n1ce_hat Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 english, bad english, and gibberish. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed6dws Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 3 for me + ....does this include programming languages ? hehehehehehe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryTaco Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 English, a little spanish, we have a home on the Baja near San Felipe'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 3 for me + ....does this include programming languages ? hehehehehehe Not unless you speak in a programming language. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwish68 Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 Dutch as my native language English & German in speak and writing. Some words in Italian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebdoradz Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 i talk french and i can write/speak english my writen english is better then my speaking ... every day language is french Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollietwinam Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 I can speak English, French and Spanish, and will be fluent in 2 years in both!! Still studying both at college... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 LOL for some American born English speaking people, English is like a second language. My Buddy Don Yesso, is the only English speaking character on an English language program airing on TV in America to have subtitles. His character on Franks Place spoke with a New Orleans "Yat" accent where a raw oyster is pronounced "roy erstyer" and popcorn is "popkern". Priceless! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092354/ Like petercintn, I was raised in a house that spoke English and Cajun French on a daily basis. I've kept my French workable but lost most of the German, Spanish and Portuguese I'd learned after high school for traveling and work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTjik Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 I don't know why, but in school I despised even the English classes. Nevertheless life has proved me wrong and fortunately my interest became a lot stronger by time, so now I switch between four languages on a daily basis: Swedish (native), English, Russian and Spanish; French though seems to have been completely flushed out of my neurons. My Spanish has to improve though; I manage, but lack fluency and grammar. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 i can speak 3 languages English Technospeak (NOT that l337-speak crap...just good old techno babble that makes momma hold her ears and scream "NINER NINER NINER!") bs (everyone can speak bs, but only a select few of us are REALLY fluent in it to where we can not only detect almost all dialects of it, but we can become fluent in it instantly after hearing it) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gipse Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 I learned English, French + Latin during school time for several years, forgot most of my french skills since school was over. The only ways to improve my English is during fairs (I have to pay the university, but it´s nice to work for Logitech!), my spare time job (Alamo-Car-Rental) and surfing the "Street". Understanding written posts or talking is much easier for me then writing down my own thoughts... I have always worries that I can/will write things wrong and people won´t get an idea about them. It would be so nice if there were no need for me to translate every single sentence like mentioned by ReelFiles. Gipse Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashd990 Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 Took Spanish in high school. It quickly became my time for taking a nap. Mrs Beaton said, "You never know when you might need it". Of course, I knew better. Until I got stationed in Spain for three years. Then I had fun learning it. I'd meet tourists who had studied it for years and after my being there for only 6 months, I was translating for them. Its come in handy and been the basis for lots of fun and meeting new people, even helping them out sometimes. With the wife at the doctor's, waiting for her to come out, a Hispanic lady at the counter wasn't being understood so I offered, politely, that I saw she was having a problem and asked if I could help. It worked out well for her, the nurse then could take her history and get her specific problem written down. Then spent two years in Portugal. Became fluent in that. In that I was the only Portuguese speaker on that small base, I was the one who was called to talk to the police when they were looking for one of our guys. I didn't enjoy that part of it. Then I had people say, "You learned Portuguese becasue you speak Spanish". I countered that they should ask anybody with a hispanic name tag on how much Portuguese they spoke. Point is, if an effort wasn't made, it wasn't going to happen. I get a kick out of the guy who will be fluent in two years in two languages. Best of luck to you. Do not pass up any opportunity to visit the country of the language you're studying. Go now. That will show you how much work you actually have to do. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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