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StarcraftManiac on 07 February 2008

I'm from The Netherlands. A small country with only 16.6 million inhabitants (23 million people speaking Dutch worldwide).

Since my country is allocated between Germany, France and the UK and Western Europe has a pretty interesting history we (as Dutch people) are forced to addapt to our surroundings and learn a variety of languages.

Now, im interested in what region you guys live and what kind of languages you guys are learning/have learnt.

 

The languages i can speak in order of how good:

Dutch - Netherlands. Reason: Homecountry.

English - UK. Reason: The World's no.1 language.

German - Germany. Reason: Live within 10 kilometers of Germany.

French - France. Reason: France is pretty close by (250-300km).

 

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-I can only translate segments of text, not speak... 

Latin - Ancient Rome. Reason: I do grammar-school so i have to take these classes.

Old Greece - Ancient Greece.  Reason: See above.



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Bonafide732 on 07 February 2008

2... because i grew up in new jersey



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kirby007 on 07 February 2008

i can speak dutch
i can speak rotterdams
i can speak haags
i can speak english
i can speak german



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DSLover on 07 February 2008

English is my mother tongue and i'm learning Japanese.



 

 

pichu_pichu on 07 February 2008

I speak a lot of English because its the language here in america
I also speak Spanish, mostly in my house because my parents are hispanic. Right now im learning french in school



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Words Of Wisdom on 07 February 2008

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fazz on 07 February 2008

I can speak:

Spanish - Mexico. Reason: Home country

English- USA. Reason: Useful.

I can read:

Japanese (but I'm not that good) - Japan. Reason: I like japanese music.



d21lewis on 07 February 2008

Two. English and German. World War ll could've gone either way, and I would've been fine......except for the fact that I'M BLACK.



Parokki on 07 February 2008

Finnish - my mother tongue
English - spoke it before I could write in Finnish, so I guess I'm halfway native =P
Swedish - few years compulsory at school. forgot most of it.
German - a few years at school, forgot most of it. been thinking about studying it again.
Latin - pretty much at high school and university. I'm the chairman of the Latin student association at my uni. \o/
Japanese - a bunch of uni courses. not too good, but improving. I can just about read comics with a dictionary.

Been thinking about studying a bit of Chinese and Arabic, but haven't had the chance. Borrowed a Greek grammar book from the library, but I'm probably just learning the alphabet from it.

Americans are usually very impressed by all this, but having studied this many languages is actually pretty common in Europe. I'm only fluent in two of them anyway.



waron on 07 February 2008

well i speak
english
polish - my mother tongue
and few years ago i could speak german but after graduate school i stop learning it so i probably won't understand it even if someone will insult me :) i remember just few words but if i can see some text i can guess by the concept what it's about(well at least i know HANDE HOH just in case of another world war:D)