Languages

[phoenixsong]

Just out of curiosity, what language/s can you speak? I'd have made this a poll but I wouldn't be able to put in everything.

I speak English normally, but learn Irish and French at school.

[shnen]

Irish, do you mean Gaelic???

I speak english. I know some french, sign language,a nd small parts of tons of different languages! :)

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

English obviously.....and sign language. I want to learn French and Japenese, but it will be a while before I can get a class on either of them. :(

[Loon]

Wow, lots of signers! :) I had two years of American Sign Language in high school. I haven't kept up with it, but I still know some vocabulary and have minimal receptive skills, haha.

[Éric]

I speak English, Gaeilge and Cymraeg fluently. I get by (most of the time) in Français, Deutsch, Gaidhlig, Gaelg, Español, Afrikaans, Nederlands, Italiano, Dansk, Romansch, Svenska, Português and most things related. I'm currently learning Frysk, Kernewak, Breizhnog, Latina and some Suomi.

[Yvonne Belisle]

That is so increadable! I wish I had the aptitude for languages that you appear to have. I know English though with my spelling that is sometimes questionable:) and I know some french I read it better than speak it and I can't spell in that language either.

[TheTempestuous1]

english normally but I speak german fairly fluently. I just got back from there about 2 months ago, I was on foreign exchange for 6 months, and pretty much learned it all there. It was amazing and a lot of fun. Oh and I can speak some french (although I lost most of it while I was in germany) I used to know a few phrases in polish and navajo but that's long gone. I'd have to re learn it.

[Flaire-FireStar]

English.....Used to be able to speak some French & sign language..but lack of practice made me forget. :(

[SpiDer_AnGeL]

English, I've tried learning spanish.......I just dont get it! I can do the alphabet in sign language.......if that counts for anything.

[Medusa @ Dawn]

I speak English and used to speak Spanish fluently (I spent the summer in Mexico when I was 13) but I don't use it enough to retain it all.... when an emergency happens it pops right back but to hold a normal conversation - no way.

[Garnet]

English & southside....a dying Milwaukee dialect. I can swear in Yiddish. I've taken a year each of Polish, Hebrew, Spanish, & German (years & years ago). I spent two weeks on my own in Poland (no tour, I was alone) & never missed a meal & always had a decent place to sleep. I picked up some more when I was there...Nie wiem is "I don't know" & Nie rozumiem is "I don't understand." :rotfl:
I've tried to study Spanish, Russian, Irish & Scottish Gaelic & Esperanto on my own. I never learned much because I have no one to practice with. My brother gave me a teach-yourself Welsh book & tapes once, but the tapes were from a different course then the book was. My sister gave me a computer Spanish course for my birthday, so I am going to try that. I am wild to find out what that psychic is saying...the one with the elaborate robes, on Univision.

[DragonDawn]

English and American Sign Language.
I tried to learn Spanish but had a realy bad teacher so it kinda blew the whole language thing for me. I love signing though.

[*Adia*]

I was put in an Immersion school for kindergarten. So I speak fluent French. I've also had 3 years of Spanish, so I'm prety fluent there as well. :) Other than those two, I speak english (obviously) :lol:

[Dalia]

Well my main language is spanish (so if you guys want to practice it, here I am :D ) speak english- just in case you didnt noticed :rolleyes: and je parle un peux francais--> but just a little cause I am already forgeting it, lack of practice. By the way, I was speaking with someone in french today and he understood me so my french aint that bad. I can understand italiano and portugues cause they sound pretty much like spanish. Know some phrases in german, one in turkish and the alphabet in sign language. I really want to improve my french, learn italiano and portugues, learn german, japanese, chinese, arabic and greek. Me love other languages, me love german accent and french accent and and and all of them, its pretty interesting :D

[shnen]

Originally posted by Dalia
Well my main language is spanish (so if you guys want to practice it, here I am :D )


una cerveza por favor :lol:
That's all I learned in Cuba!!! ohh.... and OLA!!!!

[Dalia]

:rotfl: you are crazy :rotfl:
Then I will teach you another one, pretty important for you
Una copa de vino por favor (glass of wine please LOL!) oh, vino blanco = white wine and vino tinto = red wine :D

[shnen]

thanks! you know, come to think of it I never had wine in Cuba!!! :eek: It probably wasn't included in the all inclusive!:)

[Dalia]

:eek:
Ive never been in Cuba, but want to, my uncle goes to cuba like 20 times a year LOL!

[shnen]

Oh, its so nice there, and safe... it's really beautiful! I want to go again soon... oh, and cheap! ;)

[Mithrea]

English, Spanish, a little french and I can READ German (with a little difficulty, but adequately). I also know some ASL and have been trying to get the time to get back into the advanced class at my school.


Does html count? ;)

[Dalia]

Tell me when you plan to go there, I might be able to go the same time you do, that way we can met, oh, and we can invite xander too :D and flaire :eek: PARTY AT CUBA :D

[shnen]

party ... hmmm.... we'll sneak in Xander! :lol:

[Dalia]

Yeah, we cant have a party without xander, we cant have cake without xander ;)

[shnen]

never have cake without xander!
:D

[Dalia]

yeah!

