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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
 Posts: 3794 Location: Montreal |
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I just wanted to get some sort of idea of how multilingual this board is.
I speak English, French and some *very* rudimentary Japanese |
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zaphdash
 Posts: 620 Location: Brooklyn |
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Only fluent in English. I also speak some Spanish (although I'm better at translating Spanish to English than I am at actually speaking Spanish) and I too know some very rudimentary Japanese (like Spanish, usually more a case of being able to translate Japanese to English, rather than actually speaking Japanese). Used to speak a little Greek too, but I don't remember very much at all anymore. In the case of Greek, I was able to speak better than translate, but now I'd be very surprised if I could do either one. |
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PuertoRicanMan
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I speak Spanish (go figure) and English fluently.. though my english has issues sometimes. Technically I was never taught english grammar.. and I kinda figured it out on my own, but everyonce in a while I come up with some messed up sentence. This being the product of going from a school in PR to upstate NY when I was in 3rd grade.
I speak pretty good Portugese, and some French though my HS french teacher killed it a few years back. I've picked up some basic Japanese from some friends. But its not much. |
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~squeak.
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Finnish and English, with Finnish as native language. My writings in english are more based on intuition and luck rather than proper use of grammar, and since most of the words I know I have learned by playing games, I read and write it better than I speak.
I would not count Japanese on my list, I know only few common terms, greetings and suffixes and my read/write skills in that area are even worse than that (quite possibly, non-existent). Also, used to know my way around Sindarin/Quenya and Orkish/Morbeth when I played more Tolkien based RPGs. Not a "real" language either of those, but it helped to authenticate the experience. It's about three years since I last tried my skills with them, and I would bet that in these days I would not remember even a single word. |
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Youko Kurama
Posts: 3 Location: HFIL |
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I know English with Cantonese being my native language....and I understand a bit of Vietnamese but I can't speak it, and right now i'm learning Spanish
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floor182
Posts: 20 Location: cali |
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i speak english and very poor french( im taking it in school)
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cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
 Posts: 2460 Location: Do not contact me for support. |
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Well, obviously I'm fully fluent in English, my native language.
I'm still improving in Japanese, although I'm not sure what I'm going to do now, as I've completed the Japanese-language courses here. I'm probably not good enough to be a translator for a convention... but when I'm sitting in the audience I nod along and follow the guest's celebratory speeches without any issue. Following accented speech is very difficult, although not impossible. I know enough French to make a fool of myself, but I can sorta follow a conversation if it's not terribly difficult. I remember a few essential phrases to Mandarin Chinese, and recall a handful of characters, but most of my Chinese knowledge is now mush. ... so... yeah, that's pretty much it. |
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10474 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Realisticly?
English and French are the only languages I speak. At various times in my life I was studying Spanish, Cantonese and Mandarin, but never mastered any of them, and have since forgotten most of what I had learned. |
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Magister_L
 Posts: 200 Location: California |
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i speak english, korean (native language), very little japanese, and some latin. o sure latin is a freaken dead language but it helps in vocab and stuff.
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10474 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Ni hao Cookie. Ni zen ma yang? Wo bu gee dow ni hui shuo Guo Yu. |
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Hotaru
Posts: 481 Location: NY |
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enlish, bad english (Yo, holla back to ya motha), and french. But I can't really do french anymore, cause 1) it's been two years since i've had a french class, and 2) cause I say japanese words when i don't know the french word.
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Ramen
 Posts: 346 Location: San Jose |
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I'm only fluent in English. However, I took two years of Japanese in college and have tried to maintain that knowledge up to this point. Suffice it to say that, if I were stuck in Tokyo, I'd be able to find a bathroom and probably not starve
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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Yay! Languages! ^^v
Hmm, lessee.. it would go sumting like this: English German and bits of Polish ;p :wink: Well, Polish as native, English as English (been learning like somewhere around 10 years now), German as 2 foreign language (it astounds me how good at it I actually am <boasting>) and some basics of Latin (had a 1 year seminar when I was on 1 year of my high school, it was a humanistic (<-- not sure whether it is reffered to with this term in English) profile class). Now I ended up in a English philology college for teachers. So basically I'll end up in some crappy school with some ludicrous low salary... ehhh :cry: DON'T YOU DARE DO THAT MISTAKE! :wink: |
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Ferquin
 Posts: 297 Location: Renton, WA, USA |
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I know English without saying. I actually grew up as a very young child knowing Ilocano (I'm Filipino), but repressed it long ago. Now I can understand bits and pieces of it when my parents are talking, but I can't actually speak it. I also took Japanese in high school and some in college, but my knowledge level is really still really low, although, from watching anime, I can at least understand bits and pieces even while watching it raw without subtitles. I can still read and write hiragana and katakana and some kanji. I even picked up a bit of the slang. But I'm by no means fluent in reading and writing, although I wish I was.
Exactly! "Otearai ni aru ka?" |
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Delthayre
 Posts: 414 Location: One of the good United States |
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My native tongue is English, which I speak and write very well (or so I'm told, I tend not to believe people). I also speak rather good German and I should be near fluent in a year or two. I intend to learn Japanese and likely more languages. I have had a lifelone infatuation with language and I hope to become a professional translator (the best money is in the Asian languages, of course they are also the most expensive to translate and the most difficult).
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