Author Topic: Are you bilingual? (Read 16938 times)

Kyrdua · « **Reply #220 on:** September 20, 2011, 04:47:50 AM »

Quote from: jigokutayu on September 20, 2011, 04:31:53 AM

Quote from: Kyrdua on September 20, 2011, 04:19:49 AM
Quote from: Ixarku on September 20, 2011, 01:14:26 AM
No kidding! Pretty impressive. Not that I'm keeping score, but I think jigokutayu wins the virtual cookie for most languages known by a BakaBT forum-goer.
inb4 he never pops up in the forum again.

inb4 she,

I find it is important to know how to ask where the toilet is when traveling.

I said it too soon. and i stand corrected.

anyway, ya travel for fun or is it for a living?

deadskin · « **Reply #221 on:** September 20, 2011, 04:56:36 AM »

Native: English
Expert: Mandarin
Intermediate: Italian
Beginner: Cantonese, French, Spanish
lol: Japanese

I can also read Braille proficiently, but I'm not sure if that counts.

jigokutayu · « **Reply #222 on:** September 20, 2011, 05:33:57 AM »

Quote from: Kyrdua on September 20, 2011, 04:47:50 AM

anyway, ya travel for fun or is it for a living?

Both. We are moving in a few weeks for a better job oppertunity, then we are moving back home (Japan). While away I hope to do some traveling to places like Petra and Egypt.

Quote from: deadskin on September 20, 2011, 04:56:36 AM

I can also read Braille proficiently, but I'm not sure if that counts.

I think it counts! I know basic ASL* and some JSL, but I really want to learn CSL (which I assume exists, but cannot find physical books or a teacher of here).

*ASL: american sign language

froody1911 · « **Reply #223 on:** September 20, 2011, 06:45:52 AM »

Quote from: deadskin on September 20, 2011, 04:56:36 AM

lol: Japanese

Gadies and Lentlemen, we have a new measure of proficiency: lol.

Cypher · « **Reply #224 on:** September 21, 2011, 06:21:52 AM »

Native: Arabic
Fluent: English
Above beginner: Japanese
Count 1 to 10: French, German

If it weren't for those idiots during junior high that kept interrupting French class and refusing to have it taught (They said having English was hard enough), my French would have been at least the same level as Japanese.

deadskin · « **Reply #225 on:** September 22, 2011, 02:16:16 AM »

Quote from: froody1911 on September 20, 2011, 06:45:52 AM

Quote from: deadskin on September 20, 2011, 04:56:36 AM
lol: Japanese
Gadies and Lentlemen, we have a new measure of proficiency: lol.

Yeah my Japanese is laughable despite spending months of my life watching anime.

fohfoh · « **Reply #226 on:** September 25, 2011, 01:32:21 AM »

Polyglots, the majority fucks of you.

Soryon · « **Reply #227 on:** September 28, 2011, 06:45:30 AM »

Quote from: Pharismo on January 26, 2011, 11:36:12 PM

portuguese and english

Bullshit.

Ixarku · « **Reply #228 on:** September 28, 2011, 09:34:48 AM »

Quote from: Soryon on September 28, 2011, 06:45:30 AM

Quote from: Pharismo on January 26, 2011, 11:36:12 PM
portuguese and english
Bullshit.

His level of English is slightly above "lol"; it's at about "meh".

Nodame-chan · « **Reply #229 on:** November 05, 2011, 12:44:37 PM »

Native: Armenian (I'm quit sure some of you really doesn't even know where that is xDD)
Fluent: English, Russian
Beginner: Japanese, French

I studied for more than 2 years Mandarin Chinese, but now I don't really remember anything T__T

froody1911 · « **Reply #230 on:** November 05, 2011, 12:48:28 PM »

Quote from: nodame-chan on November 05, 2011, 12:44:37 PM

Native: Armenian (I'm quit sure some of you really doesn't even know where that is xDD)

Sure I do. Most people will at least have heard of it, thanks to System of a Down, though that's a pretty tragic thing to be known for imo

Nodame-chan · « **Reply #231 on:** November 05, 2011, 12:59:08 PM »

Quote from: froody1911 on November 05, 2011, 12:48:28 PM

Quote from: nodame-chan on November 05, 2011, 12:44:37 PM
Native: Armenian (I'm quit sure some of you really doesn't even know where that is xDD)
Sure I do. Most people will at least have heard of it, thanks to System of a Down, though that's a pretty tragic thing to be known for imo

^_^ Yeap. It's indeed tragic. But what's even more tragic is that in our country people try to deny their history, language. And we don't have any politics... xDD

Ashall · « **Reply #232 on:** November 05, 2011, 01:20:11 PM »

Fluent: English and Vietnamese
Intermediate: Yue (Cantonese)
Illiterate: Yue (Cantonese)

Why am I illiterate yet can speak it you ask? Chinese influence in Vietnam. Hell my name is Hoa...

I also know enough Spanish to probably get myself killed in Mexico...

Rutsubo · « **Reply #233 on:** November 05, 2011, 02:26:40 PM »

My mother tongue is Swedish, but I spent most of my childhood in Hungary together with my mom, so I'm fluent in both Hungarian and Swedish. And naturally English, I mean who isn't fluent in English on the internet these days. At least 90's kids like me.

Aaaand, I guess I know a couple (and a shitload of expressions-/al phrases... :'( ) of phrases in Japanese. But I still can't understand very well without subtitles, however I'd really like to learn. Does anyone know where I can get some sort of audio book for Japanese?

froody1911 · « **Reply #234 on:** November 05, 2011, 02:36:37 PM »

Quote from: Rutsubo on November 05, 2011, 02:26:40 PM

And naturally English, I mean who isn't fluent in English on the internet these days. At least 90's kids like me.

Oh, you'd be surprised...

Rutsubo · « **Reply #235 on:** November 05, 2011, 02:41:26 PM »

I guess what I'm trying to imply is that anyone who's been on the internet for at least since 1998 or early 2000, should by now, speak moderate English.

But I suppose it's just wishful thinking, or projecting myself onto others. In either case, I digress. :'(

Saras · « **Reply #236 on:** November 05, 2011, 08:09:52 PM »

Quote from: nodame-chan on November 05, 2011, 12:59:08 PM

Quote from: froody1911 on November 05, 2011, 12:48:28 PM
Quote from: nodame-chan on November 05, 2011, 12:44:37 PM
Native: Armenian (I'm quit sure some of you really doesn't even know where that is xDD)
Sure I do. Most people will at least have heard of it, thanks to System of a Down, though that's a pretty tragic thing to be known for imo

^_^ Yeap. It's indeed tragic. But what's even more tragic is that in our country people try to deny their history, language. And we don't have any politics... xDD

Better than being only known as the land where Hannibal Lecter hails from.

Oh well, I suppose it could be worse, we could be associated with Borat.

pingryanime · « **Reply #237 on:** November 05, 2011, 09:57:58 PM »

I hate knowing Japanese.

fohfoh · « **Reply #238 on:** November 06, 2011, 03:36:43 AM »

Fluent speaking: English and Cantonese
Communicable: Mandarin, French
Extremely limited: Japanese
Retard level: Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese

Fluent written: English
Communicable: French
Limited: Chinese, Japanese
Retard level: Korean, Spanish

Rutsubo · « **Reply #239 on:** November 06, 2011, 12:24:37 PM »

Quote from: pingryanime on November 05, 2011, 09:57:58 PM

I hate knowing Japanese.

Ahh, why?

:<