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What languages do you speak?
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:24 pm
by Reno
I'm a little new to this forum but I'd like to start a new thread ^^!
What languages/dialects do you speak or understand?
I think we have many members here from various places and backgrounds so it might be interesting
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:03 am
by Sailor Kitty
I'm blingual!
...I used to be trilingual, but that kinda dissapeared when I wasn't allowed to speak Norwegien again. My mother is from Norway, and my grandparents live there.
My mom refuses to speak anything but english with me, and has done that since I was a baby. I don't know why she did, but it scored me a second langauge. My native tounge is Swedish, though. ^__^
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:48 pm
by jeffbert
I speak English only; but know a few important words from anime & even a few from watching TV. I learned "Mach schnell" from watching Hogan's Heroes; & a few others from watching the History Channel.
I also picked up a few from listening to Classical Music, when the announcer would read the names of compositions and tell the meanings. Saturday at the MET gave me a bit more; as the announcer would read the plot of an act before it was actually played. But I could only endure listening to one opera, which was Der Fliegende Holländer, because it was rather short.
When I was a kid, anything beyond the basics 3 Rs I thought was just another thing they used to make school suck more than it already did.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:28 pm
by Fauna
I speak mostly english, but I know a decent amount of phrases (and two alphabet cases) in Japanese. I used to know French (it's a required class in Canadian schools) but I only retained a few words. I used to know a kid from Italy who taught me two phrases, and a few swear words in Italian.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:41 pm
by Reno
"Sailor Kitty" wrote:I'm blingual!
...I used to be trilingual, but that kinda dissapeared when I wasn't allowed to speak Norwegien again. My mother is from Norway, and my grandparents live there.
Why weren't you able to speak Norwegien?
It's fun to learn a few words or phrases from people or TV or elsewhere ^^!
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:09 pm
by Uran-chan
Well i speak tagalog or filipino languege i speak english cause you can t understand if you want examples go to thread nice to be here by dark girl and find my comment 1st one....
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:53 am
by Ataru Moroboshi
Trilingual: Catalan (a language speaked on some southern European territories), Spanish, English
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:03 am
by Astro Forever
French, English.
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:03 am
by Uran-chan
Does anyone of you know the meaning of
:katakana
:Kanji
and Romanji??
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:57 pm
by fafner
Those are different ways to write Japanese:
Katakana,
Kanji and
Romaji.