Now your just showing off :haha:

English, well lets face it, its the most widely spoken language in the world, you dont need to speak any other language.

Oh I also speak child, and drunk, quite well.

Regards

you could not get anymore ignorant. CHINESE is actually the most spoken language in the wold.

I speak Englsh, hablo español, et je parle francais aussi. Je suis en Quatrieme ane en francais.

you could not get anymore ignorant. CHINESE is actually the most spoken language in the wold.

I speak Englsh, hablo español, et je parle francais aussi. Je suis en Quatrieme ane en francais.

Hablas en espanol? Neccesito practicar mi espanol (no he practicado mi espanol por un semana).

you could not get anymore ignorant. CHINESE is actually the most spoken language in the wold.

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Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, but it seems you dont read english to well,. this was pointed out by Howard a few posts back...

Ignorant me ?? no honest im not, i just dont hear idiots when they speak..

Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, but it seems you dont read english to well,. this was pointed out by Howard a few posts back...

Ignorant me ?? no honest im not, i just dont hear idiots when they speak..

Calm down there ;) .

Hablas en espanol? Neccesito practicar mi espanol (no he practicado mi espanol por un semana).

Esta Bien , te ayudare. Pero no es "un semana" es "una semana". Semana es femenina.

Oh, well I understand that English is widely spoken , and I understand its the language which is basically used to do bussines but it is arrogant to tink everyone has to speak english . Im not saying that is what you think , but thinking so is. I must have skipped howards post.

Esta Bien , te ayudare. Pero no es "un semana" es "una semana". Semana es femenina.

Whoops, I knew that, it must have been a typo on my part. Neccesito practicar mi espanol mas (lo siento, no tengo un teclado en espanol). Tendre un exam cuando llegare en mi colegio :( (Creo).

Whoops, I knew that, it must have been a typo on my part. Neccesito practicar mi espanol mas (lo siento, no tengo un teclado en espanol). Tendre un exam cuando llegare en mi colegio :( (Creo).

Que tipo de español estas aprendiendo? España, mexico?

Que tipo de español estas aprendiendo? España, mexico?

Estoy aprendiendo español de España (Castellano). No he tenido escuela por un semana y quería practicar este semana para mi clase (ahora no necesito practicar pero me gusto hablar en una idioma otra :) ).

Oh, well I understand that English is widely spoken , . I must have skipped howards post.



Happy new year...This will be my last post of 2006 as im now off to PARTYYYYY.


Regards

Happy new year...This will be my last post of 2006 as im now off to PARTYYYYY.


Regards

Lucky for you, it's still 12/31 @ 2:06PM here :dead: . Happy New Year everyone!

Estoy aprendiendo español de España (Castellano). No he tenido escuela por un semana y quería practicar este semana para mi clase (ahora no necesito practicar pero me gusto hablar en una idioma otra :) ).
Espanol de Mexico, pero vivo en estados unidos y hablo espanol porque mis padres son de mexico

I am bilingual in Spanish and English / Hablo Español e Ingles

I am also fluent in C++, Java, x86 & Sparc Assembly, VB, and C# :)

de que parte de mexico vienes?

English, Idiot (lol), mumble, grunt, and a little French. I know. I'm not very diverse :(

knowing more than one language is better than just knowing 1. So dont feel bad about not being diverse,. YOU are DIVERSE.

I speak English, Spanish, alittle bit of Catalan, a little bit of Italian, and I'm now learning Thai.

What does "knowing" a language mean? Speaking, understanding what's being said, reading, writing? Fluently, a couple of words, or something in between?

I find it quite pathetic that people whose native language is English don't even bother to write it properly. You have all the time you need when typing a reply in a forum where anyone in the world can see your so-called linguistic skills.

I consider knowing the ability to read, write, and speak rather fluently. And Mictlantechuhtli, I totally agree. I get sickened by people who can't even write in their native language. It just shows laziness.

abiliby

Isn't it ability? LOL

Whoops, typo...

What does "knowing" a language mean? Speaking, understanding what's being said, reading, writing? Fluently, a couple of words, or something in between?

I find it quite pathetic that people whose native language is English don't even bother to write it properly. You have all the time you need when typing a reply in a forum where anyone in the world can see your so-called linguistic skills.


Thank GOD someone shares my sorrow. I'm an English major, and it drives me absolutely crazy when people don't use proper English yet claim it to be their first language. English happens to be my second language, though I started speaking and learning it at a young age. I was raised to speak Gaelic, a somewhat dead language of Ireland, and I was practically forced to learn Japanese when my parents moved me there. English may be a difficult language, but with the proper tools, anyone can write and speak it properly.

And that's enough of my little tangent. =)

I'd also like to comment that I agree with Mictlantecuhtli. The intentional misuse of the English language is one of the top things that irritate me on these forums. I wish that everyone on the forums would completely ignore any request for help from someone who writes like that. I don't know what causes that behavior, but I don't like it.

English may be a difficult language, but with the proper tools, anyone can write and speak it properly.
=)


Is English that difficult to learn ? I myself can only speak English, however from anothers perspective, how much harder is English to learn compared to lets say Russian, Italian, Japanese or even Spanish ?

I don't think English would be that hard to learn the basic conversational version. When you get into crazy stuff like they are supposed to teach you in, well I don't remember what grades... Past participles and stuff like that, I can see that being hard to grasp.

I speak Russian (native) , English , Latvian. I don't think that English is harder to learn than Russian.

Actually, according to most studies, English is one of the most difficult languages to learn. Coming from speaking Japanese, I can definately agree. Japanese was a very difficult language to learn, but to speak English with accuracy it takes years and years of study. Growing up in an English/Gaelic/Japanese speaking family didn't help much, either, but even the conversational part of speaking English is difficult to some. The problem is, English developed from overuse of different languages, combining roots from latin, Russian, Greek, German, even Gaelic and Japanese, and making them into different words. It's difficult to narrow English down to one language, unlike other languages that sprung from only that language itself, such as Russian, or Gaelic, or a higher class form of Japanese, without the Chinese influences. Those are difficult languages indeed, but easy to continue with once you pick up the basics. As for English, the basics change so often that it can no longer be classified as one language. Though it's not admitted, I find that English can be subdivided into smaller languages with their own certain slang and drawls. It's difficult for me to explain in writing, but I can explain it well in voice. Perhaps I'll record a voice memo and upload it sometime... but I'll leave it at that for now.

The intentional misuse of the English language is one of the top things that irritate me on these forums. I wish that everyone on the forums would completely ignore any request for help from someone who writes like that.
What if we simply start deleting such threads? :)

Or move them to the Spanish forums:D

We should have a script that checked if the thread title only consisted of the word "help" and not allow the thread to be posted.

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I speak Russian (native) , English , Latvian. I don't think that English is harder to learn than Russian.

Другой человек, который говорит на русском языке! Я изучаю это (мой друг - из Сибири). Хорошо, я, использовал переводчика ;) . Я узнал российское настоящее время, большинство прошлого, и будущего. Я только нуждаюсь в словаре и глаголах.

Coming from speaking Japanese, I can definately agree.i can only imagine what it must be like to write in chinese or japanese...so many charachters to choose from!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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)

I speak English, some Spanish and some Dutch.

I need to learn to speak Dutch better, Holland is my home country.

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 :).

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