what languages do you speak?

[Dogmaphobe]

 

[Unkotare]

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....

More likely that you get the tones wrong and they really can’t understand you.

 

[Zebra]

2 of 23 say .... quite a lot .... not quiteba lot

 

[Zebra]

i understand also words like …

dischperlächt …

Google knows it

 

[pal]

any god worthy of the name understands German

24 million or 36 million from abroad and Germans speak German you examine??

 

[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!!!)

Interesting!