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How many languages do you speak? (pg. 3)
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| Lira |
It really depends on your definition of "speaking", because it is actually a very subjective thing.
First of all, no matter how much you study, you can only master one language with excelency (even if you live in a bi-lingual country, you don't speak both languages perfectly - you'll have more skills in one of them, no matter how good you are in the other one).
I believe you want to know how well we can understand and be understood in a certain number of languages. Once again, it's relative: although I'm supposedly a speaker of intermediate Japanese (which means I should be able to understand daily conversations), but due to lack of practice, I often have to stop and think before saying a more complicated sentence. On the other hand, my Spanish is supposed to be horrible (as I don't study it for quite a long time and speaking Portuguese every day only get things worse), but I can be understood (and understand) without major problems.
So I can say I speak Portuguese, some English (I wrote this post, didn't I? :p), some Spanish, a little Italian, a little Russian, a little Japanese and I can write (and read :D) in Korean...
I'm voting for the 6+ one, just in case. |
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| daydreamer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
It really depends on your definition of "speaking", because it is actually a very subjective thing.
First of all, no matter how much you study, you can only master one language with excelency (even if you live in a bi-lingual country, you don't speak both languages perfectly - you'll have more skills in one of them, no matter how good you are in the other one).
I believe you want to know how well we can understand and be understood in a certain number of languages. Once again, it's relative: although I'm supposedly a speaker of intermediate Japanese (which means I should be able to understand daily conversations), but due to lack of practice, I often have to stop and think before saying a more complicated sentence. On the other hand, my Spanish is supposed to be horrible (as I don't study it for quite a long time and speaking Portuguese every day only get things worse), but I can be understood (and understand) without major problems.
So I can say I speak Portuguese, some English (I wrote this post, didn't I? :p), some Spanish, a little Italian, a little Russian, a little Japanese and I can write (and read :D) in Korean...
I'm voting for the 6+ one, just in case. |
you had to post and make the rest look bad. now i can't possibly follow you. iam to :o |
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| th0m |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancebrat
I'm very impressed with how many people know more than one language. I only know English. I can speak a little bit of Spanish and I can read it a little, but I am far from being fluent. |
So the Dutch flag next to your post merely represents your Dutch heritage? (sorry if this is a too personal question, I'm just interested) |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by daydreamer
you had to post and make the rest look bad. now i can't possibly follow you. iam to :o |
Why make you look bad? :conf:
I really didn't mean to, sorry. |
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| Tranc3 |
| English, Spanish, French. I suppose Piglatin and 1337 5p34k don't count...or any other form of coded talk. |
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| Drifter |
| english and cantonese, very little mandarin also |
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| TweeK |
I speak the fallowing perfectly
Spanish (1st language)
English
Portuguese
Currently learnign French
Does speaking Ghetto count? |
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| Melody |
| English, Spanish, and German. |
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| anuneventrade |
English
Polish
Czech
Russian
German
and a tiny..... tiny bit of hungarian, so I only voted for five.
I'll aslo be studying many more languages before I finish at the uni. |
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| Mr. Pink |
english and spanish
some french, but not enough for a 3rd :) |
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| Sand Leaper |
| Norwegian, english and german. |
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| [nils] |
swedish, english, norweigian and some french :)
and of course my own made up language: tehku :eyes: |
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