adrenaline Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 Mandarin is my main language. I can also speak English and Taiwanese Hokkien, but not very fluently. How many languages can you guys speak?
FusRoDah Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 Mandarin is my main language. I can also speak English and Taiwanese Hokkien' date=' but not very fluently. How many languages can you guys speak? [/quote'] Fluent: -Dutch -English. Secondary: -German Getting Classes at, But still suck at: -French Used to get classes at, But dropped: -Latin -Ancient Greek.
lolerzness Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 English and Tagalog (Filipino) are my main languages. Though i'm also fluent in Nihongo/Japanese though i'm still trying to study the Kansai Dialect. I'll prolly start to learn Hangugeo and Hangul (Korean) in September.
sbire Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 german - fluent english - well, not 100% fluent french -> enough to be able to say what i want, become better and better
Riku20xx Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 Fluent English. Can understand a small amount of Spanish even though I took Spanish in school for 6 years. Lol.
Guest GingerTom Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I studied several languages in the past: Russian, French, Italian (and others) for when I was in the Coast Guard--thought it might come in handy. Now I can barely spell English--my native language. До свидания! (Da svidaniya) - Goodbye!
nonusnomeni Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 croatian,bosniak,serbian,montenegrian (10/10) russian (9/10) slovenian,macedonian,bohemian,ukrainian,hungarian,italian,spanish (7/10) slovakian,bulgarian,turkish,english (6/10) french (2/10) german (1/10) also ancient latin (8/10) greek (7/10) egyptian,sanscrit,hittite (5/10) explanation: 5/10 means i don need subtitles and I can read language without googletranshiter also when i say something the other party will understand me
windpl Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I studied several languages in the past: Russian' date=' French, Italian (and others) for when I was in the Coast Guard--thought it might come in handy. Now I can barely spell English--my native language. До свидания! (Da svidaniya) - Goodbye! [/quote'] lol same here English, German, Greek, Polish, Russian, and some written Latin. And I can't spell properly, at any of them
LordJerle Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 English, bad English, Nerd, 1337, and Southern Redneck.
thesapien Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 Mostly just barbarian, being a native English speaker. Grew up with a lot of Spanish being on the Texas border to Mexico. High School was all German in preparation for visiting my brother there but never went and quickly forgot it all. College was Japanese, and I did go to Tokyo, but that, too, was years ago. Funny, even then, one could get buy quite well just speaking English. I'm very lucky that English has become the most common second language internationally (or perhaps spoiled by it).
sbire Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I'm very lucky that English has become the most common second language internationally (or perhaps spoiled by it). what would a french native say.... *putain de merde*
thesapien Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I'm very lucky that English has become the most common second language internationally (or perhaps spoiled by it). what would a french native say.... *putain de merde* Funny, I was thinking about the French when writing that, LOL, and my opposite experience in Tokyo where it seemed like everyone in Japan preferred speaking English with me, like it was a chance to practice their English. One can fairly easily get by in Tokyo with just English. I was also thinking about foreign films I've seen where characters suddenly started speaking English even though none were native English speakers, all were in non English speaking countries, and the audience wasn't English, so I still had funny English subs even though I could suddenly understand them! The OP could verify this for me, too; Isn't the Middle Kingdom (or China as US Americans would say) pushing to make English standard teaching in schools? I've noticed, also, that in many international music videos there are lots of English words mixed in with the native languages, especially more so in East Asian pop. Some of my favorite groups will sometimes release a song in Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin (?) but then every version will often still have the same English words in the lyrics in all versions!
