Parlez-vous français?

Do you speak a second or third language? And if so, what are they and do you speak them well?

I speak French on a fairly basic level, and I am starting Arabic next semester.

Oui, je parle un peu du francais.

I speak a fair bit of Cantonese. Very few EoFFers have heard me speak it though. I'm thinking....two of them have.

edit: oh yeah 3.

I can speak basic Spanish. I used to be better, but I haven't used it regularly in many years.

I speak English and Idiot.

There is some overlap.

Can read and listen and understand decently Spanish, Portuguese, French Ukrainian and some Russian. Reading/understanding a language is much easier than speaking it because that's just a matter of practical experience - you gotta do it a lot or you'll never get good at it. Can't learn it from a book.

As for being able to speak fluently it's just English, Dutch, Polish and some German (though the grammar is way off it's enough to make myself understandable in conversation). Planning to improve my Russian in the coming year.

Name a language and I'll speak it horribly. I can kind of read German, French, Cantonese, Japanese, and Tagalog. My dad is trying to teach us Tagalog because my Filipina mother is too lazy to learn on her own and my grandma won't teach us. My dad also tries to teach us German. I want to learn French better because of my cousin (formerly disowned by my uncle who now claims that was never the case because he wants to appear to be a better person, though who the f he's trying to convince is a mystery to us all). I used Pimsleur in an attempt to learn Catonese because I liked Cassandra from Wayne's World (though I later realized Tia Carrere was neither Cantonese nor spoke it fluently). I figured out that there's no going wrong with speaking Mandarin... if you learn it.

Aside from what I know and don't know, I usually just use Google Translate so I come off sounding like a tourist instead of a compelte idiot.

Used to speak some French.... Haven't in years so I have to say no.


Also I wanna hear MikeChan China

Everybody go make fun of MILF for speaking ESTONIAN of all things :eyebrow:

HO HO HO LE CHEESEBREAD AND ZE STRIPPED SHIRTS

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Originally Posted by Pike

Everybody go make fun of MILF for speaking ESTONIAN of all things :eyebrow:

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kiir :flirt:

I am well versed and up to date in ebonics.

I speak American, English, Texan, and Canadian.

I am fluent in English.

I'm getting a pretty good reading ability of spanish and portuguese from work.