How Many Languages Do You Speak?

by **Plym** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:32 pm

hello wrote:
Crazy4Brit wrote:
jonasmileynlt wrote:
Crazy4Brit wrote:Italian (100%, obviously)
Spanish (i understand it)
Can Italian people generally understand Spanish even without studying it?
Yes, they can. It's quite easy to undestand Spanish if you can speak Italian or if you have studiend Latin..
Amorsito corazon, yo quiero de ti, un beso.

Beso beso! :lol:

by **hello** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:47 pm

Plym wrote:
hello wrote:
Crazy4Brit wrote:
jonasmileynlt wrote:
Crazy4Brit wrote:Italian (100%, obviously)
Spanish (i understand it)
Can Italian people generally understand Spanish even without studying it?
Yes, they can. It's quite easy to undestand Spanish if you can speak Italian or if you have studiend Latin..
Amorsito corazon, yo quiero de ti, un beso.
Beso beso!

Si porfavor :oops:

solo uno!

http://www.last.fm/user/jordi_89 · by **jordi_89** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:33 pm

hmmm Catalan, Spanish and i could say "English" xd even i need to improve a lot :cry:

(and i studied German for like 2 years and a half, but i remember almost nothing of that :-?

(and as a Catalan and Spanish speaker, i can understand some Italian, French and Portuguese words (specially Portuguese thanks to Catalan (French also) and Italian thanks to Spanish 8-)

)

but i'm still young and can (and have to) learn a lot of languages

by **Ruthymon** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:41 pm

English
French (I can understand it and speak a little bit)
Spanish (I can understand it)

by **AnnDroid** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:27 pm

French (childhood in Belgium-France)
Spanish
Portuguese (I understand it and speak a little bit)
English

by **Crazy4Brit** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:01 pm

hello wrote:
Plym wrote:
hello wrote:
Crazy4Brit wrote:
jonasmileynlt wrote:
Crazy4Brit wrote:Italian (100%, obviously)
Spanish (i understand it)
Can Italian people generally understand Spanish even without studying it?
Yes, they can. It's quite easy to undestand Spanish if you can speak Italian or if you have studiend Latin..
Amorsito corazon, yo quiero de ti, un beso.
Beso beso!
Si porfavor solo uno!

o-m-g

by **Noahh** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:28 pm

Only 2: Dutch and English...

Wanna learn to speak more though..

by **LotsOfLove** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:55 pm

English
Luxemburgish
French
Portuguese
German

these all fluent.

And I understand a little bit of Spanish. Sometimes it's too fast for me when they speak it

by **toni_pest** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:57 pm

Croatian (of course)
English
Spanish

by **Shortie** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:26 am

Romanian
English
German (not really good, but I can handle)
Spanish
Latin

by **johnnyboy** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:05 pm

crazycool wrote: I'm pretty much fluent in Essex.

How common

by **summer** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:07 pm

Very little

Russian
English
German (started forgetting it)
Tried to learn French
Did Latin at Uni
Learning Spanish on my own now
Have concerns about Italian
Trying to grasp Ukranian
Have a feeling for Chechen :oops:

by **blood** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:11 pm

English
German
A little Spanish & French
I forgot Russian :oops:

by **Frederic** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:17 pm

I'd love to add Polish or Greek to my language knowledge but they're so damn hard!

Website · by **Gagich** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:50 pm

Bulgarian, English and a little bit Russian.

by **Crazy4Brit** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:51 pm

Frederic wrote:I'd love to add Polish or Greek to my language knowledge but they're so damn hard!

I'd suggest you taking a look here

Start from lesson 1 and there's no need to create an account, you can login as a guest.

by **Frederic** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:04 pm

Interesting! Grazie!

by **jio** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:10 pm

I think I answered that one before. Basically I speak something between Greek and Cypriot (when I am in Greece I always get the question: "Are you from Cyprus?" and when I am here I always get the question "Are you from Greece?" lol), heavily Greek-accented English, Petrzalka-Slovak (although I haven't spoken for so long I probably forgot a few stuff), I got a paper I speak French as well but basically I can do everything but speak (understand when I see them written and write pretty OK but not talk or understand someone talking unless he goes really slow lol)

Added to that I am in my first year of Turkish lessons (provided for free for all Greek Cypriots from our government, thank you very much:)) and unlike French I love them. Cok guzel

by **Crazy4Brit** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:21 pm

Frederic wrote:Interesting! Grazie!

