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Old 12-19-2006
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How Many Languages Do You Know?

I was just curious how many bi+ lingual people we have here at Techspot. I myself speak English (I know English), Spanish (Hablo Español), and a tiny bit of Russian (Я знаю Русский)(I'm literate but I have trouble spelling things, and I know a few phrases). Have a good day !
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Old 12-19-2006
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I speak Danish (Jeg taler dansk), English, very little French (Je parle français)
(and a few lousy lines of German that aren't even enough to say "I speak German" )

Being Danish I don't have a pretty hard time understanding Swedish and Norwegian.
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Edit: If that's how we're doing it then: ActionScript, C, C++, Python, HTML, Command.com/cmd, D (not fluently), Visual Basic (not that I ever use it), GML (lame I know)

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Åse skulle et vigtigt ærinde før hun kunne nå at æde rødgrød med fløde.
Annoying those non-english characters, aren't they?

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Old 12-19-2006
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Fortran, Cobol, PL/1, PLS, Assembler, TAL, C, Java, Perl, Tcl/TK, sh, csh, bash,
Prolog, SQL

guess I'm a bi-geek
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Old 12-19-2006
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English, and after living almost ten years in Japan, I have picked up a fair amount of Japanese. 皆さんこんにちは!
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Old 12-19-2006
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English, and after living almost ten years in Japan, I have picked up a fair amount of Japanese. 皆さんこんにちは!
Whoops, I guess it's time to install the IE Language packs, all I see are white boxes !
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Old 12-19-2006
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Fortran, Cobol, PL/1, PLS, Assembler, TAL, C, Java, Perl, Tcl/TK, sh, csh, bash,
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Now your just showing off

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.

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Old 12-19-2006
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Now your just showing off

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
As I said in another post, is that really appropriate for the younger users?
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Old 12-20-2006
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I know enough to get what I want and thats it. I can read and write german a little, its been awhile


German

Arab

Korean

*****

The arab is what a learned when I was in Iraq. You know " Stop or I will kill you" or "You cannot marry my wife"

Korean is just limited to hello, thank you, good bye, one please and I need a cab

My wife deciphers the ***** for others at times
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Old 12-20-2006
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Spanish
English
Italian
Portuguese (limited, but im getting there)
French (only understand)


...and a few phrases in Korean since I went to an International school a few years back.
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Old 12-20-2006
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Любой здесь говорит на русском языке? :unch:
Does anyone speak Russian here? :unch:

If someone does, I need help with memorizing the present tense! I really hope my school offers Russian next year so I'll actually be able to do more that read it and stand dumbfounded over the book while asking my friend to decipher it for me

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Old 12-20-2006
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I speak code
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Old 12-20-2006
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I speak code
lol

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Old 12-20-2006
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I speak:

English
Italian
some German
Russian ( Cant type it but I can speak it )
some French ( only to show off to the ladies )
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Old 12-21-2006
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*****
My wife deciphers the ***** for others at times
now thats one I should learn to speak LOL
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Old 12-21-2006
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I speak:

English
Italian
some German
Russian ( Cant type it but I can speak it )
some French ( only to show off to the ladies )
Wow....15 years old and you know all that? Dang, wish I was that smart when I was 15! lol...
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Old 12-21-2006
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Yeah Halo, It's good to speak more languages... You can mess with people
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now thats one I should learn to speak LOL
All men speak this language, however, some of us are better then others.
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Wow....15 years old and you know all that? Dang, wish I was that smart when I was 15! lol...
Either that or he is a master at BSing
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Old 12-21-2006
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Yeah Halo, It's good to speak more languages... You can mess with people
I love to do that! Sometimes I'll just go and say *something* in either Spanish or Russian. If I'm bored, I write in Russian, and no one knows (except my friends) what I'm saying !

EDIT:
TimeParadox, I need help with the Russian Present tense! (i.e ya -> u, ti -> esh, on/ona -> aet, etc.)

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Old 12-21-2006
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Originally Posted by smore9648
All men speak this language, however, some of us are better then others.
clearly
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