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Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:12 pm

English. I can do some Japanese, but my listening skills are far better than reading, writing, or speaking.

Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:00 am

I'm learning french. I can read stuff if the vocabulary's not very advanced. And can ocasionally construct a proper sentence. My listening skills suck though.

And it the vocab's really basic I can figure stuff out in spanish from what I know of french.

I also know a little arabic. I know most of the alphabet, and a bit of basic vocabulary(dog, cat, horse, the numbers, that type of thing).

I'm not actually fluent in anything but english, though I wish I were.

Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:11 am

I can speak and understand Chinese but I can't write it very well.

Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:35 am

English, Spanish, and lots of japanese, but Im not fluent.


When I was little I was completely fluent in Italian, like.... I would only speak Italian except when I was home and I had to be a translator for my parents xD But I didnt speak it anymore when we moved to the US so I lost it :(

Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:33 am

I'm nowhere close to fluency in Spanish, but I'm learning more every day. I've been very motivated to become fluent. I think it's because I really want to speak as many languages as I possibly can, and I really like the culture of Spain. I've also planned on speaking Japanese one day, but all I really know at the moment are numbers from 1-999.

Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:28 am

Fluently English and French. I can understand slow spanish but not read it xD I've never taken Spanish though so sometimes i am lost.

In schools ive been too ive learn greek, japanese, zulu, african but ive forgotten all these.

Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:59 pm

Dutch (mother tongue)

I like to believe my English is pretty decent.
I can read German pretty well, although my speaking and listening skills aren't that great.
French... well, as it's my country's second language, and I learned it at school, I should be expected to know it pretty well, but my French is horrible.
Aside from that, I also have a 'career' in Classics, so if you put something in Ancient Greek or Latin in front of me, I should probably be able to make something out of it, although these languages, more so than any other I know, need to be maintained, and each day ten or twenty words at least slip out.

Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:01 pm

I know one that none of you know... muahahaha :evil:
Icelandic!

I'm good at English and Danish...
English I learned from computer games and television. :P
Danish was forced on me in school :x

I'm currently learning French. :)
I was learning Latin but the course was cancelled :cry:

The one sentence I know in Japanese (besides neko, baka and such) is:
Kanayua eigo no sensei desu.(check spelling?)

Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:26 pm

Konichiiwa.. baka. Nani, kawaii?

XD I really don't know Japanese, just a couple words. Can you tell I struggled for a somewhat-sentance? :P

Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:28 pm

*reads*
Hello idiot...
Medli! o_o;;

:lol:

Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:47 am

English and Chinese fluently (or so I like to think).

Took Japanese for year, but I've forgotten all but a few sentences....

A tiny bit of malay, but then, so can a lot of people where I come from.

I can understand a couple of chinese dialects (erm...cantonese, hokien, hokchia), though I can't speak them very well, I tend to mix the the last 2.

Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:57 am

I'm just proud that I'm an American that can speak English in a world of "Wassup dawg" and "Fo Shizzle". That's all that I ask of myself.


(I've taken 4 years of Spanish classes, but I'm far from fluent in it)

Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:47 am

English fluently (though I am an utter airhead and am always forgetting words). Pig latin and ubbi dubbi when I'm not having an airhead moment (which is very rare), and I'm learning Spanish.

I used to take French and Latin classes, but alas, I can remember nothing I learned in Latin and some basic words in French that I already knew.

Well, actually, I do remember one thing I learned in French class. How to say fish. I'm not kidding, that is the ONE thing I remember.

Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:53 am

Kugetsu wrote:I'm just proud that I'm an American that can speak English in a world of "Wassup dawg" and "Fo Shizzle". That's all that I ask of myself.


(I've taken 4 years of Spanish classes, but I'm far from fluent in it)


Wow how did you manage it ;)

Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:18 am

Practice, dedication, and willpower of course. ;)
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