Do you speak other languages? (Other than English)

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How many langauges do you speak?

  1. 1

    4 vote(s)
    17.4%

  2. 2

    5 vote(s)
    21.7%

  3. 3

    7 vote(s)
    30.4%

  4. 4

    3 vote(s)
    13.0%

  5. 5+

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    17.4%
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  1. Enigma'07

    Enigma'07 Who turned out the lights?!?! Registered Senior Member

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    If so, what?
     
    Enigma'07, Jun 30, 2004
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  3. Dreamwalker

    Dreamwalker Whatever Valued Senior Member

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    Besides English, I speak German, Spanish and French.
     
    Dreamwalker, Jun 30, 2004
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  5. Bruce Wayne

    Bruce Wayne . Registered Senior Member

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    Arabic, French, Dutch and a little Italian.

    Next is Spanish (in september)
     
    Bruce Wayne, Jun 30, 2004
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  7. path

    path Militant wiseguy Registered Senior Member

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    Norwegian (which means I can also understand and be understood in Danish and Swedish

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    ), spanish.
     
    path, Jun 30, 2004
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  8. cosmictraveler

    cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Why the #@%!!&(*^%$# do you want to know. That is an example of one of my "other" languages that I know.

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    cosmictraveler, Jun 30, 2004
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  9. path

    path Militant wiseguy Registered Senior Member

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    klatu barda niktu to you too mr traveller
     
    path, Jun 30, 2004
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  10. phlogistician

    phlogistician Banned Banned

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    French, and some German. I always learn a little of the language if I go to visit somewhere, at least 'please' 'thankyou', and 'two beers'!

    My French can get fairly good with a little practice. My German is clunky.
     
    phlogistician, Jun 30, 2004
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  11. Facial

    Facial Valued Senior Member

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    Spanish, my only one.

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    I lost my Mandarin.
     
    Facial, Jun 30, 2004
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  12. Fraggle Rocker

    Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I don't "speak" any second language well enough to live a normal life in the country (except Esperanto, which has no country). But using my own geometric scale, in which 1.0 means you know one word and each higher point multiplies your vocabulary by 3.2 (assuming comparable advances in grammar and pronunciation), I am

    8.5 in English
    7.5 in Esperanto
    7.0 in Spanish
    6.5 in German
    6.0 in Mandarin
    5.5 in Portuguese
    5.5 in Italian
    5.0 in French
    5.0 in Catalan
    4.5 in pan-Slavonic (the basic vocabulary is almost identical with different phonetics in Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, etc.)
    4.0 in pan-Scandinavian (same goes for Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, as someone already pointed out)

    I do much better in reading and writing, because I can just sit here with a dictionary.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Jul 1, 2004
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  13. jadedflower

    jadedflower observer Valued Senior Member

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    Ermm... I speak English and Portuguese... I can dabble in Spanish and French... Italian is completely comprehensible but I sound like a duck trying to speak in it.
     
    jadedflower, Jul 1, 2004
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  14. Bells

    Bells Staff Member

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    Aside from English. I speak French and a couple of French dialects, some Italian and Spanish (I understand and read better than I speak though, but I get by with both). I lost the German and Japanese.
     
    Bells, Jul 1, 2004
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  15. Esoteric

    Esoteric Tragic Hero Registered Senior Member

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    Spanish mainly, and Italian. A bit of Portuguese.
     
    Esoteric, Jul 1, 2004
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  16. Thor

    Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    English (primitive language it is), French (very rusty) and German (very rusty too). Currently learning Dutch
     
    Thor, Jul 1, 2004
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  17. Closet Philosopher

    Closet Philosopher Off to Laurentian University Registered Senior Member

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    I speak, read and write French and English at a high level. My French is getting a little rusty though but I am taking courses next year to brush it up, especially essay writing. I want to learn German. I might take a German course when I go to University.
     
    Closet Philosopher, Jul 1, 2004
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  18. Roman

    Roman Banned Banned

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    Hablo una poca espanol.
     
    Roman, Jul 2, 2004
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  19. whitewolf

    whitewolf asleep under the juniper bush Registered Senior Member

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    I'm fluent in English and Russian. I completely forgot Hebrew and Latvian. But if I were a good girl in school, it would be so cool to speak 4 languages.... I plan to learn German.
     
    whitewolf, Jul 2, 2004
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  20. sargentlard

    sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    I speak English, stupid, profanity, douche bag, gibberish and sometimes, to impress the ladies, i speak desperate.

    6 languages...beat that fuckers.
     
    sargentlard, Jul 2, 2004
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  21. Avatar

    Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    Besides Latvian I speak fluent English, good Russian, a bit German.
    This year I'm going to learn Latin. Then the year after -> Spanish
     
    Avatar, Jul 2, 2004
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  22. whitewolf

    whitewolf asleep under the juniper bush Registered Senior Member

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    Ah, if one of us helps out with Latvian, it just might come back to me....
    /considers huge plans and conspiracies.
     
    whitewolf, Jul 2, 2004
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  23. fahrenheit 451

    fahrenheit 451 fiction Registered Senior Member

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    I can speak every language in the world, except greek.




    and they all sound greek, to me.
    avatar are you going to be a botanist, otherwise why latin.
     
    fahrenheit 451, Jul 2, 2004
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