What languages do you speak?

Colonel_here · Post by **Colonel_here** » 13 Dec 2006 20:40

What languages do you speak?
What languages do you want to learn?
What do you think is the best language?

For me
I know Enlgish, French, Russian
I want to learn Spanish, Tatar, Arabic. The reasons is because good chunk of the world speaks Spanish, Tatar is supposed to be my mother tongue, Arabic because good chunk of the world speaks it and because I want to read Quran in original they say it rhymes.
The best language i think is English because its expressions are much shorter than in any other language.

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 13 Dec 2006 20:46

English (Fluently)
French (Broken)
Leicester (With extreme ease)

Best language; Probably English to to the fact that most people know it.

m4rek · Post by **m4rek** » 13 Dec 2006 20:46

for me,
I speak Czech, English and a tiny bit for french
i want to speak japanese
the best language? hmmm, probably japanese...dont ask me why

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 13 Dec 2006 20:49

2-10-0 wrote:English (Fluently)
French (Broken)
Leicester (With extreme ease)

I like that... As for me:

English (well I'm predicted an A - but my teacher got arrested ....

)
French (I can string a sentence together - it may not make sense however)
German (almost as fluent as English - the only one in my year going to do it at A-Level)
Norfolk (Can do a lame attempt at it)
Spanish (Can speak a bit - I can say 2 pints of beer and my friend is paying)

m4rek · Post by **m4rek** » 13 Dec 2006 20:53

Ameecher wrote: I can say 2 pints of beer and my friend is paying)

very nice

Illegal_Alien · Post by **Illegal_Alien** » 13 Dec 2006 20:56

Dutch
English

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 13 Dec 2006 20:57

Fluent: German, English, French
Not so fluent: Spanish, Italian

Post by **Dave** » 13 Dec 2006 21:09

I'm fluent in Black Country accented English. I can also speak perfect Received Pronunciation with effort.

I have some understanding of Lancashirean English.

Other languages I can speak (very basically) are French, Spanish and a bit of Russian.

I can also say "nein, fraulein"

TheGrew · Post by **TheGrew** » 13 Dec 2006 21:13

Fluent in English
Fluent in Simple German however not very good with long words
I think English as it is spoken by the most people (not nessarily as first langauge)

XeryusTC · Post by **XeryusTC** » 13 Dec 2006 21:24

I speak Dutch and English, and I can understand (read and converse, not write) in Frisian, German and French.
I think Dutch is best as it is my mother tongue

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Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 13 Dec 2006 21:25

alistairgrew wrote:I think English as it is spoken by the most people (not nessarily as first langauge)

Actually, that'd be Mandarin Chinese, having more than twice as many speakers (native or non-native) than English.

However English is the most common second language.
http://www.vistawide.com/languages/lang ... istics.htm

Train-a-Mania · Post by **Train-a-Mania** » 13 Dec 2006 21:26

English, and I'm learning French (which is good, considering that over half of my family is French).

michael blunck · Post by **michael blunck** » 13 Dec 2006 21:36

alistairgrew wrote:Fluent in Simple German however not very good with long words

Mmh, how about longer words then?

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetzesentwurf anyone?

regards
Michael

LocoMH · Post by **LocoMH** » 13 Dec 2006 21:45

Da gibts aber längere dieses mit Donaukapitänschiffsgesellschaftsdingsbums ich weiß es nicht mehr genau aber man kann ja einfach ne Kette machen im Deutschen

Okay sry for this...I'm speaking
German fluently
English fluently
French nearly fluently
Spanish a little

I want to learn Icelandic Portuguese...about 20 languages, I've posted this list somewhere...

Griff · Post by **Griff** » 13 Dec 2006 21:58

What languages do you speak?
English
Some German (GCSE)

What languages do you want to learn?
Hebrew
Egyptian (Hieroglyphics)
Afrikaans

What do you think is the best language?
Erm, English...i suppose.

Post by **Chrill** » 13 Dec 2006 21:59

Swedish (obviously)
English (My two years here is proof

)
Spanish (Very Little)

Zuu · Post by **Zuu** » 13 Dec 2006 22:08

I don't got as many languages on my list as some of you but I got one thing that have not been mentioned yet, Swedish Sign Language. Sure you don't "speak" it, but it is still a language.

So my list is:
* Swedish
* English
* Swedish Sign Language (SSL)

Edit: What is the best language? I think that is any sign language as they are all very beautiful. Poems in sign language are wonderfull to watch. There are so much more expression than in spoken/wirtten poems.

LilDood · Post by **LilDood** » 13 Dec 2006 22:10

I know English, Bit of German a little French.
I'd like to leran how to speak & read Japanse so i can import games and consoles

I think that english is best because some people speak it as a main language and a lot more people speak it as a secondary language menaing that the world can communicate pretty easily if simple english is used

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 13 Dec 2006 22:13

michael blunck wrote: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetzesentwurf anyone?

regards
Michael

Something about meat, If I could be bothered I might be able to work it out... there are some other words that I recognise in there aswell....

Edit: Rind fleisch is beef and erm.... dunno I will look at Google

Google wrote:Transmission bill of task of beef labeling monitoring

Fair enough![/quote]

michael blunck · Post by **michael blunck** » 13 Dec 2006 22:31

Ameecher wrote:Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetzesentwurf

Well, something along the lines of "beef labeling regulation & delegation of supervision law".

Best of all, it´s not a joke: http://mv.juris.de/mv/RkReUeAUeG_MV_rahmen.htm

(Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - RkReÜAÜG M-V)

This was a 1999 German "Word of the Year", and it also won a special award as the longest German word for that year.

And mind that abbreviation! "RkReÜAÜG M-V". ROFL

LocoMH wrote:man kann ja einfach ne Kette machen im Deutschen

Yes, as well as in Turkish: Çekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz?

Let´s try ... Siz Çekoslovakyalilastirabildiklerimizden misiniz, yoksa Çekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdan misiniz? Hehe.

regards
Michael

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