Cunning Linguist

It's reached the point where I need to speak Japanese to survive my daily life. I work at a Japanese company, major in Japanese at college, and I tutor 2 Japanese boys and their mother in English. Besides that, I spend a large amount of my social life associating with Nihon-jin. Keep in mind I live in Ohio. :| A large portion of the Japanese community in town knows who I am, and boy do I see them around town a lot.

Anyway, do you need to use 2 or more languages in your daily life? What are they? :jess: I wanna learn Spanish.

I don't know Spanish and, after years of classes and study, I think I never shall.

However, I need to be able to communicate in some form of Spanish a few times a day, at least. So I piece what crappy anti-skills that I have together and try to make it happen.

Also, if you aren't a closed minded moron with a broken brain (like mine), then come down here, and you'll practically learn Spanish b default. A filthy mind doesn't hurt either.

I can cuss in a whole bunch of languages but I am not even close to being bilingual.

I can say my life would be a lot less interesting without the words schiesse (sp?)I and merde.

Also the title reminds me of Cabaret! Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome...

I speak Swedish and English every day! Swedish is my native tongue, but most people in my social circle - including my girlfriend - don't speak Swedish (yet), so it wouldn't do to forget my English!

omg Rantz I had to analyze Swedish nouns for linguistics class and all I can say is I HATE SWEDISH :hot: Sorry if this offends you.

I'd be better at languages if Australians weren't racist and believed learning foreign languages was useful.

Also the title reminded me of my trivia team, the Cunning Stunts. I didn't name us btw.

nihao baca

(hello cabbage)

thought i called you an idiot, did ya? you imperialist

I can speak English, Spanish and a bit of Mandarin Chinese. Also math. :bigsmile:

.rehtie moorb tegrof t'nac you hO :p

It's what languages do you have to use guys. Not, which languages do you know.

I only have to use english around here. Lucky me!

I wish I knew Spanish because it would increase my employ-ability by like 50%...

Anyways I just have to use English around here. Not because there aren't a bunch of Spanish speakers, because there are, but that's when you page for a Spanish speaking employee to come over and deal with it for you.

You guys would be amazed how many people speak Spanish and ONLY Spanish way up here by the Canadian border.

I can speak English and Estonian.

Utility of the latter is actually significantly less than zero because nobody knows Estonian. Who has ever had trouble at their jobs because they didn't have knowledge of Estonian or a colleague who does?

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I can speak English and Estonian.

Utility of the latter is actually significantly less than zero because nobody knows Estonian. Who has ever had trouble at their jobs because they didn't have knowledge of Estonian or a colleague who does?

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You forgot "some crazy language that is supposedly an Irish accent but that no one can actually understand so it had might as well be a different language"

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No it can be understood, just not by culturally blinkered Americans. :kakapo:

I AM GOING TO HUH-VER ALL OVER YOUR GRA-M CRACKERS IN SPOKAAAANE

I do have to use Spanish quite often actually. a lot of people speak it where I live and I have had a couple tutoring clients whose parents spoke only Spanish. :p

My sister is taking Chinese in college now so I can help her practice her speaking when she needs it. :quina:

Rarely have to speak Mandarin, but when I do need to it's usually because I'm talking to my mother or I'm in Chinatown. And even in Chinatown I try to avoid speaking it because my accent must be disgraceful.

I read this as something else and got excited.....I am disappoint. :mad:

I'll be honest, a thread about eating :bou::bou::bou::bou:s has been on the cards for a while now.

I need to learn more Japanese. I am such a weeaboo. -_-;

An increasing amount of Spanish is popping up in Southern California. Not as a translation under the English, either, but entire bill boards just in Spanish. Fortunately, I speak pretty good Spanglish. As in, "Well, that word looks like especial, and that means special, so that sign probably means there's a sale. Yay!"

I have to speak Spanish in Spanish class. I hate it.

Why do you hate it? (serious question)

Because Spanish class sucks and the verbs are stupid.

Spanish verbs aren't stupid. English verbs are just extremely impoverished. :p

I just need to know English. That's it. I live in New Jersey. Don't need other languages really around here.

When I first saw this title I read cunnilungus.
I did a double take and was gonna warn every post in the thread, then reread what I saw.

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When I first saw this title I read cunnilungus.
I did a double take and was gonna warn every post in the thread, then reread what I saw.

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What a terribly uncouth thing to think, HC! I am absolutely sure that no one else on this forum made that connection and that our dear innocent Justy would never start a thread title with that intent! :mymelbert:

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Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod

Because Spanish class sucks and the verbs are stupid.

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I'm not entirely sure how to defend this, but I support it!

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Spanish verbs aren't stupid. English verbs are just extremely impoverished. :p

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Why are the like 50 versions of the same verb then. :colbert:

Inflectional morphemes! Romance languages just like to put the tense into the word. We do it with copulas and stuff.

