|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
, Moderators
Joined: 12/29/2004
Posts: 4,525
Location: not where I want to be now
|
What languages do you speak?
What's your mother language?
I think this could be interesting. 8)
I say it from the beginning: Rubbish, nonsense, gibberish, garbage and similar ones DO NOT count. :wink:
I grew up bilingually. My mother languages are Bavarian dialect and German. :P
Apart from that I speak (quite fluently) English and Japanese.
I can read and speak little Mandarin Chinese, Classical Chinese, Classical Japanese, Italian.
I learned Latin in school for 5 years.. forgot a lot. :wink:
From my Latin and Italian knowledge I can derive a bit of French and Spanish, reading simple things is ok.
Next thing I want to learn is Korean and/or Cantonese. At least I'll try. :)
May 16th...
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
Joined: 12/18/2004
Posts: 2,642
Location: Danville, IL
|
Geez! You're your own walking translation site! :lol: As for me, not much at all. English is my language, and I know enough Spanish to get by... That's all for my list! :P
http://robertlbryant.com
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
, Moderators
Joined: 12/29/2004
Posts: 4,525
Location: not where I want to be now
|
My translation sites are all on the internet. :) Unfortunately I have to look up dictionaries from time to time. Should I need English German or vice versa I use http://www.dict.cc or http://dict.leo.org/?lang=de&lp=endeFor Japanese English and vice versa it's the name Jim Breen you should remember. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.htmlEnglish-Chinese (both ways) you get at http://www.mandarintools.comA very good Japanese-German site is http://www.wadoku.deAnd of course there's babelfish and google translations, which work quite good.
May 16th...
|
|
Rank: Koopa Paratroopa
Groups: Member
Joined: 11/29/2004
Posts: 396
Location: Holland
|
English Dutch German Turkish a bit French
My NES collection so far...
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
, Moderators
Joined: 12/29/2004
Posts: 4,525
Location: not where I want to be now
|
Is it true that all Dutch can speak German?
This would be ashaming. So little Germans speak Dutch...
May 16th...
|
|
Rank: Koopa Paratroopa
Groups: Member
Joined: 2/5/2005
Posts: 349
|
...
|
|
Rank: Koopa Paratroopa
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/13/2005
Posts: 473
|
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
, Moderators
Joined: 12/13/2004
Posts: 3,577
Location: Ontario, Canada
|
English, and French (a little) for me, I know very little spanish, but I'll mention it anyway.
 
|
|
Rank: Koopa Troopa
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/21/2005
Posts: 105
Location: The Netherlands
|
Quote:Is it true that all Dutch can speak German?
This would be ashaming. So little Germans speak Dutch...
That's not really true. Most people can understand it though, and speak it a little. I've had German at school for some years and speak it a bit. Problem with a language is, that if you don't use it you'll forget quite some things pretty fast. I speak Dutch and English, a bit of German, and I'm going to take a course of French (although I've had French for three years I forgot most of it, I need it for my job now).
|
|
Rank: Hammer Bros.
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/22/2005
Posts: 1,869
Location: Rapid City , SoDak
|
i speak English and know a couple words in other languages
 --- 
|
|
Rank: Lakitu
Groups: Member
Joined: 12/24/2004
Posts: 777
Location: Haugesund, Rogaland
|
I can speak Norwegian, Swedish, a little Danish, English, a little Spanish and a couple of words in Greek.
Actually, not all was thinking. Some was plotting, some was planning, and finally the explaining of my plan which I plotted after I thought of it.
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
Joined: 6/30/2005
Posts: 2,781
|
I can speak English, french and some Spanish.
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
Joined: 6/28/2005
Posts: 2,793
|
English, I was taught french for a half hour every school day for 10 years, and I still only know what bonjour means.
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
Joined: 6/30/2005
Posts: 2,781
|
"OneGenerationTooLate" wrote:English, I was taught french for a half hour every school day for 10 years, and I still only know what bonjour means. I am pretty much the same way. I didn't have to take French in High school! Because I sucked at it so badly. :lol:
|
|
Rank: Lakitu
Groups: Member
Joined: 12/12/2005
Posts: 808
Location: Atomic FireBall factory... stealing FireBalls
|
Just english and spanish for me. I was pretty dern good at Spanish in high school, I had three years of it :razz:. Now, for the life of me I can barley get out a sentence. Wonder what happened....
 "So this is how I get demoted to canning fish every day until I die!"
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
Joined: 6/30/2005
Posts: 2,781
|
No se preocupe a hombre. Puedo enseñarle si usted desea. ¡Justo llámeme el amo magnífico del canguelo! :wink:
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
Joined: 6/28/2005
Posts: 2,793
|
Yay for internet translators!
|
|
Rank: Koopa Paratroopa
Groups: Member
Joined: 8/21/2005
Posts: 450
Location: Quincy, Massachusetts
|
English and thats it. i've taken spanish and Frech classes, so i know some of each, but i cannot speak it at all...
I just beat the super mario bros 2 world record!
|
|
Rank: Hammer Bros.
Groups: Member
Joined: 1/28/2005
Posts: 1,962
Location: North Fort Myers, FL.
|
|
|
Rank: Bowser
Groups: Member
Joined: 5/15/2005
Posts: 2,110
Location: Shackled in a dark room.... unknown.
|
"Midwest" English and enough German to get me to a bathroom, bank or resterant (and maybe a smidgen more). Oh, and maybe 1/2 a dozen or so words of Icelandic.
I say "Midwest" English because certain southreners it seems like you need closed captioning to understand them as well as certain British people (not all brit's are created equal when it comes to understandable English).
http://www.myspace.com/jennikisaI need friends.... I had to nix Tom. He wasn't really my friend. His smile "mocked" me.
|
|
|
Guest |