[Loon]

I tried to learn Spanish but had a realy bad teacher so it kinda blew the whole language thing for me.

I had the same experience. Sometimes I wish I hadn't given up so easily, though, because Spanish would have been a very useful language for me to learn. Maybe I will try taking it again in the future.

[Yvonne Belisle]

it isn't surprising I have trouble with my French since my first teacher spoke russian before english and spoke french with a heavy russian accent then used the tapes that came with the books for the tests! It was like two different languages!:eek: :rolleyes:

[shnen]

Originally posted by Mithrea
Does html count? ;)

Hey, Yeah.... what about computer languages??? :D :lol:

[Witchy Cowgirl]

Just English.:rolleyes:
Would love to learn Spanish. We have lots of migrant workers here. Some of whom are drifters. Last spring a "drifter" found his way to our farm. (The farm is actually owned by another man. This fellow was kind enough to let us set up a mobil here and call it home for no rent!) The drifter asked the owner (some how) for a job and he readily agreed. Of course he had no where to live and the owner told him he could stay in the barn loft. The kids had been camping so we got the point across that he could stay in the tent instead. We feed him supper every night and also rounded him up some work clothes. My middle son shared a fire with him almost every night. And my brother-in-law visited with him as well. I just think it would've been nice to be able to carry on an actual converstion with him. My husband and I both know a few words but it's just not the same.

[CoolJ]

wellllllll...

I speak English, Russian, some french, asome spanish, and some greek... unfortunately, over tiem, i forgot all but a few words of spanish, french, and greek..... :lol:

well, uummm...

alright, I also understand HTML, Basic, and binary code...

101010100001110001110000101... would translate to 'yo' ....

:lol: ... well, it might....

[NightRose]

I speak english, and some French. I would love to learn Gaelic!

[Dalia]

hey, we should have some language clases here, we have so many people who speak different languages :eek:

[shnen]

I speak the language of LLOOOVVEEEE!!!!!:heartthro :heartthro :heartthro :heartthro :heartthro :heartthro :heartthro


**no, not latin!:eek:

[Dalia]

Hey I have a question, what is gaelic???? :confused:

[shnen]

gaelic:- Erse \Erse\ ([~e]rs), n. [A modification of Irish, OE. Irishe.] A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.


Well there you go! I thought it was Irish, but it's Scottish! hmm.:)

[Éric]

Gaelic is actually a family of languages...Gaeilge (Irish), Gaidhlig (Scottish) and Gaelg (Manx). All are "Gaelic", but the only one usually referred to as such in English is the Scots Gaelic. Gaeilge is usually just called Irish, and Gaelg called Manx. Manx only has about a thousand speakers left in the entire world; the other two have a few hundred thousand.

[Dalia]

Eric I admire you! what are you studying? I want to know as many languagues as you do!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Éric]

Right now, I'm studying Latina (Latin), Frysk (Frisian), Suomi (Finnish), Kernewak (Cornish) and Breizhnog (Breton). The latter two because they're the only extant Celtic languages I can't (yet) have a conversation in, the second and third because they're (relatively) endangered, and the first because everyone should know it. :) My next project is learning Gothic.

[MagickHLHgurl]

*deep breath* i spek english as my main lnguage and then i know ver little german, spanish, french, italian and sign language.

[Sequoia]

I speak english as my "native language" lol but I also can hold a simple conversation in Japanese, know a few words in German, French, and can sing "twinkle twinkle little star" in sign language ^^;; I can also say "I don't know what you need" in sign language. -_-; I don't know why.

[Jeleia]

English,

I took french in school for awhile, I can understand it more than I can speak it.

I also took spanish. :)

[Psyche Ague]

English, obviously, is my first language (well, maybe not so obviously ;)). But I've had 5 years of French and 3 years of German and 1 year each of Latin and Spanish. I'm planning on taking Italian next year in college. I also know the alphabet in American Sign Language. I know a little Braille, too. I'd take every language in the world if I could, but I think it's best to be really good at a few than sort of good at a lot.

[Dalia]

That is totally true!
I want to learn italiano, portugues, better french LOL!, german, japanese, greek, oh well a lot of languages cause me love it but my university only offers one year of french. It sucks! Oh, did I mention that I wanted to do a minor in languages LOL!

[Dalia]

Hey Eric, I think I am in love with you! LOL! just kidding :eek: I forgot I am not at just silly forum LOL!

[Nyx]

English is my native tounge, but I know a little japanese, (not much! Very simple things, I can't hold a conversation...yet! I can ask for the bathroom though ;) ), and I can read some spanish. Can't really speak it though. Really small vocab.
Like a lot of other people, I had a horrid spanish teacher, though I do enjoy the language.
I'm going to ,(HOPEFULLY), take Japanese again this fall, and I still want to learn spanish, but that's for after I get my BFA. :)

[Emaleth]

Originally posted by Éric
Right now, I'm studying Latina (Latin), Frysk (Frisian), Suomi (Finnish), Kernewak (Cornish) and Breizhnog (Breton). The latter two because they're the only extant Celtic languages I can't (yet) have a conversation in, the second and third because they're (relatively) endangered, and the first because everyone should know it. :) My next project is learning Gothic.


