Languages you knowWant to learn : Othor Games

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:54 pm

I took three years of Spanish, but would not consider that as knowing the language.

Strangely, the same goes for me.
I used to know a good bit of Latin.

On the 'know' list:
German
Norwegian
Dutch
French
English

I don't want to actively learn any other languages at the moment, but I must admit I used to be intrigued by Slavic languages.

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:13 am

Mandarin or Spanish.

The Spanish are not going to take over the world.

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:56 am

Will never know

The difference between AU and NZ's accents

I know:
English
A tiny bit of Japanese (I learnt it for three years, but now I can barely remember anything)

I would like to learn:
Dutch (My grandparents are from The Netherlands)
German
Spanish

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:27 am

I can speak English, not well but I speak it

I'd love to be able to speak Dutch or German

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:37 am

Speak:

English
Geordie

Would like to learn:

Mandarin
Klingonese (wonder what "Would you like to be a fishy?" would sound like)

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:50 pm

Speak:

Geordie

Yerbuggermar.

I never did find out what that meant. I suspect it was some very deep and transcendental chant. Or something.

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:08 pm

English and a little French because you have to learn it up until grade 9 here because the French population is whiny about it.

Also know some ancient Greek (enough to read, as well as to write words and basic sentences) and plan on learning Latin as well.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:36 am

Know: English, very little Spanish.

Want to know: German, Russian, Italian

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:27 pm

I can only speak English

Oh actually in French I can say - "In my house, I am the "

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:32 am

I am learning spanish, although, I really want to learn German.
Obviously I speak engrish...

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:51 pm

Go for Mandarin. If you can speak the langauge of our new overlords they may give you a more comfortable position.

老漢推車

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:30 am

English and a bit of French. Hopefully I'm going to know more French by the end of the year doing higher tier gcses in it. No doubt I'll forget about it soon after though

» Sat May 12, 2012 10:45 pm

I'm quite fond of words like "futtock" and "masticate" because they sound really rather rude, but aren't. At all.

Haha, had to look those up. I can't think of any myself at the moment, but they're pretty funny. I notice quite a few funny British words (though not rude-sounding) whilst watching Little Britain as well, such as "kerfuffle".

» Sat May 12, 2012 9:52 pm

English
French
some Spanish

Wife's family wants to teach me Mandarin, I'm half-assed learning German.

» Sat May 12, 2012 5:38 pm

I speak English, and know enough German to make a complete ass of myself if I tried to speak it.

I'd really like to learn Japanese and Swedish. Japanese is pretty obvious, I mean I watch enough Anime I might as well actually try to pick up the language right?

As for Swedish, well, I have my http://www.hongfire.com/cg/data/25/caramelldansen.swf.

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:52 pm

Japanese is pretty obvious, I mean I watch enough Anime I might as well actually try to pick up the language right?

erm... yeah but don't use anything you learned in an anime when talking to a Japanese person. Trust me.

» Sat May 12, 2012 10:24 pm

erm... yeah but don't use anything you learned in an anime when talking to a Japanese person. Trust me. :tongue:

No I didn't mean learn Japanese from Anime. I meant because Anime.

It's like somebody who reads golf magazines a lot deciding to actually take some golf lessons.

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:00 pm

Mother tongue: Polish

I can write in English, at leat to some extent. I haven't spoken it in years.

I also took some Russian and German classes, but that was years ago and all I can remember now is how to greet someone or introduce myself, that's all.

Also, I would want to learn English more, especially pronunciation.

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:21 am

No I didn't mean learn Japanese from Anime. I meant because Anime. :tongue:

It's like somebody who reads golf magazines a lot deciding to actually take some golf lessons.

ooohh right, that makes more sense. Most anime use pretty simple vocabulary so you should be able to learn enough japanese to understand most anime in only a couple of months.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:12 am

Know:
German
English
Dutch (but only because I'm german, never learned it and it only works dutch-german and not the other way round)
Latin (lol)
Spanish (more worse than good, I'm still learning)

Want to learn:
Spanish :biggrin:

Well and at least how to pronounce french.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:07 am

I am English and I lived in Spain for 4 years. I used to be basically fluent, I still speak it well, but it's been 3 years since I've really spoken it. I need to get back in to it really.

I'd love to be able to speak French, that's realistic. I'd also love to be able to speak Japanese, that's not realistic though.

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:51 am

And I have attempted to learn the following languages in the past; Italian, Latin, Spanish, Japanese(learned mostly Hiragana), Indonesian, Tagalog.

I was taught latin in the 6th grade, but forgot all of it.

» Sat May 12, 2012 10:07 pm

I would really love to learn Woman. I just don't understand it though...

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:33 pm

I would really love to learn Woman. I just don't understand it though...

Don't even try. There are at least 37 unique clicks and 58 unique stares, most of which you would be physically incapable of producing unless you grew up speaking it.

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:51 pm

I know:

Welsh
English

And enough Spanish to get me around. I'd like to expand on it and become fluent however.