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zilmer · Feb 18, 2003, 08:51 PM

C'mon, list em all. I'll go first.

* Estonian (fluent speaking and fluent writing, native language).
* English (fluent speaking and fluent writing).
* Finnish (fluent speaking and writing).
* Russian (speaking and writing)

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* German (only know how to ask for a beer)
* Italian (only know "thanks" and "bill, please!")

Dex13 · Feb 18, 2003, 09:00 PM

Espanol(speaking/rusty on writing)
French(Being Taught)
English(Speaking & writing)

Thats it

Ozmodiar · Feb 18, 2003, 09:02 PM

20 years of English in real life.
4 years of Spanish in high school
1 year of French in college.

xi_hyperon · Feb 18, 2003, 09:02 PM

English (native language)
German (once fluent, now a tad rusty)
Spanish (more understanding than speaking though. As my daughter learns it, I plan to pick it up more too.)

xyber233 · Feb 18, 2003, 09:28 PM

Latin (4 years in high school)

Comes in handy

.

malvolio · Feb 18, 2003, 09:32 PM

English (native language, very fluent IMHO

)
French (a bit rusty, can read better than speak)
Spanish (a bit; enough to find food and shelter, and get my *ss kicked for propositioning se�oritas)
Finnish (just a few basic phrases)

Sealobo · Feb 18, 2003, 09:40 PM

Cantonese (native)
English (fluent)
Mandarin (not bad)

Nicko · Feb 18, 2003, 09:43 PM

English...
and Middle English. Comes in handy for those emergencies when you have to translate some medieval text

vmpaul · Feb 18, 2003, 09:53 PM

esperanto only

simonjames · Feb 18, 2003, 09:56 PM

Learning languages is a hobby of mine - English is my native tongue but over the years I have dabbled in :-
French
German
Russian
Japanese
Swedish
Danish
and some very minor Spanish

I found Swedish the hardest out of all of them and I never really learnt to read Japanese.

I'd love to learn Cantonese or Mandarin but don't have the time it'd take to become fluent.

I am also fluent in Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, C and Lisp but I no longer code for a living.

mrfrost · Feb 18, 2003, 10:01 PM

Dutch (native)
French (native)
German (native)
English (fluent speaking and writing ?)
Spanish (understanding)
italian (understanding)
Turkisch ( understanding and partially writing)
C++ (kind of rusty)

Sealobo · Feb 18, 2003, 10:03 PM

I think Calculus should be considered a lauguage, consider its difficulty.

pooka · Feb 18, 2003, 10:11 PM

'Merican. Don't need to know any of dat commie ****.

AlbertWu · Feb 18, 2003, 10:25 PM

english, fluent in speaking/writing, native language
mandarin, fluent in speaking, bad at writing, native language
japanese, fluent in writing, ok at speaking. If you dropped me in the middle of japan, i could get to the airport and fly back to the US

cantonese: i can say "money" and "do you speak mandarin?"

french: i can say "tu est fromage"

italian: "ciao"

random other words in other languages that aren't coming to me right now.

that's about it

7Macfreak · Feb 18, 2003, 10:26 PM

English
Hindi
Sindhi (Indian regional language)
Marathi (ditto, but not very fluent)
Indonesian (can speak a little, read a little understand most of it).

Pepi Picklefoot · Feb 18, 2003, 10:33 PM

Originally posted by AlbertWu:

french: i can say "tu est fromage"

Tu es fromage.

G4ME · Feb 18, 2003, 10:37 PM

Enough Frence to get by and
C++
Assembly/Machine for Motos HC11 chip

driven · Feb 18, 2003, 10:48 PM

English

Thai (nit noy)
Korean

Developer · Feb 18, 2003, 10:55 PM

Originally posted by Mr_Frost:
Dutch (native)
French (native)
German (native)

How could all these three languages be your native ones?

my short list:
German
English (basic knowledge)

Tristrami · Feb 18, 2003, 11:02 PM

English (Native)
German (Working Proficiency--Speak, Read and Write)
Russian (Working Proficiency--Speak Read and Write)
Azerbaijani (Speak only)
French (Speak only)
Latin (Read only)

OldManMac · Feb 18, 2003, 11:03 PM

English (not native, but have spent 50 years in U.S.)
German (born there, but lost most of it over the years; understand it fairly well)

Captain Obvious · Feb 18, 2003, 11:10 PM

English
Spanish
French
Latin

And I can swear in Polish

Nai no Kami · Feb 18, 2003, 11:14 PM

Spanish (native)
English (fluent R/W/S)
Portuguese (ok R/W/S)
French (understand meanings)
Italian (understand meanings)

Random words (enough to be nice) in:
Japanese (planning to learn someday)
German
Russian

Making efforts to learn (as a last-resort hobby):
Lojban

ink · Feb 18, 2003, 11:36 PM

English and Spanish fluently.

