Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

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Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:05am

I recently got back from Quebec City in Quebec, Canada, and wasn't on here since last Friday. All the residents speak French (English, too, but primarily French), and I'm just wondering, does anyone here speak any other languages.

I don't, but hopefully one day I will speak Spanish if I decide to major in it.

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#2

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:19am

Spanish!
lol
in fact, my first language is catalonian, a language spoken in my region (spoken by 6 milion people) and it's a kind of mixture between french and spanish
English is my third language.
and I understand a little of french and german

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#3

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:20am

Ich spreche Italienisch.
Io parlo tedesco.

(but only a little.)

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#4

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:21am

Does Pig Latin count???

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#5

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:21am

Sadly no... I really wish I did. I took french in High School and college... but I just could not sit through another grammar lesson or handle anymore busywork assignments. I know the only way I can learn a language fluently is if I live around it. Unfortunately, I dont like my school's Paris programs, so I am going to London instead. Maybe I can at least perfect the British accent!

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#6

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:22am

French. Not fluently, but I could hold an intelligent conversation. I took French Immersion for years, and did an exchange program in middle-of-nowhere Quebec.

I also know Cantonese.

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#7

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:41am

I speak self taught high level beginner Russian.
It helped when I toured there. :)

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#8

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:42am

spanish...but not very well...I didn't pay a whole lot of attention during class

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#9

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:45am

Very little French (I took it for years but I havent SPOKEN it in years), basic Spanish, basic German, basic Latin, basic Slovack.

Back in the day I was required to take a semister of Chinese. I remember very very very little. (ie: one phrase)

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re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:48am

oops

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#11

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:51am

I used to be fluent in Slovak and Czech as a very young girl, and I knew some Chinese and Tagalog. I really did- because my au pairs came from those countries and we had to speak those languages. After they left, I immediately forgot every word. When I was about 8.

I speak quite a bit of Spanish, basic Italian, French, and Japanese, and I can understand a few phrases in my ethnic languages (Tagalog and Slovak).

#12

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:51am

I hope it's a good phrase, CJR.
Like "What's up, baby?"

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#13

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:54am

Lady, do you know what does it means "Nandito ako" in tagalog?
it's a lea salonga song, and I love it! but I didn't know what does it means

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#14

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:58am

Haha it's "Hi, how are you?" I wouldn't know how to spell it if you paid me though lol

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#15

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:58am

I believe...here's a rough translation- something like "They're all here"...something along that line. I'm not very good with it.

#16

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 1:05am

I'm learning Italian, does that count?

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#17

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 1:06am

I'm starting to learn Italian too....Spanish was a total breeze compared to this. Oy vey!

#18

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 3:55am

I'm fluent in American Sign Language- yes it's a language!!

I can speak a little Russian, a lot of Spanish and after next year, a little Japanese. I can read hebrew but not knowing anything I'm reading gets me no where so we're not gonna count it.

Languages are fun! woo woo!

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#19

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 4:17am

I'm taking first year French next year, and I can understand little bits and pieces of all different languages. I can also speak fluent Ebonics, but I only learned because I have a neanderthal of a brother.

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#20

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 5:45am

Speaking of languages... I just came across one of my journals from when I was a kid, and somewhere I'd written:" I want to be able to speak 25 languages by the time I'm 30." Obviously missed *that* deadline. Don't know what in hell I was thinking .

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#21

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 7:30am

I speak Hebrew fluently... I also studied French for four years and I can understand some of it, but I can't really converse in it.

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re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 7:37am

I studied French for 10 years and German for 5 and while I am not fluent in either of them, I can still just about get by. I did a year of Beginner's Italian at University and I can only remember to say "where is platform 11?" and that's it.

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#23

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 8:12am

a little bit o' French, we had to take it in school from k-9.
I can sing the standard opera languages (Italian, German, ocassionally Latin) but I can't speak them.

#24

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:49pm

I speak Hebrew fluently. I was born in Israel and lived there till I was three.
And I take Latin at school... it's a dead language, so all we really do is translate random words and sentences. oh joy!(sarcasm)

#25

re: Anyone Speak Another Language(s)?

Posted: 8/21/04 at 1:03pm

haha. i speak spanish. not THAT well though.

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