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Post by Chastity on Nov 4, 2004 1:38:02 GMT -5
Out of curiosity,how many languages and which ones can you speak? Three: English French Japanese (I'm currently learning it  ) Tagalog is the most commonly spoken language in The Philippines but I never learned it. I can easily learn it and same with Spanish since there are some Spanish words in Tagalog. My parents never bothered teaching it to me. I was born and raised in Canada so I'm pretty much a white girl stuck in an Asian body. |
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Post by androdaking on Nov 4, 2004 8:45:25 GMT -5
i can speak:
Swedish
English
i know some:
French
Spanish
i can understand if I read:
Norwegian
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Post by fUx0r on Nov 4, 2004 20:12:30 GMT -5
i can speak, read and write in both spanish and english... not that impresive. haha.
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Post by MrClean on Nov 4, 2004 21:03:36 GMT -5
i can speak, read and write:
portuguese
i can , read and write:
english and spanish
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Post by Chastity on Nov 4, 2004 21:07:19 GMT -5
I've been learning French for 15 years and I still suck! I speak to Fred in french sometimes (he's french canadian) and I speak to Dany in french too and I get lost because both french languages are pretty much different. I find the Quebecois french totally massacred the french language, period. It's filled with slang and sprinkles of English words and it's no wonder I'm so lost.  |
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Post by fUx0r on Nov 5, 2004 1:57:07 GMT -5
i guess it's more of a dialect then anything. haha.
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Post by Dany on Nov 5, 2004 6:42:16 GMT -5
Ok I can speak and read English French A bit of german And I try to learn swedish but I don't have enough free time for it yet.  |
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Post by millencoolin2 on Nov 5, 2004 13:10:22 GMT -5
All latin related languages, except french... Portuguese Spanish Italian And Anglo languages English Swedish  |
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Post by Car on Nov 5, 2004 16:02:59 GMT -5
im a mess in all languages
but when im drunk i can speak french so good and write japanese at the same time...
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Post by karro on Nov 5, 2004 22:38:30 GMT -5
I've been learning French for 15 years and I still suck! I speak to Fred in french sometimes (he's french canadian) and I speak to Dany in french too and I get lost because both french languages are pretty much different. I find the Quebecois french totally massacred the french language, period. It's filled with slang and sprinkles of English words and it's no wonder I'm so lost. In fact, French include more anglicism than quebecer in their current speaking. But considering you know only French from montreal its normal you think of that. Its different outside. Oh yeah I speak French and English I know alot of Swedish I remember a bit of Spanish, I read it quite well thought. I know some words of Montagnais (native americans tribu here), some german, some libanese words, I knew how to write in arabic. I know a bit of the Hebrew alphabet and some chinese signs. |
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Post by karro on Nov 6, 2004 1:46:44 GMT -5
Tagalog is the most commonly spoken language in The Philippines but I never learned it. I can easily learn it and same with Spanish since there are some Spanish words in Tagalog. My parents never bothered teaching it to me. I was born and raised in Canada so I'm pretty much a white girl stuck in an Asian body. When I worked for the Swedish painter, the technician there was from philippines and spoke Tagalog. First Ive heard it, I asked if he was spanish and then he told me that his mother tongue got alot of spanish similarities in. I got there into a languages immmersion seeing him speaking on his cell with his wife in tagalog and then the artist speaking Swedish for hours with her daughter or on phone during I was doing my work. I think its why I got familiar with swedish that fast. I heard it everyday during a long period that could be quite the equivalent of someone going to an English immersion in some place. |
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Post by millencoolin2 on Nov 6, 2004 6:35:35 GMT -5
Karro, you´re our spokesman to international affairs and diplomacy ;D
Did you try to learn something of portuguese?
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Post by Renix on Nov 6, 2004 12:01:32 GMT -5
I agree with Karro about Quebec's french, we use less englicisms than France. We use "Magasiner" and "Stationnement", they use "Shopping" and "Parking", and most of the "new words" related to technologies like "courriel" comes from here.
But there's also "joual", which is the slang by the "colons" here... I guess it becomes less common, so it's good.
Oh, and I speak English/French with no big troubles, I learned Spanish in school (but I suck) and I'm trying to learn Swedish with a book.
And since I'm a total geek, I also know very well HTML, JavaScript, CSS, VB and I start to be good in PHP and C++.
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Post by karro on Nov 6, 2004 20:45:55 GMT -5
Karro, you´re our spokesman to international affairs and diplomacy ;D Did you try to learn something of portuguese? I worked with portugeses in 2000. She showed me a bit but I forgot. I remember that toilet is the same of French. hehe No troubles to learn a bit and then I know some italian words too. I would be a complete latin language. Oh yeah, I forgot. I've taken Latin language when I was 12 at high school. |
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