I can usually handle spoken Portugese as well (and written Italian occasionally).

Cubeoid · Feb 18, 2003, 11:39 PM

2.2 languages under my belt.

Polish (native)
English (native)
Japanese (.2)

chris v · Feb 18, 2003, 11:48 PM

American English (native)

British English (conversant-fluent)

Mexican Spanish (rudimentary conversational) I can read it fine, but still have trouble following when it's being rattled off full-speed by a native speaker. "Mas lento, por favor" is an oft spoken phrase of mine.

I keep meaning to work on my Spanish, and immerse myself whenever I'm in Mexico, but I totally let it slide the rest of the time, except for translating the odd Los Lobos lyrics.

Conditional is still kicking my arse.

CV

ARENA · Feb 19, 2003, 12:37 AM

Spanish is my native language, and i have a good level of English.
I'd love to learn Japanese sometime in the future.

ARENA · Feb 19, 2003, 12:39 AM

Originally posted by Developer:

my short list:
German
English (basic knowledge)

And i thought you were going to post: Objective C and Java or something along those lines.

clod · Feb 19, 2003, 12:56 AM

English (native, fluent)
French (pretty fluent)

Mulattabianca · Feb 19, 2003, 12:59 AM

Coincidence ?

Italian (nat.)
Spanish (deterioted n.)
English (more or less)
HTML (native.. heh)
Objective-C
Cocoa
Spanglish (when drunk)
Portu�ol (when tired)
Sicilian (when answering angrily)
Palermitan (when answering to insults)
Brazilian (I hate how the portuguese speak it)
Argentinian (you hear it)
Neapolitan (i understand it but don't really speak)
Finnish (very badly)
Portuguese (I answer in Brazilian)
French (bad words)
Greek (bad words)
Turkish (bad words)
Arabic (bad words)
Russian (bad words)
Japanese (some mac terminology)
Swedish (mainly bad words)
php ...

wataru · 07:45 PM

English and Japanese

Plus a tiny bit of Mandarin

日本語を知ってるっていう人が結構いるみたいだけど、本当にしゃべれるかな�

Captain Obvious · Feb 19, 2003, 01:16 AM

Originally posted by chris v:
American English (native)

British English (conversant-fluent)

nonhuman · Feb 19, 2003, 01:45 AM

English (native)
French (used to be fluent, but it's been a long time)
Russian (used to be near fluent, if I spent some time in Russia I'd probably get there pretty quickly)
Japanese (I've been studying it for about two months)

tooki · Feb 19, 2003, 01:47 AM

From best to worst:

*English (U.S.) (mother tongue)
*Swiss German
*German
Spanish (father tongue)
French
Italian

tooki

* = total fluency, both written and spoken

undotwa · Feb 19, 2003, 02:06 AM

English (can read, write, speak)
Latin (can read/write/translate, not speak)
Spanish (can read/translate, not speak)

TheIceMan · Feb 19, 2003, 02:45 AM

Originally posted by Mulattabianca:
Coincidence ?

Italian (nat.)
Spanish (deterioted n.)
English (more or less)
HTML (native.. heh)
Objective-C
Cocoa
Spanglish (when drunk)
Portu�ol (when tired)
Sicilian (when answering angrily)
Palermitan (when answering to insults)
Brazilian (I hate how the portuguese speak it)
Argentinian (you hear it)
Neapolitan (i understand it but don't really speak)
Finnish (very badly)
Portuguese (I answer in Brazilian)
French (bad words)
Greek (bad words)
Turkish (bad words)
Arabic (bad words)
Russian (bad words)
Japanese (some mac terminology)
Swedish (mainly bad words)
php ...

Goodness, I have never even heard of some of these languages. Very impressive!

Next to you, I pale in comparison.

