What languages do you know?

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I'm not going to state the obvious one. I'm basic in Korean (can read, write, have basic conversations) since I work in Korea for my job.

 

[Shemtov]

I'm not going to state the obvious one. I'm basic in Korean (can read, write, have basic conversations) since I work in Korea for my job.

Wow......From what I heard about the language someone without much lanaguge-learning experience will have an extremely hard time learning even basic Korean.
It's been called the hardest major Language an English speaker can learn.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I know a little Spanish.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Wow......From what I heard about the language someone without much lanaguge-learning experience will have an extremely hard time learning even basic Korean.
It's been called the hardest major Language an English speaker can learn.

Thanks, Shemtov. It's actually quite easy to read and write Korean (hangul). The most difficult aspect is the different pronunciation and intonation; it can be torturous for a western tongue to speak properly.

 

[Shemtov]

No, but some Irish words do sound like swear words. Even Gaelic sounds dirty.

Well, the Arabic word for "Only" is Sounds like "f*** it". I have heard rumors that there is an Arab proverb that translates too "Only self-control", and the word for "self-control" is "indabut".
There is an uncommon word in Japanese that sounds like "f*** you" that means "immortal".

 

[Duran Man]

English and Italian.

 

[3rdstone]

Swedish (native language), which means understanding Norwegian pretty good and while often having hard times understanding spoken Danish, I at least can read it understandably. English of course, and some of the German and French from school still remains in memory although it's quite poor these days.

I took a crash course in Spanish in the 90's but sadly most of that is forgotten. I often think of going to the university library and borrow some material to repeat these languages. Guess it's just my lazy ass that's keeping me.

 

[tzarinna]

I'm only fluent in English.

I know a little Russian, ASL, Spanish, German, Italian and French.

I belong to a Russian group, I just don't have the time to participate to maintain my skills. I only learned ASL to teach my son, I think I'm better at it than I give myself credit for.

German and Italian is so very weak, learned that for travel, so it's very basic.

 

[Shemtov]

I am now learning Turkish, cause I love how that language sounds.

 

[Shemtov]

I also love how Farsi sounds, so I'm learning tht too, now.

 

[747]

Speak, read and understand Swedish and English. Understand Norwegian. Read Danish. Wants to learn Japanese one day.

 

[Shemtov]

Now I'm Learning Greek
Yes, i'm learning 5 languages.
It's my hobby.

 

[Shemtov]

Arabic is my native language

Wht dialect?

 

[Shemtov]

Bump to sy I'm dropping Greek but learning Mohawk instead.

 

[soundofyousick]

still waiting on those star trek things to be invented.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

German is my Mothertongue & I'm good in English (I hope soo...).

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

English, Spanish and a little everyday Japanese.

 

[NickNitro]

Anyone learn any of these languages using Rosetta Stone? I am Italian-American and would love to learn Italian.

 

[Brain Damage]

English and Bulgarian.

 

[MrMaooz]

English.

Some Pashto and German.

 

[Lord]

Where's the Portuguese option -.-

 

[jonathancrane]

I can speak English and French fluently, but have a smattering of German. In terms of non-human languages, Elvish is one (I wrote Elvish poetry in high school.) I am not joking or trying to derail the thread: I had a small, thick book that had everything scrap of information on Tolkien's Elvish and I taught myself it.

 

[MrMaooz]

Where's the Portuguese option -.-

Where's the Pashto option?

 

[Airwings]

Wanna learn German, French, Italian, Greek, Finnish and a couple of other languages (perhaps Dutch and Icelandic)

 

[Lord]

But Portuguese is the 7th most spoken language in the world. Not to mention we discovered half the world