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How Many Languages Do You Know?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by cfitzarl, Dec 19, 2006.

  1. zephead TechSpot Paladin

    i can only imagine what it must be like to write in chinese or japanese...so many charachters to choose from!
  2. DivineMeia Newcomer, in training

    It's not really a matter of choice, to be exact. Each character, though it may be the same word, has a different meaning applied to the word. That's the hard part.
  3. SaltWaterHippo Newcomer, in training

    Believe it or not but I forgot Chinese so I'm down to 1 :(

    When I was a kid I lived in Malaysia where I learned Chinese, then I moved to the UK and forgot it when I went threw primary school.
  4. DivineMeia Newcomer, in training

    That's actually alot of people's problems. They learn a language when they're young, but they don't actually apply it for most of their life. So, it's forgotten. I had to apply all 3 of my known languages for most of my life, so I retained the information. But talk about schizophrenia... I hear myself think in 3 different languages sometimes. It's scary. Haha.
  5. mailpup TechSpot Special Forces

    I speak English but I did study Spanish and German in school. I've forgotten much of it. I also can understand some simple Japanese.
  6. SaltWaterHippo Newcomer, in training


    haha that must be pretty weird, when I moved here my mum (Whos Malaysian) tried to speak it to me to keep it in my head but I didnt bother since no one else spoke it and I just forgot. But now my English is much better than hers but I understand its because she thinks in Chinese then translates it into English so her sentence structure e.t.c can be pretty weird at times (Unless you can think in Chinese too :D)
  7. I speak English, some Spanish and some Dutch.

    I need to learn to speak Dutch better, Holland is my home country.
  8. cfitzarl TechSpot Chancellor

    I am trying to start and think in Spanish, being in my third year of it, I know everything but the pluperfect including the subjunctive mood. It's weird too, because sometimes, I'll start to think in a mix and continue, and then have to switch my brain over back to English.

    A few summers ago, I studied the Russian Alphabet, and some words, and on the first day of my second year of Spanish, the teacher asked me, in Spanish, if I was in Spanish 2, and I replied "Da", which is Russian for yes. I was pretty embarassed, thus finding a seat and hoping that people would stop laughing :).
  9. marcuskarl73 Newcomer, in training

    Since I was born and raised in Germany I'm fluent in german , apperently I speak english as well ,and after a few shots of Vodka I'm told that I speak gibberish as well