What languages do you speak?

robmiller said:
The fact that we have a "default" language doesn't mean we're somehow not fluent in that language.
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I never implied that.

Basically I was just explaining what I meant in my post. I do know that you're in fact right.
 
robmiller said:
You claimed we did not speak our default/native languages fluently :confused:
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I claimed that we should just use the word "natively", as it is far more descriptive.
 
Zefan said:
I claimed that we should just use the word "natively", as it is far more descriptive.
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You suggested you would correct people unless they used natively suggesting that fluently was incorrect.

What a pointless discussion this is?

Can't remember what stand up it was, but they were talking about not needing to learn other languages, if you go somewhere just shout louder and louder till they understand and if they don't smash the joint up. Seems fair to me.
 
English is my mother tongue, and I speak French fluently (lived + went to school over there for 3 and a bit years) and Finnish at a moderate level.
 
Europe: -
English (natively)
French (enough to get by)
German (very poorly)

Other: -
Russian (enough to get by)
Japanese (odd phrases)

Fictional: -
Klingon (not bad ;))
Sindarin (odd phrases)
 
What do you call some-one who speaks 3 languages? Tri-lingual!
What do you call some-one who speaks 2 languages? Bi-Lingual!
What do you call some-one who speaks only one language? English!
 
Trying to get my head around Korean, determined to learn it properly too, taking it's time at the moment, but will get there.

And brushing up on my English too, I want to teach English so knowing my nouns/verbs/adverbs/pre-positions that stuff is tough! (to me)
 
Azagoth said:
I can 'get by' in about 10. By 'get by' I mean I won't starve or go homeless if I'm stranded.

Latin
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Where the hell are you going to be stranded if you're going to need Latin? 27bc?

I'm fluent in:

English
Berwick
Northumbrian (north, south and coastal)
Geordie
Mackem
Notts

And can get by in German, French and Spanish...

*n
 
Only English. I was one mark off an A in GCSE German, but that was a few years ago now and I've completely forgotten it. Except for some of the funny words.
 
RandomTom said:
English, I love french but need more experience in it (aka travelling to france) and my spanish is dire now.
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One of your sigs in the rotation is so far outside the 400x75 limit it's unreal.

I speak:

Natively: English
Medium: German
I can generally make myself understood in:
French
Greek
Swedish

I can also count to 10 and say hello in Russian.
 
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