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Which languages can you speak?

lesser weevil

Whew, i feel really cool (not). I speak English (a little har har).
Ok and a wee bit of French. And I can say insults in Spanish and German but that about all :-)
Wish I was fluent in German - it such a cool language. i mean, you say 'i love you' in German and it sounds like you swearing :biggrin:

What is i love you in German :p:

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lesser weevil

1

Ich liebe dich, which if you say it with a really gutteral accent, is pretty cool... :smile:

in a kind of angry way...

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Dalimyr

17

TSR_Princess

What is i love you in German :p:

That would be "Ich liebe dich"...screw up the pronunciation of it and yes, it does sound rather rude :biggrin:

Reply 103

lesser weevil

1

seems to me like 2 posts saying the same thing... but that only what it seems like to me...

Reply 104

Scipio

13

Fluent in English and Punjabi.

Reply 105

Dalimyr

17

lesser weevil

seems to me like 2 posts saying the same thing... but that only what it seems like to me...

Your reply wasn't there whenever I started typing up my reply :redface:

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bikerx23

1

Fluent in English and can speak about 4 words in welsh (thats a GCSE's worth apparently)

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SunburnedCactus

11

English, GCSE French, and learning Chinese (slowly).

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khil

15

I speak Cantonese and English :smile:

Lol reminds me of how international my friends are at uni. Almost everyone speak at least 2 languages - I mean, in our group photo, it goes: English, American, Indian, Me (Chinese), Bolivian, German, half-Brazilian-English, English.

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Elements

13

Can speak fluently in English, quite fluently in French, quite fluently in German- though nowhere near enough that I can in French, a few welsh words, a few Spanish words, a few Greek words (mainly for Physics and Maths) and some Russian ( you have tATu to thank for that!) :biggrin:

Reply 110

gemma123

1

English obviously, French German and Turkish.

Reply 111

Nadya

My native language is Ukrainian, also fluent Russian, English, German, understand Polish.

Reply 112

Darth Excluder

5

everyone likes it in our school... well... now... by everyone, i mean the teachers... coz it sucks really!!!
:biggrin:

(no offence to the patriotics of the country)...CYMRU AM BYTH!!! :tsr:

Reply 113

bikerx23

1

na, rydw in meddol bod mean cymru yn ddiflas.

Reply 114

Lukas

13

Slovak, Czech, English, German, Russian and I also understand Polish...

Reply 115

Darth Excluder

5

bikerx23

na, rydw in meddol bod mean cymru yn ddiflas.

Ok diar... dda iawn chi i bod yn honest. oes yna rhywyn yn gelli dueud ysgytlaeth frwchneth a dued beth mae on meddwl er blaw am andrewsjoseph... :tsr:

Reply 116

bikerx23

1

errr - yep....as I said before - I have a gcse in welsh, which means I cant understand the majority of what your saying.
The location does make that obvious though.

Reply 117

gringalet

12

This kind of thread begs the questions: how do we define 'fluent'? :biggrin:

Is discussing with your mum what's for dinner in her language the same as being able to write essays in English? All very interesting...

To add my bit, I speak English natively, studying German and Modern Greek at uni, did French A-level, some basic Spanish and and am learning Mandarin at the min.

Reply 118

Hashshashin

13

I say fluency is where you can speak confidently and without jolting, with a good accent and with being able to go through the average day without not knowing what a certain word means (assuming it's not something vastly technical you probably wouldn't understand in your native tongue) :rolleyes:

Reply 119

Excalibur

15

gringalet

This kind of thread begs the questions: how do we define 'fluent'? :biggrin:

Is discussing with your mum what's for dinner in her language the same as being able to write essays in English? All very interesting...

To add my bit, I speak English natively, studying German and Modern Greek at uni, did French A-level, some basic Spanish and and am learning Mandarin at the min.

That's a good point actually. My dad works as a senior lecturer/academic/scientist (not quite sure, actually). His English is excellent when writing grants and papers, but give him a contemporary fiction book and he has to look up every other word in the dictionary. :wink:

On the other hand, my vocabulary is much more centred around colloquial English. But I think we can both call ourselves fluent...

At the end of the day, I suppose it's due to what you want out of that language - to use it for everyday purposes (e.g. to live there), I suppose the colloquial lexicon is more useful... but if you want to be writing essays and papers in that langauge, a more formal vocab is needed.

Which languages can you speak?

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