I haven't had any interaction with interpreters or the Iraqi population in over a month. If anyone has experience with the Rosetta Stone program, please let me know what you thought of it, and if it's worth the money.

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Read the first post.

Anyone who says "I speak English good" clearly does not have a firm grasp on the English language. It's "I speak English well".

(Edit: lol i'm a fucking idiot)

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Originally Posted by KT_

Anyone who says "I speak English good" clearly does not have a firm grasp on the English language. It's "I speak English well".

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You know what would be funny? If someone came in to a thread like this and purposefully made a mistake in the language they were claiming to be proficient in.

I'm talking LOL funny

Yeah I thought about that but then realized most Americans have poor grammar.

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Originally Posted by jared

You know what would be funny? If someone came in to a thread like this and purposefully made a mistake in the language they were claiming to be proficient in.

I'm talking LOL funny

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Indeed. I thought that she had got the joke but apparently she didn't understand that it was a joke.

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Originally Posted by Atomic

Indeed. I thought that she had got the joke but apparently she didn't understand that it was a joke.

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Ok. I apologize (although I still stand by what I said).


Anyway, my Dutch is coming along well.

De vis is wit.
The fish is white.

Het roza paard springt.
The pink horse jumps.

Het meisje is onder een tafel.
The girl is under a table.

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Originally Posted by KT_

Ok. I apologize (although I still stand by what I said).


Anyway, my Dutch is coming along well.

De vis is wit.
The fish is white.

Het roza paard springt.
The pink horse jumps.

Het meisje is onder een tafel.
The girl is under a table.

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so what's the girl doing to/with the white fish and pink horse under the table? Reply in Dutch please.. :allectocool:

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Originally Posted by TPLefever

I'm a little upset that noone has said anything about Arabic. I guess it's not the most popular second language in America, it's becoming increasingly popular as more and more Arab people move there. I was trying to learn it, having our interpreters and the Iraqi Police teach me what they could. I was actually getting pretty far with it, even being able to almost translate written Arabic into english letters, then figuring out what the word was. Then they picked up our unit and moved us, and I haven't had any interaction with interpreters or the Iraqi population in over a month. If anyone has experience with the Rosetta Stone program, please let me know what you thought of it, and if it's worth the money.

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A really, really long time ago, I was enrolled in a class to learn farsi...

but I mean I was like 6 years old I don't remember anything of value from it. Just that all the letters were connected, practicing the letter forms and writing from right to left was awkward. To be hoenst, I wish I stuck with it.

I've heard something about Arabic being one of the harder languages to learn, especially when it comes to writing it. You're right about the right to left reading/writing, as well as all of the letters being connect. The things I got from it is that there are 4 different ways to write each letter of their alphabet. There's also alot of different dialects in Arabic, varying from country to country, and sometimes even by region. The Arabic that I have books and such for is "Traditional", and the words and things that the Iraqis were teaching me were "Iraqi Arabic". It kind of sucks.

I haven't heard any Farsi, because I haven't been to Northern Iraq, but I've heard that the military is always in need of people that speak it, because there's still a bit of conflict up there that needs to be dealt with.

Yeah KT, if you couldn't tell by the "this here" and "dern" preceding the "good" , I was kidding.

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Originally Posted by DickStivers

Yeah KT, if you couldn't tell by the "this here" and "dern" preceding the "good" , I was kidding.

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but your face looked so serious while you said it

maybe you shouldn't deadpan so much

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Originally Posted by Sir Bifford

If gwahir comes in here and says yiddish I quit.

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hahahahahah

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hahahahahah

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Shalom.

Perfectly fluent in both French and English (although the French is starting to deteriorate since I moved from French education [grade 1-12] to English university). I took some Spanish in high school (which I lost 90% of) and 1 year of German in University. My girlfriend also taught me some Italian but I can't remember 90% of that either except for a few expressions of anger.

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Originally Posted by sycld

i almost think about telegu the same way, but more like i can pick out the meaning through context, the 5 words of telegu i know, and the couple of english words sprinkled in.

in b4 "lol wuts telegu"

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Pronounced Te-gal-ug? ie the Philippino Languange? I used to have a Flip girlfriend who's grandparents couldn't speak english at all so I'd learn a few words here and there, but have forgotten all of that shit.

no

not Tagalog, which is spelled "Tagalog"

Telegu

a South-Indian Dravidian language

I speak bogan pretty well. Ask solecistic.

i can speak fluent pig latin

and fluent bogan

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Originally Posted by gwahir

i can speak fluent pig latin

and fluent bogan

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I've already mentioned those 2. You're too late.

Also I can speak Alibi (I'm pretty sure that's what it's called)

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Originally Posted by paulyt

I've already mentioned those 2. You're too late.

Also I can speak Alibi (I'm pretty sure that's what it's called)

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aw

well those are all i have

i'm okay at backwards english

i am pretty fluent at body language because hips don't lie and i'm startin' to feel ya boi

como se llama, bonita, mi casa

English, Cajun English, and Engrish.

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Originally Posted by Anonymous D

English, Cajun English, and Engrish.

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I would like to learn and speak Cajun and throw cards that explode upon impact.

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Originally Posted by Vengeful Scars

como se llama, bonita, mi casa

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Spanish Pimp language.

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I would like to learn and speak Cajun and throw cards that explode upon impact.

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It is a true skill I will tell you.

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It is a true skill I will tell you.

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I wilt like a flower in need of sun.

American-English, and proper Mexican Spanish.


I'm learning Russian at a very rapid pace. LOLOLOLOLOLOL my girlfriend teaches me.


ALSO

since Italian is basically Spanish with a funny accent I can understand the conversation of two Italian people.
can't speak a word of it, though.


Also, strangely enough, I could pick up some of what my romanian friends say, because some words are very similar to spanish

I know a decent smattering of German, enough to understand a basic conversation or understand (most of) a German sitcom. Some of this is from German lessons I took in primary school and the rest has come naturally from listening to and learning the meaning of German metal and goth dance music.

But the pronunciation of most non-technical spoken German is almost identical to the same or similar words in English so you can't help but understand half of it anway.