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General => General Discussion => Social Discussion => Topic started by: voidicus on March 22, 2012, 04:11:33 PM

Title: Language
Post by: voidicus on March 22, 2012, 04:11:33 PM: I know that this is an English community, (and that you're supposed to be communicating in English as per the rules #wow #whoa) but I also know that quite a few members are bilingual, some are even multilingual. So whether you're fluent, learning, or just want to give your input on how you're part of the "x language master race," give a reply!

For those that are fluent or learning, mind giving some background on why you got into the language? What challenges you have/had with learning it, maybe? How long you've been speaking or learning is a given, if you don't please!

Personally, I'm getting much more fluent in my German. I'm still learning, but I've been speaking it for about five years now. Coming from English alone, I remember it being a challenge to get a grasp on the tenses, particularly genative and dative. I'm much better overall now, though; much more fluent, as well.

Fuer das vaterland!
Title: Re: Language
Post by: Jeff2307 on March 22, 2012, 05:17:26 PM: I speak Dutch. (It looks a lot like German.) I can also speak English pretty good. And French.
Title: Re: Language
Post by: Zionist Lovers.exe on March 22, 2012, 05:20:43 PM: Russian Language master race reporting in, I can speak it but I'm illiterate.
Title: Re: Language
Post by: [-AR-]Nomad on March 22, 2012, 06:38:54 PM: I'm Irish so I know Gaelic :P
Title: Re: Language
Post by: Yimmy The Cat on March 23, 2012, 04:23:12 PM: I can speck some German

Ich speile videospeile gut.
Title: Re: Language
Post by: JF on March 23, 2012, 09:17:19 PM: Full English, SOME French and SOME German. When I say SOME I mean very little haha. Enough to get by though.
Title: Re: Language
Post by: Mr Jive on March 23, 2012, 09:32:31 PM: Does being able to communicate with a friend to a basic level with specific binary commands and machine code mnemonics count? Apart from that just English. I tried French but I just screwed up and found it too hard :P Lazy Englishmen can't learn languages.

I feel like I would have been more interested in learning German because of my heritage.
Title: Re: Language
Post by: Nicknero on March 24, 2012, 02:31:31 PM: My mother language is Dutch. Although I am better in English then in Dutch, because Dutch grammar is a piece of shit.

I also learned German from a few swiss friends which I got to know when we returned to the came camping every year in summer. (8 years in a row) and of course in school, but I haven't been developing my German for a long time now, so I kinda unlearned it. (I can still understand it quite well, and I can speak it poorly, but I cannot type it.)
Title: Re: Language
Post by: The Doctor, RIP Juggernaut on March 24, 2012, 02:35:44 PM: I can understand most Latin based languages but mostly Latin-American Spanish, but I can only speak a few words and I can't type it worth a shit.
Title: Re: Language
Post by: Jimmy Rustling Day on March 26, 2012, 05:30:30 PM: I'm trying to learn Latin, mostly because it has a shit ton of languages built on top of it (English, Italian, Spanish etc.).
Title: Re: Language
Post by: Penguin on March 26, 2012, 06:41:19 PM: I speak full english and a majority of american sign language which is all right i gues
Title: Re: Language
Post by: Cux on March 26, 2012, 06:49:03 PM: I speak full English, full Malay, some French to get by with (7 years of French), and a little Spanish.