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Heroes Community > Other Side of the Monitor > Thread: What languages do you people speak?
Thread: What languages do you people speak? This thread is 12 pages long: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 · «PREV / NEXT»
Guitarguy
Guitarguy


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posted June 29, 2010 10:20 PM

If I wasn't so lazy or distracted, I'd resume my Mandarin studies in earnest before I take my next class in January 2011.  I'm also very eager to learn Japanese, since I'm enjoying many Japanese songs (and it's a handy language to know in my city).  And then, I wouldn't mind learning some basic Korean and German.

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DagothGares
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posted June 29, 2010 10:24 PM

Oh, I can read latin, if you give me plenty of time and a dictionary (I suppose this applies to my german and french as well)
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Adrius
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posted June 29, 2010 10:51 PM
Edited by Adrius at 22:53, 29 Jun 2010.

Swedish and english fluently.
Can understand italian, spanish, latin and german pretty well.

Recently discovered that Afrikaans is easy as hell for swedes to understand so I might as well add that haha. If I ever go to South-Africa I could get around with just swedish.

Afr: Hallo! Hoe gaan dit? Swe: hallå, hur går det? Eng: Hey how's it going?
Afr: Praat jy Afrikaans? Swe: pratar du Afrikaans? Eng: Do you speak Afrikaans?
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DagothGares
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posted June 29, 2010 10:53 PM

Afrikaans is ridiculously easy for a dutch speaker:

Dutch: Hallo, hoe gaat het?
Dutch: Spreek jij Afrikaans? ("Praat jij Afrikaans?" works too, but it sounds awkward)
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Adrius
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posted June 29, 2010 10:56 PM
Edited by Adrius at 22:57, 29 Jun 2010.

Praat jy Afrikaans sounds awkward when translated to swedish too, would rather say "talar du Afrikaans?" but I wanted to emphasize the similarities.
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shyranis
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posted June 30, 2010 01:15 AM

I know English and Cambodian and some French.

Hubby knows English and barely any French and Japanese.

My baby knows how to say random syllables =D
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xerox
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posted June 30, 2010 01:48 AM

lol @ afrikaans, very random

Very good: Swedish, English, Krashnowiz
Very bad: Spanish (still sucks except miel)
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dragontooth
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posted June 30, 2010 08:25 PM

Mandarin, English and basic Malay. ANd a dialect like Hokkien.

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Oscarius
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posted June 30, 2010 08:38 PM
Edited by Oscarius at 21:15, 30 Jun 2010.

Hmm, let's see, Swedish of course.
I'm also decent at english, the only reason why I say "decent" is because I always have trouble with pronouncing every single word...that is what you get if you get pretty much all your vocabulary from reading and listening and then not practice speaking at the same time.

I also got some basic japanese going, even if we haven't made it so far yet. (First 4 chapters in Genki) But I can atleast read both kana's and some kanji.

Let's see then...nothing more, my french died after 1 year, I can say "My name is..."
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Fauch
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posted June 30, 2010 09:09 PM

french (native) english (fluent) and a bit of german and russian.

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kesnar
kesnar


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posted June 30, 2010 09:32 PM

Greek
English
French
and a little Esperanto

(I am supposed to be able to speak ancient greek too but I don't.../)

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antipaladin
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posted June 30, 2010 11:30 PM

i leanred a new german saying : " Dast icht fanfluchten, Firshtain gruben giniralen" this is cursed understand group of generals?
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winterfate
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posted July 01, 2010 12:09 AM

Since I'm too lazy to check the thread to see if I've already posted here...

English
Spanish

In that order of expertise, and that's about it. Always wanted to learn French though, but too lazy for that too.
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Lexxan
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posted July 01, 2010 12:36 AM

Quote:

Recently discovered that Afrikaans is easy as hell for swedes to understand so I might as well add that haha. If I ever go to South-Africa I could get around with just swedish.

Afr: Hallo! Hoe gaan dit? Swe: hallå, hur går det? Eng: Hey how's it going?
Afr: Praat jy Afrikaans? Swe: pratar du Afrikaans? Eng: Do you speak Afrikaans?


Boy, you should learn Dutch, asap

Speaking of, here's mine, in terms of mastery

Dutch (native)
English (decent, I use it nearly as often as Dutch)
German (lol shabby at most)
French (Rarely use it, it's so rusty... but passable)
Spanish/Bulgarian (limited to understanding it, but I so cannot speak them - well, aside from ordering food)

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Adrius
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posted July 01, 2010 12:42 AM

I know a dutch girl, can't understand a thing when she's talking to her sister
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Fauch
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posted July 01, 2010 01:33 AM

Quote:
i leanred a new german saying : " Dast icht fanfluchten, Firshtain gruben giniralen" this is cursed understand group of generals?


are you sure it is german?

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xerox
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posted July 01, 2010 02:00 AM

My guild master in WoW is dutch so I guess I know a little bit of dutch though he speaks perfect english.

YES I HAD TO BRING IN THIS GAME INTO THE THREAD!
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GrayFace
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posted July 01, 2010 10:28 AM

Russian
English

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Lexxan
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Unimpressed by your logic
posted July 01, 2010 10:28 AM

Quote:
I know a dutch girl, can't understand a thing when she's talking to her sister


That is because the Dutch fail at ~correctly~ pronouncing their language.
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Carcity
Carcity


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posted July 01, 2010 04:13 PM

I speak Swedish, english and decent French.

I am also able to read norwegian and danish, and understand a little when hearing said languages. Joonas also tried teaching me finnihs, but failed.
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