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Geek Culture / What first languages do we have on the board?

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Fallout
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Posted: 30th May 2011 18:11
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I'm curious as to how many first languages we have on the board? What are people's native languages, or expert level languages besides English? I ask out of curiosity, and also because I'm interested in getting some simple things translated, which I may be willing to pay for (depending on how cheap online translation services are).

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Isocadia
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I know Dutch And english pretty well
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CoffeeGrunt
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English, naturally. Although I'm so-so at French and German.

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Zotoaster
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Greek used to be my first language, then I forgot most of it when I moved to Scotland and now I kinda know some of it. Shame.

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Norion
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Quote: "I know Dutch And english pretty well "


yeah me either


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sorry for my english i'm an alien
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Interplanetary Funk
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Posted: 30th May 2011 19:20
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English, trying to learn Tagalog for my fiancée.


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Dark Frager
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Posted: 30th May 2011 20:31
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Polish and English.

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Grog Grueslayer
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English and very little Spanish.

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bruce3371
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English, with a fair smattering of gibberish and gobbledygook

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_Pauli_
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My native language is German.
But I'm quite good at English, and I know a bit of French (enough to communicate on vacations ).
I'd be glad to help with translations!

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Fallout
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Thanks for your replies guys. I may contact some of you, if that's ok, and see if you're interested in translations once I've written my doc!

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Cormorant5
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Main English, taking classes on German, in my free time learning Klingon and Gungan. Someday I will move out and be able to go to Star Wars Conventions. I will be a star...

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Libervurto
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English and Marklar


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SH4773R
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I'm taking Japanese but suck at it


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tha_rami
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Dutch, English, Arabic.

Business guy and developer at [url]www.vlambeer.com[/url] - bringing back arcade since 1956.
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Jeku
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Wolf
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Luxemburgian and German are my main languages.
I know english pretty well now, thanks to the internet (mostly these forums)
Then comes french which comes with living in Luxemburg. My grammar might not be that great in french though.



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DevilLiger
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Posted: 31st May 2011 09:48 Edited at: 31st May 2011 09:49
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i spoke english first than after that was my ethnic language which was hmong/miao or miao tzu. youtube it to know what hmong or miao is for those that are curious.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 31st May 2011 11:55
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English.
Gibberish.
German (not brilliant, but enough to get by)

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The Slayer
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Posted: 31st May 2011 13:04
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Dutch (Native language) and Flemish (slang).
French (had a French speaking girlfriend once, and my brother in law speaks French too).
English.
Ow, and also Metallian (could come in handy if you need texts translated to Metal).

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Accoun
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Posted: 31st May 2011 16:25
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Polish, English and some German...

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jeffhuys
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Dutch! < Primary
English! < Secondary
German! < Bit sucky
French! < Sucky
Spanish! < Sucky

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TheComet
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English < Primary
German < Secondary
French < Freakin' terrible

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_Pauli_
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Quote: "living in Luxemburg"


Hey cool, I used to live like 20 km from the border to Letzebourg!

I'm surprised about how many people here speak German as secondary language, didn't expect it to be that much (thought it was kind of hard to learn).

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Quik
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Posted: 31st May 2011 20:54
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first language swedish
second english
then i also know a tiny bit of german
and japanese
planning to learn russian too, lovely language..

and for the record, I am a man.

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tha_rami
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Every Dutch person that lurks on programming forums most likely knows English & reasonable amounts of French and/or German - simply because those are subjects in high school.

I'm pretty much surprised there are so many people from the Benelux around here, though.

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