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01-29-2009, 02:26 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Maine
409 posts, read 123,847 times
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Any multilingual people here?
What languages do you all speak?
me:
English
Scottish Gaelic
a little Spanish
very little German
and I've just picked up a book on Japanese.
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01-29-2009, 02:33 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2008
1,528 posts, read 867,061 times
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I am not really multilingual but I speak fluent German, French, a few words of Dutch,Russian and of Arabic.
I forgot, OK in Spanish, more than a few words of Italian.
That's all , folks, and it's plenty! (I think)
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01-29-2009, 06:01 PM
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Member
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Join Date: Jan 2009
90 posts, read 64,695 times
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English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Have studied French and Arabic.
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01-29-2009, 10:39 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: In a delirium
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I think there are a few multilingual folk around. I'm bilingual in English and Russian. I'd love to pick up a third language - most likely Spanish, as I really enjoy heading south of the US border.
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01-30-2009, 12:34 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong
340 posts, read 227,159 times
Reputation: 175
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I'm very impressed with people who know multiple languages. Unfortunately I'm not among you but I am learning to speak Cantonese now (Guangdong-wa - the south Chinese dialect spoken here). I'm from a part of the world (NZ) where it's uncommon to know more than one language because we are isolated and don't have other lingual influences (aside from Maori which does influence the kiwi vernacular). Here, you need English, Cantonese and Mandarin just to work in Starbucks! Even my nanny knows four languages. Makes me feel like a bit of an ignoramus.
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01-30-2009, 01:34 AM
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Bowhunting photographer
Status:
"Is going to MS in 2 weeks to bowhunt"
(set 10 days ago)
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Scotland & Mississippi
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English (with Scots accent)
Spanish
Some French
Some Italian
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01-30-2009, 06:50 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2006
2,221 posts, read 1,686,217 times
Reputation: 733
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English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, French, basically in that order of fluency taking all phases of the languages into account.
No reason to be particularly impressed. Some people have skills in some areas, other people in other areas.
Perhaps what is worthy of admiration is one's tenacity in pursuing one's talents to the natural limit for productive purposes.
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01-30-2009, 08:16 AM
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Member
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Join Date: Sep 2008
61 posts, read 38,177 times
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Arabic & English
And I studied French and Hebrew for 3 years.
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01-30-2009, 09:17 AM
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Member
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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English,
Spanish,
A bit of French,
Czech (intermediate level)
German (intermediate level)
Hindi (fluent)
Konkani (fluent)
Kiristav (fluent)
Urdu (fluent)
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01-30-2009, 10:59 AM
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Dwarka Citizen ॐ
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: The world, where will fate take me this time?
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Reputation: 955
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English, Portuguese and Spanish
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