What languages do we speak?

[monkspider]

I'm working on German.

[TheBirdMan]

Danish, english and german.

I do understand swedish, norwegian and a little french and spanish.

Originally posted by Monk
When the total amount of Danes having posted on this board during 2003 can be counted on one hand, what's the odds there are actually two of them online at 4:15 on a weekday morning?

[Brent]

Well some of them I'd be able to put to good use reading them, and language study helps the thinking process, and maybe eventually I could help keep some of them alive. Oh, and add Romansh to my list.

[aaglo]

I speak Finnish, Swedish and German (and I understand spoken Norwegian).

[cinch]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Used to be able to read Anglo-Saxon, but it was difficult to find anyone in the real world (as opposed to university) who was the slightest bit interested in the subjects of kennings and alliteration in 'The Dream of the Rood'

I prefer "triumph-tree", because it has alliteration PLUS kenning (not sure if the alliteration part is true in Old English...), but I can see how the argument can be made that "earth-house" is good, too.

And that's all I know.

[Ancyrean]

I speak Turkish, average German, some Greek and am learning Indonesian

I also started to learn Latin some time ago just out of curiosity, but I find less and less time for it now...

[Space05us]

I did take French 1 last year. I found it to be too much like a second English class, and as English is the only subject in school I cant stand due to its sheer boringness, I hated French just as much. I even hate it when people speak French now for no better reason than my loathing of that class.

[Frozzy]

English, German, French, and I could understand one of Locutus' PMs he publicly posted when it was in Dutch, plus I am learning some words in it (have a friend who is dutch), so I ticked off that one too.

[Bereta_Eder]

just french english and greek

[DaShi]

just french english and geek

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by Ancyrean
I speak Turkish, average German, some Greek and am learning Indonesian

We should practice some time! Sudah berapa lama tinggal di Jakarta?

[lightblue]

First off Flemish is usually seen as a dialect of Dutch (or at least it is from the Dutch side of the border). The differences are comparable to say English and Australian English.

I speak
English, Dutch, French, German, Luxembourgish fluently
Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish poorly

Can read the above as well as Norwegian, Portuguese and very basic russian as well as finnish.

[Ancyrean]

Originally posted by Crimson Sunrise


We should practice some time! Sudah berapa lama tinggal di Jakarta?

Sure, but I'm really new to the whole thing, I might not be at your level But yes, it's a fairly easy language, especially after some familiarity with western languages

aku tinggal di Jakarta hanya empat bulan dan aku sudah suka kota ini = [I live in jakarta only for 4 months and I already like this city]

[alva]

She frequently finds herself thinking in more than one language esecially when trying to find equivalent words.

I do that too, the thing is that often I can't remember words in dutch and have to resort to english to explain myself
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Flemish(who else voted Flemish btw?), Dutch, English,French,Some German and I understand Italian,Spanish and Swedish on a basic level (basically by either mixing french and english or german/dutch and english).

Flemish shouldn't have been on the list anyway, flemish is to dutch as australian and american are to english.

[Locutus]

How come 6 people voted Dutch but only 4 Flemish, they're exactly the same language

I speak English, German, French, Dutch, Flemish (but that hardly counts as a seperate language), Twents (my local dialect, a bit of a mix between Dutch and German -- a lot more different from Dutch than Flemish), some Spanish and Italian and working on my Esperanto. I've been meaning to start learning Turkish for some time now but other things keep coming up, so I only know a handful of words.