What languages do you speak? Don't include stupid crap like interwebs slang or ebonics or something like that.
My first language is English. I also speak a bit of German, as most of my family is German. In the past few years, I've also become very proficient at Mandarin Chinese, and now it's my major. I want to learn Persian next, though Chinese will be my focus for pretty much the rest of my life.
Feel free to type a bit in your languages, too. I'm always interested when I read Finnish or Polish or other European languages that aren't as widespread as English, French, German, and Spanish.
If wishes were fishes then we'd all smell like ladies' underwear.
Just like Hayo, my first language is Dutch and I can speak English pretty well. I speak a little bit German and I know little French. I also know some Japanese words.
Modern and Ancient Greek, English and a little bit of French.
GR1) Το "Καθημερινό Κλικ" είναι ο καλύτερος ιστοχώρος σε ολόκληρο το διαδίκτυο!
GR2) To "Kathimerino Klik" einai o kalyteros istoxoros se olokliro to diadiktyo!
EN) "Daily Click" is the best website in the whole internet!
*The first two are exactly the same but you need a greek font to read the gr1.
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I'm learning Chinese . I'm rubbish at Chinese at the moment but learning .
What made you learn Chinese if you dont mind me asking? I know its going to be the best language to learn for future prospects, with China set to become a huge superpower - but my reason is becuase of my best freind - she's chinese
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HagarTech: I'm really into Chinese history. That gave me the initial interest to take classes, and then in those classes, I met a lot of friends. I managed to learn enough Chinese to make conversation with native speakers, and I made a lot of friends who speak it, so that kept me going.
If wishes were fishes then we'd all smell like ladies' underwear.
I also talk "Rövarsprĺket"... er... um... The "Robber/Thief language"... Yeah.
BTW
They never should've locked the "Thanks Chris"-topic. Now all emotional outbursts and strange messages are sipping into other topics, like this one.
However i did learn a bit of French, German and Spanish during my time in full time education but only because i had to. Had i wanted to learn them i would actually remember a bit.
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You are so right about that E_E Who dared to lock the "Thanks Chris" thread? >_O
We demand it to be unlocked! NOW! Eh... ... please? :3
English (First language).
Portuguese (learning, but quite advanced now).
Isto é um exemplo de portuguęs. Se alguém no sul da Inglaterra (perto ao Brighton ou Chichester) vę uma antenna parabólica que tem "TV CABO" ou "RAD Electrónicas" escrita nela, envie-me uma nota na email or DC-mail, para que posso falar com eles!
This is an example of Portuguese. If someone in the south of England (close to Brighton or Chichester) sees a TV satellite dish with "TV CABO" or "RAD Electronics" written on it, send me an email or a DC mail, so I can go and speak to 'em!
I work with Portuguese people you see, it's a kind of charity thing.
my primary language is danish, i've been speaking english since 4th or 5th grade though. Also, I know a bit of german and spanish, but people from either country would either laugh at me or kill me if i tried to communicate in those languages
I speak English well and my native language, Malay, fluently . LOL, Malay's easy to learn because of the simple grammar, but impossible to master since nobody speaks it well.
Tried to learn German to play MadTV 2 and tried to learn Mandarin to see what the chinese guys are saying behind my back, but haven't been doing well at either. Also know some very basic French.
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.
Oh yeah, I know a few words of Hungarian. I had a very good friend, who was Hungarian, but he moved back to Hungary, and I haven't heard much of him since. But here's a few small words I still remember (I don't know about the spelling though, they use quite a lot of umlauts and stuff I think):
Igen = Yes
Nem = No
Ves = Water
I also remember that "Skägg", the Swedish word for "beard", happened to be "arse" in Hungarian, haha
Yeah, and I also knew a few swearwords, but I seem to have forgotten them
I don't know why, but it seems that 'arse' is one of the words I pick up fastest in foreign languages. Even words that are simple in English like 'I' and 'You' don't pop up that often in some languages.
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German, English and I can read Dutch for some reason (i cant speak/write or understand it though but I can read it) and a tiny bit Spanish and even less Turkish (I know how to order stuff/say good morning and say yes)
if the 3 Turkish things I know count I also know some French (I can say very basic crap like how are you?/I'm fine/My name is/Do you want to sleep with me?) and of course I know a few Japanese words everybody knows who has ever watched anime/been to the Internet
Oh right and I just remembered I once knew some Hebrew. I think it's a really lovely language. I think French is a very queer and gay language- everything sounds so "soft" and it's about breathing out words rather than actually SAYING them. German and Hebrew are both "harder" language where you actually SAY and pronounce letters rather than just breathing sounds out. Nastyman once thought me the Hebrew alphabet/a bunch of words and sentences.
A language I also really like is Yiddish. A pity it's almost dead (fucking Nazis had to kill everybody and almost managed a whole race and a language) because it has many beautiful words- some are still used in German. So I know some Yiddish words and sentences.
I also understand some (but not completly) Austro-Bavarian (I think its pretty complicated). Austro-Bavarian or Bavarian is a major group of Upper German varieties. Like standard German, Austro-Bavarian is a High German language, but they are not the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Bavarian
And I understand some Low German (i would say thats also why I understand some Dutch. If you know about language you know Dutch is nothing but a German accent. In some areas of Germany like some German Islands people will talk funny and you will be like OH is that Dutch? While it's just their accent).
Low German (also called Plattdeutsch, Plattdüütsch or Low Saxon) is a name for the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in Northern Germany where it is officially called Niederdeutsch ('Low German'), and in Eastern Netherlands where it is officially called Nedersaksisch ('Low Saxon'). "Low" refers to the flat sea coasts and plains of north Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, as opposed to High German and the mountainous areas of central and southern Germany (including Alsatian spoken by most German-French residents of Alsace, France in addition to French), and the Alps (Switzerland and Austria).
"Dutch a German accent? If that were true I'd know my German well... "
well accent is probably the wrong word
it should be dialect
Dutch is a descendant of Old Frankish which is also the parent language of Afrikaans.
Old Frankish was the language of the Franks and it is classified as a West Germanic language. Once it was spoken in areas covering modern France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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26th March, 2007 at 05:47:08 -
German != Germanic. The two languages grew apart too much in the meantime. I think German is difficult.
English and Danish fluently. I learnt a bit of Japanese and even went to Japan for a few weeks, but I don't speak it well enough to maintain anything more than an elementary conversation about very basic things.
I can talk almost all dialects of finnish, (not helsinki dialect), and i can talk in traditional finnish, also I can talk Swedish, english (Gb and AE), HTML, and I know few words of russian, latin, saame, french, chinese, japanese and german.
I have proven new mathematic formula to be true...
hm.. i can speak hungarian, english and learning german.
axel, water is not Ves.. its "Víz",
I'd call "arse" - "Sägg" without k. Its spelled "segg" in hungarian.
And for those who wants to see some hungarian: (i dont except too many )
"Napi Klick" a legfajinabb oldal az egész interneten. - "Daily Click" is the best website in the whole internet!
you could become dogzer's best friend
he speaks that Hungarian as well
talking about fotze
when i was like 12 i would always spell it Votze
i found out it was spelled Fotze when we read a book in German class (i was 14) and they used that word many times in that book.
i mean look at the SHAPE of it. I think V suits it way better than F
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. I'm rubbish at Chinese at the moment but learning 
