Foreign language thread — Page 2

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!

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Updated On: 5/30/08 at 02:30 PM

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.

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Nunca viajo sin mi vibrador.

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.

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Updated On: 5/30/08 at 05:19 PM

Warum einige Leute solche Penisse sind?

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I speak jive.


ohh, I wanted to say that. HAHAHA!!

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.

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Updated On: 5/30/08 at 05:42 PM

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.

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another smart-ass neophyte......sigh

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I don't seem to be the only one around here who's fluent in bitch.

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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".

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Hasta lumbago & a huevos rancheros to you.

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oh sheesh, and a whiney neophyte to boot.....

besty, our dialects are just different, Dear ;o)

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