i speak German and English fluently without accent in either one. writing in german however, has always, and i'm sure will always, be a weakness of mine
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i speak German and English fluently without accent in either one. writing in german however, has always, and i'm sure will always, be a weakness of mine
I'm fluent in English (the mother tongue).
I am pretty good with Spanish tho my vocabulary is it a bit too short too understand everything the natives say.
I'm learning Italian (it's SOOO similar to Spanish tho the phonology is different).
And I picked Japanese back up (just started and without tutor for the spoken portion).
I have a Windows Phone 7, and it has 12-Stroke Japanese Input. It's like old T9 for your old flip phone but for Japanese and it's much easier to use on a touchscreen phone.
I speak English , Portuguese Spanish and french. Which isn't much of an accomplishment since i am Portuguese and Portuguese is pretty much the same as Spanish , while Spanish is very similar to french.
I know English and some Swedish.
I can sing some songs in Swedish.
I can speak in Spanish (my native language), English and Brazilian Portuguese.
Awesome! You're a Spanish speaker! :D I can speak Spanish too, and I can understand Italian and Portuguese to an okay extent as a result too. (I understood the Portuguese said in the movie "The Rundown," etc)
I like that Latin-based languages can be so similar at times. :)
English is my native language. Been speaking German for three years, and currently taking Japanese.
My girlfriend is trying to teach me Mandarin Chinese, and I want to learn a little Arabic is possible.
Norwegian is my native language (which also makes me somewhat able to speak Danish/Swedish), but I also speak English and some Spanish.
English as my native language.
I took four years of spanish in high school.
I guess I know enough to sing a song in Spanish.
Specifically this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngRq82c8Baw
I tried to learn some Mandarin before heading over to China for a summer, but that's some hard stuff. The tonal business adds a lot of complication on top of trying to create the various sounds we don't have in English, which seem to require shoving your own tongue down your throat.
I think my attempts at the language over there mostly just created comic relief.
Danish (of course) and I understand Norwegian but I'm sorry @SuXrys I don't understand your frigging Swedish blabber xD
I also speak English and a little (veeeeery little) German
Attachment 60426http://alltheragefaces.com/img/faces...tion-guy-s.png Did you just called the most beautiful and most wonderful lanugage in the whole wide world for "blabber"?
*Places you in my lap, with your belly towards my knees, and starts to spank your buttocks*
Shame-on-you. ~
SuXrys you Swedynerd!! Are you gonna do anything for your country's sake? O_O
I can say that your country's bless-bless-blessed!
As for this topic: I speak Earth language.. and a little Mars'..
..I think i'm starting to like Sweden.. All hail the mighty Swedish~ :awe:
I speak Turkish, English and a little German, a little Japanese and very very little Spanish. :D
I was raised speaking American English and German, and over time I learned Japanese and I am learning Korean.
Russian, Lithuanian, English and Italian I speak quite fluently.
I also know basic French and German from highschool. Studied Latin grammar as well.
I can speak English fluently.
I'm currently in Spanish 4 and Japanese 1.
And I want to start learning Korean this summer xD
I speak English, and know some conversation French, Italian, and Romanian.
@SuXrys; @Uncanny X-Man : You understand Danish? I’ve seen that several others here speak/understand it as well. Oh, to be able to read Kierkegaard in his native language!
I’m only fluent in English and Russian; English is my first language. Took 3 years of French and can still read it pretty well, but I’m losing some of the speaking skills. I know a decent amount of Spanish vocabulary, but I wouldn’t expect a nice, long sentence out of me. I’m learning Old English this semester and it’s been great, but I would have had an easier time had I known German beforehand.
As for keeping the languages, Toboe, I would choose to pay the most attention to the languages you’re most likely to use (though that’s merely a repackaging of advice already provided to you).
@Cross Avantgarde well as I am born and live in Denmark it's a given I speak and understand Danish :P
Well... not exactly.
Swedish, danish and norwegian are languages that are close to eachother so even if we do speak different languages, we still can (most of the times anyway~) understand eachother [atleast the general sentence: he said something with this], even if some words are different and the dialects aswell.
For example I use to listen to a norwegian radio station even if I am a swede and can't speak norwegian (I can't, I speak swedish not norwegian; they are different languages after all) but I can still understand most of what they are talking about, even if there is sometimes some words / parts / sentences that I can't understand because some words are little different and such, or because the dialect is sometimes heavy - but most of the times I can follow the radio without any bigger problems.
EXAMPLE!
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...er-d317kz9.png english: I can follow the radio without any problems.
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs40/f/20...5697d247b9.png swedish: Jag kan följa radion utan problem.
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...Chibikaede.png norwegian: Jeg kan følge radioen uten problemer.
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs51/f/20...ueegoddess.png danish: Jeg kan følge radioen uden problemer.
> used google translate
As you can see it's not that much difference between the nor/swe/dan (not in that particular sentence anyway). It's pretty much the different dialects that kicks in. ~ [Huuu!!!! Heavy dialects!!]. ~
For example: I as a swede can speak in swedish with someone from Norway and I will understand him (most of what he says) even if he speaks back to me in norwegian, and he will on his part understand most of what I say. Danish is not a such problem either for me as a swede to understand. Again, the languages are close. For example once my family where on a holiday in Spain and I where so young back then so I hadn't learned english yet but down there I spent my days together with a young girl in my age but she came from Denmark - but that wasn't such a problem since we still understood eachother [most of what the other person said anyway].
Hope you understand... it's a pain to write something when you are litteraly in pain. Q.Q
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I read somewhere that generally we understand around 50% of what the others are saying [reading is easier then hearing, thank you dialects.~]. Like, we maybe don't understand every word that the other are saying - but we can often hear and understand what the other are "sort of" talking about.
Groda
The only Swedish word I know