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Giga Guess
04-20-2005, 10:57 PM
Well...speak, read, or understand?

I can only speak English, but pretty comprehensively. As such, I can somewhat understand latin, and several latin based languages KIND OF! Only enough to read...not conversational. But yeah....

Next.

mike without a hat
04-20-2005, 11:01 PM
Mostly English, i think :shifty:
and some german

Rainecloud
04-20-2005, 11:02 PM
A little German.

(Please, nobody say that they can speak Elvish this time.)

Shlup
04-20-2005, 11:03 PM
I am almost fluent in English, except for that part where I'm stupid.

I'm also a moderate American Sign Language "speaker," and there's no reading with that one.

And I speak some Spanglish, but that's just 'cause where I live the population is 60% Latino, so pretty much everyone speaks Spanglish.

Giga Guess
04-20-2005, 11:03 PM
Agreed, Raine. Al Bhed don't count either.

Psychotic
04-20-2005, 11:04 PM
English, a bit of German and Pig Latin :p

nik0tine
04-20-2005, 11:04 PM
Elvish.

Misfit
04-20-2005, 11:05 PM
I can speak a little goblin. :]

Rainecloud
04-20-2005, 11:07 PM
Elvish.

Le tûg hû ben hîni!

rubah
04-20-2005, 11:10 PM
I can guess at most french.

with either a lot of time or my trusty converter, I can understand binary (although I don't need it to writexD that's easier than reading it)

I can read mirror writing fairly easily, and pig latin isn't beyond me.

For some reason though, in every example except probably french, it's easier to write than read (or to say than hear) X.x;;;

Even in english.

Dignified Pauper
04-20-2005, 11:16 PM
English and some German.

Ko Ko
04-20-2005, 11:32 PM
Oh... God...
English and Japanese are fluent. My Chinese is getting better but it isn't quite fluent yet. Other languages I speak in (around 50%) are Latin, French, German, Hokkien, Romanian, An Gui, SOME Swahili, A little Cantonese, Mongol minorities, Malay, and itty bitty bit of Finnish, and I think that is all but I use a lot of languages...

Rye
04-20-2005, 11:34 PM
English and a tiny tiny bit of french. I'm pretty good at reading it, but I'm terrible at speaking it.

muchacho
04-20-2005, 11:37 PM
engrish...........

nik0tine
04-20-2005, 11:37 PM
Also, I can speak Klingon rather fluently.

strawberryman
04-20-2005, 11:46 PM
English is my fluent language, and i'm learning Japanese.

Jebus
04-20-2005, 11:57 PM
Aside from English, I can speak and read some Latin and Ancient Greek, as well as a little bit of German and French, and I can understand a slight amount of Japanese.

Ko Ko
04-21-2005, 12:01 AM
OH I forgot British.

TasteyPies
04-21-2005, 12:16 AM
Broomish

kikimm
04-21-2005, 12:29 AM
Also, I can speak Klingon rather fluently.

I remember watching this show a little while back, who had this guy who was dressed up as a Klingon, and could speak it fluently. xD Entertaining.

But yeah. Right now, only English fluently. I'm in the process of learning German, and I can speak a bit of Swedish; I hope to get much better at it though.


:D

Yamaneko
04-21-2005, 12:58 AM
English and Spanish fluently. French, not-so fluently. I'm going to drop French, though, and begin Russian soon.

Peegee
04-21-2005, 01:10 AM
English/Cantonese. I can guess at the meaning of most french sentences, can spit out some broken German and Japanese, and if I try hard enough I can speak American.

^_^

DMKA
04-21-2005, 01:23 AM
English and some Spanish. When I was a kid I was fluent in Spanish, but after my grandpa died it started fading (seeing as he was the only one who talked to me in Spanish). I can still understand it near-decently.

Rase
04-21-2005, 01:26 AM
English, and learning Spainish in school.

Samuraid
04-21-2005, 01:35 AM
Oh... God...
English and Japanese are fluent. My Chinese is getting better but it isn't quite fluent yet. Other languages I speak in (around 50%) are Latin, French, German, Hokkien, Romanian, An Gui, SOME Swahili, A little Cantonese, Mongol minorities, Malay, and itty bitty bit of Finnish, and I think that is all but I use a lot of languages...
You are quite the linguist. :cool:

Languages I speak fluently:
English
PHP
C
C++
Java
VB
Perl

:D:D:D

I can also speak a little Spanish and a few phrases/words in Russian and Japanese.

withered
04-21-2005, 01:38 AM
English and Huttese.

Jojee
04-21-2005, 01:41 AM
I knowz my English. xD

Chinese, I know how to speak but only somewhat how to write and read. That's what I'm taking classes for :)

I know a bit of Spanish from my four years in high school (trust me, four years seems like a lot but I learned ....not very much at all ^_^). But I want to brush up on that and be at least semi fluent before I get out of college.

After I'm finished with Chinese (three more semesters!), I'm going to learn Portuguese. :)

I also want to learn sign language, that would be fun. ^_^

Ko Ko
04-21-2005, 01:43 AM
Languages I speak fluently:
English
PHP
C
C++
Java
VB
Perl


:skull3: And so are you.

Apollo
04-21-2005, 01:45 AM
I speak German and English.I was taught English by my mother and German by my father.

I also speak a little bit of French and Spanish as well.

The Summoner of Leviathan
04-21-2005, 02:03 AM
Besides English, French. But I am really nervous talking French since I do not use it a lot, and then I talk low and mispronouc my words cause I try to talk too fast. Also I can speak Fringlish, which is popular in NB. For example, "I parker mon car a la courbe" ^_^, though I do not speak like that I hear it. I know how to pronouce pomanize japanese characters if that counts for anything. If I go into Classics I need to learn latin and greek. Also i want to learn Spanich, Japanese, German, Russian, probably more to come. Though I doubt I ever will learn them. Also I understand the wonderful language of grade 12 math, or what I have taken so far.

nik0tine
04-21-2005, 02:04 AM
I can, albeit barely, understand the language of music. To an extent at least.

Montoya
04-21-2005, 03:14 AM
I can speak English and Spanish fluently and some German. But I don't count languages I can understand like Italian and Portuguese as languages I can speak, since I only understand due to similarities in the Latin language.

Strange Rikku
04-21-2005, 03:15 AM
English, alittle Norweigan, A little Spanish, a bunch of random Japanese, ane L337, I fully understand L337

fire_of_avalon
04-21-2005, 03:21 AM
I can read and write some French ok, but if you start speaking to me IN French with a native accent, I get lost pretty quickly. I can also speak Pig Latin and Ob, and Redneckese. I'm not joking there, if you go way back in the sticks in some places around here, you get older people who talk real country.

I wanted to learn Russian, and I was told my speaking was beautiful for a beginner, but I couldn't write it to save my life. It took me five hours to do my first Russian homework assignment. I didn't see the point in continuing if I was going to be illiterate.

Leeza
04-21-2005, 03:22 AM
Russian and English.

UltimateSpamGrover
04-21-2005, 03:30 AM
English, and I picked up some Japanese.

Faris
04-21-2005, 03:33 AM
English, french and a little bit of spanish. My grandmother is trying to get me interested in learning german.

YukiKiro
04-21-2005, 03:34 AM
i speak fluent north eastern american dialect english (i feel the need to specify that) i can speak some spanish, a little japanese and very little italian.

Jack
04-21-2005, 10:20 AM
I THINK I can speak English

Razo
04-21-2005, 12:52 PM
i speak fluent english and spanish, as well as some german

Triple T
04-21-2005, 01:28 PM
I speak English and French. I can speak a some phrases in Japanese and I know how to say Merry Christmas, Happy Easter, etc in German. xP

Social Moon Firesky
04-21-2005, 01:57 PM
I speak English, and I'm learning French, German, Japanese, Swedish, Gaelic and some other languages.

boris no no
04-21-2005, 02:36 PM
english and a little german.
just en ough to say hi to my grandmutty and stuff
just enough to get by really.

