How many languages can YOU speak?

colech · Post by **colech** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 19:21

Out of sheer admiration for those who can speak a different language for every day of the week... "How many languages do you know?" Here I'll start.

I know:

* English
* About 20 words in Spanish

I KNOW someone can beat that! Give it your best shot.

Jérôme · Post by **Jérôme** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 19:29

Okay, quick, as long as noone is quicker and better

.

- German
- French
- English
and finally: LATIN!

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 20:25

i can speak an write

-German
-English

snobba · Post by **snobba** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 20:31

Speak and write:

- Swedish (understand NO, DK)
- Dutch
- English
- HTML, +- PHP, SQL

Do not understand:

- Woman

Jérôme · Post by **Jérôme** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 20:36

snobba wrote:Speak and write:

- Swedish (understand NO, DK)
- Dutch
- English
- HTML, +- PHP, SQL

Do not understand:

- Woman

LOOOOOL!

Jan212 · Post by **Jan212** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 20:36

-german
-english
-little french

-platt
-kölsch
-sächsisch

vvo · Post by **vvo** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 20:38

-Dutch
-English
-German
-Indonesian
-little bit Italian

Bye,

Johan.

webwesen · Post by **webwesen** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 21:04

English / German (+Saarlaendisch) :D / Russian

frold · Post by **frold** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 22:09

Danish (understand Norwegian, and a little Swedish)
I try to speak and write english not always with the best succes...

I can read and understand a little German
I can read and understand a little French

and in Japanese I understand: sushi
and in Russian I understand: vodka
and in Italian I understand: mamamia, pizza, pasta etc,
etc...

Jérôme · Post by **Jérôme** » Thu 1. Apr 2004, 22:12

webwesen wrote:English / German (+Saarlaendisch) / Russian

Saarländisch? Where do you know that from? I am living near the Saarland and I know how it sounds - so I will not say anything unless you tell me that you are not a nativ Saarländer

webwesen · Post by **webwesen** » Fri 2. Apr 2004, 00:31

I have studied @ Uni des Saarlandes for 6 years, and you finally start to understand them after the 5th year - and no, I am not native Saarlaender :)

Jérôme wrote: Saarländisch? Where do you know that from? I am living near the Saarland and I know how it sounds - so I will not say anything unless you tell me that you are not a nativ Saarländer ;)

Jérôme · Post by **Jérôme** » Fri 2. Apr 2004, 08:11

Tough guy. 6 years? I am living for more than 20 years in this region and I still have difficulties with certain words

. (But nothing against the people.)

colech · Post by **colech** » Fri 2. Apr 2004, 08:40

All I can say is...

WOW

I spent six years doing my electical engineering degree and I can say I now officially know most of the Greek alphabet (which I use in math) forwards and backwards. But where do you find the time or energy to learn all these? Maybe it's different when you have more languages spoken in close proximity around you. Here it's just Spanish or English pretty much. I live a few hours from Canada and it's nice to know French up there, but no one speaks it here at all.

frold · Post by **frold** » Fri 2. Apr 2004, 08:54

colech wrote:All I can say is...
WOW

I spent six years doing my electical engineering degree and I can say I now officially know most of the Greek alphabet (which I use in math) forwards and backwards. But where do you find the time or energy to learn all these? Maybe it's different when you have more languages spoken in close proximity around you. Here it's just Spanish or English pretty much. I live a few hours from Canada and it's nice to know French up there, but no one speaks it here at all.

The lang I "speak" I have learned in school....

Jérôme · Post by **Jérôme** » Fri 2. Apr 2004, 09:08

I have the luck to have a french dad and a german mum which was possible because France had (like the USA) soldiers based at Germany (why, we should all know). So it was not hard work that made me trilingual, just coincidence