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#1 MusicOfCreation Mar 06, 2009 0:40:38	I've always had a fascination with learning languages since I've been in middle school and have dabbled a bit in a few languages here and there. At one point, I was pretty decent with Chinese and not bad with Korean but I have gotten quite rusty since going to school for them. What languages do everyone here in off-topic speak?
#2 crossroads_wanderer Mar 06, 2009 0:41:45	I'm okay at reading and writing Russian. I never was very good at speaking it, though.
#3 dirtyfrank Mar 06, 2009 0:43:02	English and some ASL (American Sign Language). I've forgotten some of it so I need to brush up on it some.
#4 Dralenan Mar 06, 2009 0:57:39	Go nithe an cat thú is go nithe an diabhal an cat. Thalla a chluiche le do deideagan. B'fhearr liom uisce beatha. Bi ciuin! Ta tinneas cinn orm.
#5 crossroads_wanderer Mar 06, 2009 1:02:03	Awsome! I've been trying to learn Gaelic. It's tough.
#6 MusicOfCreation Mar 06, 2009 1:02:51	Duibuqi. Wo meikandong. Ni kebukeyi yong yingwen zai shuo yibian?
#7 Dralenan Mar 06, 2009 1:05:53	Actually I only know a few words in Gaelic...not really much of a way to practice it. Interesting language though.
#8 MusicOfCreation Mar 06, 2009 1:10:09	Does anyone know Hebrew? I know a little bit and I plan on getting back into it in the coming weeks.
#9 pigknight Mar 06, 2009 1:19:22	I've always had a fascination with learning languages since I've been in middle school and have dabbled a bit in a few languages here and there. At one point, I was pretty decent with Mandarinand not bad with Korean but I have gotten quite rusty since going to school for them. What languages do everyone here in off-topic speak? Fix'd. And I know basic Espanol.
#10 MusicOfCreation Mar 06, 2009 1:26:53	Fix'd. And I know basic Espanol. Doh! I nubbed that one up. Amongst those of us in class we just referred to it as Chinese as Mandarin was the only type of Chinese they taught.
#11 braveboudica Mar 06, 2009 2:17:32	Go nithe an cat thú is go nithe an diabhal an cat. Thalla a chluiche le do deideagan. B'fhearr liom uisce beatha. Bi ciuin! Ta tinneas cinn orm. I have been saving my dollars so that I can get the Irish version of the Rosetta Stone language series. Then I'd like to move to some teeny town in the south of Ireland, but that'll take more than a few hundred bucks...
#12 klaustheprince Mar 06, 2009 2:36:32	I know Italian (my mother tongue), English (I published a couple of paid articles for Pyramid, Steve Jackson Games' e-zine) and some French (veeeeery superficially). Also a couple of words in Chine... err, Cantonese from wuxiapian movies. :P
#13 Crimson_Concerto Mar 06, 2009 2:37:40	Fluent in Portuguese (Brazilian). I was good at Spanish, but never got fluent. I was good at German, but never got fluent. I sucked ass at Chinese (Mandarin). :P
#14 Novacat Mar 06, 2009 4:42:35	I know a smattering of Klingon, and a few phrases in Japanese and Latin. Nothin' like a little diversity, eh?
#15 erleni Mar 06, 2009 5:20:24	I'm almost the same as Klaus the Prince. I speak Italian (mother language), English, know a bit of basic French and very little German and Norwegian (being living there for some months).
#16 joni-san Mar 06, 2009 6:17:35	Native: Finnish and Swedish. Fluent: English. Learning: Japanese, German and Arabic. Know some words and phrases: French, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish. -Joni
#17 fabius_maximus Mar 06, 2009 6:31:43	Well, German and English, obviously. And a bit French and Latin.
#18 ADHadh Mar 06, 2009 6:43:25	Apart from Polish and English I can read some German (but not use it myself). I'm thinking about picking up French after summer.
#19 cherubaddon Mar 06, 2009 7:20:50	Fluent in German, English and French. Know the Basics in Spanish. Can read (though not speak) Latin.
#20 minja_dup Mar 06, 2009 7:57:47	si oui etiam :D
#21 oxybe Mar 06, 2009 8:29:12	french & english
#22 klaustheprince Mar 06, 2009 9:16:22	si oui etiam :D I think you forgot "yes". :D :D
#23 cherubaddon Mar 06, 2009 10:47:28	ebenso :D :D :D ?
