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Originally posted by Kelly:
...taken a semester of ASL.

You?

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27/m/usa

...sorry, couldn't resist.
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
English.


A bit of French and German, but definitely not fluent by any stretch.

Fahim, the hubby, otoh, has a longer list. In order, they are... Sinhalese. Tamil. Arabic (bits and pieces). English (bigger vocabulary than many native speakers and with better written English, too). Hindi.
 

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Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
 
I can speak multiple dialects of English, from British/Irish/Scottish to Australian, Indian, and European accents. I'm also good at New York, Boston, mid-west, Canadian, then hillbilly southern, southern gentlemen, country southern, and after watching The Wire long enough, ebonics.
 

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Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
 
English and Spanish to speak and read. I took 17 hours of German at the University, once upon a time. The only good I got out of it is that I can read Beowulf on a good evening.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 

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Originally posted by quidscribis:
English (bigger vocabulary than many native speakers and with better written English, too).

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Me too.

Oh, and Spanish.
 

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Posted by Loren (Member # 9539) on :
 
In order from most fluent to least:

English
Italian
French
Latin
Spanish
Ancient Greek
Japanese
Provençal

And bits and pieces of: Akkadian, Veneto, Furlan, Bolognese, Fiorentino, German.
 

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Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
 
I am fluent in over six million forms of communication
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
Akkadian? Sheesh.

I know English, and I'm semi-fluent in French.

I know a few words of Russian and bits and pieces of Assyrian from coworkers.

I wish I knew ancient Latin and/or Greek (Doric, not Ionian, I'm a fan of Laconian history).
 

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Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
 
Fully fluent in English, French and Arabic. Bits and pieces of Spanish and Italian, the counting system and some other choice phrases in Japanese.
 

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Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
 
I know enough French to get by, but that is it.

This summer I am starting a new tradition, where I will devote most of my time to learning a new language (starting with Latin), or at least enough that I can communicate, or read, depending on which language it is. If it is Arabic then I will be satisfied with knowing how to read it, etc.
 

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Posted by Loren (Member # 9539) on :
 
Oh, I forgot! I now know about 50 words in Turkish. I've been learning a few in preparation for a Mediterranean trip this month.

I thought about learning a little Maltese, too, but since nearly everyone there speaks English or Italian, I've spent my time doing other things. Like clearing my schedule so I can take a Mediterranean trip.
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
English (natively).
Latin.
Some French, to read, and less to speak.
Old English, with a dictionary and grammar cheat (it's been a while).
 

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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 

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Originally posted by brojack17:
I am fluent in over six million forms of communication

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*snort*

I speak French, although it's getting pretty rusty.
 

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Posted by Saephon (Member # 9623) on :
 
English as my native language.
Took several years of Spanish, and I got quite good at it...not perfectly fluent though.

Am now taking Japanese and after only six weeks I'm coming along surprisingly well I picked up my nearest manga last night and I can't believe I was able to read several lines of dialogue. Screw Kanji though >_> <_<
 

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Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
 
Besides English, Somali--I've actually lost the ability speak Somali (I can't formulate sentenses--the words simply don't come fast enough) but I can still understand it fairly well, an ability which seems to be going away too. I often find myself asking my mother to repeat instructions in English. Not a fan of the 'use it or lose it' aspect of language...

And I'm also in the middle of a foreign language sequence at my community college mainly to meet the requirements of certain colleges I'm trying to transfer to. I chose Arabic because I thought I'd find it less grueling than, say, German, given how the Somali language appropriated a fair amount of arabic words...like door, gold, etc. But I was wrong. I had no such advantage and now I have to struggle as much as the other students. BUT my pronunciation is often not as atrocious as theirs, so at least I have THAT.
 

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Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
 
In order of fluency:

English
Spanish
German
French
Basque

and bits of Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew and Welsh. I started doing Japanese but it's all gone now.

I met a guy while travelling who could say "I am a windowsill" in 14 different languages. A remarkable skill, but one I fear that will do little to help him in later life...
 

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Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
 
English
Mandarin Chinsese
Bites and pieces of other chinese dialects
Latin
Hebrew
 

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Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
 
* Dutch
* English
* German (can understand it, but haven't had much occasion to use it actively of late)
* Frisian (can't speak - or more specifically I refuse to - but I can understand it)
* un petit pue de Français
 

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Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
 
I'm only truly fluent in Finnish and English...

But I can understand Swedish and French. Well, I can speak them too, although it takes me time.

Currently studying Japanese and Chinese, though will probably drop one of them off at some point.
 

