Share what languages you know and have conversations if you're literate in them. Unless you know a signed language like I do (American Sign Language). Then you have a whole tedious process of videotaping yourself, uploading it onto some video-hosting website like Youtube, and then posting in this thread.
For any brave souls who attempt such a feat: Kudos to you if you do. Be sure to record yourself at 30 fps (frames per second). It's the best way to ensure your signing is clear.
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:53 pm
I know English and High school French and maybe some Spanish?
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:31 pm
i know alittle bit of a lot of languages...such as English Spanish French Italian Russian German Irish Japanese Chinese as well as American sign language
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:17 pm
Highchool French, bits and pieces of Japanese...
Some Russian, German, and Latin o v o
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:30 pm
I be dumb, I just know English
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:39 pm
I just know fragments of this and that, as well as what I'm currently trying to learn, but I am only fluent in English.
my native language is english. i know a bit of spanish? enough to carry on a basic "what's your name" conversation, but even then.. and i'm learning chinese at school right now, which is actually easier? apparently it's supposed to be harder to learn.
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:01 pm
I speak English (obviously I'm speaking it now. hehe.) I'm also completely fluent in Gipsie, but I do not count that one, because I invented that language. A few of my friends have picked up on it though.
Besides those I'm strongest in Spanish.
I also speak (in order of confidence in speaking it): French Greek Japanese Scotch Gaelic Chinese (nothing beyond pleasantries) German (only the swear words) Little bit of Hawaiian I can write my name in Arabic.
I'm fairly decent at American Sign Language.
I pick up languages fairly easily, so I'm also well versed in several fiction languages. I read and write Gallifreyan like nobody's business. I speak (but comprehend alot more) in Tel Mithrim Elf. I can write it as well. I also speak a bit of Na'vi (Didn't mean to learn it, but I saw the movie a few times and the linguistic aspect actually is neat as far as fiction languages go).
And I've been told I pick up some weird kind of Scotch-Irish accent sometimes when I'm telling a good story. Nobody's figured out why just yet. My vernacular includes a lot of Gipsie and British slang, but whenever I try to talk with a British accent it usually doesn't sound like one. I'll lapse into one without meaning to sometimes, but it comes out as Broad Yorkshire. I think it has something to do with my natural pronunciation of words.
So that's me and languages.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:19 pm
English is my mother tongue, and French is my second language. I hesitate to call myself "fluent", but I work in French with no problems. I can read Spanish to some extent, due to the similarities to French, but I don't understand much spoken Spanish. I understand a smattering of Finnish and Swedish from my time spent in Finland, and I understand maybe two dozen words and phrases in Japanese because of my grandmother.
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:36 pm
English-mother tongue ASL-foreign language Japanese-currently learning on my own time
English smile As I child I used to know Gaelic, we were taught it in school before they brought french in. Unfort all I remember of it now is a few phrases and songs.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:34 am
I am fluent in English and French.
I know enough ASL to hold a conversation, although it would be pretty slow and I would have to spell out many of the words. My ex-best friend's parents were both deaf, so I learned a lot in elementary school.
Other than, I just know a handful of words in other languages. Nothing special.
The only language I'm fluent in is English at the moment. My second strongest language is German. I know enough of that to hold a good conversation. And, I know bits and pieces of Italian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:42 am
I'm only fluent in both English and Spanish. Schools in Puerto Rico don't teach other languages until you reach college and you can only choose from a very small selection: German, Japanese, French, and Italian. Not that exciting, no.
There are some words and sentences that I understand from the Korean, French, Italian, and Portuguese languages, but nothing that will help me survive. xD
