Which language are you speaking?

zbot444 · Post by **zbot444** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:35 am

I am speaking German.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:18 am

Which langauge are you speaking or Which is your native tongue?

If the first question, then I think many of us here know two or more languages.
My native tongue is Russian!

But on this forum (and on lots of others) I have to speak English and I am doing it as well as I can.

MsHollyBelle · Post by **MsHollyBelle** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:43 am

Muzozavr - your little bio says you live in Latvia. Do you speak the language ?
I speak American and understand some German, better than I can speak it.

Ding Dong, Ms Holly Belle

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:58 am

Well. Its very easy for me. I'm english anyway! I live in England!

mette · Post by **mette** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:06 am

My native tounge is Danish. Besides that I speak English. I understand a lot of German, but don't speak it very well. I understand a tiny bit Spanish, but don't speak it at all. Oh and I understand some Sweedish and Norweigian as well. And I understand enough French to know what I'm ordering at a restaurant

.

Mette

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:31 am

I know only a REALLY tiny bit of latvian language (Translated to English, what I know is: Thanks, Good morning, Hello, Good bye, What's your name and a few other phrases of that kind) and don't speak it at all.
I speak english the same as I am writing it here, but my pronouncation is sometimes... well, you better don't know it.

Question to mette: German and Dutch looks quite similar to me, but I don't understand them at all. Are they close, or are they very different languages?
EDIT: I saw my post being pretty confusing, sorry.

I mean German and Dutch, not Danish.

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:22 pm

Hi Muzozavr, let me answer instead of Mette, because I speak both, German and Dutch (and English as you all hopefully may have noticed

). German and Dutch are languages of their own but related to each other with Dutch having a place somewhere between German and English. So for me speaking German and English already it hasn't been difficult to learn Dutch grammar and vocabulary. But it has sometimes a very different pronounciation [In Germany we have a joke that says that Dutch isn't a language at all but a throat illness (My excuses to Rose, Lydia, Mahaloof and other Dutch board members)

].

As to my language skills: I also speak/understand a little bit French and Spanish (just the stuff you need on holidays). And I have learned the classical languages Latin, Old Greek and Biblical Hebrew. Must be useful when someone finally invents a method of travelling back into time

popo · Post by **popo** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:18 pm

I can speak several languages......Double Dutch, Gobbledigook and Twaddle to name but a few.

I have a smattering of French and Spanish, enough to get by on on holiday but I couldn't hold a conversation in either language. I think German would be quite an easy language to learn for me as the pronunciation lends itself well to the Yorkshire dialect. Ayup, me owd flowa!

TheoX · Post by **TheoX** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:42 pm

I speak English every day.

I am taking Honors French in High school, and I took French in middle school, so I am learning French quite well. I can count to ten in Spanish and Korean (my Martial Arts instructor counts in Korean sometmes, I've picked it up by now), and I can count to three in German.

It's fun to know other languages.

laura n. · Post by **laura n.** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:33 am

English & limited Spanish. I'm sorry to say that when I was in school (many many years gone by) secondary languages were considered "elective classes" meaning not required. I wish now I would have taken Spanish, as it's becoming increasingly necessary here.

TheoX · Post by **TheoX** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:38 am

When I took Spanish on Elementary school, they had a new, inexperienced Spanish teacher every year, who taught my class the exact same thing, every year. I got sick and tired of it and took French in middle school.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:19 am

who taught my class the exact same thing, every year

I know that wasn't funny for you, but it's too funny to read.

Loirae · Post by **Loirae** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:43 am

I am espeaking Inglish of America. Also-mente estudied Espanish in Jr. High and High School and University. And too estudied Germantch in University. But, my second speaking language is Portuguese because I lived in Brasil when I was more younger.

It me makes a very confused to you tell this for the many translations on my head.

Lillie · Post by **Lillie** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:16 am

I speak English (obviously being Engleeeesh!)

I also speak quite a bit of French

and Italian

I learnt some Latin in school but hated it so didn't continue with it. Would love to be able to speak German, maybe one day I'll study it. But for now, I normally make it up - don't I Lutzel Springleberger

Gooden Byen

slimm tom · Post by **slimm tom** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:04 pm

I'm speaking Dutch and English. (You know that if you have played my Dutch levels)

Wonderland Freak, i am.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:32 pm

I know french numbers 1-30.
On monday at my school we do French lesson

kiki · Post by **kiki** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:48 pm

I speak English! Growing up in Southern California I learnt how to curse in Spanish, Plus I know a little Klingonese, Very little! (Star Trek Fan)

I can count in Japanese (ichi ni san shi go)and speak a tad of it (Studied Jujitsu many years) But its not like riding a bike, Once you stop using it, It fades away, For me anyway.

wonderfull · Post by **wonderfull** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:34 am

English for me (Canadian eh?...it's little different than the proper English of the English of course!) and a little bit of pig latin

not to mention the francois I learned a l'ecole!

