Languages You Speak/Would Like To Speak/Are Learning
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Posted by Account deleted, 18.08.2007 - 17:35
Personally...
- (As you *might* have noticed) I speak English. Not really well, but I think I can say I know the basis. But it is not my first language: French is. I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but I speak French really well. Yet, it is the third language I learnt.
- My mother language is Arabic, it was the first one I learnt as I am Moroccan and was born in Morocco. But my parents speak French more than Arabic, and I started going to a French school when I was 5, thus, I started forgetting Arabic. I was still as able to understand it as before, but I couldn't speak it anymore, past my 8th birthday. (Some other important factors were involded, but it is not necessary to mention them.)
- The second language I learnt was Spanish, because of/thanks to Spanish TV channels and my grandmother, who only spoke Spanish and Arabic. But when we left the city where we were living (Tanger, just in front of Spain), I stopped watching Spanish channels, and left my grandmother as well, and then, forgot Spanish too
.- That's when French comes. It became my first language around 8. As the French school system wants it, I started learning English at 11. And I unexpectedly didn't have any difficulty with it. I have always had the best mark in that subject, without making any effort for that. Unfortunately it is still not enough. I realised my level was not as good as I thought it was.
- The next year, (I was 12) I chose Latin, but I had to stop after a few months, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to start Spanish the following year. I started re-learning Spanish at 13.
- But since I took Spanish at 13, I couldn't take German at 15. I had too many subjects and the teachers wouldn't let me add German. Yet it is the language I really want to learn. I like the sonority of it, and I watch German TV channels just to hear it, even if I don't get a word of it
.- As a consequence, the two languages I can speak the best are French, and English.
As you see the topic is vast, there is a lot to say...
| FOOCK Nam Posts: 3571  |
Written by Ernis on 27.09.2012 at 15:35 The Han Chinese, could be Englishly called Sino are majority ethnic in China, other's significant is Manchu whose last feudalistic ruling ending in 20th century. They now dwelling in the north china. It definitely Han Chinese nowadays everywhere when China has grown more. I just not quite sure if the official main language of China called: either Mandarin Chinese or some I heard "Beijing Chinese". If Mandarin Chinese belonged to people from Canto region of China then official language spoken is some accent in Beijing. Due to it having different accent though writing same. Other West side of China having more ethnics and yes Tibet, but I guess not quite considered much "Chinesely" that related to China, you know China is still authoritarian dictator, only some considered important to the country, not all. It really interesting if I were Chinese, because I really would want to feel how China having dominated culture from Beijing in mainland to share the same blood racial with people down in south, southeast asia Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia... Those oversea countries, it's Chinese people having lived for up to 2 centuries or more mixing with Indian race and native...
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| Evil Chip Posts: 505  |
My native language is Spanish, I also can speak English (duh), read-write Latin and right now I'm learning French.
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| Yellax Posts: 85  |
I am currently learning Japanese. You would be surprised that it is an easy language to learn.
---- I'm a furry. Get used to it.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010  |
Non will belive to me and I know my spelling and grammer sucks but i realy can speek like this in scotish dialect Probobly Viggo , Craig and Marcel will comment but I can. I can get all this type of accent not hard at all...but I dont care if people belve to me--- well at age 14-18 I was listenbing on satalite BBC rdaio Scotland, Ulster , so they spoke like this and wortsh british enghlish is easy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENbkHS3mnY
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''  apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Powerslavex Alexskywalker Posts: 777  |
Obviously english !!! also fluent in arabic and some bad german words and phrases 
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
Written by Powerslavex on 06.01.2013 at 17:33 german is one of those lanuafges what I have been studied in past but know less swear words only what I know are scheise and dirne
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Empty Spaces Unburied At Dusk Posts: 776  |
My first language was Spanish, learned English in school, and have learned some Italian in recent years. My studying of Italian has been on and off so I'm not exactly fluent.
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| Powerslavex Alexskywalker Posts: 777 |
Written by Bad English on 06.01.2013 at 19:18 haha classics 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Bad English on 27.09.2012 at 12:27 only now do I see this question. It is clear that you don't know what the official/local language of SIngapore is, or else you wouldn't have asked this. Since we write on MS foprums in the official/local language of Singapore.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 07.01.2013 at 14:32 I have a friend from Singapour she told all speeks english + one of Malay Language, Tamil Language, chinese mandari she speeks english and mandarin
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Ernis 狼獾 Posts: 6807  |
Written by Bad English on 06.01.2013 at 15:07 I believe you... Yep, it's not hard to understand if you listen closely... just like you can understand Spanish when you already know some other Romance language... Recently met a Swiss girl whose first language is Romansh... it's completely possible to dig what she's saying by paying a bit more attention... it's a cool language... sounds like Portuguese/Romanian... then again, any Romance language that isn't Spanish/French/Italian sounds like Portuguese/Romanian to me...
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
Written by Ernis on 08.01.2013 at 20:51 Yes but he speeks english whit accent , and besides I use to listen BBC Scotland, Ulster when it was free to air on satalitye, nowdays bastards brits change radio frequencies , sat signal are possible catch only in Britain I can speek like they , I do it whit friends just for fun, but I dont know how correct I do, but if I will be in Scotland I will get it fast I know i know one girl she is from romania and other from basq contry one speeks romanian, other pspanish and they understand each other
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Ernis 狼獾 Posts: 6807 |
Written by Bad English on 08.01.2013 at 20:57 The bloke in the video you posted is actually speaking Scots... technically, it's not Scottish English... It has developed from English with some regional influences but nowadays it's already a language of it's own... As is Italian which is not the same as Latin although it developed from it...
