March 18, 2009 - How many languages do each of you speak, and which ones are they? Hugs... teri
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Unfortunately, I only speak English, but that includes "New England English", "Southern English", and "Medical English". I wish that I had the time to learn another language, especially Spanish, since it is spoken a lot here in Florida.
29871Thank you for your question dear Teri. I speak Spanish, my husband is American but grew up in Venezuela, so he also speaks Spanish and we speak Spanish at home because we want our kids to speak fluid Spanish. I speak English also but not too well. I want to go back to school to learn English.
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35167I am Belgian,I spaek Flemisch (dutch) and French, German and a little Englisch.
Nice to read al this comments.
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914English only, I have never learned any other.French is a second language here.My grandchildren know how to speak and read it. They learn it in school.
51302My language is Spanish, I read English, but I learn everyday from your comments.
6193This question leads to another question: who of you have Polish root (even remotely)? I saw that many of you had notions of Polish...My paternal grandmother was Polish :o)
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by memasanders
20 Mar 2009
My maternal grandmother was polish. My great grandfather came to New York Ellis Island from Ploand.
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34304I speak only french !!!I write in english with you, rather badly hehehe!!! But I am not able to soeak nor either to understand the english spoken. Fortunatly, I have a good dictionary on my table, and all you cuties, you are very indulgent towards me Flowers to all *****
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by auntbaba
20 Mar 2009
Your English and your writing is wonderful, and so much more advanced than the very little French that I can speak!
25533hello teri, does a dialect count too, hehe?if not then there's dutch, english, german and some french.hope it's enough.Sometimes it's not enough to make my husband understand what I mean( joke, myside. He does not read this side so I can write it down.hehe.haha.)
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by manami
20 Mar 2009
Dialect is very interesting too. Even in a small country like Japan, we have so many dialects, Osaka laugh about our Nagoya way to say...and of course we laugh about them. Anyway, both so cute. I like immitating Osaka's dialect. :) It seems Australia doesn't have dialect???
by mpo14011
20 Mar 2009
I think Australia does, sort of. The New South Wales people pronounce words differently to the South Australians. I come from N.S.W. and often get teased about the way I pronounce words like school and cool and plants, etc.
743293What a lovely question. I was born and bred in Afrikaans, and thus I can also understand and read something written in Dutch. Afrikaans is its own language, which was born when people from Holland landed here, hundreds of years ago. I also speak fluent English (spelling sometimes a little shaky), and my kids was brought up in English, and still speaks English. Hubby a Englishman
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by manami
20 Mar 2009
That is very interesting, Marietta. Thanks for sharing part of Afrikaans culture.
15907At Home German, English, Afrikaans( Dutch) Zulu and a few words Swahili
2847Well English, Englsh and some more English. that`s Aussie English of course.....Was learning Japanese for awhile, so know many words...Learnt French at school but it was so long ago I don`t even know one word now.....besides have never even met a french person in my life.....I also speak mumble like Pauline............lol
23265I speak Southernese and when I try to speak proper I sound silly even to myself. Born in Georgia.Lived in Mississippi for a few years then Back to Georgia. I'm 62 and still in Ga. I was in Gatlinburg Tn. in the mountains one summer and a store owner made fun of my souther accent. In Tn. and he made fun of me. Linda
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by gerryb
19 Mar 2009
Surely he was a "transplant!" I live in Knoxville, and sound like a hillybilly!
24961How fun to see all these languages that you all speak... Thanks for answering
Here's a joke for you all:
What do you call someone who only speaks ONE language?
American! LOL...
xoxo
33575American English ONLY..the spanish I took in High School couldn't even place an order at McDonald's!!
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119791I do the 'spanish' too, but my education has been in english. I used to be fluent in italian, but since I don't use it any more..it's kinda gone-LOL
6578Fluently English and Spanish, I can find my way around with the French and Dutch but i do not fluently speak them.
34304I speak and write Japanese and Portuguese fluently, some Spanish and Italian and I'm still learning English, got some Minnesotan dialets(you betcha) and now Australian ones (you reckon) :D I just love learning languages, I think they are very interesting!
