American English...learning Latin American Spanish
Igaryok
English, Ukrainian, Russian. Understand Polish pretty well, but speaking is a problem.
Currently trying to learn French, and will try to learn German later on. We'll see how that goes.
Vector A
French and Spanish, both badly. Hopefully both well, some day.
Other languages I'm interested in learning are German, Norwegian, and Japanese. But I'm a lazy person so I'll probably never man up to taking on Japanese, lol.
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Originally posted by Igaryok
Currently trying to learn French, and will try to learn German later on. We'll see how that goes.
Depuis quand étudiez-vous le français ?
Lira
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Originally posted by Sushipunk
I hoped that you would at least look up "dada besar", from my post :(
I just did :stongue:
I actually went to bed yesterday wondering what that meant (it was 4AM when I posted that, and I was completely knackered after studying Japanese all night long :p), and I came back to this thread because I wanted to look it up on Google Translate :p
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Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay
I'm pretty sure you qualify in English man, come on.
The reason I'm often reluctant to say I speak English is because whenever I say I do, I find out I'm just good at using the little I know, but I still have a long way to go.
For example, a few months ago, one of Kaoru's cousins (a 12-year-old kid) asked me if I spoke English - and I said I did. She was really excited and, being a child, she asked me to translate one of the most famous tongue-twisters of our language in English (The mouse gnawed the clothes of the king of Rome). And, surely enough, I was tongue-tied, as I didn't know how to say the main verb in English...
And I know for a fact I tend to mix up prepositions all the time :p
I'm sure my Spanish is way worse than it used to be (simply because I don't talk in Spanish with anyone any more), my Italian is painful, I teach Japanese for a living - but I'm sure I'd have been sentenced to harakiri myself if they weren't so polite, and my Russian has gotten so bad I'm sure I'd be sent to Siberia if a native speaker heard me butcher their language... and Fleisch (God bless his soul!) can confirm my German is egregious.
Edit: Also, there's one feat I'm actually proud of. I was able to bypass the airport security, go have coffee at Starbucks and get some hot water for my instant ramen in the airport Charles de Gaulle without speaking any systematic French. I'm not sure how I was able to pull that one off :D
Banora
Fluently I speak English and Danish (though sometimes my Danish is a bit iffy, especially when you consider I speak the Vestsjælland dialekt which is essentially hick Danish). I can read and understand Norwegian very well, and carry on a conversation for the most part, but not fluently. On the flip side I can barely understand Swedish, and I am okay at reading it; I usually have to sound out the words to figure out what is being said when reading.
Living in Finland and having Finnish friends I know enough Finnish to get around and when drunk I will babble in 'baby-Finnish'. Having had four years of Latin I can read French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian (in order of strongest understanding to least) but speaking and understanding is very low, unless it is clear, slow and well enunciated. I am going into my second year of German, but I still can't understand German porn, so I am not very good at that language.
I know very simple Japanese, mostly due to anime and boredom where I would learn basic phrases. I taught myself the Russian alphabet last year while working in a haunted house with Russian scrawled on the walls and could only understand maybe a few words if they had Latin-based root.
Oh, and a couple of words in Swahili, only because my 3rd grade teacher was from Uganda and wanted to share her language.
Vector A
Danish has an interesting sound to it.
I doubt I could tell Swedish and Norwegian apart, but Danish definitely sounds different to me.
You should record some of your "hick Danish." I'd like to hear what it sounds like.
srussell0018
English and a very small bit of Gaelic.
Chimney
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Banora
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Originally posted by Vector A
You should record some of your "hick Danish." I'd like to hear what it sounds like.
Here you go. Watch this video first for proper Danish, then listen to my hick Danish.
Fluent in English, and I know enough German and Japanese to get around in either country, but not enough to engage in lengthy conversation.
Studied Japanese for a good deal longer than I did German, but German is a lot easier to pick up, as a native English speaker. I only know basic Spanish. Studied it for longer than any other language, but barely retained any of it.
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Originally posted by srussell0018
English and a very small bit of Gaelic.
Gaelic is insane! It just sounds amazing, to me, phonetically.
Chimney
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Originally posted by Banora
Here you go. Watch this video first for proper Danish, then listen to my hick Danish.