TheoX · Post by **TheoX** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:01 am

Hmm... I belive that's "à l'école".

drushing · Post by **drushing** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:56 am

Well, boring as it is, I just speak English but with a bit of a southern drawl I have been told!

Mahaloof · Post by **Mahaloof** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:51 pm

In Germany we have a joke that says that Dutch isn't a language at all but a throat illness

Lutz is even more right than he thinks. Sometimes I have a cough and then people laugh because they think I'm telling a joke!
Come to think of it: I could fill a theatre for a night just coughing on stage. Great fun!

But let's face it: Dutch ánd German (and perhaps the Scandinavian languages) are among the most un-poetic tongues in the whole wide world, maybe even the entire solar system!

But the most awful of all must be Popo speaking Double Dutch. She could be arrested for that.....

popo · Post by **popo** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:50 am

Mahaloof wrote:But the most awful of all must be Popo speaking Double Dutch. She could be arrested for that.....

I only ever do it in the privacy of my own front room, and with consenting adults.

Duiveltje · Post by **Duiveltje** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:49 pm

First: Popo did you have a extreme makeover?

second. I speak dutch because I am dutch.

Further I spreak a little bit: English and German.

I have lurned and forget: Hebrew, Latin, greek, spanish and french.

wonderfull · Post by **wonderfull** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:52 pm

TheoX wrote:Hmm... I belive that's "à l'école".

Yeah, I didn't think that looked right..that was many moons ago and I haven't had need to practise it much.

popo · Post by **popo** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:13 pm

Duiveltje wrote:First: Popo did you have a extreme makeover?

No, this is my everyday look.

If Then · Post by **If Then** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:59 pm

I can count to ten in Spanish

1-10; 11-99; 100-500; 1,000-10,000; 1,000,000
1:uno
2:dos
3:tres
.
.
.
.
10:diez
11:once
12:doce
13:trece
14:catorce
15:quince
16:dieciseis
17:diecisiete
18:dieciocho
19:diecinueve
20:veinte
21:veintiuno
22:veintidos
23:veintitres
24:veinticuatro
.
.
.
.
.
.
30:treinta
31:treintauno
.
.
.
.
.
.
40:cuarenta
50:cincuenta
60:sesenta
70:setenta
80:ochenta
90:noventa
100:cien
200:doscientos
300:trescientos
400:cuatrocientos
500:quinientos (it's not cincocientos or something)
600-900:don't know
1,000: mil
2,000:dos mil
3,000:tres mil
4,000:cuatro mil
.
.
.
.
10,000:diez mil (simple)
1,000,000:millon (pronounced "miyon")

4,444 is something like "cuatro mil cuatrocientos cuarenta cuatro".

If Then

Duiveltje wrote:Hebrew, Latin, greek, spanish and french.

אתה זוכר משהו בעברית? לפחות מילים בסיסיות?
Do you remember something in Hebrew? At least basic words?

I speak Hebrew at home.

kaz67 · Post by **kaz67** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:07 pm

English, French, German and Latin

At least I used to

Here's a top tip to all you kids out there. It's a wonderful gift to speak another language, PLEASE don't give up practising when you leave school - I've always regretted it

Kazza

Duiveltje · Post by **Duiveltje** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:09 pm

If Then wrote:
Duiveltje wrote:Hebrew, Latin, greek, spanish and french.
אתה זוכר משהו בעברית? לפחות מילים בסיסיות?
Do you remember something in Hebrew? At least basic words?

I speak Hebrew at home.

It was almost ten years ago I had lessons for two year. I needed it for synagoge. But the most of it is gone. It's a shame, but if you don't use it ------ It disapers like that. I will try to translate this later. But I thought I was something about your name. Am I right?

If Then · Post by **If Then** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:46 am

But I thought I was something about your name

What do you mean

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:32 pm

I speak Hebrew at home!! too!!
Though I speak Pig Latin with my friend Iydo.