WVUforREDSKINS Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 I tried to learn ASL (still remember some but not enough to communicate with the deaf), Spainish, and Arabic. I really couldn't do any of them. I always seemed to have a lot more trouble than others learning languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buenosdiaz Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 English and Spanish are my best like 7 years of french. got to the point where i was reading voltaire, etc in french. Still pick up a book every once in a while to make sure i still got it 2 years of italian in college + a study abroad in rome made me pretty proficient i have a lot more respect for non-romance language speakers though (especially since spanish was my first language and picking up italian and french came pretty easy to me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Spanish, conversationally. The rest are certainly not fluent, but enough to get around: french and german. A little Tagalog too (we spent a year studying before our Philippines trip in order to be effective in our community health projects; the req. kinda sucked at the beginning b/c it was on top of all of our other class work, but it ended up being so helpful...I'll never work on another international project again without a lot of local language prep). Oh yeah, and a decent amount of sign language. One of our classmates is deaf, so our PI project group spent that year studying sign language as well, which was so cool! Sign language is my most favorite of all, it's pretty fun, and it's something that's pretty neat to learn because you are doing something to help people with that disability that you come into contact with throughout your life feel more comfortable and not so isolated. So I guess the bottom line is English really, Spanish mediocrely, and then a little bit of a lot of other languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 English, French and Italian. Used to be able to get by in Spanish and German, but it's been years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrew1223 Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Other than English, I understand a lot of spanish, german, and french... I speak Arabic understanding the Modern Standard Dialect, Egyptian, Gulf Region, and Lebanese Dialects... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 English But I've picked up some: Spanish, Urdu, French, Arabic and Slovak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 English native, a bit of German. I could probably get by with my German but it wouldn't be pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanleys Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Fluent in Polish, Kashubian Passable in French, Italian Can pick up a majority of the words and phrases in German, Spanish if they're slow enough. Understand just enough Mandarin to catch when they're talking about me so I can get wontons thrown in for free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boysetsfire Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Fluent in English and Spanish. Can understand Portuguese and Italian. I could speak a little Portuguese way back when i was in elementary school because my best friends parents would always speak it to me. Wish I could remember it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 English only,but ES is also helping me become fluent in Text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbleedBnG83 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I used to be able to speak Persian, English, and Italiannow I can only speak Persian and English I learned Spanish in high school, but I was never very good at it What exactly is persian? Do you mean Farsi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbleedBnG83 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Hablo Espanol. I took French in middle school. Really wished I had stuck to it since it was SO easy for me since Spanish was my native language. I wonder how many people on here claiming to know Spanish, or any other language, REALLY know how to speak it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostic Hog Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I was a linguist in the AF. I lived in Germany for 4 years as an Army brat so my choice in the AF was German; but as a German linguist you also learn some Russian. Then the Cold War ended and all of us German linguists were told to cross-train. Perfect timing to learn Arabic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalSkins Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 What exactly is persian? Do you mean Farsi? Farsi is the Persian word for the language. Same as Espanol is for Spanish. When speaking or writing in English, the proper term is Persian not Farsi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buenosdiaz Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Hablo Espanol. I took French in middle school. Really wished I had stuck to it since it was SO easy for me since Spanish was my native language. I wonder how many people on here claiming to know Spanish, or any other language, REALLY know how to speak it... and if they cant you got lied to on the internet wont be the last time lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbleedBnG83 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Farsi is the Persian word for the language. Same as Espanol is for Spanish. When speaking or writing in English, the proper term is Persian not Farsi. I see I see. But there are variations to the Persian language not just Farsi. Its just my Persian friends growing up would say they speak Farsi but are Persian or Iranian. But I know what you are saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbleedBnG83 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 and if they cant you got lied to on the internet wont be the last time lol Whoa, whoa, whoa...you are telling me people are dishonest on the internet!?!?? Thank God a Nigerian Prince is hooking me up!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldskool Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Farsi is the Persian word for the language. Same as Espanol is for Spanish. When speaking or writing in English, the proper term is Persian not Farsi. Actually the proper term for "Spanish" is Castellano, which is the regional dialect from Castille that became the official state language in the 13th century. Some other languages native to Spain are Catalan, Aragonese, Basque, Asturian, Caló, and Galician. Their origins vary from being Romance based to Gaelic based to Romani origin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan133 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 "I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication and-" "splendid. we have been without an interpreter since our master got angry with our last protocol droid and disintegrated him." "disintegrated?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I was reminded that I also speak jive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xHPU6NulM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 EnglishBut I've picked up some: Spanish, Urdu, French, Arabic and Slovak. Dude, using Urdu/Arabic translators doesn't count. That isn't the real language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalSkins Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I see I see. But there are variations to the Persian language not just Farsi. Its just my Persian friends growing up would say they speak Farsi but are Persian or Iranian. But I know what you are saying. They were wrong. Persian is the correct English word for Farsi. Other languages spoken in Iran are Turkish, Lori, Armenian, Arabic and Hebrew among others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalSkins Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Actually the proper term for "Spanish" is Castellano, which is the regional dialect from Castille that became the official state language in the 13th century. Some other languages native to Spain are Catalan, Aragonese, Basque, Asturian, Caló, and Galician. Their origins vary from being Romance based to Gaelic based to Romani origin. Not correct. Castellano is the Spanish/Castilian word for the language. In English the word for Castellano is Castilian. However, it is proper to refer to it as Spanish when speaking English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldskool Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Not correct. Castellano is the Spanish/Castilian word for the language. In English the word for Castellano is Castilian. However, it is proper to refer to it as Spanish when speaking English. Castellano is a synonym of the word Spanish in this context but also in a historical reference Castellano is the local dialect that became what is now known as the "Spanish language". It's a common but incorrect useage in English to refer to it as Spanish. You can barely get away with calling the language Spanish in Spain, as it is a touchy subject. It's not proper in the same way as to say Oriental and not referring to rugs. In the same way as their is no language named Chinese, Indian, Iranian or Soviet, there is technically no such language called Spanish. Just to top it off Castellano - the more precise name for the Spanish we know - is the national language and is spoken throughout Spain. However, what many people don't know is that along with the widespread Castellano, there are three other fully-developed independent languages: Gallego, Catalán and Vasco. Why, then, is Castellano the language most commonly thought of as Spanish?Each of the four languages is historically linked to a specific region. Castellano, while it is spoken throughout the Spanish-speaking world, is actually the result of badly-spoken Latin spoken originally across Cantabria, Burgos and La Rioja. Eventually the language spread into and became the principal language of the ultra-important, government-based Kingdom of Castilla- hence Castellano: the language of Castilla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopper Dave Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I'm obviously fluent in English. I'm can understand and read a decent amount of Spanish, and I know enough Mandarin to not starve to death, sleep on the street, or defecate in my pants if I were in China. I'm in the process of becoming fluent in Spanish and Mandarin, and I plan on learning Russian and Arabic within the next 5-10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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