what languages do you speak?

[Zebra]

which?

 

[Anathema]

American English, fluently.

I speak a little conversational French due to being required to take three years of a foreign language in school.

I kno a few words of Spanish due to living with a Puerto Rican family the last eight years.

 

[Woodznutz]

English, the most beautiful and expressive of languages.

 

[Crepitus]

which?

English is my native language.

I speak Afrikaans and Spanish tolerably well.

I can at least ask for a beer and a bathroom in many others.

 

[Crepitus]

English, the most beautiful and expressive of languages.

Spanish is much more lyrical.

 

[White 6]

which?

None, fluently.

 

[jotathought]

English and Hindi

 

[TheParser]

which?

1. American English.

2. Can understand Spanish IF you speak slowly and use standard Spanish WITHOUT local idioms. I can speak it a bit, enough to give you instructions on how to take a bus, for example.

3. Can read (Mandarin) Chinese-written personal letter IF you write large characters and give me 24 hours to check my Chinese-English dictionary. Can speak and write it IF you give me 24 hours to compose the reply. Of course, when you hear me speak or read my Chinese, you will laugh like mad. NO WAY that I can understand spoken Chinese on TV or from someone speaking Mandarin.

(Zebra: When you get time, go to YouTube and type in Xiaoma. He is a Caucasian New Yorker who has an ear for languages. In short, he is a genius. His videos show him in Chinese restaurants ordering food in various Chinese dialects. Of course, the servers (waiters) are astonished!!!)

 

[Zebra]

1. American English.

2. Can understand Spanish IF you speak slowly and use standard Spanish WITHOUT local idioms. I can speak it a bit, enough to give you instructions on how to take a bus, for example.

3. Can read (Mandarin) Chinese-written personal letter IF you write large characters and give me 24 hours to check my Chinese-English dictionary. Can speak and write it IF you give me 24 hours to compose the reply. Of course, when you hear me speak or read my Chinese, you will laugh like mad. NO WAY that I can understand spoken Chinese on TV or from someone speaking Mandarin.

(Zebra: When you get time, go to YouTube and type in Xiaoma. He is a Caucasian New Yorker who has an ear for languages. In short, he is a genius. His videos show him in Chinese restaurants ordering food in various Chinese dialects. Of course, the servers (waiters) are astonished!!!)

good to know

 

[Woodznutz]

Spanish is much more lyrical.

As is French.

 

[Zebra]

do you understand also Schweizerdeutsch = Schwyzerdüüütsch = Swiss German?

 

[frigidweirdo]

English, the most beautiful and expressive of languages.

Have you spoken the other 2,000 languages to find out if that is true or not?

 

[Moonglow]

Englis, French, German, some Portuguese and Street Eaze...

 

[Moonglow]

Spanish is much more lyrical.

Not as much as Korean...

 

[Zebra]

Englis, French, German, some Portuguese and Street Eaze...

what language is Englis?

 

[Moonglow]

what language is Englis?

just add an "H" to the end of it.

 

[Woodznutz]

Have you spoken the other 2,000 languages to find out if that is true or not?

No, but I've heard the most familiar ones spoken.

 

[Woodznutz]

A German and a Brit happen to meet not long after the war.

German: "I don't understand. Ve prayed to God for victory but vere defeated."
Brit: "Oh my, God doesn't understand German."

 

[Zebra]

just add an "H" to the end of it.

ok

 

[frigidweirdo]

1. American English.

2. Can understand Spanish IF you speak slowly and use standard Spanish WITHOUT local idioms. I can speak it a bit, enough to give you instructions on how to take a bus, for example.

3. Can read (Mandarin) Chinese-written personal letter IF you write large characters and give me 24 hours to check my Chinese-English dictionary. Can speak and write it IF you give me 24 hours to compose the reply. Of course, when you hear me speak or read my Chinese, you will laugh like mad. NO WAY that I can understand spoken Chinese on TV or from someone speaking Mandarin.

(Zebra: When you get time, go to YouTube and type in Xiaoma. He is a Caucasian New Yorker who has an ear for languages. In short, he is a genius. His videos show him in Chinese restaurants ordering food in various Chinese dialects. Of course, the servers (waiters) are astonished!!!)

Nothing worse than talking Chinese and people assume you can't, so they don't listen, and then they don't understand what you're saying because you're not fluent....