What languages do you speak?

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English, Arabic, French, Somali, Japanese and in that order. But I know barely any Japanese/Somali but Its coming along slowly thanks to friends from there.

Reply 181

cuppacoffee

Original post by geniequeen48

Fluent French and English, strong in Spanish (learning it), a bit of Arabic (I understand more than I speak it).
I used to speak Arabic fluently but over the years it started to fade away :frown:

Gotta learn it back lol.

To the posters who mention Arabic and French together, are you guys Algerian/Moroccan/north African?

I'm half lebanese. We like to mix it like Bonjour Kefik? I don't do that though lol.
I did A level french though, and I speak Arabic at home with family.

Reply 182

geniequeen48

Original post by cuppacoffee

I'm half lebanese. We like to mix it like Bonjour Kefik? I don't do that though lol.
I did A level french though, and I speak Arabic at home with family.

Ahhh I see that's cool then xD

Reply 183

cuppacoffee

Original post by geniequeen48

Ahhh I see that's cool then xD

I am aware I am too cool for school :colonhash:

Reply 184

geniequeen48

Original post by cuppacoffee

I am aware I am too cool for school :colonhash:

Hahahaha xD

Reply 185

Sophia-1996

Original post by Ser Alex Toyne

Did I post on this thread already?

English, Romanian, Russian, German and learning French, Greek and Ancient Greek/Latin currently.

And I really want to be able to speak in Italian.

I'm going to be learning Ancient Greek and Latin at university in my Classical Civilisation degree (starting this year)
And yes, I really want to learn Italian too!
You know so many languages! Any tips for not forgetting a language after a course for that language ends? I need to practice my Spanish more before I lose the level I've gained..

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Just Zulu.

Original post by EdwardElric

English and Italian, I also speak pretty good French too.

Fluent Italian??

Reply 188

Lovinlife2

English, Tamil (can fluently understand it but it's the speaking part I need to work on a bit more :tongue:

), German (to an extent), and learning Italian :smile:

Would love to also learn Spanish aha

Reply 189

nucdev

Original post by Lovinlife2

English, Tamil (can fluently understand it but it's the speaking part I need to work on a bit more :tongue:

), German (to an extent), and learning Italian :smile:

Would love to also learn Spanish aha

Vanakkam!

About the only word of Tamil I know! lol

Reply 190

Lovinlife2

Original post by nucdev

Vanakkam!

About the only word of Tamil I know! lol

Haha awh

Vanakkam!

See if you know what this means :h:

Yebidy irrakaringo? (It's very much phonetically spelt through pronunciation haha so google translate will probably be very confused!)

Reply 191

nucdev

Original post by Lovinlife2

Haha awh

Vanakkam!

See if you know what this means :h:

Yebidy irrakaringo? (It's very much phonetically spelt through pronunciation haha so google translate will probably be very confused!)

Lol nope I'm flummoxed!

I will resort to insults in Hindi - Tera satyanash jaye chhokri!

Reply 192

Lovinlife2

Original post by nucdev

Lol nope I'm flummoxed!

I will resort to insults in Hindi - Tera satyanash jaye chhokri!

Haha no worries! It means "how are you?" :smile:

Lol that's something I regularly watch in movies with subtitles haha but my dad understands Hindi fluently but his spoken Hindi is a little rusty but still wicked :biggrin:

What does that insult translate to in English? :tongue:

Reply 193

amoham

English,Tamil and understand a bit of sinhala

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Reply 194

pinkteddyx64

The language of love. :u:

Reply 195

nucdev

Original post by Lovinlife2

Haha no worries! It means "how are you?" :smile:

Lol that's something I regularly watch in movies with subtitles haha but my dad understands Hindi fluently but his spoken Hindi is a little rusty but still wicked :biggrin:

What does that insult translate to in English? :tongue:

Aah ok now I'm kind of guilty about what I wrote :biggrin:

Kind of hard to translate it coherently in English but it means something like "Girl, may you destroy yourself!"

Reply 196

nucdev

Original post by amoham

English,Tamil and understand a bit of sinhala

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Oh dear another Tamil - we're being over run by them on here!

Reply 197

Lovinlife2

Original post by amoham

English,Tamil and understand a bit of sinhala

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Hello fellow tamilian :tongue:

Reply 198

Lovinlife2

Original post by nucdev

Aah ok now I'm kind of guilty about what I wrote :biggrin:

Kind of hard to translate it coherently in English but it means something like "Girl, may you destroy yourself!"

Hahah

Don't worry, I understand the struggle of properly translating idoms or insults from another language into English because it just sounds so strange :redface: