In Which Languages are you Fluent? - Page 3

CutiePie2000 · #31 07-18-2003, 10:58 AM

10 years ago, my German was pretty decent.
My French ain't bad, but I would say it's far from fluent.

I dabble a bit in Spanish....

BLUTANG · #32 07-18-2003, 11:36 AM

German is my second language.

Skchickie · #33 07-18-2003, 11:48 AM

I speak English, Latin, and some French.
I can read and comprehend italian, just because I know latin and french.

LuaBlanca · #34 07-18-2003, 01:27 PM

My mom was born in the Azores, Portugal, and came to America in 1965. 1 month after I was born, she started to work full time again, and left me in the daytime care of my grandmother (her mother) who still to this day doesn't speak English. Thus, it was either "learn to speak Portuguese, or don't communicate with your primary daytime caretaker." Since Portuguese is A LOT easier to learn than English, I picked up on it much quicker and for a while my speech was a garbled mixed with horrible accents and the like. Eventually I straightened out, but even today if I'm speaking or thinking too quickly it comes out kind of messy and people look at me like I'm a freak.

DigitalAngel126 · #35 07-18-2003, 01:44 PM

I'm not fluent in anything but English but I have a cousin with madd language skills..I don't remember what they all are, but she's fluent in SEVEN languages...I know French, Spanish, German, Japanese, and Italian are five of them ,but I don't remember the other two. Isn't that crazy?? She's a teacher.

smiley21 · #36 07-18-2003, 02:12 PM

i am still working on being fluent in english

GMUBunny · #37 07-18-2003, 02:49 PM

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Originally posted by smiley21
i am still working on being fluent in english

That's me at 8am.... all of my french classes were early in the morning. I can't even speak english that early, much less another language!

KappaKittyCat · #38 07-18-2003, 03:09 PM

Munchkin03, I'm also fluent in Italian! I lived in Florence for four months.

I've got some Spanish, but now it's all this big Spitalish mush in my head. Hopefully I'll get it back when I go to Paraguay this winter.

I can't decide whether I want my next language to be German or Hebrew.

Rudey · #39 07-18-2003, 03:22 PM

English, French, Hebrew, Persian, American Sign Language, and limited Italian, Spanish, and Arabic.

-Rudey
--And love...the international language.

ShaedyKD · #40 07-18-2003, 03:27 PM

I think I'm the first one to post my fluency in American Sign Language (ASL)! I'm working on my minor in ASL, and have interacted with deaf people for many hours. I'm taking advanced ASL this semester, and then Finger Spelling, where you spell out every word using letters, not signs.

Edited to clarify that I was the first to post about ASL. As Rudey mentioned, I am not the only person on here to know ASL!

Rudey · #41 07-18-2003, 03:30 PM

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Originally posted by ShaedyKD
I think I'm the first to be fluent in American Sign Language (ASL)! I'm working on my minor in ASL, and have interacted with deaf people for many hours. I'm taking advanced ASL this semester, and then Finger Spelling, where you spell out every word using letters, not signs.

I'm fluent in it. Sorry to burst your bubble toots.

-Rudey
--I'm all about the deaf girls...they don't talk back.

moe.ron · #42 07-18-2003, 03:33 PM

Bahasah, Malay (albeit, both are similar, but enough differences), English, a little afrikaans, a little zulu and xhosa, a little French, trying to pick up German and Spanish.

AZ-AlphaXi · #43 07-18-2003, 03:52 PM

Well besides english, I'm fluent in C, pascal, refine, prolog, and PL/I ....

Oh and I have a smattering of french...

kappaloo · #44 07-19-2003, 12:58 AM

I only speak English fluently.

I know some French... I read well, understand okay, and speak poorly. It's crushing me to find I need to be fluent to be eligible for the Foreign Service.

I'm learning some Czech (Ja jsem kappaloo. Ucim se cesky), and Italian. I'm hoping to learn Italian well enough to talk to my grandmother in it. THough, she speaks French too, and I never got to a good conversational level in that....

ADPiSAI · #45 07-19-2003, 09:24 PM

I know a pretty good amount of French, since that's my major. Being the perfectionist that I am, I don't think I'd ever admit to being fluent in it when there are still plenty of words that I don't know.

I also speak a decent amount of Italian.
I can say a few sentences about beer and men in women's clothing in Spanish, and a few off-colour pickup lines in German.

One of my life goals is to be completely fluent in 6 languages before I die.