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Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
 
English, Dutch and a little German.

I've set out to learn Welsh several times, but never got very far with it.
 

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Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
English - native language

Portuguese - can hold my own in a conversation but struggle a bit with say, reading a newspaper

Studied French in high school and college and have forgotten nearly all of it, sad to say

Spanish - a little bit of it in high school mixed with my Portuguese means I could probably fake may way through in an emergency if I had to
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
Polish
English
German
French

bits of Portuguese
about 5 words of Luxembourgish
 

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Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
 
I have made myself a Languages priority list. I am planning to learn

French (better than I speak it already, which isn't terribly well, just about conversational)
Arabic (I know a few words of this)
Portuguese
Mandarin Chinese (I have a few words)
Italian

That's The Plan. Pimsleur is my friend.
 

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Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
 
English and Latin
 

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
 
strictly when it comes to spoken:

English
Cantonese (casual conversation)
Mandarin (bits and pieces from a couple courses)
French (remnants of forgotten mandatory grade school classes)
 

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Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
 
Mi tocadisco esta discompuesto!

And I know most of the important swear words in Catalan.
 

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Posted by Fusiachi (Member # 7376) on :
 
I've taken university and university level courses immersed in both Spanish and (now) Portuguese. I speak them passingly, and understand them both to be almost completely functional. Football announcers still talk a little bit too fast for me to keep up.

Otherwise, I speak English reasonably well.

Oh, and from all reports, Pimsleur is quite good so long as you commit to it.

Edit to add: If you are capable of translating any foreign language to English, Kiva.org might be able to use your help. The list of languages for which they are currently soliciting help includes Spanish, French, Khmer, Ukrainian, and Russian. They also note that Amharic, Armenian, Bengali, Dari, Haitian Creole, Mongolian, Pashto, and Sinhala may be needed in the near future.
 

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Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
 

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Mi tocadisco esta discompuesto!

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• BASIC
• Pascal
• Ada
• C
• FORTRAN
• C++
• Visual Basic
• Java

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Originally posted by Icarus:

• BASIC
• Pascal
• Ada
• C
• FORTRAN
• C++
• Visual Basic
• Java

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Was waiting for that...
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
Hey, what's wrong with listing Latin? It's a human language, still used, even. No, we don't speak it much, but most students learn to both read and compose it. The Vatican still publishes in it, and there's a Finnish radio station that broadcasts in it. Dr. Suess and Harry Potter have been translated (among other works).
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Those only count if you can compile Latin.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Well, you don't compile BASIC, so at least give me that one.
 

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Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
 
I speak Blayne and all of its dialects.
 

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Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
 
English and some Spanish. My Spanish gets a lot better after a few weeks in a Spanish-speaking place.
 

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Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
 

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Originally posted by Icarus:
Me? um . . . ::does math:: . . . 35. I think.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Nighthawk:

quote:

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Originally posted by Icarus:
Me? um . . . ::does math:: . . . 35. I think.

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I'm only eight months older and I'm at least three languages up on you. You need to catch up!

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quote:

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Originally posted by JonHecht:

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Originally posted by Nighthawk:

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Originally posted by Icarus:
Me? um . . . ::does math:: . . . 35. I think.

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I'm only eight months older and I'm at least three languages up on you. You need to catch up!

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You have yet to list the languages.

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code:

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void main()
{
   cout <<"J'ai étudié 	français pour trois ans dans le lycée, "
        <<"et Je prends français maitenant à  la université.\n";

   cout <<"\nAs I'm a CS major (software engeneering emphasis),"
        <<" I know several programming languages.  But I am most familiar with C++.\n";

}

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Posted by Vyrus (Member # 10525) on :
 
I am currently in IB Spanish. I am far from fluent but I am damn near conversational.

I'm enrolled in 1st year German, for which there is not an advanced course, and am progressing very well. Due to schedule confusion I cannot take Japanese until my senior year.

So I suppose that I do not speak languages, but am rather speaking.

Allow me to make a language priorities list as several of you have

Spanish [am becoming conversational, very well so far.]
German [Paternal side native language, progressing well]
Japanese [by end of college]
French, by 35
Arabic, as soon as possible for full study of the Qu'ran. [I am not Muslim but am interested.]
Greek, as I am going there for a year.

edit:And of course, Elven. Ancient, not modern.
 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
English more or less
Smattering of Spanish but I do surprisingly well when I visit Spanish speaking countries.
A few words in Arabic, German, French, and Mandarin.
Various dead programming languages.