adrenaline Posted June 8, 2012 Author Posted June 8, 2012 The OP could verify this for me' date=' too; Isn't the Middle Kingdom (or China as US Americans would say) pushing to make English standard teaching in schools? I've noticed, also, that in many international music videos there are lots of English words mixed in with the native languages, especially more so in East Asian pop. Some of my favorite groups will sometimes release a song in Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin (?) but then every version will often still have the same English words in the lyrics in all versions! [/quote'] I don’t know much about the education system of China/PRC, but I think English is already standard teaching in most East Asia countries. In Taiwan, when I was in high school, I had to take totally 6 hours of English classes per week. However, it’s quite strange that we don’t get much English speaking training, I think most of the East Asia countries have the same educational problem. So IMO that’s why there are lots of English words mixed in with the Japanese, Mandarin and Korean songs, because Asian think if you can speak English, you are awesome.
sbire Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 i think it's very important to safe the native languages and all of there "colors" to keep traditions alive. but global we have to find one language.
Guest Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 I can speak in English, French, Ukrainian, and Russian. I can also say "hello" in German, does that count?
sbire Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 I can speak in English' date=' French, Ukrainian, and Russian. I can also say "hello" in German, does that count? [/quote'] unbedingt
thesapien Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 i think it's very important to safe the native languages and all of there "colors" to keep traditions alive. but global we have to find one language. I think most of us would agree. It allows us to communicate and understand one another better. One person can't learn all the languages around the world, but if we could find one language that we all agree to use... awesome. Like you said, the downside is the danger of forgetting the wealth of knowledge coded in our ancestors' cultures and form of speech. So it's also kind of a scary thought.
Guest Deliria Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Three. English, Gibberish, and Drunkenish. Us Brits are known to be lazy when it comes to learning other languages
thesapien Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 So IMO that’s why there are lots of English words mixed in with the Japanese' date=' Mandarin and Korean songs, because Asian think if you can speak English, you are awesome. [/quote'] In the USA, it's a mix of attitudes. Many people have a lot of respect for those who can speak other languages fluently, especially since so few who are born here ever learn another language beyond getting by school requirements, which are mostly forgotten. When I was studying Japanese, I got a lot of respect for learning what is considered a hard language to learn in the West. The more exotic the language, the more impressive to others! On the other hand, for being a country founded on immigration, we are pathetically full of bigots who judge foreigners' intelligence based on how well they speak English. Too often, foreigners are made fun of for how they speak. This is sad, and we have no excuse other than being ignorant. As a whole, we are still extremely racists against those we call "Mexicans", "Middle Easterns", and "Chinese". What's worse, we often apply these labels to people who aren't actually any of the above, because, yes, we are that ignorant.
thesapien Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Three. English' date=' Gibberish, and Drunkenish. Us Brits are known to be lazy when it comes to learning other languages [/quote'] Yet, you do such a fantastic job of spreading your words. I've never been to England, however, am a native speaker of your language. My country did one-up yours by getting every nation to use Dollars as their reserve currency (maybe under London's influence!), though this is currently changing fast as many countries are moving away from Dollars, all the while English is still becoming more popular!
windpl Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 So IMO that’s why there are lots of English words mixed in with the Japanese' date=' Mandarin and Korean songs, because Asian think if you can speak English, you are awesome. [/quote'] In the USA, it's a mix of attitudes. Many people have a lot of respect for those who can speak other languages fluently, especially since so few who are born here ever learn another language beyond getting by school requirements, which are mostly forgotten. When I was studying Japanese, I got a lot of respect for learning what is considered a hard language to learn in the West. The more exotic the language, the more impressive to others! On the other hand, for being a country founded on immigration, we are pathetically full of bigots who judge foreigners' intelligence based on how well they speak English. Too often, foreigners are made fun of for how they speak. This is sad, and we have no excuse other than being ignorant. As a whole, we are still extremely racists against those we call "Mexicans", "Middle Easterns", and "Chinese". What's worse, we often apply these labels to people who aren't actually any of the above, because, yes, we are that ignorant. Well when I'm in UK people are making fun off me because I often mix English with "American". DAMN YOU BISCUITS! But as I'm not native English speaker, some say that is cute so I'm fine with that ;D
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