Which languages can you speak?

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#101

Rosetta Stone, the computer language program? I remember using that for French, but I don’t think it would work on the computer I have now…

Sometimes I will change something like a digital camera or cell phone to another language. It’s just a pain if you have to use trial and error to try to get it back to English. I think I switched something to Chinese once… Anyway it was all characters that I couldn’t read, so it took a few minutes to find the right menu again.

I was wondering. How many of you here live in a country with more than one official language? I’m in Canada, so here it’s English and French, hence why I really want to become fluent in French. An interesting fact about Canada is that there is only province that’s officially bilingual, like all of the stop signs will say ‘arret’ as well. Does anyone know which one? Hint: It’s not the one you might think…

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#102

Me! Spanish, Basque, Catalan and Galician.

#103

Dang, the last post for this topic was over a year ago! I shall revive it, haha.

Well, my native language is English. American English that is.

I took three years of German in high school. I barely remember any of it. I also took a year of Spanish.

I plan to take Spanish here in college. Because it’s hard finding a career/job in California nowadays if you don’t know Spanish.

#104

My native language’s English, I speak a bit of Latin and I’m planning to take French or Spanish sometime soon.

#105

I speak English! :smiley:

#106

English, a little Spanish, and those words that every one knows from other languages.

#107

Ma langue maternelle c’est l’anglais, mais je peu parler le Francais tres bien. J’ai parler le francais depuis que j’ai quatre ans.

Translation:My first language is English, but I can speak French very well. I’ve been speaking French since I was 4.

#108

I started learning Russian last school year. It’s not easy at the beginning since you have to learn the letters but once you get the hang out of it, it’s fairly easy. After all, I got lots of A’s and B’s in Russian last year but I’m a little rusty now after not speaking and reading that language for six weeks :laughing:

#109

When I was a baby/toddler I knew how to speak a little French because my moms’ commands (i.e. “come here”) were in French. In fact, I probably knew more of it than English at the time! I should pick it up again.

I can also read some standard Japanese but can’t speak it one bit.

#110

My first language is Russian.
I learning English, but grammar… it is little difficult.
I can read and translate English texts ( sometimes without “English-Russian vocabulary” ), but I speak very bad.

#111

I can speak both Persian (specifically farsi, which is my mother tongue), and English. Although I have to say I’m more fluent in English. :smiley:

#112

My first language is Dutch, and my second is English. I’m learning German.

Nederlands is dus m’n moedertaal, en het is veel te ingewikkeld. Begin er niet aan! xD

And of course, I find English to be easier to write. I don’t know all words, though.

Deutsch is aber toll, oder ich bin nicht gut auf es xD

Did that make sense? D:

#113

It should be “Deutsch ist toll, aber ich bin noch nicht so gut in Deutsch” :wink:
But don’t worry, German is not a very easy language. There are enough German who still have problems out there :wink:

#114

Lol, thanks, I tend to confuse aber and oder. xD

They even say it’s easy for Dutch people to learn and that the languages are the same… that’s so not true D:

#115

My first language is Dutch, and my second is English

Net als wat Badger zegt… is het een lastige taal! :stuck_out_tongue:

#116

I can only speak english. But I think it would be neat to learn another language.

#117

Yeah, I have a lot of respect for those who are multilingual. I know a girl who can speak and write twelve languages fluently and seventeen in total if you include those that she’s currently learning. She also has three degrees. She’s very scary. :laughing:

#118

I envy her! What languages does she know, is English her first language?

#119

ellie-jessie-eve- She’s from Moscow, so her first language is Russian. The last time I spoke to her was a little while ago now, but as far as I can remember she can speak and write a real variety of languages, from European to African, and I do definitely recall her saying about how she was currently learning how to read Egyptian heiroglyphics- something that sounds very fascinating.

I met her whilst on my gap year travels, and she explained that she’d managed to gain these degrees in mathematics-based subjects but still couldn’t decide what to do with her life. She’d had several job offers from different companies around the world but she had needed a year out to do a bit of travelling before making the big decision. I never found out what she ended up doing, though, as her gap year must be over by now. No doubt her extensive knowledge of languages aided her in getting all of those job offers.

#120

Well, I’m in Spanish I, so…I speak Spanglish, America’s national language. :sunglasses: