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Who on this board speaks more than one language?
mauzip:
--- Quote from: Lincoln The Reform-A-Tory on November 01, 2005, 05:25:24 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mauzip on November 01, 2005, 05:24:04 PM ---I speak Dutch, English, French and German.
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Damn. Are any of those languages similar enough? From what I understand some languages make others easier to understand, like French and Spanish.
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I grew up with Dutch of course. English I hear on tv every day, plus I lived in Arizona for a year... so I speak that language fluently as well.
French I learned at school and I can save myself pretty well in France :) Some words are similar to Dutch, but English is a lot closer to French than Dutch is.
The Dutch language comes mostly from German, but I don't speak German very well. I had it at school for 2 years, but I dropped it. Actually, I suck at it. When I was in Berlin in March I had a lot of trouble remembering the language LOL
Don Rizzle:
i'm ignorant i only speak english but i've got by so far fine without any other languages and i have travelled quite well....
mauzip:
There's no need to learn another language if you speak English, I think.
It does make you understand your own language better though.
[sepehr]:
English and Farsi
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: Mauzip on November 01, 2005, 05:30:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: Lincoln The Reform-A-Tory on November 01, 2005, 05:25:24 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mauzip on November 01, 2005, 05:24:04 PM ---I speak Dutch, English, French and German.
--- End quote ---
Damn. Are any of those languages similar enough? From what I understand some languages make others easier to understand, like French and Spanish.
--- End quote ---
I grew up with Dutch of course. English I hear on tv every day, plus I lived in Arizona for a year... so I speak that language fluently as well.
French I learned at school and I can save myself pretty well in France :) Some words are similar to Dutch, but English is a lot closer to French than Dutch is.
The Dutch language comes mostly from German, but I don't speak German very well. I had it at school for 2 years, but I dropped it. Actually, I suck at it. When I was in Berlin in March I had a lot of trouble remembering the language LOL
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Yeah English and French have a lot of similar words, especially in my country. The biligualism of Canada has made the languages in the country even closer. I've heard that speaking France French in Quebec is akin to blasphemy, lol.
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