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    I am fluent in English. I have near fluent understanding of French unless they are like super Quebecois or Acadien. My French would be better but I rarely use it despite living in Quebec, learning the language since I was 4-5, and having a French Canadian grandmother. Also, Quebec's official language is French and has actual "language police" (this is more for businesses and such, but yeah they still do). And there was bulltrout that some transit works after the PQ won the election started to refuse serving people in English. Despite all this, I can communicate my points in French and pretty much if I am not too self-conscious talk about anything, as long as I can remember the vocab. I forget random words sometimes, like grapefruit is always pamplemousse in my mind.

    I know a smattering of Japanese that I mostly lost but I can still read kana with a few kanji.


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    I studied Latin when I was 12, but I forgot all of it. I learned a bit of Spanish when I was even younger, but I forgot most of that. I studied Japanese in Highschool, but I forgot most of that, too. Right now I'm studying French, though. :P

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    I'm pretty good at Java and C

    I took 3 years of German in high school and promptly forgot most of it. I know probably horrendously-grammared tourist Spanish. I might be able to read things in Italian and I could try French but it has too many unnecessary letters.

    Watashi wa genki desu. Arigato! ☆⌒(*^∇゜)v

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    I love the suspicion of kotora. Makes me giggle with mirth and merriment.

    They see me rolling. They hating, patrolling.
    Trying to catch me riding dirty.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
    Everybody go make fun of MILF for speaking ESTONIAN of all things
    Estonia has more wonderful toys than Batman. I'd love to be able to speak Estonian.

    In faith, I speak Shakespearean English.

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    Quote Originally Posted by My Little Pokey View Post

    I'm starting to pick up random Chinese phrases from my friends. I have NO idea how to write them, in pinyin or hanzi. Sometimes I can understand written Chinese just by virtue of kanji that I know, but I have no idea how to read it out loud.
    take the on-yomi and put a chinese gloss on it. 8D

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jiro View Post
    I love the suspicion of kotora. Makes me giggle with mirth and merriment.
    Being suspected of trout has been a daily part of my life since I shaved my head
    This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
    Everybody go make fun of MILF for speaking ESTONIAN of all things
    Estonia has more wonderful toys than Batman. I'd love to be able to speak Estonian.
    No you wouldn't.

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    Post a Vocaroos of people speaking their respective languages. Now.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Laddy View Post
    Post a Vocaroos of people speaking their respective languages. Now.
    I'm tempted to actually do this when I'm not at work...

    EDIT: Done.

    TRANSLATIONS:
    French: I don't know why you are an arsehole, but then again, I don't give a smurf.
    German: I have a lobster in my underpants
    Glaswegian: ???
    Japanise: trout! It's the cops!
    Ukrainian: Honestly it's funnier if you don't understand
    Shakespearean: Segment from Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
    Last edited by Citizen Bleys; 12-16-2012 at 08:42 AM.

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    Hey guys, this is me speaking French terribly into a Rock Band microphone. I didn't have to confidence to say anything too complex at the risk of looking stupid, so I say pretty much what you think I'm saying.

    Anywhere, here it is.



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    Taking my french 2 final tomorrow
    I'm praying that I can have the luck to pass the damn thing.
    I HATE FRENCH.
    Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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    thanks for this post its very nice

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    I have picked up a few books in Japanese during my stay here. I am still not at the level where I can read through unassisted, but with a dictionary for some words I still don't know, I can read without too much trouble. It's been helping me pick up more vocabulary.

    I met a kid here who wants me to help him with English, except all he seems to know (or care about) is swear words. What a potty mouth! How many swear words do you know in a foreign language?

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    Merde!

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