Different Languages

[sound boss]

I am english, and can speak a little bit of German... not fluent, infact far from fluent...

im a slow learner, and i only know the basics after 4 years of learning it at high school. I will never be able to learn it fluent, because it has no use for me. this may seem ignorant, but its true..

 

[jebadiah the wise man]

some spanish, from 5 years of it in niddle/high school. hope to become fluent soon

 

[Steph]

Yes you are correct. Same written words, different pronunciations.

@Steph: Taiwanese and Mandarin are pronounced the same way though are they not?

Taiwanese and Mandarin are completely different.

The only Chinese dialect Taiwanese sounds similar to is Fukienese, as far as I know. When my mom speaks Taiwanese to her family over the phone, I can't understand a word.

To whoever asked what my family speaks to me at home, they speak both English and Mandarin to me. If they don't want me to understand what they're saying, they'll speak Taiwanese, because I don't know it at all x]

 

[ironblade87]

Taiwanese and Mandarin are completely different.

The only Chinese dialect Taiwanese sounds similar to is Fukienese, as far as I know. When my mom speaks Taiwanese to her family over the phone, I can't understand a word.

Really? I have a group of Taiwanese friends, yet it sounds more similar to Mandarin that Fukienese.

Fukienese is Fook Geen Wai in Cantonese right?

 

[Music Producer]

nga bho ke gyab shing ghi yo

translation:

I know how to speak Tibetan

 

[Fanta]

I speak finnish, swedish, english and i'll probably start italy or spanish

 

[Darken Phoenix]

hey swan I'm sorry for the argument I had with ironblade I really just wanted to know if 1337 counted sorry won't come back...

 

[Christmas Crackers]

I speak Arabic, Syrian(not sure if this is the name for it in English, but it's pronounced ser-ya-nee in Arabic), French, Spanish, and I'm learning Italian.

English: Hello
Arabic: Marhaba
Syrian: Shlomo
French: Bonjour
Spanish: Hola

 

[Sharp Tooth]

can sprechen de deautch?

 

[0mfg a cow]

i wish i could speak a different language

 

[pink_war]

I know french fluently : ).

 

[mu-b]

i wish i could speak a different language

Fuck off, you're posts are useless repetitions and everyone hates you.

Take your buddy Pink War with also.

On topic - I can speak arabic.

 

[Arya]

I can speak spanish, fluently. I can also say many french expressions. Besides that, I can say one or two sentences in Japanese, two words in Mandarin, and that's it.

 

[shakaka]

I see no reason in learning a new language while I'm still in high school. I don't plan on doing any world traveling until after college. I've taken Spanish 1 and 2, but I'm far from fluent. I'm taking German in college and I also want to become fluent in Spanish as well.

Off-topic: Holy fuck this thread is old.

 

[Swan]

Wow, who actually has the time to go through and find threads this old? Honestly.

 

[Sup3r 4ut03r]

Fuck off, you're posts are useless repetitions and everyone hates you.

Take your buddy Pink War with also.

On topic - I can speak arabic.

He also gravedug this from 2008.

I am trying to learn Russian.

Also, little fun fact, no human can (knows how to) speak Egyptian. It's that old.

 

[dam prayer noobs]

I speak ebonics yo.

 

[rs nechryeal]

Well my family is Greek so I understand and can speak very little of that, currently signed up for my third year of Latin but nobody speaks that except the pope so I'm not sure if that counts, and I know a little Spanish from 7th grade. So 3 other languages?

 

[Xombi]

I can speak Spanish fairly fluently. I don't know every word or much of the slang, but I can carry out a conversation.

I'm in the process of learning German. I've been learning it for about 3 years now, so I'm okay.

 

[b1b]

I took Spanish 1 and 2
I know Hebrew and English fluently.
Japanese is difficult but would be really great to know. (but then again there's always that problem of you won't remember a language if you don't actually use it, so I guess I could move to Japan? Still I have no idea what I want to do with my life.)