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Posted January 30, 2012
Oh yeah, Latin, I learned that too, but immediately forgot everything about it afterwards, so I would not claim to know it. ;)
Post edited January 30, 2012 by Leroux
Posted January 30, 2012
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English and American Sign Language.

But I'm interesting in learning Japanese and Korean language.
Posted January 30, 2012
Native tongue: Finnish
Fluent: English

Additionally, I can understand written Swedish pretty well. Finnish students begin learning it in 7th grade. I used to take German lessons too, since 4th grade until the Finnish equivalent of high school, but have since forgotten most of it.

I would like to learn French during some part of my life.
Posted January 30, 2012
Fluently Estonian, English, Spanish and French.
Broken (conversational +): German
Currently studying Japanese, but don't have as much time to dedicate to it as I'd like to. I suppose I'm basic conversational.

edit: basic understanding in Finnish, Italian and Latin, but it's been way too long since I studied those. Oh and I did Russian for two years but don't know a word these days.
Post edited January 30, 2012 by FraterPerdurabo
Posted January 30, 2012
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Leroux: Oh yeah, Latin, I learned that too, but immediately forgot everything about it afterwards, so I would not claim to know it. ;)
Leroux asinus est :)

Just kidding ;) I forgot most as well, but I am trying to get most of it back, that's the reason why I have a latin nickname ;)
Posted January 30, 2012
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bazilisek: I always thought that if we lived somewhere in Africa, linguists would call the two languages just simple dialects without batting an eyelid.
The "official" dialects maybe. But try to compare some eastern slovak dialect with, say, moravian or hanak dialect, for the lulz. That could give you some serious headache :)
Posted January 30, 2012
I've dabbled with a few. I speak English fluently (unsurprisingly) and normal* Japanese near fluently. I also used to know a fair bit of Latin and Mandarin, a tiny bit of Cantonese and Malay (as well as Malay-English) and smidgen of Italian (only learnt it as I went to Italy for a short holiday). Also learnt French in school, but could never get the hang of it.

* As opposed to the "technical" Japanese consisting of company specific terms that I deal with on a daily basis, a form of Japanese that even most Japanese have difficulty understanding.
Posted January 30, 2012
I'm somewhat confident that I might be the only GOGer on here who is, knows, or speaks Armenian. It is my native language. But obviously, I got English down pat, too.

I can also swear in Arabic and Turkish, but that's the extent of that.
Posted January 30, 2012
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klaymen: The "official" dialects maybe. But try to compare some eastern slovak dialect with, say, moravian or hanak dialect, for the lulz. That could give you some serious headache :)
Well, yeah, it is a fluid thing, of course. But most of that is pronunciation and very basic morphology, plus a different word here and there; everything else is pretty much the same. Which more or less should be the criteria for determining what is a dialect and what isn't, but this whole thing is a gigantic fuzzy area, anyway. Linguistics has a lot of those.
Posted January 30, 2012
German and English, obviously.

I can read, to a certain extend French, Italian and Spanish. Which I all had, albeit only briefly, studied at one time or another.

And I know a few phrases in Jiddish, Hebrew and Arabic which I can use if I want to sound really smartypants.

Oh, and I understand Dutch, and can speak it when I'm drunk. As Dutch is nothing else but drunken German.
Posted January 30, 2012
The only languages that I am fluent in are Afrikaans and English, but I have some exposure to a few other languages as well.
Posted January 30, 2012
Italian, German and English. I had a bit of french in school too but i can only make small phrases with it.
Posted January 30, 2012
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bansama: I've dabbled with a few. I speak English fluently (unsurprisingly) and normal* Japanese near fluently. I also used to know a fair bit of Latin and Mandarin, a tiny bit of Cantonese and Malay (as well as Malay-English) and smidgen of Italian (only learnt it as I went to Italy for a short holiday). Also learnt French in school, but could never get the hang of it.

* As opposed to the "technical" Japanese consisting of company specific terms that I deal with on a daily basis, a form of Japanese that even most Japanese have difficulty understanding.
Is it normal? I thought one of the problems they were having in Japan was that students were studying English but not getting fluent, even when they could write pass the relevant tests. I definitely could be wrong, but as an ESL teacher I'm always curious about that.

For me, I'm fluent in English and am somewhere around Intermediate with German, I have excellent listening skills, but my vocabulary is pretty embarrassing at present. I can however construct all sorts of sentences and usually get the correct endings on things.

In the very near term I'm going to be studying Mandarin Chinese on a daily basis.
Posted January 30, 2012
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Barefoot_Monkey: The only languages that I am fluent in are Afrikaans and English, but I have some exposure to a few other languages as well.
How similar (or different) is Afrikaans to Dutch?
Posted January 30, 2012
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Ubivis: Leroux asinus est :)
Bist selba a Esl, und a Piefke! ;)
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