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Alfons

Wed May 24 2006, 09:27PM

Registered Member #134 Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 10:44PM
Location: Belgium
Posts: 86

Hi,

I was just wondering which languages you can speak, read or write...

My mothertongue is Dutch (Flemish in fact, slightly different from Dutch; comparable to the difference between US and UK-English)

I'm quite fluent in English (read, write and speak)

I understand French very well, both written and spoken, but I have some difficulties to find the right words myself (so speaking isn't that fluent)

I know German to some extent; I understand most thing, both written and spoken, and I can say about everything but with simple words

I'm studying Chinese, but don't know very much about it (yet)

I also have slight notions of Italian, Spanish and Swedish.

So; which languages do you know?

Marko

Wed May 24 2006, 09:33PM

Registered Member #89 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 02:40PM
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Posts: 3145

I speak and write Croatian.

I also write in english but i'm not much of a speaker.

c4r0

Wed May 24 2006, 10:09PM

Registered Member #151 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 02:53PM
Location: Poland
Posts: 153

I speak and write in Polish

I'm also trying to write something in English and i think i'm not so bad

I have no problems with reading in English, especially sort of electrical texts or user's manuals (e. g. i know what is GDT or ringing but i don't know it's name in Polish

) I don't have an opportunity to speak besides my english lessons.

I was also learning German for 3 years but i can't speak/write in this language at all

I can only read but only a bit.

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Wed May 24 2006, 10:47PM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
Posts: 2445

I speak english natively (but suck at spelling), but I have limited support for spanish (2 yrs, I can speak/write simple things, but I don't have enough vocab to really read or listen), fully support pbasic (the code for parralax's bs2).

Simon

Wed May 24 2006, 11:02PM

Registered Member #32 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 08:58AM
Location: Australia
Posts: 549

I did Japanese for years at school. At one time I might have known something like a thousand words - which sounds like a lot but is nothing anywhere near fluency.

I also speak assembler, C, C++, BASIC, PASCAL, etc...

Desmogod

Thu May 25 2006, 01:22AM

Registered Member #139 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 11:01AM
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 358

Lol, I just started learning Japanese yesterday.
Other than that I speak English, Scottish, American, Strine.....

Carbon_Rod

Thu May 25 2006, 01:25AM

Registered Member #65 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:43AM
Location:
Posts: 1155

Languages I have known over the years (but do not remember):
French read/write speak/understand
German read/write speak/understand
Hindi understand
Italian speak/understand (mostly Insults)
Chinese speak/understand (mostly numbers and Insults)

Computer Languages of the top of my head:
Binary switches and micro code
Assembly in many flavours
HP48
C - - (old)
PASCAL
Fortran 77
C in many flavours
C++
Applescript
Basic
Java
Javascript / html
Vrml
Flash scripting
Awk scripting
Bash scripting
Perl
Python
Scheme
Icon / Unicon
PLSQL for Oracle
SQL in many flavours
Gerber
NCDrill
BNF / MBNF
Numerous other Orphan Monkey Languages Microsoft creates.

At one time I knew many languages but now I am rather confined to a colloquialistic English with a French influence.

Cesiumsponge

Thu May 25 2006, 01:26AM

Registered Member #397 Joined: Wed Apr 19 2006, 12:56AM
Location: Western Washington
Posts: 125

English as a native language. Cantonese as a spoken language. Spanish in school for two years, which will be useful because I see more and more Spanish subtitles or plain Spanish signs every single freaking day.

williamn

Thu May 25 2006, 01:51AM

Registered Member #55 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:56AM
Location:
Posts: 149

Native English, and I can read, speak and write German. I took 3 years of it in HS and 4 in College, my wife is a native German. When I was studing for the WPE in German we would go weeks communicating only auf Deutsch, did wonders for comprehesion and speaking ability. Sadly I have not used it in some time, but I plan on specializing in German/American Commerce Laws. May be one day I can actually go there.

Nik

Thu May 25 2006, 05:33AM

Registered Member #53 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 638

Native english and 12 years of french. I took 2 years of german and can get the gist of a conversation. I am currently learning italian curse words because the electrical forman speaks about 8 words of english.

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