Foreign language thread
Foreign language thread
#1Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:19pm
I really like foreign languages. I like learning them, talking in them, reading them, even listening to people speak in them even if I have no idea what they're saying. Most of us on BWW are pretty culturally aware people. We appreciate diversity. Here is the foreign language thread, where we can discuss foreign languages, talk in them, help other people learning languages. It will be fun. You might want to start by saying what languages you speak.
For me,
French-Fluent
German-Fluent
Danish-Fluent (Danish is not so far off from Norwegian and Swedish, it's easier for me to talk to Norwegians, but it's not hard when I talk to Swedes)
Dutch-Not 100% Native fluency, but I could understand a Dutch newspaper
Spanish-Ok
Portuguese-Ok
Italian-Basic
Russian-Basic, I can read the Cyrillic alphabet
Japanese-basic, but I have a pretty good vocabulary
Hebrew-Basic, I can read the Hebrew alphabet
I would only say for fluency, French, German, and Danish.
Er der nogen, der på Broadwayworld.com tale dansk?
#2re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:24pm
Jeg kan ikke tale dansk.
Jeg e torstig.
That's pretty much the extent of my Danish. I also have some utterly FILTHY German, basic fangirl Japanese, and enough French that I could go to Paris and not starve.
#2re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:27pm
Det var ikke særlig godt dansk, men kan jeg høre din fransk, tysk eller japansk?
That wasn't very good Danish, but can I hear your French, German, or Japanese.
(BY THE WAY, I am not Danish, one day, I was bored, I bought Rosetta Stone Danish edition, and I am now fluent, I have been to Denmark twice)
BY THE WAY, again, not to be your Danish teacher, but you had the wrong conjugation for jeg. Its' jeg er tørstig. I am thirsty.
Updated On: 5/29/08 at 09:27 PM
#3re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:45pm
Ich habe kaum deutsch, aber ist nicht so gut.
Je parle en petit francais.
#4re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:47pmOh, und ich spreche diese beiden Sprachen fließend. Wo haben Sie diese Sprachen lernen? Deutschland? Frankreich? Schule?
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#6re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:29pm
All righty then! Apologies in advance to all German speakers; I don't know what you're going to find more offensive, my sentiments or my spelling. Both are pretty appalling.
Ergiessende schwanze! Drekkiger after! Ziegenbockficke!
And:
Bonjour! Je voudrais un Happy Meal au hamburger s'il-vous plait, avec Coke. Merci beaucoup!
Konbanwa. Watashi wa hon no irute desu. Kore wa neko desu ka? Daisuki daisuki kawaii neko-chan! Omae o korosu! Sayonara!
I know nearly all the katakana and a good chunk of the hiragana, so I find reading Japanese easier than speaking it. As long as it's spelled out/has the furigana above the kanji. ^_^
CMoore
Leading Actor Joined: 8/17/07
#8re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:32pm
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?
j'adore parler francais. I parle francais depuis six ans
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Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
~Cymbeline
#9re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:58pm
"Wo haben Sie diese Sprachen lernen? Deutschland? Frankreich? Schule? "
Meine Firma -- für Arbeit, und in der Schweiz.
#10re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:07pm
Un poco español.
And I'd do a video of me telling you I know some ASL except, well, no. 
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#11re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 1:20amWo liang nian xuexi Zhongwen le.
-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.
-My fault, I fear.
#12re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 1:56amThe Danes are THE rudest people on the planet
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#13re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:04am
musical, how old are you?
I only ask as I have never met someone who became fluent in a language simply by taking one Rosetta Stone course in it.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
Updated On: 5/30/08 at 02:04 AM
#14re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 3:07am
Well, I'm pretty fluent in German...
In the real world the only people who burst into song are the hopelessly deranged...
#15re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:56am
I speak fluent French 
My Italian is better than my Spanish.
I also speak fluent Pig Latin... if that counts
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#16re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:15am
I'm fluent in bitch.
Plus I speak Ubby-Dubby from "Zoom." It's been a while, though.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#17re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:10am
Gee Guy, ya think? lol
and I don't mean to sound like a jerk when I ask musical how old he/she is....it's that I minored in a foreign language (German), and have studied them (French, Russian, Spanish, Italian), and have yet to find that anyone can become fluent in one from one Rosetta Stone course and two visits to that country, when it takes locals of that country years to learn their own language.
I am what I would call relatively fluent in German (well Hoch Deutsch, which is what we learn in the States).....but I stress the relatively. The rest is smatterings where I could possibly get by...and possibly not)
Perhaps his/her defination of "fluent" is different than the norm, but I just am not buying it.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#18re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:30amHe must have meant he's flatulent in German.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#20re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:41am
I used to be fairly fluent in Italian (Italian studies was my minor as an undergrad) but with no one with whom to practice, I am badly out of practice now. In addition, it has totally ruined my ability to speak Spanish, as I usually devolve into either total Italian or some strange Spanish/Italian hybrid language. For that reason, I stay far, far away from trying to learn Portuguese. Spanish speakers can somewhat understand me, but there is some confusion, like "questa," which means "this" in Italian and sounds excatly like "cuesta," or "cost" in Spanish. Couple that in with trying to understand Dominican Spanish--which my Chilean roommate can't even understand that well--and, well, I just point a lot in my neighborhood to save the confusion.
And besty? Ubby-Dubby is a dying tongue. Let's preserve it.
Updated On: 5/30/08 at 11:41 AM
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#21re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 1:30pm
Spero di trovare un amico qui che parla un po d'italiano... Non scrivo la bella lingue spesso, ma vorrei provarlo. Due anni fa, un uomo (ragazzo?) italiano faceva qualche "post" qui. Dopo, e andato via. Mi piaciano le lingue stani, ma mi manca la practica.
Ciao bella/bello.
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#24re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:27pmuckfay ooyay!
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