First you have to learn the new alphabet, then that couple of letters are spoken as other letters: a+i = e; o+u = u ; e + i = i ; o+i = i, two "s" (one of which is always used at the end of the words), 5 "i"s, two "e"s and learn how to use them.

Then learn the vocaboulary you'll need in the first 15 lessons, it's not that difficult (elementary level)

by **stevyy** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:21 pm

100% German
75% English (I'm still learning)
20% French (I studied it for 2 years at university and 5 years at school..)
5% Latin (I also studied this for 2 years at university, I'm too stupid for it).

I think the average German has little knowledge of foreign languages (including English) because I believe that 40% of all Germans cannot even speak German correctly. Especially young people.. It's a mix of German/English/Turkish and ghetto-slang. :lol:

The average German can still learn something from Sandra Bullock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzbrztZF ... re=related

by **Noahh** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:39 pm

I still really really really wanna learn to speak Spanish. I've tried Spanish class once but I quit. I regret that now...

I need a someone to teach me how to speak Spanish asap!! 8-)

by **Crazy4Brit** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:06 am

stevyy wrote:5% Latin (I also studied this for 2 years at university, I'm too stupid for it).

That is not true, you are not stupid hence you just have to study it and you'll be good at it! :wink:

I ADORE latin, especially literature. I'm very happy i decided to study it during my 5 years of high school, it's stimolating!

by **Crazy4Brit** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:07 am

jio wrote:I think I answered that one before. Basically I speak something between Greek and Cypriot (when I am in Greece I always get the question: "Are you from Cyprus?" and when I am here I always get the question "Are you from Greece?" lol), heavily Greek-accented English, Petrzalka-Slovak (although I haven't spoken for so long I probably forgot a few stuff), I got a paper I speak French as well but basically I can do everything but speak (understand when I see them written and write pretty OK but not talk or understand someone talking unless he goes really slow lol)

Added to that I am in my first year of Turkish lessons (provided for free for all Greek Cypriots from our government, thank you very much:)) and unlike French I love them. Cok guzel

Whaaat?! Afto einai unbelievable! Free Turkish lessons? And how did our beloved Elladha react?

by **jio** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:56 am

Well the Cypriot government offers free Turkish lessons to all greek-cypriots and free greek lessons to everyone else residing legally in Cyprus

The funny thing is I got this friend whose mother is Turkish-cypriot but married to an Arab and left Cyprus before independence so she (and her children) never got the Cyprus passport. A few years back they all moved to Cyprus (her husband is dead) and my friend and his sisters don't speak a word of greek or turkish (their arab family forbid her from teaching them turkish because they wanted the kids to grow up as proper arabs, how nice lol) but they managed to prove they have cypriot origin so they got the Cypriot passport. So my friend applies for those free greek lessons and they answered him that since he is now registered as Greek-Cypriot he is only entitled to free turkish lessons and he has to pay a small fortune to learn greek lol

by **Crazy4Brit** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:57 am

jio wrote:
The funny thing is I got this friend whose mother is Turkish-cypriot but married to an Arab and left Cyprus before independence so she (and her children) never got the Cyprus passport. A few years back they all moved to Cyprus (her husband is dead) and my friend and his sisters don't speak a word of greek or turkish (their arab family forbid her from teaching them turkish because they wanted the kids to grow up as proper arabs, how nice lol) but they managed to prove they have cypriot origin so they got the Cypriot passport. So my friend applies for those free greek lessons and they answered him that since he is now registered as Greek-Cypriot he is only entitled to free turkish lessons and he has to pay a small fortune to learn greek lol

What the hell? lol

His mum was turkish cypriot but they're registered as gree-cypriot now? How's that possible? :lol: