How many Languages do you know?

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How many Languages do you know?

Postby JaoSming on Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:39 am

just wondering how many languages everyone here knows and how good they know them.

for me
English (First Language)
Spanish (Some Phrases)
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Cartar on Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:56 am

Estonian (First Language)
English (Somewhat)
Russian (Have learned it for 6 years now, still can't speak almost anything)
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby el badman on Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:03 am

French (native language)
English (been living in the US for many years now)
Spanish (...been living in the US for many years now)
German (can't really speak it, but studied long enough to understand some of it)

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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Andrew on Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:50 am

English is the only language I can really claim to speak. Year 7 French doesn't really count and I've forgotten most of it anyway.
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby tee-pane on Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:15 pm

Cantonese (first language)
English
Mandarin (I could understand it if the person speaks slow enough)
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby dopeboy on Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:05 pm

Latvian (native language)
English (somewhat ok)
Russian (somewhat ok)
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby michejohnson on Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:06 pm

Hi to All,
I am Miche and I like to learn different languages so I
am posting here , I hope you guys will help me in learning.
English
Hindi
learning Gujarati
and want to learn Spanish,French,Russian,German
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby buzzy on Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:15 pm

German, English and some basic French (been learnig it in school for 4 years now).
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby shadowgrin on Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:19 pm

Filipino
English
Spanish, mostly phrases or keywords to understand the sentence.
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby NovU on Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:54 pm

michejohnson wrote:Hi to All,
I am Miche and I like to learn different languages so I
am posting here , I hope you guys will help me in learning.
English
Hindi
learning Gujarati
and want to learn Spanish,French,Russian,German


Whoa. I thought you were a bot judging from help thread that got locked. :wink:
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby The X on Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:26 pm

English, can also understand a bit of basic conversational German
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Andrew on Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:32 pm

I'm getting the feeling that this is the kind of thread that will see everyone from countries where English is not the first language putting those of us from countries where English is the first/only language to shame.
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Sportsgamer on Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm

My first language is german. My parents are vietnamese so i can read and talk it really well. In school I learned english and french (and I have good grades too :mrgreen: )
I know a girl who speaks all these languages but also latin and russian....

Dont you guys have to learn a secondary language at schooL?
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Modifly on Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:50 pm

Thai and English. I can also listen/speak Lao (Laos language) since it's very similar to the language being spoken in the eastern part of Thailand.
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Jackal on Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:57 pm

7...

English
Dutch
Spanish
Papiaments/Antillian
Hindi
Bengali
Bhojpuri

I fully understand Surinamese (Sranan Tongo), but can't communicate well in it.
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby shadowgrin on Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:59 pm

Cocky bastard.
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Modifly on Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:13 pm

Jackal wrote:7...

English
Dutch
Spanish
Papiaments/Antillian
Hindi
Bengali
Bhojpuri

I fully understand Surinamese (Sranan Tongo), but can't communicate well in it.


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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby deihatein on Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:08 am

shadowGrinch wrote:Filipino
English
shadowgrin wrote:Quick question: who is better in basketball, a black dude or a pinoy dude. If you thought or considered for a moment that it's the black dude then you're also a little bit racist.

End of any racist discussion.


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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby J@3 on Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:33 am

shadowGrinch wrote:English.


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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby shadowgrin on Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:50 am

i hates you Jae. Y do u hav 2 b mean 2 us pinoys. I find yu doubtng my englsh as condact unakseptable of an admin of dis nLsc.
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby JaoSming on Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:35 am

:lol:

and yea I was waiting for Jackal to put us to shame
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Lean on Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:45 am

jAe HaTeZ uS pInOyS. :shake:

I speak Filipino and eNgLiSh as well.
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby Oznogrd on Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:53 am

English
Some spanish
Some American Sign Language
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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby cyanide on Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:49 am

English and American Sign Language.

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Re: How many Languages do you know?

Postby J@3 on Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:54 am

24/m/Australia
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