Do You Speak Any Language Other Than English?

[nudeyorker]

I caught the mistakes after I had posted and consumed some coffee, but thought WTF...I not fluent anyway!

:biggrin1: Not being mean, just laughing at a couple of slight misspellings...

your quote, translated...​

"a skin french, and a small freckle spanish (spelled italian style)"​

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[Osiris]

Mi Espanol es asi-asi.

 

[celt04]

I wonder if I'm the only person here who speaks any Hausa (major West African language)?

Ina jin Hausa k'adan-k'adan.

 

[sdg475]

I can understand and convey ideas in Spanish, and at times Italian, but I am definitely no where near fluent. Aside from a few random and basic phrases in a handful of languages that's all I know.

 

[B_horribleperson]

italian, french, spanish, portuguese, german, and very little japanese

 

[DC_DEEP]

I caught the mistakes after I had posted and consumed some coffee, but thought WTF...I not fluent anyway!

:biggrin1: Well, I kept thinking "french skin is a condom," then I remembered, it's "French letter" that means "condom." I read French better than I speak it, and my listening & comprehension is near zero. It's a tricky language, with all those silent letters and especially with all those silent words and phrases.

I wonder if I'm the only person here who speaks any Hausa (major West African language)?

Ina jin Hausa k'adan-k'adan.

I don't know any Nigerian (I don't even know if that's a language unto itself) but usually, if I am around a person on a regular basis, and that person speaks another language besides English, I try to learn a little.

I worked at a university a few years back, and one of our students was from Uganda. She was teaching me a few phrases in Luganda, and all I remember is pronounced "chee-KAH-tay". It means "hello" or "what's up."

I worked with a woman from Eritrea. I'm not sure which of their languages she spoke, but apparently Eritrea has about 6 predominant languages.

 

[CBS1]

italian, french, spanish, portuguese, german, and very little japanese

E ai pessoa feia tudo bem com voce? ta falando muito en portugues ultimamente? :tongue: vamos testar teu portugues?

English,Portuguese,and Spanish here all fluente

 

[B_ScaredLittleBoy]

I think we all know I speak French VERY fluently :tongue:

Actually I speak it better than I write it since I don't have the accented vowels and things plus I forget how to spell verbs and tenses and shit. But I spose I know the basics and conjunctions etc.

So mainly French and English and a few of the 'basics' in most languages.

 

[fgeorgio]

I speak my native language Greek then English,French,German and i can hold basic conversations in Ukrainian and Serbian.

 

[EagleCowboy]

I speak the language of love fluently
Body language
English--can even do the British accent very well
I also speak one of the 5 dialects of the Cherokee language. That's because I'm over 1/4 Cherokee and lived in the Cherokee capital for many, many years. I'm also 1/16 Choctaw and tried to learn that language but it escapes me.

 

[celt04]

I don't know any Nigerian (I don't even know if that's a language unto itself) but usually, if I am around a person on a regular basis, and that person speaks another language besides English, I try to learn a little.

There's no single Nigerian language, the official language is English, there are three "main" languages (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) and a total of somewhere between 250 and 500 languages.

It's a complicated place.

 

[DC_DEEP]

There's no single Nigerian language, the official language is English, there are three "main" languages (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) and a total of somewhere between 250 and 500 languages.

It's a complicated place.

I figured that was probably the case.

 

[Dr. Dilznick]

Well, I kept thinking "french skin is a condom," then I remembered, it's "French letter" that means "condom." I read French better than I speak it, and my listening & comprehension is near zero. It's a tricky language, with all those silent letters [...]

Especially when presumed "silent" letters aren't silent at all. Examples: Anvers (Antwerp), some French last names ending in "-ous" or "oux", etc.

 

[D_Egloshayle Churchkey]

I speak fluently Russian, not to mention English and my mother tongue Latvian - With German language I have problems but I know it , not fluently, but I can communicate.

 

[danerain]

I speak the language of love fluently
Body language
English--can even do the British accent very well
I also speak one of the 5 dialects of the Cherokee language. That's because I'm over 1/4 Cherokee and lived in the Cherokee capital for many, many years. I'm also 1/16 Choctaw and tried to learn that language but it escapes me.

Lucky, lucky, lucky, you. I wish I knew ANYTHING in Cherokee.

De mo, eego dake wakarimasu yo. Boku no nihongo o heta desu.

 

[DC_DEEP]

Especially when presumed "silent" letters aren't silent at all. Examples: Anvers (Antwerp), some French last names ending in "-ous" or "oux", etc.

or the presumed "silent" letters in the phrase "est-ce qu'on peut..."?
(which, as I learned French, would be pronounced something like "esko(n) puh")

 

[LorenzoK]

My native languege is mandarin(chinese)
But we have to learn english from little.
The chinese people can't speak japanese but we understand some japanese words(Kanji) so we can guess the meaning of a sentence.
I also speak spanish , I've learned it for 3 years.
so that I can read a little italian , french , catalan and portuguese, too.
they are really similar in some part.
But I don't understand NOTHING when they talk to me:tongue:

 

[B_dxjnorto]

Cantonese. Spanish caught up with French.

 

[SensualGoth]

took French in high school .... It was more interesting than Spanish and less projects

I learned Tex-Mex over the years... enough to haggle with a street vendor in NL, Mexico...

I know a few words in German , Arabic and vaguely recall Pig Latin...

 

[arktrucker]

Portuguese

o monsteruncut... é você Portugues?