Foreign language thread- Page 2
Foreign language thread
#25re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:30pm
I am fluent in Hebrew and speak very little French. I would write in Hebrew here but the alphebet is different so I don't know if you could read it. I'll try though.
ETA: umm, no, that didn't work. I'll try phonetically.
Ani medaberet Ivrit biglal shegadalti beyisrael. Ani eshmach ledaber im mi sherotzeh!
#26re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 3:46pm
I am fluent in Danish. I can read a full novel in Danish, and I could understand every word. I watch films from Denmark (full-length films) and I understand them. People in Denmark mistake me for a Dane.
Still don't believe me?
Jeg er flydende på dansk. Jeg kan læse en hel roman på dansk, og jeg kunne forstå hvert eneste ord. Jeg ser film fra Danmark (film i fuld længde), og jeg forstår dem. Mennesker i Danmark fejltagelse mig for en dansker.
#27re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 4:23pm
you did not answer how old you are. It is apparent you are very young.
and no, sorry don't believe you. As previously stated, it takes Danes years to become fluent......and that comes from a Danish couple IN Copenhagen that we met last month.
In all honesty when I told them what you had said, they laughed.
Learn fluent Danish from a Rosetta Stone course, and two trips there....uh no, even the Danes don't believe that.
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#28re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 4:29pmFluency is a tricky issue. I've studied Spanish for 10 years and still don't consider myself remotely fluent. I'm of the mindset that unless you live in a total-immersion environment for a considerable period of time and understand all the idiosyncrasies and idioms of the language, then you're not fluent. But that's just MY definition of fluency. My father, on the other hand, who has never studied a foreign language keeps telling people that I'm fluent despite my own hesitancy.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#30re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 4:47pm
Anch'io!
I mean...uh...yo tambien.
Updated On: 5/30/08 at 04:47 PM
#31re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 5:19pm
mauriposa, that's an excellent point, and to your dad you are fluent.
My partner was stunned when we got in a taxi in Berlin and I just launched into German.
I've spoken German since 1967, made it my minor in college, and spent three years in the then West Germany as a US Military Policeman, which part of my job was translative work between the two languages, and I still do not consider myself "fluent"
When I started learning Spanish I had to buy a Spanish-German dictionary as when I try to learn a new language I tend to think in German first, then the new language...it is truly bizarre.
And I have nothing against Rosetta Stone, they are good. I did Russian 1 through them, and now have Spanish 1, but they do not make anyone fluent....but are, in my opinion, the best program out there.
Total immersion is the way to go, but so few can do that.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
elphiesmagic
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/08
#33re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 5:33pmWarum einige Leute solche Penisse sind?
#34re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 5:37pm
I would not consider myself to have native fluency in Danish, but I am fluent.
Language fluency is proficiency in a language, most typically foreign language or another learned language. In this sense, "fluency" actually encompasses a number of related but separable skills:
Reading: the ability to easily read and understand texts written in the language YES
Writing: the ability to formulate written texts in the language YES
Comprehension: the ability to follow and understand speech in the language YES
Speaking: the ability to speak in the language and be understood by its speakers YES
If your definition of fluency is different, then maybe I'm not up to your standards, but I consider myself to be fluent.
chris d
Broadway Star Joined: 4/21/07
#35re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 5:40pm
I speak jive.
ohh, I wanted to say that. HAHAHA!!
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#37re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 5:42pm
except phyllis, I don't eat fish.
and elphies, great way to show a level of immaturity.....perhaps having the balls to say it in English so all can understand would be more appropriate?
Next time try something other than Babel Fish, so that the sentence is correct.
elphiesmagic
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/08
#38re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 5:42pm
#39re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 5:58pm
Je parle fancais un peu.
I took German a few years back, but [by chance, I swear 
] only retained the dirty words.
Oh, and I'm fluent in ghetto.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
elphiesmagic
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/08
#40re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:02pm
My wink was for Phyllis Rogers Stone, not the utterly humorless Elphaba.
Just wanted to clarify. Carry on!
#41re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:10pm
another smart-ass neophyte......sigh
elphiesmagic
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/08
#42re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:14pmBecause I joined the site recently, my posts aren't valid? How long did it take before your posts were of value to anyone here, Elphaba? A week? A month? A year? My life experiences and anything I would have to contribute here are the same as they would have been a year ago. How does my join date become a measuring stick for what I have to say?
#43re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:17pmI don't seem to be the only one around here who's fluent in bitch.
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#44re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:25pm
I'm fluent in German, but much out of practice. I have a little French training. That's about it.
And I can read Dutch.
#45re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:26pm
I really like your definition for fluency, Mauriposa. I think I agree with it. However, if we take English into consideration....you can be fluent in English and not know the idioms and slang of every country where English is spoken, like for instance Asutralia vs. England vs. the U.S - do you know what I mean?
That's why my grandpa always says I don't speak English, I speak "American".
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#46re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:29pm
"Look at her a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she utters.
By rights she should be taken out and hung
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue!"
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#47re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:29pmHasta lumbago & a huevos rancheros to you.
#48re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:37pmI can understand Spanish to an extent, but I defintely do not know enough. I only took about 3 years of it in school. 2 years in high school, and 2 semesters in college (Which is equivilant to 1 year).
#49re: Foreign language thread
Posted: 5/30/08 at 7:33pm
oh sheesh, and a whiney neophyte to boot.....
besty, our dialects are just different, Dear ;o)
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