What languages do you know?

[Comrade Johnson]

Spanish, Chinese, maybe German? And how fluent are you in them?

 

[frigidweirdo]

I managed to buy tickets for Spartak v. Rubin Kazan many years ago while I was in Moscow. So I'm almost fluent in Russian, I could say some of the numbers, yes, no. Yeah, fluent.

But seriously, English, Spanish, German and Mandarin are my languages in that order of fluency.

 

[Comrade Johnson]

I managed to buy tickets for Spartak v. Rubin Kazan many years ago while I was in Moscow. So I'm almost fluent in Russian, I could say some of the numbers, yes, no. Yeah, fluent.

What about Tatar? - Kazan is a capital of the Tatar repulic Who won, by the way?

 

[frigidweirdo]

I managed to buy tickets for Spartak v. Rubin Kazan many years ago while I was in Moscow. So I'm almost fluent in Russian, I could say some of the numbers, yes, no. Yeah, fluent.

What about Tatar? - Kazan is a capital of the Tatar repulic Who won, by the way?

I never went to Kazan, Kazan kicked the hell out of Spartak, 3-0, it was like 70,000 people and only 300 singing.

 

[Comrade Johnson]

I managed to buy tickets for Spartak v. Rubin Kazan many years ago while I was in Moscow. So I'm almost fluent in Russian, I could say some of the numbers, yes, no. Yeah, fluent.

What about Tatar? - Kazan is a capital of the Tatar repulic Who won, by the way?

I never went to Kazan, Kazan kicked the hell out of Spartak, 3-0, it was like 70,000 people and only 300 singing.

anyway, you have a brilliant memory to remember the names of Russian soccer clubs...

 

[frigidweirdo]

I managed to buy tickets for Spartak v. Rubin Kazan many years ago while I was in Moscow. So I'm almost fluent in Russian, I could say some of the numbers, yes, no. Yeah, fluent.

What about Tatar? - Kazan is a capital of the Tatar repulic Who won, by the way?

I never went to Kazan, Kazan kicked the hell out of Spartak, 3-0, it was like 70,000 people and only 300 singing.

anyway, you have a brilliant memory to remember the names of Russian soccer clubs...

I know a few, Rubin and Spartak are clubs who have been successful in Europe, I don't know that many beyond these and Dynamo. I also saw Russia under 21s play Italy U-21s, a Russian got sent off, in a friendly, for a head butt. That was fun. Most enjoyable part of the match, except maybe for the one monkey chant.

 

[Comrade Johnson]

I know a few, Rubin and Spartak are clubs who have been successful in Europe, I don't know that many beyond these and Dynamo. I also saw Russia under 21s play Italy U-21s, a Russian got sent off, in a friendly, for a head butt. That was fun. Most enjoyable part of the match, except maybe for the one monkey chant.

I think that you've heard of CSKA too, the Red Army as it's usually called in North America.

 

[Unkotare]

Define “know,” for the purpose of the OP.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I know a few, Rubin and Spartak are clubs who have been successful in Europe, I don't know that many beyond these and Dynamo. I also saw Russia under 21s play Italy U-21s, a Russian got sent off, in a friendly, for a head butt. That was fun. Most enjoyable part of the match, except maybe for the one monkey chant.

I think that you've heard of CSKA too, the Red Army as it's usually called in North America.

Oh, yeah, heard of them.

 

[dblack]

C, C++, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Elixir, SQL, Python, Clojure.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Yo no hablo Inglés.
¿Que?

 

[Marion Morrison]

Yo entiendo tu eres un maricón mongólico que gusté chupar muchos pingas.

 

[Muhammed]

English, American Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, French, Ebonics and Arabic.

 

[Skull Pilot]

igPay atinLay

 

[TheParser]

1. My only language is American English. I try to observe proper grammar. For example, I say "It's I," not "me." And I hope that I NEVER say something like "Me and my friend are going to a baseball game."

2. I can speak enough standard Spanish to make myself understood. I can understand Spanish IF the speaker speaks slowly and does NOT use local idioms.

3. With a good dictionary, I can get the gist of easy newspaper articles in Chinese (Mandarin), but there is NO way that I can speak or understand or write it. In the past when I occasionally tried to write it, I always used traditional characters, not the simplified ones used in the People's Republic of China. I hear that some scholars there are gently urging the return of some traditional characters. On the other hand, I hear that in the Republic of China (Taiwan) a few simplified characters are now being used.

 

[Comrade Johnson]

1. My only language is American English. I try to observe proper grammar. For example, I say "It's I," not "me." And I hope that I NEVER say something like "Me and my friend are going to a baseball game."

You'd like Russian with its 6 cases

 

[TheParser]

I once took a correspondence course in Russian, Comrade Johnson.

I lasted one month before I threw all the materials in the wastebasket.

Compared with Russian, Chinese is a cakewalk.

 

[dblack]

1. My only language is American English. I try to observe proper grammar. For example, I say "It's I," not "me." And I hope that I NEVER say something like "Me and my friend are going to a baseball game."

Isn't "me" proper when you are the object of the sentence? ie "it's me" is correct, not "It's I".

 

[DustyInfinity]

English and Spanish in High School and college. I'd love to learn Russian, but it is hard carving an hour out of every day. I studied the pronunciation in an old book and have purchased the Russian Rosetta Stone. Every since I was a kid I was fascinated by the Russian language. Should I try to pick it up in my 40's?

 

[Unkotare]

..... Should I try to pick it up in my 40's?

Why not?