Chris
04-21-2005, 02:43 PM
English/ Danish/ Tagalog/ Ilongo/ French... and a little German.

:D

Lankyman
04-21-2005, 03:00 PM
We have some impressive linguists livin' here - Iri, Chris and social moon.
I speak english, a small amount of german, very little japanese. But to make my list seem more impressive :D I'll add C++, Pascal, Guitar tablature, piano sheet music and maybe a bit of al bhed. lol.
Hmm...clutching at straws a bit there, but hey, who cares right?

Martyr
04-21-2005, 03:55 PM
I know french, creole, and italian.

No, I don't speak english.

Social Moon Firesky
04-21-2005, 04:04 PM
I speak English, and I'm learning French, German, Japanese, Swedish, Gaelic and some other languages.

I'm only fluent in English, but I'm nearly fluent in French and German. Sometimes I think in French, which isn't helpful during a German or Japanese lesson, and other times, there's a word that I only know in a different language, so I can't say it in English. My first words weren't actually English though, they were Swedish. I think it was 'teeta', which means 'look'. I was that type of baby, lol. :D

Old Manus
04-21-2005, 04:10 PM
vaD 'oH chaH daH.

Haha..That is Klingon for "for is a them now".

KoShiatar
04-21-2005, 04:13 PM
I can speak Italian, English, and a little Japanese.

Rusty
04-21-2005, 05:13 PM
I know a bit of Australian sign language :)

Lankyman
04-21-2005, 05:20 PM
what's the difference between australian and english sign language?

Rusty
04-21-2005, 05:23 PM
what's the difference between australian and english sign language?

Im not sure of the difference between English and Australian sign language. But I know there are differences between ours and the American sign language.

Resha
04-21-2005, 05:54 PM
I speak English (I think) and two Indian languages and Malay and I'm learning French. Really really bad chinese doesn't count...

Odaisé Gaelach
04-21-2005, 08:31 PM
English (Fluent), Irish (Maith go leor - b'fheidir) and French (Je ne suis pas trés bien, mais je ne suis pas nul aussi).

I'd like to learn Japanese or Russian.

sephiroth JR
04-21-2005, 09:17 PM
language proof
English hello
al-bhed rammu
Monkey ooo ahh ahh!!!
spanish ola
french bonjour
crazy yoogan smoogan ziggy mee snata loshan

Social Moon Firesky
04-21-2005, 09:37 PM
'Crazy' is the most abundant language in the world. :D

Kirobaito
04-21-2005, 09:40 PM
English and Spanish. Both of them suck.

Croyles
04-21-2005, 10:35 PM
I can speak both german and english fluently as i have lived in both countries. i was learning japanese for a while. i found talking in japanese was pretty easy, however, writing and reading was another story.

rubah
04-21-2005, 11:04 PM
we're doing language proofs now?

Love
amour
ai
mahal kita (or rather that's more like I love you I thinkX.x;;)

Sleep
dormir
*
tulog

yes
oui
*
oo

and that's about it for more than two languages of.

Casey
04-21-2005, 11:25 PM
Alittle Tagalog Ba-sian. I can just speak alittle, and also understand when my mom speaks to me in Tagalog Ba-sian.

Kamustka! :)

Hi

Social Moon Firesky
04-22-2005, 01:44 PM
Is that a real language? I've never heard of it before. Oh, and I speak one word of Esperanto, or however you spell it: Kaixo. It means 'hi'.

Resha
04-22-2005, 05:13 PM
Tagalog is real. They speak it in the Phillipines! ^.^

Itsunari 2000
04-23-2005, 12:04 AM
Fluent English ,French, a little Italian and some Japanese.

Nod
04-23-2005, 01:22 AM
Fluent English, near-fluent spanish, and passable French.
oh, there's some Latin in there too, but that doesnt really count for much anymore although its making a resurgence in the Vatican.
:D