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Atkingani

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Topic: What Languages Can You Speak?
Posted: November 20 2007 at 09:15

Poll closed.

Norwegian won seconded by Swedish...

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Posted: November 19 2007 at 16:57

Native English, modest German, beginner Italian, near-native Latin and decent Ancient Greek.

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Posted: November 04 2007 at 17:11

And I didn't even post this in the Just For Fun section.

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Posted: November 04 2007 at 03:22

This poll has turned into Sweden vs. Norway!

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Posted: November 03 2007 at 23:37

the poll is bad because one member can vote many times..I VOTED EIGHT TIMES CANTONESE,PLEASE DELETE THE POLL ,or make again the poll ,but with only one vote possible for each member!!!

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Posted: November 03 2007 at 11:45

Philéas wrote:

Someone's been having fun with the poll I see (86 votes for Swedish, wtf?)

Damn Swedish patriots.

That dumb b*****d

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Posted: November 01 2007 at 06:29

German (mother tongue)
English
French

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Posted: October 31 2007 at 19:27

Moogtron III wrote:

Fassbinder wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

Dutch (my mother tongue)

English (quite good)

German (rather good)

French (could be worse)

...

That's all, really.

Oh, I can translate four other, ancient, languages, at least when they are when written down: Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic

, but that doesn't really count, does it

Languages I would like to learn: Italian (the most beautiful language in the world, even e pericoloso sporghersi is poetry in my ears), Spanish, and I even dream of speaking Chinese and Russian. Well, maybe, some day...

Translations from the dead languages are count!!! ...and count seriously... I have my hat off to you...

Well, translation from Hebrew is not that difficult (personal experience), but Aramaic... incredible!

Thanks! Actually, Aramaic, as a semitic language, is not that different from Hebrew. I learned biblical Aramaic and Palestinian Aramaic. If you can learn Hebrew, you can easily learn Aramaic as well.

Exactly, I have no doubts. The language I've learnt is the so called Modern Hebrew though, which differs, I believe, in that degree or another, from the Biblical Hebrew. The latter should be quite close to Aramaic.

Also, I wonder how many of today's Hebrew speakers are able to read the Bible easily (excluding, of course, the religious ones, who have to know it by the definition).

Anyway, I always had an admiration for the classical education (unfortunately, I didn't learn any of the classical languages) and for those who have notion of these languages, especially in our time, when even the live languages aren't considered important, let alone the dead ones.

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Posted: October 31 2007 at 19:12

Fassbinder wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

Dutch (my mother tongue)

English (quite good)

German (rather good)

French (could be worse)

...

That's all, really.

Oh, I can translate four other, ancient, languages, at least when they are when written down: Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic

, but that doesn't really count, does it

Translations from the dead languages are count!!! ...and count seriously... I have my hat off to you...

Well, translation from Hebrew is not that difficult (personal experience), but Aramaic... incredible!

Thanks! Actually, Aramaic, as a semitic language, is not that different from Hebrew. I learned biblical Aramaic and Palestinian Aramaic. If you can learn Hebrew, you can easily learn Aramaic as well.

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Posted: October 31 2007 at 12:02

Someone's been having fun with the poll I see (86 votes for Swedish, wtf?)

Damn Swedish patriots.

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 17:51

Moogtron III wrote:

Dutch (my mother tongue)

English (quite good)

German (rather good)

French (could be worse)

...

That's all, really.

Oh, I can translate four other, ancient, languages, at least when they are when written down: Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic

, but that doesn't really count, does it

Translations from the dead languages are count!!! ...and count seriously... I have my hat off to you...

Well, translation from Hebrew is not that difficult (personal experience), but Aramaic... incredible!

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 17:09

Dutch (my mother tongue)

English (quite good)

German (rather good)

French (could be worse)

...

That's all, really.

Oh, I can translate four other, ancient, languages, at least when they are when written down: Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic

, but that doesn't really count, does it

Edited by Moogtron III - October 30 2007 at 17:16

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 16:06

Ghost Rider wrote:

aapatsos wrote:

no Greek on the list, huh? You are going to be punished for that... Angry

Greek and English fluently, I want to learn Italian and Spanish

I did learn Ancient Greek for five years in high school. Of course I can't speak it, and nowadays I have forgotten almost everything about it, but it was very interesting and very useful for my subsequent language studies.

Amazing! Ancient Greek is even too hard for most of Greeks Big%20smile

I have to say I have also forgotten everything... Embarrassed

Thumbs up for your high school Clap

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 15:25

aapatsos wrote:

no Greek on the list, huh? You are going to be punished for that... Angry

Greek and English fluently, I want to learn Italian and Spanish

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 15:15

Swedish is my mother tongue, and I also speak English (fluently, dare I say). I learned French in school for a couple of years, though I don't speak it very well. I'm considering moving to France to improve it. I also had German in school for two years, though I have lost most of what I learned back then. I can understand written and spoken Norweigan very well, and I can also understand written Danish.

magnus wrote:

Danish, to me, seems like (southern) norwegian spoken by a person with a potato in his throat and a somewhat german accent)

To me as well.

Edited by Philéas - October 30 2007 at 15:15

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Posted: October 27 2007 at 23:09

no Greek on the list, huh? You are going to be punished for that... Angry

Greek and English fluently, I want to learn Italian and Spanish

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Posted: October 27 2007 at 01:51

I speak English and attempt to speak French....

Philip

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Posted: October 26 2007 at 14:08

Portuguese and english which i try to practice here.

Basics of Spanish also.

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Posted: October 15 2007 at 17:52

English is my first language, but i also speak German and some basic Spanish. I'd love to learn Dutch, sound like such a cool language!

Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat?

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Posted: October 13 2007 at 15:12

magnus wrote:

Norwegian(mother tongue)
English(fluently)
Swedish(can read it just about perfectly, and speak it fairly well)
Danish(can read it perfectly well, and I can speak it to a very small degree. Danish, to me, seems like (southern) norwegian spoken by a person with a potato in his throat and a somewhat german accent)
German(can read it quite well, speak it somewhat well, but talking with native germans... that's another thing)

A german friend once described English as like speaking with a hot potato in your mouth.

What?

Poll Question: What languages do you know, fluently or not?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
English (hurr)	72	[4.60%]
French	27	[1.72%]
Spanish	26	[1.66%]
German	17	[1.09%]
Dutch	6	[0.38%]
Swedish	580	[37.04%]
Mandarin	1	[0.06%]
Cantonese	9	[0.57%]
Japanese	1	[0.06%]
Russian	2	[0.13%]
Italian	5	[0.32%]
Arabic	6	[0.38%]
Portuguese	13	[0.83%]
Norwegian	784	[50.06%]
Other	17	[1.09%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted