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dsoverpsp on 08 February 2008

I speak Chines some what fluently
English fluently and currently taking spanish

hola
ni hao
hello!!



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Videogirl on 08 February 2008

French - I live in the french speaking part of my country
English - Learned it at school, perfected it with videogames and use it a lot at work.
Italian - 'cause of mother.
Spanish - 'cause of father.
Catalan - 'cause I regularly went on vacation in Barcelona when I was a child
German - 'cause I've been compeled to learn it at school.
Japanese - I wanted to learn another language.

I don't speak but can fully understand :
Portuguese
Rumanian
Friulan (northern Italy dialect)
Romans



wiiforever on 08 February 2008

English - live in USA
Chinese - Parents are Chinese



Rath on 08 February 2008

I speak fluent English (being from an English speaking country)
Tiny amounts of Maori (language of the indigenous population of said country)
Tiny amounts of Latin (School) which I can also slowly translate into English.



DaSimkin on 08 February 2008

English, it's what they taught me when i was a baby
PHP, made it easy to make html mysql front ends
Javascript, only way to make browsers do what you want
Britanian, had to learn it to play ultima V



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dsoverpsp on 08 February 2008

I speak Espanol b/c to get the HS credit
I speak Chinese becasue im asian
i speak english b/c im american



Faxanadu on 08 February 2008
konnichiwa said:
Faxanadu said:
RolStoppable said:
I can read and write German and English, but I can't speak either language well.

and obviously you speak Austrian, and probably quite ok.

 

 


Was that a joke?


 kind of. He started it pointing out that he cannot speak German well. as Austrians have quite an accent and usually dont speak "high" German (many Germans dont either) it was meant as a comment in the same direction as hisown intention.



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konnichiwa on 08 February 2008
Faxanadu said:
konnichiwa said:
Faxanadu said:
RolStoppable said:
I can read and write German and English, but I can't speak either language well.

and obviously you speak Austrian, and probably quite ok.

 

 


Was that a joke?


 kind of. He started it pointing out that he cannot speak German well. as Austrians have quite an accent and usually dont speak "high" German (many Germans dont either) it was meant as a comment in the same direction as hisown intention.


 Sorry didn't know that you were from Germany ^^''.  I thought you were serious about   Austrian = language.






ferret1094 on 08 February 2008

Loving the random languages people are coming up with. British, anyone?!

I can speak English because I've lived in Britain for most of my life.

I can speak a tiny bit of French because we did it at school but I was never that interested as I didn't see it as a particularly useful language. Sorry French people!

I learnt German for a year at school but have forgotten it all.

I'd like to learn Cornish seeing as I now live there but it's even less useful than French. Japanese would be good too but there aren't any lessons round here.



ferret1094 on 08 February 2008
dsoverpsp said:
I speak Espanol b/c to get the HS credit
I speak Chinese becasue im asian
i speak english b/c im american
 
That's interesting to see that you call yourself Asian. In the UK Asian basically means Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi. People from the Far East call themselves Oriental but someone told me that's offensive in the US? It's funny how different words take on different connotations in different English speaking countries like spastic is offensive in the UK but I understand it just means stupid in the US.