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Gil Galvanti
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So, since theres so many people on here from around the world, just curious to know, how many languages do you know? Which ones? I only know English fluently and broken Spanish which I'm learning

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Chily Dog
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I speak English as my first language and know a little bit of Spanish.

Yo hablo Ingles muy bien y yo hablo Espanol un poco.
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I speak fluent English, and I'm learning German

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dark coder
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i can speak english, japanese and BASIC

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David T
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English and semi fluent French and German.

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Jeku
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English as first language.

Studied French, Japanese and Chinese but have forgotten almost everything.

Now studying Danish and thoroughly enjoying it Kvinde har hvide bluse på.


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PowerSoft
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English, French and Spanish

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SirFire
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I know two: english and bad english

j/k, aside from english, some brit-speak, some spanish, very little french, and just recently I have started to understand noobspeak. "Liek ware iz teh codez?"

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Lukas W
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i know english, swedish, norwegian, and danish but i dont speak danish.

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MiR
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My main language is English and I speak some Spanish. (Some being I can speak it and understand it 90% of the time but haven´t got a chance in hell of being mistaken for a Spaniish native).
I know friends who can speak 3+ languages.
mmmm. Does BASIC count as a language? I mean they say it is a programming language and it does have many dialects, DarkBasic, PlayBasic, BlitzBasic etc.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 11:48 Edited at: 4th Mar 2006 11:49
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English as a first language
German as a second, but not fluent and am begining to forget a lot of words lol
French (ish) I got the hang of it until I stopped learning in year 9 and have forgotten most of it.
I started to learn spannish, but don't know why I stopped as the independant is giving away language stuff each weekend I might use them to learn spanish (was the last one) and this weekend is italien

I am learning Japanese now and will start learning Chinese (Mandarin)

and am completely fluent in bullsh*t

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hexGEAR
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"I speak one. One Zero One Zero Zero. With that I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life. In any country, any time, any place I want. We multitask like you breathe. I couldn't think as slow as you if I tried."

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Saikoro
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the core lol

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Megaton Cat
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English is my third language, with Russian & Ukranian being first, then Hebrew during my 7-year duration in Israel.

My French sucks.

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Robin
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English, and I'm nearly fluent in German too (Can understand anything said or written, just the grammar in my speaking and writing isn't so great). I'm also learning Spanish at the moment.

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Eddie Gordo
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English, and i used to speak japanese spanish french german and some latin and a lot of gaelic...but lately all i can remember are the basics of japanese and spanish and german swear words cause thats all i ever used...

Computer wise i speak ANSI standard Basic, X86 Assembly(16bit 32bit 64bit), Pascal(YAY!), but C makes me dizzy...so i just dont bother...

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The Nerd
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Quote: "Kvinde har hvide bluse på."


Correction... It should be "Kvinden har en hvid bluse på"... Which means "The woman got a white blouse on"

Well... My main language is danish. And then I speak english. I'm also studying German... And I suck at it

Meine hund heisse Zico... Es ist eine sehr gute hund.

I think I got some errors in just that small sentence...

Oh well.

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I just speak English - although I managed to survive on my broken French while I was in Tunisia. It was quite funny, some people were fluent in English while others were only fluent in French (and Arabic, but I the only thing I know how to say in that is 'my love, my love') so we ended up having 1/2 a conversation in bad English and the other half in (even worse) French.

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re faze
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english and ebonics
tried my hand at reading chinese, but then i suddenly had the mental leap that you must be able to speak it to read it. well, time to shell out cash for that proggy...

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Manticore Night
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I r 5p34k t3h Fr3ncH0rz 2, dood! lol J'41m3 P4l3z l3 fR4nc415oRz lol! J3 p3nS3 qu3 C m0n l4nG3 l3 Pr3f3é, l0l.

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Benjamin
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English, some french(I can understand it better than I can speak it), and I'm learning Danish at the moment.

Jeg kan lide spise ost og jeg har seks smuk katte.

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English as the main and most important language, and basic French with a lot of arm flapping.