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
Written by Ernis on 08.01.2013 at 21:05 well I can understand 99% of this one, but what I dont is scotish slang and some parts of accent when I saw on BBC about Glasgow street gangs thay spoke weird slang and I did not get much , besides BBC use subtitles and not slang was hard to get also,
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
BTW I made english exame(I need grade/mark to go to yrkesutbidlning(ask warman what is that) I get ma xpoints in talking, I spoke better than swedish students I got max points at listening (one error) I got only 2+2 mistace sat reading 2 was errors and 2 guess what .... and I dont wanna talk abourt writing, it was well make my grade weeker , a lot weeker 1th I wrote whit hand, tecaher could not read(since I had bad handwrighting and I was banned at age 7-12 write whit left hand, my tecaher forced me write whit right one, so my handwritimg is fucked), next time I will writye whit PC ... but belive or not whit hand I make less errors and spelling mistaces how I do whit keys.... anybody knows why?
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Ragana Rawrcat Posts: 4919  |
Oh, my... Written by Bad English on 31.01.2013 at 02:06 yeah. 'cause when you write with hand you *actually* look at the things you write...
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| enumaelis Posts: 266  |
I'm trying with estonian, quite hard for me since we, the spanish people are quite handicapped for language matters XD Seriously, it's very hard, I must learn many things by heart since I cant make almost comparisons with germanic or latin languages  But as I moved to Eesti, I hope I can get in some time what others are speaking around me XD
---- http://enumaelis.blogspot.com/
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| Jtbmetal123 Posts: 387  |
I speak English, but id love to learn Spanish because I work with many Spanish people.
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| enumaelis Posts: 266 |
Written by Jtbmetal123 on 06.02.2013 at 15:04 If you have any doubt, here's a native spanish speaker 
---- http://enumaelis.blogspot.com/
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| Ernis 狼獾 Posts: 6807 |
Written by enumaelis on 06.02.2013 at 14:52 You certainly can count on people helping you with that... : )
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| enumaelis Posts: 266 |
Written by Ernis on 08.02.2013 at 21:21 Aitäh Viggo! We will see how it goes! 
---- http://enumaelis.blogspot.com/
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| Sinnercist Posts: 40  |
Fluent in Russian, can understand basic Spanish and French and am trying to learn Italian. I think that should do it for now. It would be really awesome to know how to speak Japanese or Mandarin but I don't have patience to learn either xD
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| Thrashette Posts: 624  |
Only fluent in English but some remnants of French class are left in my mind.... I wanna learn Tagalog but haven't had much time to get really into it. Thus far, I've only looked at a few online resources which seem to be directed at tourists who just wanna learn basic phrases or English speaking guys who wanna impress Filipinas with their limited knowledge of the language. I'll get more serious with it over summer. I might actually be going to the Philippines in a few months :O
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| Jpageforever Posts: 63 |
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
I dont get it, shod not all PEOPLE in Belgium can speak dutch? why this in is in english? she is from Nederland, guy is from Belgium , speak dutch, or french side is ''something special'' ? seems those who lives in dutch speaking part of Belgium can speak french as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmjNpmOC00&feature=share BTW yesterday in blaber was more parts whit Newsted, Biff from Saxon, Crufified Barbara, Dawn ... int was a joke, whit that 70% french talking, overtranslatimg .... ehhhh
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Mercyful_Kate Posts: 352  |
Written by Bad English on 02.07.2013 at 19:17 One of my good friends is a French speaking Belgian. She seconds this notion that the Flemings speak French as a second language, yet the Walloons speak only French (and English when they must). I don't really know why that is. My native language is English, as I was born in the United States to English-speaking parents. I've been speaking/reading/writing German intermediately since I was in high school.
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| Mercyful_Kate Posts: 352 |
Oh...and I also know how to swear and call people fat in Turkish. (My old boss and coworkers were Turkish. They swore like sailors.)
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010 |
Written by Mercyful_Kate on 03.07.2013 at 10:52 well its horible, IMO it makes french doomed nowadays ,
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Mad Arab666 Posts: 299  |
I would love to learn Italian. They're doing beginner courses for Italian and Spanish which I can defiantly afford but the problem comes from whether I'll have the time. 
---- Bring up the wolves head!
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| Ernis 狼獾 Posts: 6807 |
Written by Mercyful_Kate on 03.07.2013 at 10:52 Written by Bad English on 02.07.2013 at 19:17 A teacher from Belgium once paid a visit at our university and spoke about the language issue in the country. What I understood was that the two main communities, the Walloons and the Flemish are pretty different in the fact that the Walloons have mostly given up on their original language and completely embrace the French media and French standard language while the Flemish still prefer their own language to the Dutch. Therefore, when the Flemish learn French to communicate with the Walloons they do not like the latter speak Dutch to them and will subsequently go over to French. That leaves Flemish in a poorer position between the two hard rocks of Dutch and French which are both the official languages of instruction. The French-speakers don't really get to use Dutch at all... plus... it's the sad truth that the ones with a back-up from a bigger nation speaking their language won't be very likely to use a language with a lesser number of speakers. Many Russian-speakers in Estonia don't know any Estonian at all... I believe it's the same for Latvia where around 50% of the population speak Russian. Those who are a tad bit more open-minded and more educated surely know both local languages plus one or two international languages... but you always meet those who can't utter a word in any language other than their mother tongue to save their life... and they tend to act all arrogant when you speak to them in any language that isn't their native tongue... I've understood that some of them may know something... they just like to act like douches by refusing to speak in other languages because their own is "SO AWESOME"... Written by Mad Arab666 on 04.07.2013 at 17:50 Go for it. Italian is fairly easy... majority of words are the same as in English and the pronunciation and spelling are so easy that it makes English seem like Chinese... That's probably why Italians are so bad at learning foreign languages... nearly every language is harder than theirs...
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