Author Topic: Are you bilingual? (Read 16949 times)

Xiong Chiamiov · « **Reply #40 on:** January 24, 2011, 10:23:16 PM »

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages - English and bad English.

AceD · « **Reply #41 on:** January 24, 2011, 10:23:58 PM »

Am English....everyone else should learn my language, this is obvious.

Ixarku · « **Reply #42 on:** January 24, 2011, 10:34:51 PM »

I'm about as white an American as you can get (my ancestry, I've been told, is English, Irish, Scottish, German (I think), and (supposedly) Romanian). That said, I'm a native speaker of American English. I have 2 years of high school French under my belt, all of which I've forgotten, and I know a smattering of Japanese, picked up from anime & Rosetta Stone.

Hiero · « **Reply #43 on:** January 24, 2011, 10:56:23 PM »

Fluent English and I can hold a conversation in Spanish but nothing too detailed.
I want to learn more. A few on my list~

Greek- Dad's side
Czech - Mom's side

Not too big of but Russian and Japanese $:-\$

I'd probably go overseas for awhile though if I wanted to learn them.

English is the lingua franca after all.

fohfoh · « **Reply #44 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:02:09 AM »

Fluent English (Canadian)
Fluent Cantonese
Crappy Mandarin
Random phrases of French (Immersion classes)
Random phrases of Japanese (Took a few courses)
Random bits of Korean (Learned from a friend)

borghellit · « **Reply #45 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:07:53 AM »

I speak spanish fluently, and I'm ok with english too.

Yohan7 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:19:16 AM »

The only language i know is English. but i took classes in Spanish, and German. Sadly, I only know a handful of words from both those languages. And I am picking up Japanese from anime.

The one phrase i make sure to remember in as many languages as possible is, I don't speak your language.

borghellit · « **Reply #47 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:21:16 AM »

Quote from: Yohan7 on January 25, 2011, 01:19:16 AM

And I am picking up Japanese from anime.

me too, but only words that don't make sense by itself

EroKenshin · « **Reply #48 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:35:40 AM »

French's my native language and English's my second but like many others here, I'm currently learning Japanese. At a rather slow pace, to my shame.

Southrop · « **Reply #49 on:** January 25, 2011, 11:58:04 AM »

Quote from: JoonasTo on January 24, 2011, 10:18:35 PM

Love how others do that mother tongue mistake too.
I tend to do it a lot too.

I consider mother tongue to be my native language, the language spoken by the people of the same ethnicity I am. Hence, it is Mandarin. However, as I only began to learn to speak when I was growing up in Australia, I actually learnt to speak English before Mandarin, which is why I make that distinction.

der richter · « **Reply #50 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:16:40 PM »

German is my native language. (fluently)
English is the second one i learned. (fluently)
Spanish was the third one. forgot almost everything of it, just learned it because i had to.
(Japanese i really want to learn it.)

Also:
C/C++ fluently
Java fluently
HTML good
PHP a bit
MySQL a bit
Assembler a bit
AppleScript a bit

sorry couldn't resist too add this.

Fool010 · « **Reply #51 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:39:06 PM »

French is fluent (native speaker), rather above national level though

German is almost fluent (used to be, but haven't practised a lot lately), still able to perfectly read, watch TV and more widely understand the language in any form.
English is decent but used to be perfectly fluent (lost a lot of it due to insufficient practise not to mention it turned into some kind of weird british/american hybrid). Still good enough to watch most movies without subs.

Note : dreadful accent in all of them

Had a bit of italian, but forgot all of it.

1000mAh · « **Reply #52 on:** January 25, 2011, 05:14:36 PM »

FFFFFFFUUUUUU~!!!!! I failed the poll xD
Well, anyways:
Yes, I can hold a conversation in both Finnish and English and I can read Swedish

I'm unableto write or speak Swedish though, I'm still studying it, and honestly, I suck

Well, I'm able to ask for directions etc. stuff inSwedish

So, I'm native Finnish speaker, I do speak fluent English and Swedish is my second national language

Well, they do speak swedish in multiple places in Finland, and Swedish tourists have it easy in Finland... BUT you can speak Finnish every where

mizore · « **Reply #53 on:** January 25, 2011, 05:26:28 PM »

I'm French-Indian, and I have family in France... so, yeah, French. Spanish was easy to learn, considering the similarities, as well. I'm barely passable in Korean and Japanese, autodidactically.

AceHigh · « **Reply #54 on:** January 25, 2011, 06:54:25 PM »

Three languages fluently, understand (but do not speak) other scandinavic languages.

1000mAh · « **Reply #55 on:** January 25, 2011, 07:04:55 PM »

Quote from: AceHigh on January 25, 2011, 06:54:25 PM

Three languages fluently, understand (but do not speak) other scandinavic languages.

Do I remember correctly when I say you're from Norway??

and my guesses for the languages you can speak fluently are; English, Norwegian and German?
(well, you said that you only understand other Scandinavic languages

So Swedish and Danish are out

)

Hiiragi · « **Reply #56 on:** January 25, 2011, 09:01:39 PM »

Native is American English

i know enough Japanese to survive and get around fairly well in Japan, and I'm still studying it in a lazy sort of way.

i also took 5 years of french in high school so I remember a little of that, enough to get the general idea of something if I read it, but speaking it is probably impossible except for a few phrases.

DLTE · « **Reply #57 on:** January 26, 2011, 08:06:12 AM »

English, Mandarin chinese and Hokkien chinese

tomoya-kun · « **Reply #58 on:** January 26, 2011, 10:24:09 PM »

Most Canadians are bilingual.

WiiLeeYum · « **Reply #59 on:** January 26, 2011, 10:55:23 PM »

Broken English
Broken Quebecois French
Broken Cantonese
And... "I'm sorry, I only speak Cantonese" in Mandarin