How Many Languages Do You Speak?

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Postby StarQuality » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:02 am

Finnish (mother tongue)
Swedish (second official language in Finland - which means that it is COMPULSORY for every Finnish speaking Finn to learn Swedish, basically their entire lives :evil:)
English (fluent)
French (average)

I also understand a little bit Italian and Spanish because they are pretty similar languages to French.

Also, I almost understand Estonian (even though I haven't ever studied it) because it is a very similar language to my mother tongue, Finnish.
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Postby Wayne » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:07 am

1.0005 languages

I can speak about .0005 French
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Postby Lehmann » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:12 am

i speak:
Azerbaijani
Russian
English
Turkish (similar to Azerbaijani)
French (not very well)
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Postby ryan_9048 » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:22 am

Virgostar wrote:I can speak fluent Bogan though :lol:
I attest to that!
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Postby jszmiles » Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:04 pm

I think Im quite good in speaking Polish. Im bad in English and know some words in Russian and German.

Also I can speak in the language of love :oops:
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Postby jonasmileynlt » Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:16 pm

Mother tongue is English but I'm fluent in Spanish
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Postby greek_boy » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:48 pm

Greek

English

some Latin :oops:

And i've just started learning French 8-)
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Postby netab » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:58 pm

greek_boy wrote:Greek

English

some Latin :oops:

And i've just started learning French 8-)
Latin? I am Spanish, and i dont know Latin at all
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Postby greek_boy » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:15 pm

netab wrote:Latin? I am Spanish, and i dont know Latin at all
Yes Latin 8-) I've learned Latin in school but i don't remember that much anymore :oops:
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Postby LittleLinda » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:17 am

I've learned Latin at school too, but since I never use it, I don't remember very much... but I have to say that it's a great basis to learn other romanic languages like Italian, Spanish, French and so on. I really recommend it. A lot of English words are also derived from Latin.
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Postby netab » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:50 pm

I agree with you, i think its incredible that studying latin isnt compulsory in SPAIN!!, as you said its really useful as 95% of our words come from latin, and really would help us to learn french, italian, portuguese or english...but well that's our "system", and here you have the level of spanish young people in languages (not me, ehem, ehem...joking!)
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Postby greek_boy » Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:25 pm

LittleLinda wrote:it's a great basis to learn other romanic languages like Italian, Spanish, French and so on. I really recommend it. A lot of English words are also derived from Latin.
You're right(esp. Italian). 8-)
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Postby matthew_dixon » Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:50 pm

04wayne wrote:1.0005 languages

I can speak about .0005 French
Okay... I didn't see the . at first, and thought you had just said you could speak 10,005 languages! :o :lol:
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Postby UKMusicLova » Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:52 pm

matthew_dixon wrote:
04wayne wrote:1.0005 languages

I can speak about .0005 French
Okay... I didn't see the . at first, and thought you had just said you could speak 10,005 languages! :o :lol:
Phew...Atleast I'm not the only one! :oops: :lol:
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Postby nekoo3372 » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:07 pm

I need a help from you. I need to translate this to many language (as much as possible).

I have to ask you for your credit card, to guarantee for the room.
It s a preauthorisation, it meens to block 1.000 CZK on your credit card while your staying at the hotel. When you will check out, the preauthorisation will be complete on the amount of the bill. If you don t use anything, it will be authomatickly canceled by bank in 2 weeks or you can ask for cancelation when you check out.

Thank you
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Postby netab » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:20 am

nekoo3372 wrote:I need a help from you. I need to translate this to many language (as much as possible).

I have to ask you for your credit card, to guarantee for the room.
It s a preauthorisation, it meens to block 1.000 CZK on your credit card while your staying at the hotel. When you will check out, the preauthorisation will be complete on the amount of the bill. If you don t use anything, it will be authomatickly canceled by bank in 2 weeks or you can ask for cancelation when you check out.

Thank you
IN SPANISH:

Tengo que pedirte tu tarjeta de crédito, para garantizarte la habitación.
Es una preautorización, significa bloquear 1.000 CZK de tu tarjeta de crédito mientras estás en el hotel. Cuando vayas a irte, esta preautorización se completará en el total de la factura. Si no usas nada, sera automáticamente cancelada por el banco en dos semanas, o puedes pedir su cancelación cuando hagas el registro de salida.

Gracias.


(i hope it will be useful, though it wont be 100% correct)
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Postby jpguy » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:11 am

Spanish is my main language
English
Korean and Japanese I'm learnin' both... but they're too difficult so i'll just skip them, just wanted to let you know I'm learnin' hahaha...
I know the whole Hangul for Korean... and Hiragana Katakana for Japanese, and a very few kanji :P
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Postby nekoo3372 » Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:03 am

netab wrote:
nekoo3372 wrote:I need a help from you. I need to translate this to many language (as much as possible).

I have to ask you for your credit card, to guarantee for the room.
It s a preauthorisation, it meens to block 1.000 CZK on your credit card while your staying at the hotel. When you will check out, the preauthorisation will be complete on the amount of the bill. If you don t use anything, it will be authomatickly canceled by bank in 2 weeks or you can ask for cancelation when you check out.

Thank you
IN SPANISH:

Tengo que pedirte tu tarjeta de crédito, para garantizarte la habitación.
Es una preautorización, significa bloquear 1.000 CZK de tu tarjeta de crédito mientras estás en el hotel. Cuando vayas a irte, esta preautorización se completará en el total de la factura. Si no usas nada, sera automáticamente cancelada por el banco en dos semanas, o puedes pedir su cancelación cuando hagas el registro de salida.

Gracias.

(i hope it will be useful, though it wont be 100% correct)
Thank you, everything is useful, even when I don't speak spanish :D
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Postby abi » Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:45 pm

just two: English & Indonesian..

and i just started learning Japanese in school, interesting language to be learned...but i hope i'll learn some of European languages too, because i have a relative in Switzerland, so i just hope i can speak in the same language with him :wink:

btw, anyone here lives in Switzerland? What language do you use?
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Postby NoAngels » Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:07 pm

abi wrote:just two: English & Indonesian..

and i just started learning Japanese in school, interesting language to be learned...but i hope i'll learn some of European languages too, because i have a relative in Switzerland, so i just hope i can speak in the same language with him :wink:

btw, anyone here lives in Switzerland? What language do you use?
They use German and French.
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Postby irishguy28 » Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:25 pm

^and also Schwyzerdütsch and the two other official languages not mentioned, Italian and Romansch
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Postby greek_boy » Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:51 pm

irishguy28 wrote:^and also Schwyzerdütsch and the two other official languages not mentioned, Italian and Romansch
Romansch? :-?
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Postby matthew_dixon » Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:23 pm

Yeah - it's the only language of the four that's "Swiss only". I don't know if many people still speak it. (Oh and I say four, because in a way if you class "Swiss German" as a seperate language, then I guess they don't use German.
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Postby dondestan » Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:27 pm

dutch, frisian (haha!), english, little bit spanish, little bit french
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Postby NoAngels » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:55 pm

greek_boy wrote:
irishguy28 wrote:^and also Schwyzerdütsch and the two other official languages not mentioned, Italian and Romansch
Romansch? :-?
Lol, yes I searched for its meaning and came up with this:
The Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in southeastern Switzerland; it is an official language of Switzerland
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