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88650English, German and some words in Arabic.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HERZLICHEN GLUECKWUNSCH ZUM GEBURTSTAG, and ?????? I believe it is MABRUK meaning Congratulation
109774Sorry to say only English. Wish it were more. In the states it really wasn't necessary for a long long time. Now, however, it would be a asset. But it would be hard to decided which would be the most useful!
62461I Speak English, Some German, Some Spanish and I am trying to learn some Arabic. I am a Public School Librarian in Minnesota. I also Speak Minnesotan Ah sure you betcha.
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by manami
20 Mar 2009
Read, I worked in a public School as a librarian volunteer in Minnesota too. I miss the 10 thousand lakes land :)
11473I speak 2 english first ,spanish 2ed but can't read it well.
2688Well i speak english but my DH says i "speak" Mumble. Does anyone else speak this "lingo"? :)))))
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by gerryb
19 Mar 2009
Goodness yes! My hubby! I tell people I'm going deaf from trying to understand/hear him for 45 yrs!
by tolgamum
19 Mar 2009
My hubby spoke Mumble for many many years, but after 70 he graduated to Grumble - Does that qualify for 2 different Languages?
42046My first language is spanish, and know very well english, I read and write it better than speak it...pero ahi vamos, me gustaria intercambiar mensajes con alguien aqui, con alguna cutie!:O)
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by letvia
20 Mar 2009
Hola sewingerr. Yo también hablo español. Soy de Venezuela pero tengo 10 años viviendo en USA.
by sewingerr
20 Mar 2009
hola letvia! me alegro mucho poder escribir aqui en espanol, quizas podemos hacerlo mas a menudo que creen?
4218I only speak English. I take my hat off to all the people who have another language and learn english as it is not an easy one to learn as it has many words spelt differently but sound the same ( to, two, too ) or spelt the same but said differently (read, read)
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by mops
19 Mar 2009
Most languages have some homophones or words that seem to rhyme when written but don't when spoken - in Dutch f.i. vervelend and wervelend, accents on different syllables which makes them very difficult for non-native speakers. English has one big advantage, the spelling has not changed for ages. Dutch does change the spelling once every 30 years or so. Horrible! You suddenly feel yourself an ignoramus in your own language. Just fancy that happening with your second or third language!!
76409Well, like Lillian - I speak Southernese, and don't do well at that. I moved to North Carolina for a while, and they told me I had to be from New York, and not the South, for I not talk like a Southener. I grew up in the Midwest, and guess I just speak Mutt English. I studied French in school, and could converse then, but surely not now.
44904Afrikaans and English and a little bit of FANAKALO this is a language that most of the miners in the mines here in South Africa talk to each others,it is a mixture of black, afrikaans and english languages. Marie
11877Well, just Australian version of English, learnt French at High School, forgotten most of that, just remember the common phrases
15218English, California style but not Valley Girl (like totally). Don't remember much of my 3 years of high school Espanol. Forgot most of my religious school Hebrew too. I know a couple of Yiddish words my grandma used to say. My grandparents use to speak in Yiddish when they didn't want my mom to know what they were talking about.
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by simplyrosie
20 Mar 2009
My family did the same thing.. on Father's side Yidish, German and Hebrew...on Mom's side, Italian, Ladino (Sephardic "Hebrew" like Yiddish is Ashkenazi "Hebrew" - for those of you that don't know)... I picked up a lot actually, but never fluent in any of them... since I don't go to Shul too much anymore, I don't hear Hebrew as often and my Israeli friends have moved back to Israel (except 1, but she rather speak English).
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132773mother languages Maltese and English, my German is much more fluent since I came to Germany. I also speak Italian quite well, understand some Spanish and French but not very fluent in them. And oh some words in Arabic and Hebrew too but just understand them definitely not able to write them! All hubby's efforts to teach me words in Russian, Romanian and Czech were so far in vain..... yeah you got it right he can speak all my languages and the last 3 too! He definitely is my best half :)
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12102Dutch, English, German, a little bit French and Spanish but the last two languages are a little bit difficult to me.