#24 minja_dup Mar 06, 2009 10:50:01	I think you forgot "yes". :D :D Oh yeah... ummm... "yes". I thought that one was pretty obvious.
#25 barnashd Mar 06, 2009 11:34:09	Does anyone know Hebrew? I know a little bit and I plan on getting back into it in the coming weeks. Hebrew, English, Russian, and a bit of Arabic and German right here.
#26 crimson_lancer Mar 06, 2009 12:35:55	I can hold decent conversations in German, but my vocab gets spotty due to lack of practice. :S
#27 1_ton_ghost Mar 06, 2009 13:23:57	I can hold decent conversations in German, but my vocab gets spotty due to lack of practice. :S Ich spreche Deutche nicht zu gut. Uh, wo ist das badzimmer?;) I know enough to get by. Not necessary though really. Every one I encountered in Munich save for one retailer spoke excellent English. apart from that, a smattering of Latin. Easy enough to read and translate anyway. Wish I knew Arabic, Pashtu, or Farsi. You don't have to be very good at it either. A working knowledge and a govt. job gets you approx $60k starting. You in a listening station all day, no muss, no fuss.
#28 stompie5 Mar 06, 2009 15:14:28	American are the only language everyone need too no.
#29 Dralenan Mar 06, 2009 16:29:53	Um, I know JavaScript...
#30 dirtyfrank Mar 06, 2009 19:12:10	American are the only language everyone need too no. Agreed.
#31 tiwaztyrsfist Mar 06, 2009 19:49:43	I used to be conversationally fluent in Spanish, but after not using it for nearly a decade, I can only remember drips and drabs. And I can puzzle out Japanese given time, but cannot carry out any non-forumlaic exchange. I wish I had the time and money to go learn Japanese properly. Oh well.
#32 jasonorlandohawk Mar 06, 2009 23:08:29	Things I never knew I had in common w/ dirtyfrank... I am (reasonably) fluent in American Sign Language, although the interpreter training classes I was taking were canceled before I graduated. I used to be extremely fluent in Spanish, but one really, really bad college class managed to remove most of my training in that class. I know how to say "Behave yourself" in Polish, as well as a few other basic phrases. I'm also slightly proficient with the English language, despite the fact that posting on the internet would seem to contradict that statement.
#33 dirtyfrank Mar 06, 2009 23:11:02	I took a few Spanish classes in High School (I sorta had to) but have forgotten all, or at least most, of it by now.
#34 midnitepoison Mar 10, 2009 21:15:34	im fluent in hebrew and english
#35 Mad_Jack Mar 16, 2009 21:22:20	Aside from English, I know enough Spanish to sound mentally-challenged when speaking it, lol. Those are really my only two useful language skills. Other than that... I know a smattering of words and phrases in American Sign Language, French and German, and I know a slightly smaller number of words in Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Latin and Gaelic. A great deal of the stuff I've picked up from other languages has been either through books/comics or from hanging out on chat sites with international memberships, and having to use translator sites like Babelfish. My brain is wired in a way that makes me good at picking out patterns in things, so if I have the same text in front of me in two different languages I can generally figure out which words are which pretty quickly.
#36 baneofelves Mar 16, 2009 21:23:52	I know a little bit of spanish, but not enough to hold a conversation.
#37 crofter Mar 17, 2009 0:54:00	I'm fluent in Finnish, Swedish, English, German and French. In addition to that, I can read Spanish, Russian, Icelandic, Latin, Greek (ancient and modern) and Mando'a to some extent. I'd like to learn Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese (don't really care which one).
#38 jhonesy Mar 17, 2009 7:07:34	I can completely speak, write and understand three different languages: Proper English (England/Canadian), Slang/Ghetto English (American) and Naughty English (dirty). I know them just so well that sometimes one bleeds into the other and so on. :angelhide
#39 count_arioch_the_28th Mar 17, 2009 7:44:33	I speak English. I speak Spanish like a small child, and know a few words of Swedish, but I don't have a talent for language. Although I do find the subject interesting. (Things that get on my nerves: People that refer to "American" as a dialect of English as there are about 30+ dialects of American English alone. Or people that insist American is a different language than the English spoken elsewhere, when in fact it's still considered the same language.)
