AwdryEngine
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Post by AwdryEngine on Jan 19, 2009 7:59:48 GMT
Anyone else love language?
My native language is American English, I'm pretty fluent in British English. My mother is a Swedish immagrant, so naturally I know Swedish, but very little. I really want to learn Welsh, I'll be going to Gwyendd in 2010, and I need to learn at least some phrases, since like 62% or so of the people in that region speak Welsh. German is something I would like to know too.
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Post by blopesthebee on Jan 19, 2009 18:20:21 GMT
I love language! I know english, and am learning french, and will be taking Spnish classes before i graduate high school. I want to learn Italian and maybe Latin too.
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Post by CPK on Jan 19, 2009 23:22:16 GMT
Fluent in English and rubbish.
I'm pretty good with German, due to school and relatives, so that's probably my second language. Have a fair understanding of Japanese as well, due to an old work collegue who came from Japan.
Also know bits and pieces of other languages thanks to generic life, as well as my friends parents who speak about 35ish languages between them, so yeah..... I'm pretty confused. I know words and phrases in other languages due to this, but I'm just thankful I speak a universal language.
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Post by edwardblue on Jan 19, 2009 23:36:04 GMT
Can speak English fluently, and I'm very good with Spanish.
I also know some Japanese due to several Japanese anime I watched in Japanese (With English subtitles of course) when I was an anime fanatic a few years ago. I can also read some Portuguese, but I don't speak it. The reason for this is that many Portuguese words are derived from Spanish, and in some cases are spelled the same way.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jan 19, 2009 23:38:40 GMT
I'm pretty fluent in French and Latin, I can get by in Spanish, German and Italian (Italian's practically a dialect of Latin, so that one's easy). I'm familiar with various English dialects - Middle English and Scots in particular. I'd like to learn Old English. I did a bit of Greek at school, but I've forgotten quite a lot of it.
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Post by Halstead on Jan 19, 2009 23:58:07 GMT
Fluent in English and rubbish. That'll be me too, it's not easy when you've a speech disability and don't want to sound like a mumbling urbanite but at the same time attempt to increase my vocabulary by saying far flung adjectives at inappropriate moments, sometimes like Mr Logic in Viz. My second language will forever be French due to the fact it's the first language I've learned and the only one with a GCSE qualification. Still due to a listening problem trying to hear a warbling native used to put me behind in the classroom in a few occasions. Other languages I've grasped of are Greek, Russian and Japanese. The last two options came from when my dad and an old friend respectively and spent a fair amount of time absorbing the cyrillic pronounciations and learning the translations and counting from 1 to 10 in 'Nihonjin'. I've still got the transcripts to the two languages I picked up three years ago. The Greek language was something I picked up from a translation booklet from 2005 out of natural interest and the alphanumeric forum closely apes cyrillic albeit more complicated.
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Little Engine
Goods Engine
"But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.""
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Post by Little Engine on Jan 20, 2009 4:29:36 GMT
Really all I can speak is English. Being American, I know American English (duh), but I'm also familiar with a lot of the British terms (unlike my school friends, I know that chips are fries, and crisps are chips, and that biscuits are not just another name for dog treats ). I'm learning French, but I'm not very good at it.
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Post by Blue Comet on Jan 20, 2009 21:16:21 GMT
Native English speaker, but I can also speak adequately in Spanish, Italian and French. Working on Norwegian.
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Post by Kate669 on Jan 20, 2009 22:53:28 GMT
I speak English and passable Spanish (passable by restaurant standards, that is). I can grasp one word in ten when watching something in Japanese, and I have a tendency to attach the -chan suffix when calling several of my fellow waitresses by name. I'd love to learn Tagalog (a major Filipino language), since it's my boyfriend's mother's native tongue.
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Rhodri
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Post by Rhodri on Jan 22, 2009 2:06:09 GMT
I really want to learn Welsh, I'll be going to Gwyendd in 2010, and I need to learn at least some phrases, since like 62% or so of the people in that region speak Welsh. You might want to look at this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wel...._Welsh_languageJust remember, the language of North Wales varies from the regular dialect from time to time! Personally, I have a very limited grasp of Welsh...despite 11 years worth of compulsory lessons!
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Little Engine
Goods Engine
"But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.""
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Post by Little Engine on Jan 22, 2009 2:44:42 GMT
Plus, I am fluent in sarcasm. Ha ha, useful language to be fluent in.
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DonaldEngine9
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Post by DonaldEngine9 on Jan 22, 2009 23:58:02 GMT
I speak American English, but I am on my third year in Spanish. I can count from one to ten in Japanese, German, French, and English.
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douglas
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Post by douglas on Jan 23, 2009 2:56:30 GMT
I figure I can speak decent, albeit slow, French. The basics.
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Post by CPK on Feb 11, 2009 23:20:10 GMT
Does anyone know of a decent online translator that can accurately translate multiple languages perfectly, instead of just word-for-word? I.e Grammar and all as well?
I keep getting messages on YT in Swedish and Russian and would like to have the faintest idea as to what's being said to me.....
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Post by 3panda94 on Mar 7, 2009 14:30:06 GMT
I learning about the Spanish language.
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Post by Rusty Red Scrap Iron on Mar 7, 2009 15:40:29 GMT
I only speak full English, but I do know a little bit of: French and Spanish.
I used to study Spanish in high school, but I hated it and I even went on a School trip to Spain. I actually want to learn Italian, so I can sing the Italian parts of songs by my favourite Italian Band Rhapsody of Fire.
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Post by shanedooiney on Mar 7, 2009 19:19:51 GMT
I was always good at speaking Spanish, but I'm terrible at forming my own sentences. Too many rules to remember.
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SRapi
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Pronounced: Ess-Are-Ay-Pie.
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Post by SRapi on Dec 1, 2013 17:40:56 GMT
I personally speak English and some Hebrew, would love to learn Japanese and Esperanto someday. The problem is that I feel like my brain is only capable of knowing 2 languages because when I try to learn another language, I forget bits of my second language! Anyone else have this issue, too?
P.S.: 1200th post!
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Andrej
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Post by Andrej on Dec 1, 2013 19:17:06 GMT
Besides English, I can also understand a significant portion of Slovak, and due to some similarities, some limited Czech (like 10-15% or so? I dunno.) In the future, I would like to move to Europe, preferably Vienna, so I'd like to develop an understanding of German.
In Canada you are taught French in schools until the second year of high school and I didn't exactly excel at that (I've all but completely forgotten by now) so I don't know how I would learn German.
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Languages
Dec 2, 2013 22:52:02 GMT
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Post by edwardengine01 on Dec 2, 2013 22:52:02 GMT
Besides English, I am currently learning Spanish. I also plan on taking classes to learn Japanese next year.
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