[Kazan]

Ich spreche Deutsch

[Kosh]

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.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Second most spoken language here is cantonese would you believe,far more than Irish.
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[an0n]

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.

[delta_7890]

I'm taking Japanese..  Definately need to study more..

[Stunaep]

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.

[edit]
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.

[Kosh]

Chinese is better. You get to draw pictures for words.

[Clave]

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.

[Kosh]

Go to France, or hang out with french international students. Then you will use it.


EDIT: And cigs are bad for you anyway.

[Sesquipedalian]

*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!

[Setekh]

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.

[Windrunner]

I have swedish and serbo-croatian/bosnian as my primary languages, english is my second.

[aldo_14]

Scots & broads Scots

I should try and learn Catalan sometime, so I can go back to Barcelona and not resort to bizarre hand waving.

[Clave]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Scots & broads Scots

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.

[kasperl]

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.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by kasperl
The Highlands are fantastic.

Depends how much you like sheep & crofts.  And fishing.

[kasperl]

I don't especially like fishing, I do like long walks, cold wheater, and far views. Don't mind fog either, though.

[an0n]

"Aye, y'v mastered a dead tongue, but can ya handle a live one!?"

[TopAce]

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.

[Kosh]

I thought german was fairly easy (except for a couple of things) because it is so similair to english.