Inflection is probably the hardest thing about Spanish, but once you know how to do it I'm sure you can get used to it. Everything else seems to be relatively easy.

i speak english and backwoods hillbilly

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Inflectional morphemes! Romance languages just like to put the tense into the word. We do it with copulas and stuff.

Inflection is probably the hardest thing about Spanish, but once you know how to do it I'm sure you can get used to it. Everything else seems to be relatively easy.

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At this point I don't even know if you're saying actual words.

It's okay. just close your eyes and it will all be over soon enough

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Inflectional morphemes! Romance languages just like to put the tense into the word. We do it with copulas and stuff.

Inflection is probably the hardest thing about Spanish, but once you know how to do it I'm sure you can get used to it. Everything else seems to be relatively easy.

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At this point I don't even know if you're saying actual words.

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You said you studied 'spanish' in school. Did you learn 'spanish' or 'mexican' ?

Mexican Spanish. o_O

Yeah, english.

I have to speak 2 languages. I like neither. I wish I could speak Japanese though.

i thought this was gonna be about cunninlynguists

I speak Finnish and Swedish in my daily life (Finland has two official languages, after all, and I happen to live in an area which has quite a big Fenno-Swedish population so you hear the two languages often). I use English online, in university classes and with exchange students, tourists and the occasional foreign customers at work. :)

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Originally Posted by Martyr

I don't know Spanish and, after years of classes and study, I think I never shall.

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I also took a Japanese course in college and own an audio... but am no closer to understanding a single thing I hear or read in Japanese. Also Cantonese, Tagalog (because of my mom because of her mom), and German (because of my dad... because of my dad), and I'm trying to learn French because I have a French cousin... whom I only recently got into contact with.

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Title reminded me of my trivia team, the Cunning Stunts.

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Lol... Blushing Crow.

I'm also creating my own language. I'll let you know how that turns out. In 202020.

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I'm also creating my own language. I'll let you know how that turns out. In 202020.

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I started making my own language once. It got absurdly far (as in, I had most of the grammar and conjugations and stuff written out and was well on my way into making up an entire dictionary) before deciding that I didn't want to make a language for the book I was writing after all. Said book ended up getting completely revamped, so it's all good.

I speak some odd American Midwestern language where "crayon" is pronounced "cran", milk is "melk" and double t's in words are disregarded in pronunciation.

But really, I don't need to speak any other language than English where I live. I speak a little Spanish, but there's hardly a considerable Spanish speaking community here that I would need to communicate with.

EDIT: I almost forgot, in one point in my life, I learned Hawaiian because I used to live in Hawaii. But I was so little that any Hawaiian is long gone from my mind. Hawaiian Pidgin is also important to learn, and something that sticks with you for a while, even if it is a dialect and not a language.

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I speak some odd American Midwestern language where "crayon" is pronounced "cran", milk is "melk" and double t's in words are disregarded in pronunciation.

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Wait, that's not how crayon is supposed to be pronounced?

Also, the double tt thing (if you are referring to "kitten", "mitten", etc.) is common throughout the language. It has a special name; I learned it in a linguistics class. I feel smart. :monster:

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I speak some odd American Midwestern language where "crayon" is pronounced "cran", milk is "melk" and double t's in words are disregarded in pronunciation.

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Wait, that's not how crayon is supposed to be pronounced?

Also, the double tt thing (if you are referring to "kitten", "mitten", etc.) is common throughout the language. It has a special name; I learned it in a linguistics class. I feel smart. :monster:

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Nope. Some snobby West Coaster told me it's supposed to be "cuh-ray-on." Like how some people pronounce "Koran." Because smurf "cran."

And I've never heard anyone but Midwesterners not pronounce the double t, so I figured that was just our thing. And what would that word be, Mr Smartypartypants? :cool:

Funny enough it has a double t in it, it's called a glottal stop.

cray-on

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Funny enough it has a double t in it, it's called a glottal stop.

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That's one of those doubt t words that I would pronounce like a d instead of tt. Man I am a weirdo. :onoes:

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cray-on

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Yeah, that too! :monster:

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I speak some odd American Midwestern language where "crayon" is pronounced "cran", milk is "melk" and double t's in words are disregarded in pronunciation.

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Wait, that's not how crayon is supposed to be pronounced?

Also, the double tt thing (if you are referring to "kitten", "mitten", etc.) is common throughout the language. It has a special name; I learned it in a linguistics class. I feel smart. :monster:

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Nope. Some snobby West Coaster told me it's supposed to be "cuh-ray-on." Like how some people pronounce "Koran." Because smurf "cran."

And I've never heard anyone but Midwesterners not pronounce the double t, so I figured that was just our thing. And what would that word be, Mr Smartypartypants? :cool:

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Well I'm a snobby west-coaster and I call it "cran" like everyone else I know here, so tell this other snobby west-coaster person that he or she is sadly misinformed!

