How many languages can you speak?

[Sugar Ape]

Who is TLW's top linguist?

 

I'm thinking of learning German. Anyone else speak it? How hard was it to learn?

[Paulie Dangerously]

If Haje is still around you'd be hard pressed to beat him

 

I can ask for things and do German basics

 

I know 2 Croatian phrases.

 

I can count to ten in Japanese

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I don't speak much German, but it's probably one of the easier languages to learn for an English speaker. I speak English, Spanish and French, all to varying degrees of competency. I tried learning Mandarin Chinese. That can fuck off.

[James]

Dutch, English, French. I can understand a bit of Spanish, after learning it for 2 years.

[Guest davelfc]

Despite living in Germany for a while when in the forces I can only order beer in German, in fact I can order beer in a lot of languages. I speak French though.

[jeremy]

English and Swedish fluent. Being fluent in Swedish also has the bonus of understanding both Norwegian and Danish, though Danish is a fucker when it comes to numbers.

[melons]

English and Welsh (go far with that), I'm thinking of taking up a French course this September though.

 

 

I have a habit of forming a school level sentence in French, then half way through saying it i find myself switching over to welsh. That really confuses whom ever i'm trying to talk to over there.

[Fowlers God]

The Only Falls n Horses bit always cracks me up when they are trying to speak German.

 

I can say small bits in Spanish and can say more when I am out there as pick it up quite easily but thats about it.

 

To be fair I struggle with the English language, let alone being fluent in another.

[Acid]

I can speak basic french, a bit less spanish, and a few random words in swedish.

[RobbieOR]

I can speak a very good level of Spanish and Ive an alright level of Gaeilge.

[Unrighteous]

English, Spanish, 中文. (If you count it, I can read Traditional, and Juyin, they are like other languages in terms of learning them)

 

My understanding of written French is uncanny, but I can't speak it worth a lick. Same with German... I can read German pretty well, but I'll be buggered to speak it. I know a lot of German/French words though.

 

I can do the basics in a bunch of other languages though.

[L19red]

un petit peu de francais et/y un poquito de espanyol (castile)

[VladimirIlyich]

I speak a few sentences and count in german and can also count to 20 in french. Formidable!

[JohnnyH]

All of them.

[RJ Fan club]

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[Nomad]

English, American, Australian, Scottish, Welsh English, Irish English, New Zelanderish.

 

Loads really.

[TonyBellew_BUM!]

Who is TLW's top linguist?

 

I'm thinking of learning German. Anyone else speak it? How hard was it to learn?

 

I speak English as my mother tongue, and I am also fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French.

 

Learning German or for that matter any other germanic language such as dutch swedish etc. is supposedly a lot easier for an English speaker as our language is also germanic so therefore that sentence structure as well as the grammer is very similar When we learn romance laguages such as French, Spanish etc. we have to learn the grammer as well as all the verbs etc. plus we also have to learn the genders and all the grammer that accomanies those genders which is a BITCH!

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

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[Guest davelfc]

Like you I speak 10 languages, binary and English.

[William_Ulsterman]

Fluent in Irish.

 

"Mahogannay gaspipes agus a brass doorknobs"

[Indian Red]

Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, English. Understand some Gujarati and Punjabi

[Section_31]

[Pony Princess]

watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi shika hanasemase

[Trumo]

English, Gujarati (fairly OK), Hindi (very rudimentary), Swahili (odd words), Panjabi (swear words) and passable touristy versions of French, German, Spanish and Italian.

 

When I'm abroad, I seem to take on the appearance of a multilingual fount of knowledge, judging by the number of times complete strangers automatically assume I can translate for them. I was also once assumed to be Italian by a hotel concierge in Milan. Mange tout, Rodders!

[jamespp]

English & Hovitos