If I could chose a language I'd really love to know, it would be Spanish. It's a beautiful language. I'm in love with it.
 

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Posted by esl (Member # 3143) on :
 
English, natively
Cantonese, natively conversational. about half literate

basic Mandarin and Russian. I graduated with a degree in Russian but it still needs a lot of work. My Mandarin is somewhere at grade school level. I'm at approximately the same level for those.

A long time ago I took classes in
German
Japanese
Spanish
Latin
 

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Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
 
English: natively
German: gets rustier every day.
portugese and spanish: enough to make my way around a bar is all. By no means is it smooth when I speak either of these two, but the native people don't seem to mind because I'm at least trying to speak something not english.
 

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Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
 
English (native language)
Hebrew (semi-fluent, though these days when I try to say something in Hebrew it tends to come out as Japanese)
Japanese (conversational, though slightly rusty)
Spanish (vaguely remembered from high school)

I also know some miscellaneous scraps of Quenya.

And since we're apparently counting programming languages, I'll add Python to the list.

~Jane~
 

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Posted by Damien.m (Member # 8462) on :
 
I speak English and Irish fluently and have conversational French.
 

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Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
 
English: native
German: used to be near-fluent, but now at the "academic research" level (I can follow the TV news and can read a book with a dictionary on hand.)
Bengali/Hindi: a few words and phrases, although I'm planning on auditing a year-long intensive Hindi course next year

I know that Abhi can speak/understand at least Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Marathi, Maithili, and Assamese (and English, of course). Comes from being an Army brat in India, as well as studying Sanskrit in school for 8 years. Now, if only I can convince him to become a US citizen and join the CIA for the language signing bonus...
 

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Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
 
English: native
German: also at academic research level (but fading)
Romanian: conversationally fluent, decent reading level (also fading)
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 

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Originally posted by Jhai:
English: native
German: used to be near-fluent, but now at the "academic research" level (I can follow the TV news and can read a book with a dictionary on hand.)
Bengali/Hindi: a few words and phrases, although I'm planning on auditing a year-long intensive Hindi course next year

I know that Abhi can speak/understand at least Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Marathi, Maithili, and Assamese (and English, of course). Comes from being an Army brat in India, as well as studying Sanskrit in school for 8 years. Now, if only I can convince him to become a US citizen and join the CIA for the language signing bonus...

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quote:

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Originally posted by Lyrhawn:

quote:

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Originally posted by Jhai:

I know that Abhi can speak/understand at least Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Marathi, Maithili, and Assamese (and English, of course). Comes from being an Army brat in India, as well as studying Sanskrit in school for 8 years. Now, if only I can convince him to become a US citizen and join the CIA for the language signing bonus...

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Are those languages in high demand at the CIA?

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I know I've read somewhere (probably on a recruiting flyer at my college's job fair) that Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, and Gujarati all had signing bonuses. Abhi reads and writes Hindi & Bengali, and could probably pick up all the others quickly, since they share similar scripts (except Urdu, which is a modified version of the Arabic script).
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
I bet he'd get Urdu quickly, too. The alphabet is phonetic. Plus, it is increasingly written with roman characters, so he could just start writing it like that until he picked up the alphabet.
 

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Posted by ? (Member # 2319) on :
 
Elvish
Dwarven
Entish
Klingon
Vulcan
Romulan
Mandalorian

?
 

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Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
Norwegian, English, German.

C++, Java, enough shell-script to get around, random bits of Lisp, Ruby and Tcl. And I used to be fluent in Turbo Pascal, but I don't know if I still am.
 

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Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
 
Tzadik was complaining earlier this evening that I didn't post about him in this thread. Apparently he can't do it himself because that would be...something bad.

So! My husband speaks

Slovak
Hungarian
Czech
English
French

and has forgotten Russian.

I'm leaving out languages he doesn't actually speak fluently, as the list of passively understood or partially spoken languages would be pretty long.

...I'll never catch up with that.

[ October 10, 2007, 04:57 PM: Message edited by: Lissande ]
 

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Posted by Slim (Member # 2334) on :
 
SELECT Language, SkillLevel AS 'Skill Level'
FROM LanguagesIKnow
WHERE SkillLevel > 0
ORDER BY SkillLevel DESC
 

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Posted by xtownaga (Member # 7187) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Saephon:
English as my native language.
Took several years of Spanish, and I got quite good at it...not perfectly fluent though.

Am now taking Japanese and after only six weeks I'm coming along surprisingly well I picked up my nearest manga last night and I can't believe I was able to read several lines of dialogue. Screw Kanji though >_> <_<

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