Which languages can you speak?

??? Korea is a peninsula off China. Japan is an island. There’s quite a lot of water between them.

(Off Topic: Yays i r in a discussions)

(y r u talkin in interweb speek?)

On the world map, they’re near to eacher than the UK is.

But their languages are quite different.

oh well.

I can understand and read but can’t speak Korean.

I can’t speak it because I will talk it funny and I will have very bad grammar.

I can read Greek and understand a few words.

I can speak Gibberish.

I know a few words in French and Japanese, but that’s basically the limit of my mental, multi-language dictionary. To be honest, I’ve always loved the French dialect and yearn to learn it in full; unfortunately, I’ve never taken the time (or been presented with a proper opportunity) to do so.

That aside, my sister and I are pretty much fluent in the language of “Gobbo”. If you don’t know what I’m talking about… then you should play the Croc games. :wink:

– Mitch

I recently started to learn French… at school. But I haven’t learnt so many words because the first lessons we wrote something about the history of France and then about things from France. So I don’t know many words but I feel it’s easy to learn.

English and German fluent, enough French to make it through a nice vacation.

Je parle un peu Français… Can someone correct me if I’m not saying that right? Like constructive criticism? Merci beaucoup!

I want to learn how to carry on a conversation in French though. And in Swedish, Italian, and possibly Spanish and German. I already know Pig-latin and Gibberish since others have put that down as an option…

Can anyone guess what number tjugo is in Swedish? No particular reason, other than that I like how that word looks and sounds…

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I believe it’s better to say “un petit peu”, but I am not sure.

Oh, tough one. In English it’s “twenty”, in German it’s “zwanzig”… but I have no idea what it could be in Swedish, sorry.

I can speak English, some Spanish, and Pig Latin.

Both are correct :wink:

Well can’t say I’m really fleuent in any language except the Queen’s English…
Although… Dw i’n siarad Bach cymreag a Ffraneg… Je Parle un peu Gallois et peu francais!
Translation: I speak little Welsh and a little French.

Being welsh being the only reason I speak it, and the fact I’ve now got to start teaching it to primary school pupils (age 3-11)

Also I did learn a little bit of German and can count to ten in Korean and Japanese too!

Hablo español… I understand a bit of English, and I can read it fluently… that’s all :laughing:

I also like learn lots of word of many different languages.

Aw man, just English. Bummer, right? =(

I started taking Latin in 1st grade but can barely speak a word of it because it’s so difficult. I know the Korean alphabet, but I can’t speak Korean! And I know little (very little!) bits and pieces of Portuguese and Japanese. That’s it, though.

My school doesn’t offer Japanese, but if I study abroad there later on, I’d love to get to know the language more. If I could be fluent in any other language, this would be the one. It would also help me watch raw movies!

I’m only particularly fluent in English but I know enough French and German to throw the odd phrases into my sentences to spice up conversations. I’m not good enough in thos languages to hold a conversation with someone who speaks only that language but I can string the odd sentence together.

Estonian (looks like I’m the only one here so far) õõõõõõõõõ
English
little bit of Russian

other then english I can speak Polish :slight_smile:

Tjugo is twenty in Swedish, I figured someone would figure it out, so good job! I know numbers in several different languages, including Sign Language. Numbers, names of animals, and all kinds of weather terms… It’s the letters and sentences that through me oddly. I think it’s trying to grasp the different pronuciations and grammer. I can understand the gist of what’s being said if I read French, Italian, Spanish or German though. There are relations between the languages, since when I was taking music theory exams, when there were the Italian and German terms that you had to translate into English, if I hadn’t studied enough and came upon a word that I didn’t know, I could use English and French to figure them out. I usually got almost all of them right too.

I actually forgot to mention this one in my previous post… I am also teaching myself Sign Language. The grammar rules are actually quite hard though. Translating sentences word for word from English is ‘exact signing’, if you actually want to learn the language there are different grammar structures to be followed. I want to learn it though.

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I am relearning Japanese. The first time was in college. I remember about a quarter of that.
Now I’m using rosetta stone ad retaining everything.