English (obviously)
Vietnamese (Speak, barely read or write)
Spanish (Decent enough to not get lost and find the toilet)

Logic · Feb 19, 2003, 04:13 AM

Icelandic(native)
Swedish(fluent)
English(You be the judge)
German(Read, Write, listen, can talk ok)
Spanish(Read ok)

Swear in a couple of languages. Kurva(sp?)

And some basic frases in some. Una grande cervesa, por favor( don't know about the spelling but hey!)

And that's about it.

CRASH HARDDRIVE · Feb 19, 2003, 05:19 AM

Originally posted by zilmer:
C'mon, list em all. I'll go first.

* Estonian (fluent speaking and fluent writing, native language).
* English (fluent speaking and fluent writing).
* Finnish (fluent speaking and writing).
* Russian (speaking and writing)

Your list is exactly the same as my wife's. Must be the common languages to know in that corner of the world.

As for me- ummm, just English. I took French and Spanish in school but promptly discarded all working knowledge of either.

I know just enough Finnish and Estonian to have some basic manners in either country, or perhaps talk a little shop with my 3 year old Finnish niece - and I�m working on getting more adapt at knowing what my wife is yapping about natively with her Finnish or Estonian girlfriends. (If I were to ever become fluent in either, I�d never let her know it! Too much great gossip to covertly overhear and she�d stop feeling safe �thinking� out loud in other languages, confident that I don�t have a clue what she�s saying. )

kOnshii · Feb 19, 2003, 05:34 AM

Very bad Japanese,

Very poor English,

Ok i guess Khmer.

kOnshii · Feb 19, 2003, 05:42 AM

Do we include Computer language as well, if so add C++ and Java to my list.

mrfrost · Feb 19, 2003, 06:08 AM

Originally posted by Developer:
How could all these three languages be your native ones?

my short list:
German
English (basic knowledge)

All these languages are spoken in my country, I happen to come out of a family that speaks them all.

bygimis · Feb 19, 2003, 06:25 AM

Originally posted by chris v:

American English (native)
British English (conversant-fluent)

You mean

American (native)
English (conversant-fluent)

Surely? ;-)

British English is a bizzare term - why not English English?

:-)

Psychonaut · Feb 19, 2003, 07:22 AM

English
Semi-Fluent in Spanish, still learning
German, still learning
French, i know how to say 'bottle cap'

(tell me the reference and get a cookie)

chris v · Feb 19, 2003, 08:38 AM

Originally posted by bygimis:
You mean

American (native)
English (conversant-fluent)

Surely? ;-)

That would be more concise, yes.

There's a large vocab. difference between the two.

Sod the bonnet, you git. Give us a fag, I'm peckish and need to tuck in.

CV

SimeyTheLimey · Feb 19, 2003, 10:38 AM

I'm not a great linguist. English is my native tongue. I've studied German and I suppose I'm proficient in spoken, reading and writing in German. But I'd have to live there longer to become fluent and it is becoming quite rusty. Other than that, I have tourist-level French and Italian and have found I can follow quite a bit of Dutch.

I also understand, but can't speak, Suffolk dialect. But I do know a few phrases like Roitbuh? Owareyooahdoinov?

DBursey · Feb 19, 2003, 10:51 AM

English
French
Some Newfinese (getting rusty - it's been 14 long years)

I aspire to be a more cunning linguist

Joshua · Feb 19, 2003, 11:31 AM

English (fluent)
Latin (moderate)
Russian (a little)

I learned the basics of Middle English reading/speaking a few years ago, but I haven't practiced much at all.

D'Espice · Feb 19, 2003, 11:34 AM

English (fluent), German (fluent), French (once fluent, not anymore though) and Polish (fluent)

Understanding a bit Russian, Czech and Italian.

benb · Feb 19, 2003, 12:37 PM

English.

I can hack my way through Latin.

Math, the universal language.

+1

Regards,
Ben

davesimondotcom · Feb 19, 2003, 12:46 PM

English (Montana Dialect - "creek = crick") Native Language

German (Although it's been a long time, I could probably adjust to it. Was my minor in college and had 3 years in high school)

Japanese (Very limited - 2 years of high school)

French (Very limited - 1 year of high school)

Crow Indian (just some simple phrases and curse words)

HTML

JavaScript

AppleScript

C/C++ (limited)

Other computer related languages.