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Just curious:

Which language can you speak?

Which is your native language?

If you could, which language would you like to learn? Why?

Do you plan to learn a language?


I am native in german, and trying to speak english.
A bit of Latin and a tiny bit of French.

I am just trying to learn a bit Mandarin, but I think Russian or Japanese would be more interesting.

i voted for Hebrew, i like the sound of that language and i´m a bit attached with jews and Isreal. Also it has a real cool writing language. but to tell the truth i´m to lasy to begin with.

i might have opted for other langueages as well, cause i like to learn more one day (probably when i´ve retired...) but your poll di´dn´t had the options...

Started learning Chinese in school, but never finished it... perhaps I can go back to it one day.

Viktor von Domm wrote:i voted for Hebrew, i like the sound of that language and i´m a bit attached with jews and Isreal. Also it has a real cool writing language. but to tell the truth i´m to lasy to begin with.

i might have opted for other langueages as well, cause i like to learn more one day (probably when i´ve retired...) but your poll di´dn´t had the options...

Interesting.


Besides, multiple choices should be possible.

Spanish, beyond dos tequilas por favor.

Mandarin, Turkish, and Russian.

I would like to get my Japanese and German levels back up.

Lack of opportunities to practice!

C++ or Python.

No write-ins for Sanskrit?

Mandarin is the only one I've started (well got one of those dodgy casette books from the library a good while back) although part of me also considers Japanese.

Think my mind might melt if I tried to learn both.

Frazzled wrote:Spanish, beyond dos tequilas por favor.

....better dos riojas por favor.... tequila is not Spanish...

Back on topic

i talk Spanish (obviously) and a dialect (feth you separatists!) of it (Catalan)
i talk English... not perfect but enough to make a my way
a bit of German (i would like to increase knowledge, but i don't have the moment by now)

i would like to learn swedish and danish, but i think is hard to find classes over here, not to mention i don't have all the time of the world...

Spanish, because I live in the Peoples Republic of Mexas.

Edit: And I love it here.

Black Corsair wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Spanish, beyond dos tequilas por favor.

....better dos riojas por favor.... tequila is not Spanish...

It is in Texas baby.

I should've voted for Latin. Knowing Latin would sure help my grade in that class!

I learned some Arabic when I was in the Marines, I'd like to become fluent.

Japanese would be cool too, but that's only so I could order sushi with more nuance, I guess. Can't really think of a practical application for it around these parts.

Frazzled wrote:

Black Corsair wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Spanish, beyond dos tequilas por favor.

....better dos riojas por favor.... tequila is not Spanish...

It is in Texas baby.

Tequila still being not Spanish ... very funny, it reminds me where i was in Sarajevo, i was in the US PX where one of my comrades saw a little thing... a computer program to learn Spanish... while showing the Mexico map... i was tempted to crush it one everyone's face.... some people talks a language that didn't know where came... fething shame...

I plumped for 'European other' with a veiw to speaking Polish. I have just started working on building sites, and there are a lot of Polish lads labouring (amongst other Eastern European types), not only do I think it would be useful for explaining more involved tasks but it would be good to understand what they are talking about when they all get together at break, probably nothing too flattering!

Black Corsair wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Black Corsair wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Spanish, beyond dos tequilas por favor.

....better dos riojas por favor.... tequila is not Spanish...

It is in Texas baby.

Tequila still being not Spanish ... very funny, it reminds me where i was in Sarajevo, i was in the US PX where one of my comrades saw a little thing... a computer program to learn Spanish... while showing the Mexico map... i was tempted to crush it one everyone's face.... some people talks a language that didn't know where came... fething shame...

I'm pretty sure basically anyone who knows anything at all about Spanish knows it comes from Spain. The close proximity of Mexico to the United States just gives most people in the U.S. a more pertinent reason to learn Spanish than comparatively far-off Spain, hence the more common Mexican-centric Spanish marketing in the U.S.

I said Spanish, but I meant Castillian.

Obviously.

I can speak Spanish.

English is my native language.

I can also speak a little German, French, Italian and Dutch - I would really like to improve upon those. I really don't think it would take much to get them up to scratch, especially French and Italian, given their similarity to Spanish.

I would really like to learn Urdu.

Well, I already have GCSE A* grades in Latin and French, I used to learn German and Spanish, although only the present tense...

I would like to learn chinese though, as it is a very important language in engineering worldwide. (and it would mean that I would be able to understand what the Boarders are chatting about when they talk in further maths class )

kronk wrote:I said Spanish, but I meant Castillian.

Obviously.

I said Spanish, but I meant High Mexican like my old NAFTA professor.

I can speak a few simple sentences in Spanish and french, and am in my second year of German.

I would very much lke to learn Latin, just to come up with some seriously badass names for 40k.

I would like to speak Chinese. Our new overlords will need go-betweens who know how to communicate with the natives.

Monster Rain wrote:I learned some Arabic when I was in the Marines, I'd like to become fluent.

I'm at the point where I need to do some serious time in the Levant in order to achieve full fluency. Right now, while I can generally get something intelligible out, it takes a couple minuted of thinking for it to happen.

Chinese, Hindu, and Arabic are the most important ones to learn imo.

I'm trying to learn Japanese, but it's hard to find time among school work. Although I admit it's mainly so I can watch anime better - some series just don't have very good (if any) translations for text that appears on-screen. It makes Excel Saga impossible to watch, since it seems like 80% of the humor is found in the jokes in text.

For anyone interested in learning a new language, some of the tasters on here look quite good:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/


Not had chance to delve into them TOO deeply, mind.

Amaya wrote:Chinese, Hindu, and Arabic are the most important ones to learn imo.

Learning the correct names is a good place to start...

dont learn arabic.... if you do they'll try to....... recruit you.

I want to learn Norwegian. I know some but I'd like to take on a coarse at fluently speaking it.