Also that's Ms. Smartypartypants to you! Until I become a robot at least! :jess:

And yes, MILF is correct~ although funnily enough I don't believe "glottal stop" is typically pronounced with a glottal stop.

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Well I'm a snobby west-coaster and I call it "cran" like everyone else I know here, so tell this other snobby west-coaster person that he or she is sadly misinformed!

Also that's Ms. Smartypartypants to you! Until I become a robot at least! :jess:

And yes, MILF is correct~

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...Until you become a robot? :cool:

She's not a complete robot yet.

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Well I'm a snobby west-coaster and I call it "cran" like everyone else I know here, so tell this other snobby west-coaster person that he or she is sadly misinformed!

Also that's Ms. Smartypartypants to you! Until I become a robot at least! :jess:

And yes, MILF is correct~

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...Until you become a robot? :cool:

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I am eagerly counting down the days until my planned... operation :hyper:

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And I've never heard anyone but Midwesterners not pronounce the double t, so I figured that was just our thing. And what would that word be, Mr Smartypartypants? :cool:

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Haha yeah. Like the word button end up being "buh-[stop]-nh"

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And I've never heard anyone but Midwesterners not pronounce the double t, so I figured that was just our thing. And what would that word be, Mr Smartypartypants? :cool:

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Haha yeah. Like the word button end up being "buh-[stop]-nh"

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Bu-un, ki-en, etc. And other double t words end up being a d sound. (chader instead of chatter)

I'm bilingual (English and Polish), though not because I need to, it just happened, sorta... I'm studying two philologies at my uni at the mo. That's English and Japanese. I also speak a little German and Spanish. But just a little :)

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Bu-un, ki-en, etc. And other double t words end up being a d sound. (chader instead of chatter)

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My American phonetics teachers call this a 'tap' or 'flap' :)

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cray-on

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Yeah, that's how you pronounce it. Wtf would would there be so much emphasis on the beginning? :confused:

I want everyone to know as per my last post, I didnt even know what that word meant until I googled it 5 minutes ago, I was showing a friend eoff and they misread the title and I thought it was funny

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cray-on

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Yeah, that's how you pronounce it. Wtf would would there be so much emphasis on the beginning? :confused:

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I asked Hux about this the other day and now we have to add it to the list of words he makes fun of me for. D:

I only speak English. However, I know several words/phrases in Spanish/French, enough for when I go abroad to these places I can understand some things and ask for the bill and stuff. However, living in England there are so many accents which may as well be other languages; I have friend at University who comes from near Newcastle and so speaks geordie, the amount of times on the phone I have to ask her to slow down and repeat it slowly. Her name is Hope, but she says it Hooooooooooooooooooooope in a way that people have mistaken it for Hawk, she also says "why aye" which is incredibly amusing.

glottal stop isn't pronounced 'glot-tal' stop?

and wtf is a cran?

cray-on

ahhh
my head

Aluminium.

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glottal stop isn't pronounced 'glot-tal' stop?

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Well, in fairness, it comes out more like "gloddle" most of the time

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cray-on

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Yeah, that's how you pronounce it. Wtf would would there be so much emphasis on the beginning? :confused:

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I asked Hux about this the other day and now we have to add it to the list of words he makes fun of me for. D:

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D'awww. How big is that list now?

It's pretty sizable.








(SPOILER)>>Quotes out of Context Thread

Well now I can't go post that there. :doublecolbert:

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glottal stop isn't pronounced 'glot-tal' stop?

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Well, in fairness, it comes out more like "gloddle" most of the time

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Incorrect pronunciation != alternate pronunciation

English. I also speak French well for someone who's only taken two years of it. Which means, not well. For college, I wanna learn something totally useless, like Arabic or Swahili.

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glottal stop isn't pronounced 'glot-tal' stop?

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Well, in fairness, it comes out more like "gloddle" most of the time

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Incorrect pronunciation != alternate pronunciation

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I don't recall saying it was a correct or alternate pronunciation...

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English. I also speak French well for someone who's only taken two years of it. Which means, not well. For college, I wanna learn something totally useless, like Arabic or Swahili.

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I want to learn Swahili just so I can sing Baba Yetu.

Arabic is about as far from a useless language as you can get, barring English itself.

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English. I also speak French well for someone who's only taken two years of it. Which means, not well. For college, I wanna learn something totally useless, like Arabic or Swahili.

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Learn Klingon then. :bigsmile:

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I'm also creating my own language.

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I had most of the grammar and conjugations and stuff written out and was well on my way into making up an entire dictionary

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I won't bother with that complicated crap. Some languages, like Cantonese, are needlessly complicated, while others are just stupidly complicated. You'll eventually come to understand my language or you won't. I don't care. lol.

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Arabic is about as far from a useless language as you can get, barring English itself.

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In Tennessee it is. :bigsmile: