How many languages?

Originally posted by master of hardcore

Originally posted by barone

brasilian

you mean portuguese[;)]

Sure[approve]base of the language is portuguese.

[Coasterkidmwm]

I speak:
Sarcasn
American
Crappy Spanglish (yay work)

I understand:
Redneck
Crappy Spanglish (again yay work)

English, and limited German.

I'm sorry gazag so that makes it ok for you to put people down? Don't dish it if you can't take it lol.

English, Spanish, and a little bit of German.

I'm from Ohio. English is my native language. I have studied Spanish since 1980 and speak it very well. Here's what I have learned since I started studying Spanish. Spanish is much easier to spell than English because you spell the Spanish word they way it sounds. English has a lot of silent vowels making it harder to spell.
There are 4 parts to learning a language:
1. writing
2. reading
3. listening
4. talking
Each has to be learned. The first two you learn from books. The last two you learn from talking with another person.
To be fluent in another language you think in that foreign language and forget your native language. You don't try to translate as you're speaking the foreign language.
By the way, you can even lose your native language if you don't speak it.

I only speak English, so I guess I'm the perfect stereotype American. I did take four years of Spanish but it just never sunk in. I wish I was bilingual or trilingual though, and I really do think we should push language much earlier in American schools instead of waiting until junior high or high school.

im not sure if i answered already, but ill answer again. Fluent English, lol, Fluent French, Some Spanish, Some Italian.

[jayman]

i speak fluent english,
but since i repair landscaping equipment for a living, and i live in southernest most southern california,i wouldn't call myself bilingual, but i have learned enough spanish to comunicate basic stuff.i think it's bull crap that alot of people here get pissed off when people speak spanish.
plus my grandfather and grandmother were liguists, and they raised my mom in puebla mexico..they speak some wierd stuff ..

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by dcs221Don't dish it if you can't take it lol.

Ummmm this from you?

Ummmm I blocked you for a reason. Excuse me if I don't respond to your question.

As far as languages go, I speak English, ma anche parlo un po' d'Italiano. I understand more Italian than I speak though.

Originally posted by Trackwalker

I'm from Ohio. English is my native language. I have studied Spanish since 1980 and speak it very well. Here's what I have learned since I started studying Spanish. Spanish is much easier to spell than English because you spell the Spanish word they way it sounds. English has a lot of silent vowels making it harder to spell.
There are 4 parts to learning a language:
1. writing
2. reading
3. listening
4. talking
Each has to be learned. The first two you learn from books. The last two you learn from talking with another person.
To be fluent in another language you think in that foreign language and forget your native language. You don't try to translate as you're speaking the foreign language.
By the way, you can even lose your native language if you don't speak it.

True, true , true. Learning English in the Netherlands isn't very hard, though, there are a lot of english website, games etc. But Spanish... French... OK, German looks a lot like Dutch.

originally posted by dcs221

I understand more Italian than I speak though.

Duh, I understand more English than I speak,
I understand more German than I speak etc. But by hearing other people speak you learn a lot. I think I couldn't write this if I never heard other people speaking English (I don't mean my English teacher).

I speak Dutch, I can speak English, I am pretty good at French, a bit of German and a very little bit of Italian. (Not much)

Originally posted by gazag
and its true no american can speak propper english, none of you can even do a propper english accent.

If you put it that way, then no one raised outside of the UK can do a "proper English accent."

I speak finnish (as my mothertongue), swedish, english and germany. Though my success at languages I still prefer maths and physics.

Originally posted by Cygnus12

Originally posted by gazag
and its true no american can speak propper english, none of you can even do a propper english accent.

If you put it that way, then no one raised outside of the UK can do a "proper English accent."

thats not true mate, the tounge and the way you americans have learned to speak make it practically impossiable for you yo do a propper english accent.

same as english cannot do some accents and i bet the same for other countrys.

coasterkidd if you can speak redneck which i think is awsome to be able to speak give us a taster[:D]

American English, some German, a word or two in Afrikaans, and a smattering of Esperanto.

Gazag, we all know you're dyslexic. You bring that up every time someone corrects your spelling. What we want to know is why dyslexia would keep you from using spell check. Everyone has limitations of some kind. Our choice is to either work on overcoming them, or use them as an excuse for suckage. [;)]

Originally posted by minicoopertx

What we want to know is why dyslexia would keep you from using spell check.

well cuz i dont have a spell check on my computer thats why

and i am trying with it but i still carnt help it its just the way it is

^ Afrikaans? You didn't say you can speak Dutch. "Afrikaans" is Dutch for African though.

I speak German fluently(my native language),English, some Spanish and some words in French.

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by Sjaggerijn

^ Afrikaans? You didn't say you can speak Dutch. "Afrikaans" is Dutch for African though.

wrong. Afrikaans is the language they speak in South-Africe, and it's an adaption of Dutch

[gouldy]

I can speak every lanuage known to man...

English - Where is the toilet?
Every European language (excluding Italian) - WHERE IS THE TOILET?
American - WHERE.... IS.... THE..... TOILET? (cus you have to go a bit slower for them [;)]
Italian - WHERE IS THE TOILETio?
Japanese - Hold up picture of toilet and a question mark
Every other lanuage in the world - bludgen them nearly to death until they give the right answer.

I think that pretty much covers it [:)]

Originally posted by Sjaggerijn

^ Afrikaans? You didn't say you can speak Dutch. "Afrikaans" is Dutch for African though.

I can't speak Dutch.

Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages in South Africa. Dutch and English and Swahili and Zulu all contribute to its vocabulary and syntax.

I speak English, German and of course Sloven fluently ([pshades]). And I can understand Croatian/Serbian and Bosnian quite well. I can also understand a little bit of Spanish and French!

[jayman]

i know spanish, it's actually easy to learn.... all you really have to do is add an "eeeto"
or "eeelio" suffix to the english word and there you have it...