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So, what other languages do you speak/ understand?

51 replies

alexpolistigers · 28/01/2014 17:46

Just to get the ball rolling in a language direction in here!

I am a native English speaker, fluent to native speaker level in Greek, proficient in Italian, French, also speak Welsh and understand a fair amount of German.

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NinjaPenguin · 28/01/2014 17:49

Grew up speaking Polish and PJM (Polish sign language), although because none of my foster parents were deaf, PJM got a lot of weaker. Also am fluent in BSL and English, and am proficient in French.

Shente · 28/01/2014 17:57

Hello other linguists this topic is exciting! Native speaker of English, fluent in German and Italian, fairly competent in French.

FloweryFeatureWall · 28/01/2014 18:02

Oooh!

I'm a native speaker of English, conversational French (but rusty now) and conversational Japanese (even rustier). I need to get refreshing them so I can say I can speak them again!

DrankSangriaInThePark · 28/01/2014 18:03

Native English, did French and Spanish at university, have A level German and lived in Italy for the past 20 yrs.

So English and Italian basically Grin

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MardyBra · 28/01/2014 18:08

Native English, French and Spanish at university. Rusty O-levels in German and Latin. I'm also just generally interested in language and linguistics, and if I did my time again, I probably would have liked to have done some linguistics at uni.

cremolafoam · 28/01/2014 18:11

Native English speaker
Good French & Spanish
Reasonable Dutch and Irish
Scant Italian and a smatter of improvised German and Danish
Good Swahili

cremolafoam · 28/01/2014 18:14

mema jioni kila mtu Grin

TerrariaMum · 28/01/2014 18:14

Native English, speak Spanish and Mandarin but am out of practice on both of those and have a smattering of French and Arabic. I'm with you Mardy, I'd have liked to have done more with linguistics.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 28/01/2014 18:18

Native Emglish , did Spanish & Catalan at Uni
Learnt some Swahili last week in Tanzania , mainly rude words !

AphraBane · 28/01/2014 18:23

Native speaker of English, speak and write fairly good German (lived here for twenty years and a translator by trade), pathetic school French (but DD1, who has just come back from France, has instituted a French-only Sunday tea), even more dodgy Italian.

I have a background in English language teaching, before the translation, and DH has a masters in Applied Linguistics and has - get this - just published his first article. Admittedly in a teensy tiny obscure linguistics journal.

AnneElliott · 28/01/2014 18:28

Native English but proficient in BSL. Very basic French but it gets better when I'm using it.

Lagoonablue · 28/01/2014 18:30

Basic italian.

growingolddicustingly · 28/01/2014 18:33

Native English, very basic French that like Anne gets better when I am using it and basic Portuguese (spoken with a Brazilian accent).

AphraBane · 28/01/2014 18:41

"Learnt some Swahili last week in Tanzania , mainly rude words !"
Gwan KenDodds, give us some rude Swahili!

frogslegs35 · 28/01/2014 18:48

Native English
Fluent BSL
Understand and can speak Polish.
Basic French
Holiday Spanish
Few words of German
Swear words Turkish Blush

PacificDogwood · 28/01/2014 18:57

Native German
Fluent English (and American Wink)
Some French
Few words in Spanish, Italian and Swahili
Can say 'I love you' in many languages Grin

KenDoddsDadsDog · 28/01/2014 19:18

Jamba is fart (Jambo is a greeting)
Kuma is the very popular mn c word. (Kumi is 10)

magimedi · 28/01/2014 19:41

Native English speaker.

Competent in French, can hold my own at a party, but hate having to write it.

Holiday Spanish & Italian

Trying really hard with Turkish - but it's not easy!

BustedRussian · 28/01/2014 19:41

Just English. But I read Linguistics at Uni and got heartily fed up with having to explain that despite studying it, I couldn't speak any other language, nor did I want to! Grin

Bonsoir · 28/01/2014 19:42

I'm a native speaker of English and have native-level proficiency in French. I can speak Italian and Spanish quite well when I am immersed and German very badly.

GinniferAndTonic · 28/01/2014 19:47

Native Finnish
Near native English
Reasonable Swedish

Have also studied Russian, German, Latin and (Modern) Greek but wouldn't really say I can speak them.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 28/01/2014 20:54

Wow we are an international bunch!

Native English
Fluent French (Québécois)
Conversationally fluent in German and Dutch
Some Hungarian
Holiday Spanish and Italian

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 28/01/2014 20:55

All of my forrin languages get a LOT more fluent when I've had a drink or five

TodaysAGoodDay · 28/01/2014 20:59

Native English

Competent in Afrikaans

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