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« Reply #135 on: October 19, 2012, 03:17:00 PM » |
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English (first language); reasonably fluent in French and Spanish; studied a bit of Italian; studied Latin and Greek long enough ago that they were scarcely ancient languages  ; when I was in Paraguay I learned enough Guaraní as I told my friends "to know when you're talking about me" (I did catch them a couple of times  ), also while in Paraguay accustomed my ear to Brazilian Portuguese, though I've lost most of that now, but can generally make sense of what I read because of my knowledge of related languages. Time to learn another - I hear it's good for sexagenarians to do so before we start to lose our mem Two in the same day who can understand Portuguese? It seems the language is gaining quite a following recently.  I have 6 friends from Brazil and they taught me a little Portuguese (mostly just how to swear/curse in Portuguese...but I didnt want to say that on a religious forum  . |
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English (first language); reasonably fluent in French and Spanish; studied a bit of Italian; studied Latin and Greek long enough ago that they were scarcely ancient languages ; when I was in Paraguay I learned enough Guaraní as I told my friends "to know when you're talking about me" (I did catch them a couple of times ), also while in Paraguay accustomed my ear to Brazilian Portuguese, though I've lost most of that now, but can generally make sense of what I read because of my knowledge of related languages. Time to learn another - I hear it's good for sexagenarians to do so before we start to lose our mem Two in the same day who can understand Portuguese? It seems the language is gaining quite a following recently. It's because of my origins, for me |
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Maybe we should try to bring life to the Portuguese Language Thread of the Foreign Languages Forum: http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,27269.0.htmlEnglish (first language); reasonably fluent in French and Spanish; studied a bit of Italian; studied Latin and Greek long enough ago that they were scarcely ancient languages ; when I was in Paraguay I learned enough Guaraní as I told my friends "to know when you're talking about me" (I did catch them a couple of times ), also while in Paraguay accustomed my ear to Brazilian Portuguese, though I've lost most of that now, but can generally make sense of what I read because of my knowledge of related languages. Time to learn another - I hear it's good for sexagenarians to do so before we start to lose our mem Two in the same day who can understand Portuguese? It seems the language is gaining quite a following recently. It's because of my origins, for me |
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« Reply #139 on: October 19, 2012, 03:43:13 PM » |
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English and Spanish: I was raised with both thanks to school and family and friends, though English is primary since it's the only language either of my parents spoke (my father's mother was from Mexico but never taught him or his brother the language, but she taught me after my mother decided to place me in a Spanish-speaking kindergarten...ahhhhh, ex-hippie moms and their horizon-expanding can have its upsides). Russian: I was relatively high-functioning/high-intermediate fluency at one point after about 6 years of study, but have lost most of it by now due to being out of a Russian-speaking environment for the past half-decade. But if I listen to songs for a while, or watch "Ironiya Sud'by" or old Cheburashka cartoons or something, it starts coming back after a while. Arabic: I only took one year of classes, about five years ago now, but has been increasing lately (albeit passively/from being spoken to, rather than speaking very much myself) thanks to church. There are many others I've dabbled with in my linguistics work, e.g., took a seminar course as an undergad on Lithuanian and Proto-Indo-European which involved learning enough Lithuanian to read the 1547 Mazvydas catechism -- the first Lithuanian printed book ever -- without a dictionary or other help. It's neat how quickly that came together; within two weeks, we were reading and translating from the original. Of course, today I only remember the words for "hello" and "eggs", but if it was that quick the first time... |
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Norwegian, English, conversational Greek. Why does nobody speak or learn dutch? Is outrage!
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« Reply #143 on: October 19, 2012, 11:43:01 PM » |
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English and slow Spanish.
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« Reply #145 on: October 19, 2012, 11:47:17 PM » |
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« Reply #146 on: October 19, 2012, 11:47:57 PM » |
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Why does nobody speak or learn dutch? Is outrage!
Vamrat knows Afrikaans, so that is kind of like Dutch.  I'm slowly learning Afrikaans, ill get there someday soon(hopefully ill learn it before i need it) Im als fluent in English and French. My home language is English, but I travel as a francophone on buses and outside of my home. |
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English is my first language, I speak Romanian pretty fluently and used to speak German fluently though it's rusty from lack of use. I also speak a little Czech and some Plattdeutsch (the latter because of an interest in my ancestors, not because it's actually very useful).
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« Reply #148 on: October 22, 2012, 10:44:33 AM » |
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Not in order of fluency, btw.
Are you fluent in ancient greek and latin or do you just know it? I can read whole pages of greek and latin without dictionary the same way I could read a french newspaper. Especially in Latin, I learned it since I was 11 and have been doing it pretty extensively ever since. Awesome I plan to learn latin and ancient greek at the University. If you need any help with it don't hesitate to ask me for help. Cyrillic, sit mihi dux. Scisne latinam linguam? |
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Norwegian, English, conversational Greek. Why does nobody speak or learn dutch? Is outrage!
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« Reply #155 on: November 17, 2012, 12:17:12 AM » |
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« Reply #156 on: November 17, 2012, 03:47:40 PM » |
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I'm somewhat fluent in a number of languages: C#, C++, C, Java, Binary, Perl, PHP, etc. Add Python to the mix. (Appropriate that the default Python editor is called IDLE, though I haven't seen another Python tool named Cleese or Palin. ) I need more coffee, I think. My first thought was "he's a parseltongue?" |
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« Reply #159 on: November 18, 2012, 03:35:18 PM » |
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Podlachian (you can describe it as a mixture of Ukrainian and Belarusian with minor other elements (Polish and Russian)), Belarusian and Polish - native or hardly native English - I hope I speak it quite well Ukrainian and Russian - well to understand speech, not very hard to read, can't say anything  I also studied German but I can say not much except from Ich bin nicht vorbereitet.and Church Slavonic a bit I also should add C, C++, and BASCOM. |
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I'm somewhat fluent in a number of languages: C#, C++, C, Java, Binary, Perl, PHP, etc. Add Python to the mix. (Appropriate that the default Python editor is called IDLE, though I haven't seen another Python tool named Cleese or Palin. ) I need more coffee, I think. My first thought was "he's a parseltongue?" Yeah, that was my thought, too, before I really started using Python. "Why name a programming language after a big snake?" I realize now that the language is named after the son of a hamster. |
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Lol. I feel like such a slacker compared to so many of you.
I speak English (native) and Egyptian Arabic (advanced proficiently to fluently, depending on how you define these terms).
I can understand modern standard Arabic pretty well and a little Spanish.
Languages I hope to learn in the future include MS/Classical Arabic, Koine Greek, and Bohairic Coptic.
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I'm a native Greek speaker, with UK English an acquired second language. I also speak fluent French and Spanish and decent Italian (including a substratum of Latin), although all are relatively rusty now.
My Russian, Japanese, Gaelic, Sanskrit and Portuguese never advanced beyond dabbler level.
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I speak English (native) and Egyptian Arabic (advanced proficiently to fluently, depending on how you define these terms).
But Egyptian Arabic is not your native language? I thought you were bilingual. Nope. I was born and raised in the US. My Egyptian Arabic is almost as good as my English. Which is why I would like to think I can get away with being called "bilingual." Technically, I learned Egyptian Arabic before I learned English (as a toddler), but being that I live in an English-speaking country, my English naturally surpassed my Arabic. |
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