Isn't Gothic a dead language just as Latin? But as far as your language aptitude is concerned I'm full of admiration! I'd have to spend my whole life to learn so many languages :) Right now I can speak Polish and English fluently, and French and German so so, I'm learning Irish, though with poor results so far. Lack of extrinsic motivation, I guess
:D

Blessed Be

[WandererInGray]

I've heard Finnish is the second hardest language in the world to learn, I think. *scratches head*
First is Navajo for those who are wondering. *grins*

American English, :D pretty good at British English too.

I know enough Russian, French, and Spanish to get my self in trouble.....*laughs*...and could probably only get out of it in French.

Would like to brush up on my Russian, but can't ever seem to find the time.

And I've been studying Klingon off and on for about 3 years.

[CopyrightPolice]

Interesting. I've heard that Chinese (Cantonese, I *think*) was the most difficult language to learn, because of the way sublte inflections of a word can change the meaning of the word. And I've heard that English is the most difficult language to learn to spell correctly.


I speak German, Spanish, and a bit of Italian.

[Éric]

Originally posted by Emaleth
Isn't Gothic a dead language just as Latin?

Yep, they're both dead languages. Latin is useful for so much, though, and forms a heavy base for most of the non-Celtic and non-Germanic languages of Europe. Gothic is fairly useless, in an objective sense, but I'm going to learn it for personal pleasure. :)

[Éric]

Far as difficult languages...I can snap up a European language like *that*, but I've tried my hand at Native American and Oriental languages before; no dice. I just can't make my brain work right or something. (shrug)

[Azure]

English and French.

Also spoke Greek and German as a child with fluency, but haven't used them in 20 years, so no longer, sadly. I want to learn Irish and Italian next.

[BlueFaerieRose]

I speak English and Spanish, and I am beginning to speak Italian. In the next couple of years: In college, I plan to learn Arabic, Latin, Chinese, Russian and LOL---> Hierogylphics.
~ Meg

[flar7]

Chinese,(cantonese) is supposed to be the most difficult language
to learn due to structure and usage, plus inflection. Like redneck
english. Takes a master of the language to mess it up so even
your own dont recognize it! Talking about the redneckese not
the chinese!:cool:

[Euphoria]

English primarily
Japanese secondarily
German/french thirdly
Chinese last

[slovene_gds]

mmm.......english, doy, er......french semi-fluently, tid bits of slovene(slovenia), spanish, and sign language

[Arduinna]

Use English for my daily language, but also know spanish, and french. I can read Hebrew and speak it a little but need to work on my comprehension. Of course I have little use for Hebrew now, so not working on it.

I'm trying to decide on a Native American language to learn now.

[chocochu]

Originally posted by Puma Hime
^^;; I can also say "I don't know what you need" in sign language. -_-; I don't know why.

XD I can say "Why did you die?" in Japanese. Oh, the useless things one learns.

[lie_ver]

I speak English, Nederlands, German, French, some Spanish.
My first language is Nederlands,
so éric, if you want to practice...:-)

Lieveke

[*~*Chary*~*]

oooh more multi lingual yay

[Isis]

Was ist los? Ich fuhle mich seher mude und krank. Ich studiert Deutsch beim Uni fur vier un halb jahren.

Ich versteh ein beischen Deutsche, aber Deutsche eine schwer Sprache ist!

Konnen sie helfen mir mit meine Deutsche bitte?


Vielen Dank und Machs Gut!

Isis

PS- Ich spreche Englisch!

[TheTempestuous1]

Gruess Gott!

Ich spreche schoen deutsch. Ich war am schueler austausch fur fast 6 monate (7. sept- 2 feb.) und hatte sehr veile gelernt. Wann ich war erst da, ich konnte fast kein deutsch, nur kleines satze und so.. So ich bin sehr stolz auf mich! ;) Meine grammatik ist nicht perfekt aber wenn du willst, ich wurde mit dich gerne reden! Bis dann!

[Isis]

Meine gramatik manchmal gut ist..........aber meistens nicht so gut!

Ich vergesse Deutsche hat ich gelernt beim Uni. Du sprechst shcone Deutsche, hat nur Deutschland fuer sechs oder seben monat geleben! Sehr gut.........mein ist nich so gut!

Schreiben mir bitte! (Dar was richtig gramatik? Ich weiss nicht, und dir?)

Meine email addy ist.......bytchpls@aol.com.....TschuB!

Isis


PS- Schrieb auf Englisch und Deutsch, bitte!

[Jupiter's Moon]

My first language is Portuguese, I speak fluent English and Spanish. I get by with French and Italian. I'm learning Deutsch. I also know Portuguese Sign Language ('cos every language has it's own, you know?).
:)