Foreign Languages

[Jason Tandro]

What different languages can you all speak. I know we have folks from all around the world, and a bunch in Europe, so I imagine this is a pretty dumb question, but I'm just curious.

Yours truly can speak some conversational Spanish and a bit of Japanese.

Example of my spanish:

Hablo Espaniol. No hablo mucho, porque en escuela la profesora siempre diges: "Escucha me! Escucha me!" Y no eschuchabo.

I am pretty sure there are more than a couple of problems with that. I haven't written Spanish in forever.


Example of my japanese:

Chotto nihongo wakarimas. Sumimasen, Jason Tandro baka amerikaijin desu.

I also know:

Eki doko desu ka?

Because in Tokyo I had to ask that a LOT.

I learned the phrase "baka nagaijin" (stupid foreigner) from my brother, who told me that he would always get drunk on the subway and swing from the bars singing in a booming voice (to the tune of La Cucaracha no less) "Baka nagaijin! Baka nagaijin!"

[psychokind]

german and english, I can understand french if someone speaks slowly, but since frenchmen have no regards for foreigners this won't be needed anyway. I'm very lucky france is not an possible employer anymore

[Manibrandr System]

I speak English, French and some Chinese.

[Hammerit]

I speak english, german, a bit of spanish, a tad of latin and italian and know some words of japanese and chinese . There's just one language I'll try to avoid having to learn for the remainder of my life: french xD.

Btw does anyone of you know some games with good spanish localizations? Playing games is always a nice way of getting familiar with a new language.

[Freedan]

I speak a bit of broken French (my pronunciation is even good, I just don't know much), and even less Spanish. I'm able to read a fair bit of both... even manage to decipher some if I'm not sure what it says.... but I don't speak well.

I wouldn't mind learning Italian.

[Blade]

English and German here, due to the current eco-political state I should consider learning Russian...

[eFlare]

English, Dutch (native), broken German and currently learning Chinese! (Standard Mandarin)

[thefencemaster]

sadly only english, but i wish i could learn another language

[EverPhoenix]

english and russian, but i have my eye on japanese for a third.

[inferiare]

Jason Tandro wrote:

Chotto nihongo wakarimas. Sumimasen, Jason Tandro baka amerikaijin desu.

... Nitpicking (since I speak it), that "wakarimas" should have a 'u' at the end since there is no single letter syllables in Japanese save for 'n'. Sorry. D: And I think it should be Amerikajin, no 'i' in there. /nitpick

As for myself, I can speak Japanese, Russian, and French. Currently want to learn Dutch, Chinese, and anything else that crosses my mind that sounds fun. (and yes Flare, I still remember how to say "Just die, ok?" in Dutch. I say it often.)

[Lenc]

Why hello there this would be English

Hallo daar dit is dus Nederlands

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>_> thats it

[psychokind]

Blade wrote:

English and German here, due to the current eco-political state I should consider learning Russian...

I'd suggest that too. Japan is nowhere as important as it was in the 90's, and on long-terms Russia will be an important language. Mid-terms should be chinese, but only as long as there are enough raw materials. after that chinese will only be needed to know when they are attacking their neighbour countries

[gavdaman88]

I know english, and about half chinese and a quarter of german. English is my spoken and the other two were school taught. I also know a bit of arabic from my dad who is learning it.

[chicken]

i speak english, a bit french and currently i (have to) learn croatian...

alright here's the proof:

la baguette, c'est tres bien ^^

ja sam iz austrije, iz kumbergu

[tay120n64]

Pretty much just English. I took Spanish in high school, but I've also slept alot since then...

I tried to learn Japanese in college, but the class wasn't set up very well, so I had to drop it. Which is fine, I don't think anyone that stayed passed anyway.