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10-07-2009, 06:58 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Eastern Washington
3,401 posts, read 2,015,720 times
Reputation: 1150
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Native English, pretty good Russian with emphasis on slang and "mat" due to the special care from my excellent instructors! Have been studying Russian since 1995, am listening to Radio Echo Moskvi right now. I understand almost everything in Russian, read nearly full speed, but sometimes have difficulty in composing my thoughts into proper, complicated sentences.
Some day I want to write an English-Russian dictionary where the entire English lexicon is mapped into only 2 verbs and 2 nouns in Russian...you Russian speakers know which 4 words I have in mind too...! I had a guy try to scalp some tickets to me while in Moscow one time, and he used mostly these 4 words, it was very interesting that I could understand him very well, even though it was the most extreme form of argot...
I can read German to some extent particularly if it's on automotive topics, and can speak a little from phrasebooks, but I count only 2 "real" languages. I can more or less read Ukrainian, to the extent it resembles Russian, usually can at least suss out the general meaning of it...
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10-07-2009, 11:29 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: New York City
453 posts, read 122,070 times
Reputation: 265
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I'm fluent in English and Russian (native)
Unfortunately I forgot almost all of what little Spanish I knew.
Always wanted to learn French but never did (except for a few phrases)
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10-14-2009, 05:41 AM
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Member
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Brescia, Italy
47 posts, read 14,074 times
Reputation: 17
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Italian and English... and a bit of Spanish and French.
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10-15-2009, 11:20 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jun 2007
802 posts, read 635,326 times
Reputation: 341
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English and Norwegian.
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10-16-2009, 12:40 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jun 2008
1,189 posts, read 590,463 times
Reputation: 293
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I speak two languages, English and Thai.
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10-16-2009, 01:16 AM
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Senior Member
Status:
"Snow reflecting starlight"
(set 7 days ago)
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The Golden Heart City of Alaska
394 posts, read 78,999 times
Reputation: 292
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Swedish and English. My next language to learn is French.
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10-16-2009, 11:41 AM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Algeria,Africa
Reputation: 11
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-Bachelor's degree in Translation(Arabic,French)
-I'm trying to improve my English and I'm learning Hebrew and Akkadian.
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10-24-2009, 02:12 AM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Reputation: 10
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English: native speaker (American)
Spanish: basically fluent, forget some words/grammar sometimes (semi-native speaker)
Russian: decent (in my 3rd semester @ university, RUSS 201)
Arabic: Proud to say that I can read and write pretty well now but my speaking is lacking (1st semester @ university-- Arabic 101)
Farsi/Persian : teaching myself to speak it with Pimsleur (thirty 30 minute lessons on my mp3 player)
I love languages too much for my own good..
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10-24-2009, 02:48 AM
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Just being positive
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: California
392 posts, read 125,973 times
Reputation: 159
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I can speak English and Armenian fluently. I also have a basic knowledge of Spanish which I will improve on once I get more time to do so.
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10-25-2009, 06:29 PM
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Member
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: UK
15 posts, read 4,168 times
Reputation: 17
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English (fluent), Polish (fluent), Czech (intermediate).
Have spoken basic French and Italian in the past, but have forgotten it all now.
Can read Slovak reasonably well due to knowing Polish and Czech, but I can't speak it (I can understand some Slovak people, but not many).
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