Author Topic: What languages can you speak, read/write in, and/or understand? (Read 3086 times)

cramx3 · « **Reply #35 on:** October 17, 2019, 10:21:46 AM »

English and that's it. I struggled big time learning Italian in high school. Did 4 years but only made it to level 3

for some reason, this was something I struggled with and possibly because I didn't care enough but also, it's a lot of memorization and constant usage that I just never did. I've had no interest in learning another language, it just seems so difficult and luckily many people speak english in non english countries so it kind of works out fine for my life.

MirrorMask · « **Reply #36 on:** October 17, 2019, 12:01:11 PM »

Cosa c'è che non va con l'italiano?

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #37 on:** October 17, 2019, 02:47:10 PM »

English.

I took several years of Spanish, but I am not conversational, although I still retain some vocabulary.

I took two years of Latin in college (almost minored!), but it's a dead language. No one really speaks Latin. I can still read some, but I'm way out of practice.

TAC · « **Reply #38 on:** October 17, 2019, 07:55:42 PM »

I voted other-Kingshmeglish.

MoraWintersoul · « **Reply #39 on:** October 18, 2019, 06:21:28 AM »

Quote from: TAC on October 17, 2019, 07:55:42 PM

I voted other-Kingshmeglish.

You are now the official Kingshmeglish translator.

Stadler · « **Reply #40 on:** October 18, 2019, 07:21:25 AM »

Stadler trying to interpret Kingshmeglish (sometimes):

(I'm kidding, bud!)

Kwyjibo · « **Reply #41 on:** October 18, 2019, 07:37:44 AM »

Speaking of hungarian:

dparrott · « **Reply #42 on:** October 19, 2019, 08:59:39 AM »

English and a little bit of Spanish. I learned Spanish in high school and college and I was getting pretty good, but then I stopped using it and forgot most of it. My work has our software available in Spanish and I can sort of understand it based on knowing the English version.

ReaperKK · « **Reply #43 on:** October 20, 2019, 07:01:41 AM »

My mother tongue is Lithuanian. When my parents and I moved over to the states at the age of four I picked English very quickly, especially since I had to become my parents translator. Now I can speak the language fluently by reading/writing skills are poor. I just haven't any practice. When I used to visit the home land yearly I was getting better but the progress was all but lost after I stopped going.

MoraWintersoul · « **Reply #44 on:** October 20, 2019, 07:21:28 AM »

Gotta say, was expecting more truly trilingual folks to show up! So far only a couple of us. I know Mladen (the only other Serbian native on this forum and so far the only DTFer I met) has a degree in German, and his English is fantastic. Guess he hasn't seen this thread.

JLa · « **Reply #45 on:** October 22, 2019, 02:01:00 PM »

Why don't we all just learn Esperanto anyway?

How cool it would be if everyone could understand each other. Schools around the globe should start teaching Esperanto, give it 20 years and we would see results!

Dublagent66 · « **Reply #46 on:** October 22, 2019, 02:46:57 PM »

Fi dorra foot rong make ya wanna horra.

Elite · « **Reply #47 on:** October 22, 2019, 02:53:46 PM »

Okay, so I live in the Netherlands, so I speak Dutch. My mother is English, so I was taught English from a young age. I'm apparently a B1 in Spanish after taking multiple courses and I graduated high school with French as well. I can - sort of - understand German roughly as well, but I think realistically these last two are pretty bad. So; Dutch, Spanish and English for me!

Train of Naught · « **Reply #48 on:** October 23, 2019, 07:21:04 AM »

German and Spanish are probably around B2 level for me (never took a test for Spanish and for German I'm simply comparing to peers). Then English and Dutch fluently (English C1 and Dutch is my mother tongue).

Then there's French, I took French in high school but forgot most of it and always had a hard time speaking and writing, I understand it on a super basic level, I'm probably A1.

Latin and Ancient Greek, as hefdaddy said, don't speak it but have a basic grasp on the vocabulary because of high school, but you don't really 'speak' it.

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on October 17, 2019, 02:47:10 PM

No one really speaks Latin.

No one..

EXCEPT for this Dutch politician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnhijtzsuA

MirrorMask · « **Reply #49 on:** October 23, 2019, 07:32:05 AM »

Stadler · « **Reply #50 on:** October 23, 2019, 07:59:15 AM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on October 17, 2019, 02:47:10 PM

No one really speaks Latin.

You'd never know that from reading the American press.

Quid pro quo!

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #51 on:** October 23, 2019, 08:55:44 AM »

Quote from: Stadler on October 23, 2019, 07:59:15 AM

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on October 17, 2019, 02:47:10 PM
No one really speaks Latin.

You'd never know that from reading the American press.

Quid pro quo!

Fucking lawyers and their terms.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #52 on:** December 02, 2019, 03:54:13 PM »

Regarding the topic, i've been watching channels like Bald and Bankrupt and Harold Baldr on YT alot lately. It's interesting because Bald and Bankrupt travels alot in rural and known dangerous areas in Russia, Ukraine and other countries. He's a bit nuts I would say but the fact that he can speak the language needed pretty good means he's often welcomed with open arms even in the most remote and rough areas. What i've gathered from his travels are that most people are more friendly than you might think, however speaking the language needed is an important thing of course.

Some good videos:

Return To The Belarus Chernobyl Zone...With Shopping Bags
Nobody Visits This Country...Find Out Why
Chernobyl Village BBQ Gone Wrong!

King Postwhore · « **Reply #53 on:** December 02, 2019, 07:26:58 PM »

I'm terrible at English, I murder French and I know 30 words and phrases in Lebanese.

Zydar · « **Reply #54 on:** December 03, 2019, 02:34:02 AM »

Fluent in Swedish, pretty good at English. I grew up with American and British TV/music/movies, so I've always had a knack for it. It was my best subject at school.

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What languages can you speak, read/write in, and/or understand?

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