I can speak English. I know some Spanish (I can comprehend some of it). I know several words in German, but I’d have to learn more. I am looking into Romanian, Albanian and I checked out Russian quite a bit.
So, to mix languages, Tëngëtjeta, Numele meu este Robbie, Soy Guapo, Ты такая необычная! (Ti takAya neobIchnaya) Ich bin geil!
Points to the people who can translate that entire sentance. The languages go Albanian/Romanian/Spanish/Russian/German. You will need Cyrillic font to get the Russian cyrillic alphabet.
So, what languages do you know and what languages do you wanna know more of?
I’m a native English speaker with three years of high school Spanish and 15 years restaurant experience. This means that what I speak fluently is “busboy.”
I speak a little Vietnamese and a tiny bit of both German and Spanish. I used to be pretty good with Japanese (am picking it up again a little at a time) and am currently working on learning Farsi (my wife’s helping me with that one).
I speak Spanish well enough to survive in another country, but once they start slinging it at full speed, I get lost almost immediately. A couple months in a latin-american nation would correct this quickly, I’m sure.
I also want to learn French and Italian. I can read Italian surprisingly well, despite not speaking it at all. Comes from knowing Spanish, I assume. I can KINDA read SOME French, but not enough to claim that I can read it, really. I catch some words here and there, though. French is my priority.
I also want to learn German. I know a few words, but that’s all. Knowing Japanese would be cool, but I don’t feel too interested in learning it.
Well, I’ve always wanted to learn Verilog, but I don’t think the GNU Project has developed much in the way of HDLs yet. Prolog, OTOH, is nice, and I’m nowhere near competent in that yet, but I’m getting there. If only the siren song of assembly wouldn’t keep drawing me out of the high-level abstractions…
Oh, sorry.
I have a practical desire to learn German so I can speak with my relatives in Austria, but I have a desire to learn Hopi so I can pick up its timeless tense structure. The fact I’m absolutely hopeless when it comes to learning natural languages (whereas I can pick up programming languages pretty readily) is a deterrent, however.
And being able to curse in Old Norse would just be fun.
I can speak English, some Spanish, very little German. I studied Latin for a while, so I can fumble through written French and Italian. I’d like to learn Russian and Maori, and something else. Preferably dead/obscure.
I’m picking up Italian this year, (whee!) and probably I’ll wind up doing Maori next year.
I speak English, Hindi/Urdu, Gujerati, Kutcchi, French, and German. I can understand spoken Dutch, and a little bit of Italian and Spanish. I can understand written Swedish, Norweigian, and Danish, although I can’t speak them. And to round it all off, I’m learning Polish and Swedish.
I know some French and Latin. Good enough to survive in Paris or ancient Rome if need be and obtain fluency within a few weeks.
I was really hot to learn Arabic back in the summer of 2001. Bought the text books and started working my way through a very interesting alphabet and language but then world events kinda killed my motivation. I imagine I’ll take it back up someday.
Ooh, that reminds me Zoe. I really really regret taking French in High School rather then Japanese. Everytime I see a badly dubbed anime I think how great it would be if I had learned Japanese instead. Plus so many jobs here require you to speak it too. Sigh.
In order of ability, I speak English, Russian, and Spanish. I spent 2 years leaning Russian at the Defense Language Institute and several years living in Spain.
I am able to read a newspaper in German, French, Italian and Portuguese. I can get by on everyday Turkish.
I will learn another language if and when it is necessary to me, but I am content to try and improve in the languages I already know.
And yes, Robbie, I am rather unusual, but I am most certainly not female.
Well for me, raised speaking English. I know a few words/phrases in Spanish, Gaelic, German and French. A couple of words in Dutch and Japanese.
I would love to learn to speak all of them better, but we shall see if I get the chance. My little cousins are lucky in that their father is Lithuanian so they are bilingual.
