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fluent-german, french, spanish, russian </p>
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Dayem.. How? I can understand that you speak the Indian languages fluently but the romance languages?
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<p>I've been living all over the world due to my dad's job so I've changed schools 10 times and have had to pick up the languages</p>
<p>besides, everytime I read russian verses, it makes me go aww..!;)</p>
<p>"And why is that Tpeck?"</p>
<p>Only language you need to know. English is the de facto language all over the world. I might take Swedish though at U of I.</p>
<p>Ummm... I would think the primary languages are:</p>
<p>English: definitely, since America, England, Belize, a lot of Canada, Australia, New Zealand use it (am I missing a few?)</p>
<p>Mandarin: China, comon, you got 20% of the world's population right there. You also have a good number of Chinese immigrants around the world. Taiwanese can also speak/understand mandarin</p>
<p>French: France, Part of Canada, African Countries</p>
<p>Arabic: Almost all of the middle east</p>
<p>Spanish: Spain, Latin America</p>
<p>umm ... you forgot Hindi ( One of the national languages of India ) .... thats another 15% of the worlds population right there....</p>
<p>Japanese, Spanish, Korean.... so wanna learn Russssssssian!</p>
<p>hmmm....I thought I responded to this thread a while back.....I only skimmed the responses so I may have overlooked myself....oh well.</p>
<p>French: upper intermediate/Conversational...spent 9 month sin France with no prior knowledge of French...man that's like the best way to learn a language!</p>
<p>Italian: basic...my schedule says "intermediate" but I do not feel like I am even there yet. I want to go to Italy and be immersed. </p>
<p>Spanish: Lower than basic....I know a few verbs and can kinda understand some of it based on what I know from French and Italian, but I have forgotten a lot of it. I want to pick it up again....and live in a Spanish speaking country for a while.</p>
<p>I have also studied Hungarian for a short time, but forgotten most of it. I would like to try Portuguese sometime in the future. I like Romance languages and want to be fluent in the four I have mentioned. I would also like to dabble in Catalan and Romanian.</p>
<p>Ich spreche Deutsch! :)
(translation)
I speak German! :)
lol</p>
<p>Armenian! woot!</p>
<p>Spanish
English
French
Japanese
C++, html, and PHP at the momment.</p>
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Only language you need to know: English </p>
<p>And why is that Tpeck?
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Because english is the only language which is guarenteed to have speakers in every nation in the world.</p>
<p>I'm unwilling to believe that as many people speak Japanese as have listed it.</p>
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I'm unwilling to believe that as many people speak Japanese as have listed it.
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Why not? Its a popular language with a prestigious/cool culture etc.</p>
<p>Because, after years of studying it and living in Japan, I meet a lot more people who say they speak it than actually can express any level of fluency in the language.</p>
<p>Granted, I may be wrong...</p>
<p>And the very "coolness" of speaking Japanese is also part of my trepidation. I hate J-fans...</p>
<p>I'm fluent in mandarin chinese. I can't read or write much, but I do speak it rather well. I'm learning french at school, so I'm not going to count myself as even semi-fluent in that, heh.</p>
<p>A Swiss guy, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus stop where two Americans are waiting.</p>
<p>"Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?" he asks. The two Americans just stare at him.</p>
<p>"Excusez-moi, parlez vous Francais?" he tries. The two continue to stare.
"Parlate Italiano?" No
response.
"Hablan ustedes Espanol?" Still nothing.</p>
<p>The Swiss guy drives off, extremely frustrated. The first American turns to the second and says,
"Y'know, maybe we should learn a foreign language."</p>
<p>"Why?" says the other. "That guy knew four languages, and it didn't do him any good."</p>
<p>Afrikaans...</p>
<p>English, Java, sort-of-spanish</p>
<p>and you know, i may be the only deaf person in the world who deosnt know ASL. .. at the weird thing is my dad (who's not deaf) is taking an ASL course right now lol</p>
<p>So...how do you communicate? That's an interesting gap in knowledge there.</p>
<p>i have hearing aids so i can hear a bit... i just talk normally. i would only learn ASL to communicate with other deaf people, but i dont know any who only use ASL</p>
<p>Ah, makes sense. </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>