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  • #76
    God* Dagh** (good day) God Morgen*** (good morning).

    *pronounced "goo"
    **pronounced "dah"
    ***pronounced "moren"

    Norwegian is English with your mouth full?
    No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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    • #77
      this poll shows some interesting data:

      1. theres 1 class clown
      2. 80% of people here speak at least 1 foreign language
      3. if you are bilingual, you are more then likely to be learning a 3rd language
      4. most of those who study a third language dont complete it (or we would see more trilinguals)
      "Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito Mussolini

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      • #78
        Originally posted by The Mad Monk


        Norwegian is English with your mouth full?
        Both are Germanic languages, so many of the simple words are similar, just like in German, where "man" is "mensch".

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        • #79
          1 language.

          Very strong accent, but I can listen and be understood without problems (at least that's what I think. Ask Boris, Drogue and DanS for confirmation )
          Easily understandable, as I recall. You're too modest.
          Last edited by DanS; March 12, 2005, 02:03.
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #80
            Bilingual, Spanish (native) and English.

            I studied German for 6 years, and I studies French for 3 years when I was small. I guess with a good 6 months of immersion I could shore up the fundamentals and perhaps speak four languages. But it would take some work.

            But I put myself down as 2.5 due to the 6 years of German study....
            If you don't like reality, change it! me
            "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
            "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
            "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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            • #81
              Native: English (passable)

              others: Latin (I finnd it easiere to translate English->Latin, thn translate Latin->English, and I can't speak it. hell, does anyne actually know what the accent sounds like?)


              My french is nonexistant, after 7 years learning the damn thing. I can just about write and not speak nor understand a conversation, and I only spent 2 years learning German, and I can pick up the jist of a conversation, even if I can't speak or write it.


              Oh, and what about body language?
              You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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              • #82
                English, that's it...a bit of French, but I'm not even allowed 1/4 for that
                Speaking of Erith:

                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                • #83
                  Only English, something I'm more ashamed of all the time. Working for a charity dedicated to cultural understanding and exchange, everyone I speak to seems to speak multiple languages, and I feel like I'm letting the committee down. Will have to go and stay with a bilingual friend sometime and learn their language
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                  For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
                  But he would think of something

                  "Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker

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