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   mathereseposted 12 years ago

   How many languages can you speak?

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      saleheensblogposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Bangla is my mother tongue
      I can speak in English though I am not great in it
      I can speak hindi a little but can understand almost everything  when other speak in hindi
      I understand urdu very little though

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      DTR0005posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      French, a little German, a little Finnish, and a very little Danish.

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      Laeti10posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      French
      English
      Spanish
      German (intermediate)
      Good notions of Norwegian
      
      Just love languages and having international friends: you learn so much!

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         kulikoffposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         there 's a good site to learn Russianhttp://learn-russian.language101.com/

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            Beelzedadposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Utlechna! Spaceba! Paka!

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               kulikoffposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Udachi! (Good luck!))))))))

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      Lita C. Malicdemposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      3! Pangasenense is my native tongue or first language(Pangasinan), Filipino is my national language(Philippines), and English is my second language.
      
      Just these three and a little of Spanish(from college) help me move around and communicate with friends.

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      Ruach Eishposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      English, German fairly well but not fluent, Biblical Hebrew very well and almost fluent (though you don't actually really speak Biblical hebrew as such, you more read/listen to it) and I am self-taught in that language.  I know a little Portuguese, a little Indonesian and a little Old English - again all self-taught.

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      seedlingposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Two and a half.  I speak English and Spanish fluently.  I also speak a little Cebuano (Bisaya).  I can read French.

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      vicky1801posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Spanish
      English
      Italian

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      MHL1966posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      German and English

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      Ms Deeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      English, my mother tongue.
      Indonesian, pretty well.
      Galela, a minority language in Indonesia, pretty fluent.
      A bit of Talk Pisin, the trade language in PNG.

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       aka-djposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       4

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   mathereseposted 12 years ago

   Four languages saleheensblog
   Your are close to being a language genius.  Is Bangla a language from Bangladesh?

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   mathereseposted 12 years ago

   You speak a romantic language  DTR0005 {french} with three other difficult languages good for you!

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   classicalgeekposted 12 years ago

   English and French (fluent), German (enough to get around and read technical papers), Italian (okay), Czech (about the same as German), Latin (although there's not much call for it these days). And a dozen words or so in a dozen other languages (including puns, even bilingual ones), and enough Old Church Slavonic to sing part of a liturgy.

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   mathereseposted 12 years ago

   You are a language genius classicalgeek

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   Sue Adamsposted 12 years ago

   French, Dutch, English, German and Spanish.

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   Slushyposted 12 years ago

   German and English very well, French enough so that I would get along living in France, although not too sophisticated, learning Thai at the moment

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   Some of my news capsules are now displaying the news in Spanish…
   
   I am undecided as to whether this is a good or bad thing.

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   jaja819posted 12 years ago

   turkish,english,tagalog(for philippines)
   
   70% in turkish.i have learned to speak this language because of my fiance being a turk.

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    Aussieteacherposted 12 years ago

    English is my first language, and I learned French at school, and a little Italian.  I have also lived in China so have a few words in Chinese (Mandarin)

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    ImChemistposted 12 years ago

    My native language is Arabic and i can speak also English and french

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    May PLposted 12 years ago

    Easily English. Malay and some Cantonese. My husband and I chop and change these languages we speak to each other when we do not want the kids to understand what we say. That really irks them!!! LOL.

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       Kekemapaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Three-English, French and Spanish. I'm still learning French and Spanish, but I could have a conversation in French and Spanish with a French or Spanis person.

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    Purple Perlposted 12 years ago

    English, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu.
    Can understand Tamil.

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    camloposted 12 years ago

    English and German fluently, a smattering of French, and I'm presently learning Dutch.

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    Evan G Rogersposted 12 years ago

    A bit off subject, but maybe some people would enjoy looking through this:
    
    http://www.ncssfl.org/papers/BenefitsSe … udyNEA.pdf
    
    mamma mia!

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    NorDacposted 12 years ago

    English
    Working on Spanish (not fluent but I can get my point across)
    taking a class in ASL

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    Home Girlposted 12 years ago

    I am learning English, forgetting Russian, completely forgot Latvian, thinking about studying French - c'est la vie

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       camloposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I was beginning to forget English, which was worrying, and inspired me to start writing on a writers' workshop and HubPages. It certainly helped.
       BTW, I'd never noticed English isn't your mother tongue until you mentioned it.

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          Home Girlposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Thank you, it's the nicest compliment, but I know my limitations. I had English at school as a second language, had problems with that, decided to overcome those problems, started to read a lot in English at home and listen BBC radio "Theatre of the Air" it was the name I think. I fell in love with English culture, history, everything. My dream is to go to England to see a lot of things I read about.  I came to Canada with a strong East-European accent, that is now probably Canadian East-European or smth. Accent is the hardest to get rid of.  I work at a Russian company, so mostly I speak Russian at work.

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             camloposted 12 years agoin reply to this

             I've never been able to get rid of my English accent when I speak German, either, even though I've lived here almost 24 years. And, strangely enough, when I speak English now, nobody can tell where I'm from. It's just a neutral accent that doesn't belong anywhere.

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    thirdmilleniumposted 12 years ago

    I am very good at the most evocative language: Silence
    
    watch:
    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q … e&aq=1

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    Paul Kuehnposted 12 years ago

    I am a native American English speaker who grew up in the State of Wisconsin.  I can speak Chinese Mandarin, Taiwanese, and the Thai language to varying degrees of fluency.  Right now I'm working on learning the Isan dialect of Thai which is spoken by the people who live in Northeastern Thailand.

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       Home Girlposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Why do you need Thai language? To work or live in Thailad may be? In terms of practicality I would love to be able to speak French or Spanish. I could go and live somewhere else, where climate is better for my old bones when they'll become completely... old.  Financial climate could be better too... April 18th, I am still wearing my winter coat, shame on you Canada!
       Nice country but  climate sucks!

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    Susan Ngposted 12 years ago

    Four.
    
    My native language is Cebuano (which some people would call a dialect), but we were trained to speak English in school. I speak a little bit of Tagalog, my country's national language, although my vocabulary, grammar, and accent suck. I also speak a little Japanese.

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