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Chris Franklin
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kunst (German for art)
uno (Spainish for one)
Some french

But that's all i learnt at school i'm english

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IanG
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English is my main language, and i speak some bits of french (i'm in my final gcse year of it, which means i wont have to suffer it any longer)

Quote: "English as the main and most important language, and basic French with a lot of arm flapping."

lol
i still remember what my french teacher said to me about two years ago now - "if you don't know what the french word is, say it in english with a french accent on"


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Andy
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can speak read and write fluently: danish, english, swedish, german
can read and write but do not speak fluently: french
read: dutch
only a few sentences: Russian, arab, turkish

>Jeg kan lide spise ost og jeg har seks smuk katte

Jeg kan lide *at spise* ost og jeg har seks *smukke* katte

The sentence in english:
I like *to eat* cheese and I have six beautiful cats.

To eat = at spise
To die = at dø
To sleep = at sove
To do = at gøre

A beautiful cat (singular) = En smuk kat
two beautiful cats(plural) = To smukke katte


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Benjamin
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Oops.

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Deadwords
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I speak French as my first language (I'm not french... i'm canadian, i don't say "eh"...)
I speak English, Spanish and a modified french that we use here. The french people don't understand us...

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David R
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English is my first language, and I know very very little French + German (forced into it in School)

Besides that, I know a little bit of Hungarian too (my mothers side of the family is Hungarian - which makes me about 1/4 Hungarian)

Ott igazi néhány ember itt ki tud beszél Magyar. Azon kívül, a nevem David

jó szia!

(or is it jo reggelt? Oh, who cares..)

(Probably very wrong. And getting all those accents and stuff is bloody annoying too)

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since im dutch..

First off, of course, dutch
secondly, belgian, which is dutch too
german.. *school *
french.. school's fault again
and then, um, english.

and a liiitle bit of spanish and russian, but thats about 10 words

we'll all turn mad someday..
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The Nerd
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Quote: "Jeg kan lide spise ost og jeg har seks smuk katte."


Hey Benjamin! Needs correction It should be:
"Jeg kan lide at spise ost, og jeg har seks smukke katte"



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Benjamin
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Quote: "Hey Benjamin! Needs correction It should be:"

Hey The Nerd! You need to read the post that followed mine . Thanks though. I think the reason I forgot 'at' is because of the way grammar is in French, and I confuse myself sometimes. As for 'smukke', well, I'm forgetful.

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I speak English, et je parle un petit français.



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You only had to say it once.

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ozmg a double post by a mod..
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Lukas W
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i are speakeng v. good enlish. and does i am speaking swedish too. yes i can that too.

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Ich Spreche Englisch und Deutsch. Meine Deutsch ist nicht so gut, aber Ich kann "get around". Ihr Sprecht vier vier Sprachen. Ich habe ein Geschenk fur euch ins meiner rückseitigen Tasche



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Quote: "I speak English, et je parle un petit français."

Little correction:
"et je parle un petit peu français."
Good french

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Quote: ""if you don't know what the french word is, say it in english with a french accent on""
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bergatrollet ut på dörren sprang
hon rister och jämrar sig svåra
hade jag fått den fager ungersven
så hade jag mistat min plåga

herr mannelig herr mannelig trolofven i mig
för det jag bjuder så gerna
i kunnen väl svara endast ja eller nej
om i viljen eller ej.


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Lukas W
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that poem is.. scaring me

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English is all I know


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Quote: "that poem is.. scaring me "

Yep, and that's only the last part. But I can't remember the other verses.


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pog mi das!

er...

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I speak English, and i'm currently studying Italian.

I can also speak some gibberish

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In the words of Sir Bruce Willis:

Quote: "I only speak two languages... English and bad English""


Name that movie in the next 30 minutes and win a fantastic prize
(but not really)


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Quote: "Correction... It should be "Kvinden har en hvid bluse på"... Which means "The woman got a white blouse on""


Ahh tak I'm still in the super early stages of learning hehehe.

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wtf

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Gil Galvanti
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Quote: " i are speakeng v. good enlish. and does i am speaking swedish too. yes i can that too."

lol, if i didnt know you Lukas, i might have thought you were serious

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Quote: "Ahh tak I'm still in the super early stages of learning hehehe."


Hehe... But I can see it developing!

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