#40 jhonesy Mar 17, 2009 8:07:43	Oh I was just teasing about the whole "American English" language shtick. Of course it's English, no two ways about it, I just like to poke fun at all the... oddities of English as spoken by the majority of people from the ol' US of A.
#41 count_arioch_the_28th Mar 17, 2009 10:56:17	Which dialect? There's dozens of dialects in the USA alone, not counting Canadian and Carribean dialects.
#42 jhonesy Mar 17, 2009 10:59:18	*sigh* Humour hu⋅mor    /ˈhyumər or, often, ˈyu-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hyoo-mer or, often, yoo-] –noun 1. a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation. 2. the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical: He is completely without humor. 3. an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous: The humor in his joke eluded the audience. 4. the faculty of expressing the amusing or comical: The author's humor came across better in the book than in the movie. 5. comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc. 6. humors, peculiar features; oddities; quirks: humors of life. 7. mental disposition or temperament. 8. a temporary mood or frame of mind: The boss is in a bad humor today. 9. a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait. 10. (in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution. 11. any animal or plant fluid, whether natural or morbid, as the blood or lymph.
#43 count_arioch_the_28th Mar 17, 2009 11:22:39	That goes with something my mother has always said: If you have to explain a joke, it's not funny.
#44 cherubaddon Mar 17, 2009 11:24:08	You're just sore for not having caught the joke :P .
#45 jhonesy Mar 17, 2009 14:27:58	Precisely.
#46 dirtyfrank Mar 17, 2009 14:34:35	I can speak several different English dialects.
#47 cherubaddon Mar 17, 2009 14:34:52	I actually was referring to our dear Count ;) .
#48 goblin_pride Mar 19, 2009 9:53:42	American are the only language everyone need too no. Which American? I can speak a bit of Choctaw, Lakota, Tsalagi and I'm fluent in the Kickapoo dialect of Algonquin. Added to the bits and pieces of european and asian languages I picked up growing up around the Navy, I can pretty much sound retarded* in most countries. *There's nothing funnier than when you struggle to say something in another language, get the tense or a couple words completely wrong and the person bursts out laughing and then tells you they speak english.
#49 tiwaztyrsfist Mar 19, 2009 14:19:34	*There's nothing funnier than when you struggle to say something in another language, get the tense or a couple words completely wrong and the person bursts out laughing and then tells you they speak english. I actually think the funniest thing in the world is the look on someones face when they talk about you in front of you in their native language, assuming you don't understand it, and then you say, in that language, as you leave, "Oh, by the way, I speak fluent (Language X) a*****e." Or, as I have said to coworkers in the past, "Hablo espanol, punta."
#50 goblin_pride Mar 19, 2009 14:41:46	I actually think the funniest thing in the world is the look on someones face when they talk about you in front of you in their native language, assuming you don't understand it, and then you say, in that language, as you leave, "Oh, by the way, I speak fluent (Language X) a*****e." Back when I was driving a cab I picked up a bunch of Japanese students from one of the local colleges. All the way back to campus, one of them was telling the others that she should "take this hairy American up to her room" and do some rather adventurous things. When they got to the campus and handed me the money, I said "arrigato goziemashita". I swear I never saw a japanese girl blush that much in my life.
#51 mock26 Mar 19, 2009 14:50:19	I used to be fluent in Finnish about 20 years ago, but that was a long time ago in a country far, far away. Since then I have never had anyone to practice with so I have lost nearly all of it. I can still get my face slapped by a pretty lady, though! :D
#52 alphabravo Mar 19, 2009 16:03:51	Does anyone know Hebrew? I know a little bit and I plan on getting back into it in the coming weeks. Hebrew (Mother Tongue), English (OF COURSE!), some Swahili (I had taken a few trips to Tanzania, Africa) I have a lotof good pictures. Can you tell me to where I can upload them?
#53 count_arioch_the_28th Mar 19, 2009 16:40:25	I use Photobucket to upload pics.
#54 kingrama Mar 19, 2009 20:50:27	Chai! Yes! Wee! Shi! I know English, Thai, French, and Mandarin a little.
#55 sorg Mar 29, 2009 14:57:37	Besides English I can speak Danish pretty well along with reading and writing it. Helps when you have family and friends still living in Danmark.