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What other languages do we speak

#1 User is offline   roddy 

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Posted 13 January 2004 - 11:41 PM

I'm curious as to what other languages everyone here speaks. I can only claim English (27 years of study and counting :wink: ) and my still less-than-ideal Mandarin. I sometimes think about starting a second Asian language - Japanese when I'm feeling sensible, Cantonese when I've been watching too many HK movies and feel a need to say 'Aaaaa' at the end of every sentence.

I'm sure there must be a few linguists among us though. Stand up and be counted!

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#2 User is offline   niubi 

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Posted 13 January 2004 - 11:46 PM

english
mandarin - increasingly rusty; understand a tiny bit of kunming hua/sichuan hua
studied vietnamese (hanoi accent) for about half a year and remember very little
studied latin for 4 years in a jesuit high school and likewise my memories of it are well faded
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Posted 14 January 2004 - 02:25 PM

French
English
German
Mandarin
I have studied Japanese for one year so far but I will start again next month
I also studied latin for four years but do not take it into account because it is very close to French
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Posted 14 January 2004 - 03:38 PM

French
English
Mandarin
I have studied Japanese for one year so far but I found it impossible
I also studied latin for four years but do not take it into account because I've completely forgotten all of it except the rude bits and the word for glue-boiler (which our Latin teacher told us we would never forget and he was right!)
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Posted 14 January 2004 - 03:51 PM

Sale copieur :twisted:

How do you say "glue-boiler" by the way?
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Posted 14 January 2004 - 04:23 PM

English
Hokkien
Cantonese/Mandarin/Bahasa Malaysia.....can get by with a conversation
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Posted 14 January 2004 - 05:59 PM

Chinese (Cantonese/Putonghua), English, Japanese (proficiency in this order).

I can read some French, but that's all. Oh I can also pronounce Korean alphabets :lol: .
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Posted 14 January 2004 - 06:58 PM

Fluent Mandarin, college level Japanese, and high school French
plus I can sing three karaoke songs in Cantonese!
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Posted 15 January 2004 - 12:08 PM

7 years of French
3 years of Spanish
1 year of Latin (don't ask me to speak it)
6 months of Tamil
6 months of Sanskrit
excellent Indian English
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Posted 15 January 2004 - 02:20 PM

[Saloperie u c!]

I was thinking about putting
!German
as one of the lines.

I just knew you'd ask that. It's "glutinarius".
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Posted 16 January 2004 - 01:28 AM

Fluent Cantonese~! :)

I'm going to Vietnam next Wednesday, I've got my 6-month visa today, and hope to learn more about Vietnamese (the people and the language) there during this period.
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Posted 19 January 2004 - 02:56 PM

Native speaker English.

Moderately useful levels of Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia, both a bit rusty.

And enough Putonghua not to get lost in a taxi and to go shopping.

Uh I understand, but can't speak, some Tagalog (Filipino), although that may be because most Filipinos smatter their conversations with English anyway.
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Skylee, how did you come to learn (at least some) Japanese and French? :shock:
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Posted 19 January 2004 - 03:35 PM

Josh69, I minored in Japanese in Univ. (spent years studying it). And I used to study French in my spare time (not any more. Now I just watch DVDs after work).
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Posted 22 January 2004 - 09:18 AM

fluent English
mandarin
the others you learn at school like french german. not v. good tho. can go there and ask for directions and book a hotel and stuff like that, but that's about it.
my english is sorta native fluency.
my mandarin is 6yo mandarin with whatever i learned from my parents. so everyday stuff i can say, like "what's for dinner" or "you're really stupid" but if you asked me to explain what i studies in chemistry today, i'd be "yeah, we learned about this thing that did this but only if you put it into this other liquid". my pronouniciation of what i can say is pretty very good. chinese people don't think i've been in england that long. and i can write to the level of a ten yo, probly. (learned to third book in primary)
and also, if you told me how to write s chines character, i can get the bi hua right.

man, i wrote too much.

oh, btw, happy new year.
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Posted 27 January 2004 - 01:25 PM

Now, I'm trying to focus on....
-English (I wonder sometimes... )
-Mandarin :D (It's shaky at times as well :P )
-Japanese (Prefer it written :lol: )
-French (Not extremely enthusiatic about it)
-Cantonese (Not well enough :cry: , but improving)
-Korean (Eh...not well enough..)
-Some Spanish :shock:
~Slightly Minnan hua 8)

Any others I more than likely forgot. :wink:
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Posted 03 February 2004 - 03:42 AM

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Posted 05 February 2004 - 02:49 PM

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I also studied latin for four years but do not take it into account because it is very close to French


dear 芳芳, that's the most hilarious something I've heard in a long time :mrgreen:
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Posted 05 February 2004 - 11:59 PM

Dear Barbara,
It would be more hilarious if you appended a corresponding Chinese idiom to your comment!
Cordially,
Confucius
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Posted 06 February 2004 - 12:30 AM

Dear Confucius,
if it wouldn't be much too impolite I would say that 芳芳 was 胡说八道 :wink: hu2 shuo1 ba1 dao4
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Posted 06 February 2004 - 06:13 AM

Selon les rumeurs 道路传闻 8) dao4 lu4 chuan2 wen2 , la rubrique idiomes a été déplacée ici
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