Dank je wel, Thanks very much, Danke schon, Merci Beaucoup, Muchos gracias.
58029Dutch :), English - fluently; German - passable, never mind the inflections; French - school French alas, although I can read it well enough; bit of Spanish; can read Danish with some trouble thanks to a lot of embroidery and lace making books; and that's about it.
And unlike ssarner's long list Basic, Pascal and Fortran, although they've all gone rather rusty. I am now what my IT-son degradingly calls 'an end user', which is one step up from the bottom.
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by ssarner
18 Mar 2009
It is not the exact language syntax. It is the logic behind those langusges that you understood.
by denice
18 Mar 2009
Mops I wonder what your son calls someone like me who can hardly turn the computer on and does not even recagnise the names of computer languages. Oh and I am one of those english only people. Tried french in school and the only passed me on the basic course if I was not taking any more courses.LOL
by marietta
19 Mar 2009
Mops, if you speak your dutch, I am sure you might just understand my Afrikaans, if spoken slowly. Dutch people always say: "speak slowly,slowly", but sometimes you can make yourself understood.
by mops
19 Mar 2009
I might. I have read quite a number of Afrikaans poems, when my newspaper was doing a series on African writers. I loved the sound of the language and some the poems made me want to go see the landscapes they wrote about.
by manami
20 Mar 2009
I love the Dutch language 'sound', Martine! I should learn at least some words of it.
145304English a little Spanish and a few bad words in Polish my moma used to say a long, long time ago.
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by mariahail
18 Mar 2009
this is funny, my GS is six and already know some not very good polish words, because he has learned from his Grandmother on the dad's side.
8321I speak French (hé hé), English (somehow, not so good, not so bad), a few words of German (I have forgotten since school), a little Polish and Yugoslav (much less since my grandmother is gone )and I love the singing tone of the Italian ... that I don't speak unfortunately.
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200127I speak English, 3 dialects of Chinese, some Japanese, Portuguese, and few European languages but not fluent as human languages. I also speak C/C++, XML, UML, C#, MFC, Python, CORBA, Visual Basic, SQL, Access, Oracle, ColdFusion, Java, Javascript, Shell script, Pearl script, FORTRAN, COBAL, Pascal, Prolog, and Assembly Language as computer programming languages. Recently, I am learning Binbonese which is pretty much as English except the way how I present it to fool my husband.
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18085English, used to know Farsi forgot most of it, and some cuss words in Spanish (numbers and colors too)
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20498I Speak Aussie English and only know an odd word or two of Italian and polish and I sign.
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by ezzemml
18 Mar 2009
ps Since coming here and visiting all the sites from other countries i have piched up on a few odd words here and there.
18167I'm with Lillian! I murder the King's English! Took 4 yrs. of Spanish & couldn't talk my way out of a paper bag!! I do some ASL, but my fingers are getting so gnarled, am sure it's hard to "read!" Plus don't use it & lose it! So guess I only speak English!
35675Well I murder the King's English cause I speak Southernese. That's the only one & I'm to old to start learning another. I know a word or 2 here & there n french but very little(I have a FrencH Sister n law)a little spanish & a little Italian but only a few words. *
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28916English, English and English. I used to speak Japanese and German but have forgotten them long ago. A smattering of Spanish can be added to the list. While in Catholic school I also knew Latin but no more since mass is spoken in English. Do priests still know Latin?
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by blhamblen
18 Mar 2009
Only the old ones..and those that have resurrected the Latin Mass in some cities:)
12985Spanish and a little English****
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by simplyrosie
18 Mar 2009
Okay Maria, Charlie and I thought you spoke French too? Love you friend... xoxo
6048420088I speak English - Actually I should say American (barely, just kidding), a little Yiddish, a little Hebrew and used to be fluent in American Sign Language.
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by stork
18 Mar 2009
Took French and Spanish in school (not by choice-dad was USAF and we had to take them). Took Latin in high school - can remember a few words of each, but nothing fluent.
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