How many languages can you speak

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Was trying to learn some French but it seems to have a pretty strange structure, certain words can have different meanings and it's about their relationship to the other words and context of the sentence. It makes you think though how much we take our language for granted, how we just breeze through a sentence and skip words here and there without a thought and also how this upcoming generation of Europeans mostly speak English. I am going to plod away at French but it seems a real struggle at the moment. It's quite hard learning a language after a certain age as well.
 
I tried to bribe a German copper, in French, using Swiss francs.

Not only did I get to keep my freedom, keep my francs, but the copper also bought ME a train ticket! Because of that, I think it's fair to say I'm fluent in German, French, Swiss, and suave.
 
Was trying to learn some French but it seems to have a pretty strange structure, certain words can have different meanings and it's about their relationship to the other words and context of the sentence. It makes you think though how much we take our language for granted, how we just breeze through a sentence and skip words here and there without a thought and also how this upcoming generation of Europeans mostly speak English. I am going to plod away at French but it seems a real struggle at the moment. It's quite hard learning a language after a certain age as well.

Studied French for 8 years during school years up to alevel (As far as reading literature) so would say im fairly fluent there.

Definitely found that you learn more about the english language by doing a foreign language as you discover all the tenses and such likes.
 
What Rotty said ^

I can speak very bad French, actually no I can't, I can read French.

Saying that, I'm fluent in the languages of:
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
Canada
US
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa

I'm sure there are more...

kd
 
I also love when English speakers throw in a "Je suis" or "Tres bon" into their paragraph. It now makes my laugh as it's like saying, "I do not know any French and have no desire in learning any". Usually women that do that though i think.

"I can't ****** wait to see you at the weekend, Je suis excited as ****. Blah Blah Blah . Tres Bon...."
 
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