West Coast Connection Forum
Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Lincoln on November 01, 2005, 05:17:40 PM
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I speak English (obviously) and I used to speak French pretty well. I can still understand it to a degree, and can read it somewhat. I actually stopped taking French in school because I can't write it at all and I was in classes which required lots of writing. I've lost my skills in a lot of ways, but I'm thinking of spending time in a French area this summer or next in order to immerse myself, supposedly the best way to learn a language.
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Hebrew
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Hebrew
Were you brought up with both languages out of curiosity?
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I speak Dutch, English, French and German.
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I speak Dutch, English, French and German.
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 speak Dutch, English, French and German.
Damn. Are any of those languages similar enough? From what I understand some languages make others easier to understand, like French and Spanish.
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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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....
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There's no need to learn another language if you speak English, I think.
It does make you understand your own language better though.
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English and Farsi
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I speak Dutch, English, French and German.
Damn. Are any of those languages similar enough? From what I understand some languages make others easier to understand, like French and Spanish.
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
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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There's no need to learn another language if you speak English, I think.
Depends where you live. In Canada, speaking English and French pretty much guarantees you a spot in the job market, especially things like business and teaching.
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i speak russian and english fluently, russian was first, but moved to usa wen i was 7, so its not amazing, but im taking it in college, so im getting better and reading and writing, and i consider sarcasm my 3rd language
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Spanish
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im dumb i only speak english fluently
i do understand a lil bit of afrikaans,spanish and a very lil chinese
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Spanish
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I speak english fluently obviously and i can speak broken creole (not fluent) n understand a lil bit of french can speak a lil bit thats it though
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Spanish
:bandit:
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German 8)
English 8)
French :loser:
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English and Tigrinya.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tigrinya.htm
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Portuguese(Brazilian)
English
Spanish
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Only Norwegian & English fluently, but can also speak/understand Danish & Swedish, and understand German without speaking it too well.
If only those German bastuds would learn proper English.. I think they act like they can't because they hate English. :D
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I speak english..
I did German and French at school and have visited both countries. Germany is faaaaar better IMO. nothing like i expected. From what I saw though the pakistani and ginger kids with me (they were school trips) got treated badly... everyone else was treated really well.. in france they're all assholes.
I can't speak them anymore.. not that i was ever amazing. but i can just about read both languages if they're written down.
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German sounds like a Devil language.
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i speak english...i used to be able to speak urdu but cant really speak much nemore
i do understand it tho...as well as gujarati and kachi
these are all south-asian languages btw
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German sounds like a Devil language.
lol...word....that shit sounds like some shit that goth heads recite backwards
i speak english, pashto and farsi
a couple sentences in urdu....
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German sounds like a Devil language.
:sign_werd:
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english farsi and a little spanish (highschool)
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French
English
a little bit of tigrinya..
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Hebrew
Were you brought up with both languages out of curiosity?
Yup...Actually, I think Hebrew was my first language, but I don't speak it as well as I used to. Now I only use English and rarely speak hebrew. I find there's no need when English is a lot moe comfortable.
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J'ai parle un peu francais.....is that right any1?? I took it for 5 years n ma vocab aint bad but its jus the tenses that comfuse me..like present, past participle n all this shit.
Also i tink ano a phrase in german..."Ich habe einen reizegen eisenpenis"...someone work it out.... ;D
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J'ai parle un peu francais.....is that right any1?? I took it for 5 years n ma vocab aint bad but its jus the tenses that comfuse me..like present, past participle n all this shit.
True enough, the verb tenses in French are extremely confusing.
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Also i tink ano a phrase in german..."Ich habe einen reizegen eisenpenis"...someone work it out.... ;D
Ich habe einen riesigen Eisenpenis = I've got a huge Ironpenis
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J'ai parle un peu francais.....is that right any1?? I took it for 5 years n ma vocab aint bad but its jus the tenses that comfuse me..like present, past participle n all this shit.
True enough, the verb tenses in French are extremely confusing.
yeah french is very complicated...its: je parle un peu francais.
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english farsi and a little spanish (highschool)
Nice, you persian?
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Spanish
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Espaņol
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Finnish & English
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Also i tink ano a phrase in german..."Ich habe einen reizegen eisenpenis"...someone work it out.... ;D
Ich habe einen riesigen Eisenpenis = I've got a huge Ironpenis
well i had it quoted as "i have an immense iron penis" but u know better...thanx! lol
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English
Hebrew
Russian
And very little Arabic
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Arabic
English
Persian
Lil Hebrew
Fcuk French i never got more than 10% in it in school.it's too feminene
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dutch (mother tongue)
english
french -->nice language, goes smooth
german -->awful language imo, the sound is so hard, army-like
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Dutch is pretty damn similiar.. you just don't notice it cause you're used to it
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Finnish & English
I thought most Finns learned Swedish as well ??
A lot of people spoke Swedish in Finland as far as I can remember.. been over a decade since I was there.
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Dutch is pretty damn similiar.. you just don't notice it cause you're used to it
maybe, but it isnt as hard as german and for instance japanese