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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on September 16, 2004, 06:06:58 pm
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What secondary languages can you speak or are studying? This is just a random thought of mine.
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english.
and I knew a little german a couple of years ago.
not studying any language now.
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Serbo-Croatian.
Though I can "understand" most Slavic languages, especially Russian. As in, pick up the odd word here or there, and get the general gist of the conversation.
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[color=66ff00]Japanese though I've not had a lot of time to devote to learning it of late.
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I don't have to take one in high school (Unless English is counted) because I'm bilingual, I just have to take the SATII for Japanese (should be very easy).
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i learned german in school but can rember very little, in my country (ireland) we speak english primarly but i also know some irish or gaelic as this is taught in school right the way through.
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I took French for three and a half years, but I got tired of my incompetent teacher, which is a shame because I like the language.
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I've studied French, Spanish and German... I can't actually speak any of them fluently, but I can get the gist of what's said in most all of them. :)
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Finally gotten to a school with a foreign language program (highschool...'bout damn time..).
I'm taking French.
EDIT: The choices were Latin, Spanish, or French though...and I just don't like Spanish...
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I'm too stupid/lazy to learn any languages, did german in school but all i can remeber now is a few nouns. Most of my brains 'extra vocabulary' space is taken up by technical words and stuff to do with engineering....
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[color=66ff00]I studied French and Irish at school but neither language really grabbed me. I know a bit of French but my Irish is hopeless I can say a few things like window and old bag (we had a female teacher who made our lives difficult). :D
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oh man, I would love to learn Gaelic (thats what you're talking about, right). Its such a beautiful language.
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Ahh... Mistuck...(sp?) ;)
My spanish teacher was such, also.
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Bah. no need for another language when i know the superior american english!
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English... a bit french (extremelly little) due to classes I had :ick:
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I forgot to tell what I'm doing.
I took 2 years of German in high school and I'm now studying Chinese at my university.
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[color=66ff00]Mandarin, Cantonese or Hakka Kosh?
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4 years of French, ending just over a year ago. What do I remember? Very little. Je ne parle pas Français. :p
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Ich spreche franzosich nicht. (sp?) Meh. I've forgotten most of it already. :(
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bah, I'm taking my first year of Spanish.
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Ich spreche Deutsch
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Mandarin, Cantonese or Hakka Kosh?
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Mandarin, since it is the official language. The simplified is the only one taught abroad and in the PRC as I understand it.
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[color=66ff00]Second most spoken language here is cantonese would you believe,far more than Irish.
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I can figure out most stuff once I've got the basics like 'the', 'and', 'you' and 'fisting'.
After that it's just a case of memorising equivelants. No-one gives a **** about proper grammar coming from a foreigner anyways.
I can speak decent-ish French, crappy German and I used to know some Russian, but I forgot it all.
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I'm taking Japanese.. Definately need to study more..
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Hm....
English (fluently, as you may or may not have noticed)
French (near-fluently)
Russian (big big troubles with reading, but curse fluently)
Finnish
A bit of italian.
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and for the record, French is the second most beautiful language in the world, next to estonian. And don't even try to deny that. :p
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Chinese is better. You get to draw pictures for words. :p
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I was in Paris and asked this guy where I could get cigarettes, he looked at me like I was crazy, but I kept saying 'tabac' over and over until he pointed in the right direction...
French was my best subject at school (96% in last test) but I hardly used it since.
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Go to France, or hang out with french international students. Then you will use it. :p
EDIT: And cigs are bad for you anyway.
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*enter the dead languages nerd*
- Latin
- Koine Greek
- Ancient Hebrew (pretty rusty on this now)
- French (really rusty)
If you ever misplace your time machine and need to ask people for directions around Rome or Athens in the second century in order to find it again, I'm your man!
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Ancient Hebrew! That's awesome. I can't really read it but my lecturer forces us to dabble in it a bit in Biblical studies. Very funky.
Unfortunately, I don't actually have time to learn any secondary languages in my course specification. :o
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I have swedish and serbo-croatian/bosnian as my primary languages, english is my second.
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Scots & broads Scots :D
I should try and learn Catalan sometime, so I can go back to Barcelona and not resort to bizarre hand waving.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Scots & broads Scots :D
Now that's something I always have trouble with....
But it won't stop me taking another holiday there, got to love the beauty of the Highlands. :cool:
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The Highlands are fantastic.
'nyway, I speak English, the quality of which only the native speakers here can judge.
I studied both French and German, and I can do basic phrases, read the papers a bit, and sometimes ask for directions.
I took one year of ancient Greek, and aside from the alphabet, all is gone.
Latin is something I can more or less decipher. (Someone go back in time, and either shoot Virgil, or tell the guy to write like someone might ever try to read it.)
I sadly know not a single word of Russian, though I will study it once I get out of school (or after Uni, more like), same for Arabic, and Chinese.
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Originally posted by kasperl
The Highlands are fantastic.
Depends how much you like sheep & crofts. And fishing.
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I don't especially like fishing, I do like long walks, cold wheater, and far views. Don't mind fog either, though.
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"Aye, y'v mastered a dead tongue, but can ya handle a live one!?"
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English: fluently if I know what to talk about :)
Italian: I am not good at it, since the level of language education outside English and German is quite low in Hungary.
German: A few words: Deutschland, Östereich, Essen, Ungarn, Englisch, Schlafen, Zangarifughe(mosquito coil), Stahl, Bank and some more.
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I thought german was fairly easy (except for a couple of things) because it is so similair to english.
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German is certainly closer to English than Italian is.
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That's because english is a germanic language and not a romantic one (those would be italian, french, and spanish).
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Originally posted by Kosh
That's because english is a germanic language and not a romantic one (those would be italian, french, and spanish).
And Portuguese (Which I speak a little of) :D
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Originally posted by Kosh
That's because english is a germanic language and not a romantic one (those would be italian, french, and spanish).
it's more of a mix of a lot of different language kinds.
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It's origins are germanic. It has assimilated things from other languages.
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Spanish & Russian (just starting. fear)
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Ti sukoblat.
...you know that much, right? Assuming I have the spelling down, which I may not, considering I have never had the occasion to write Russian.
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Well, it's not in crylic, so I don't recognize it. I haven't had class in two weeks though... which reminds me that I should study.
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Originally posted by Rictor
Ti sukoblat.
...you know that much, right? Assuming I have the spelling down, which I may not, considering I have never had the occasion to write Russian.
Suko and blyad are two different words though (even if they have the same meaning).
And as for english, you'd be surprised how many words in english come from french.
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Since the English court spoke French for a long time, it hardly surprises me. It just saved my ass in French tests for the last 4 years. (Just add er, some `'^s, and pray)
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Fenêtre XP....
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I know it hardly works all of the time, especially since the French hate using words from another language. (Will you believe they seriously have an institute to make new French words for foreign things?) Ordinateur is a computer, for example.
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I used to learn English (first language), Hindi (second language) and Kannada/Sanskrit (third language). Unfortunately, I failed in all but the first.
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Originally posted by Stunaep
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And as for english, you'd be surprised how many words in english come from french.
Deja vu or pied á terre for example?