Languages you knowWant to learn : Othor Games

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:51 pm

I should try and learn it again. Also want to know some words in diffferent European languages because I want to visit some places and it would be useful to actualy know some of their language.

Nonsense. You just need to speak English sufficiently loudly and slowly to make yourself heard. :hehe:

» Sat May 12, 2012 10:13 pm

Know:

- English (obviously)
- Spanish (well enough to have real conversations, but still have the occasional vocabulary question)

Would like to know:

- Portugese (not a terribly difficult leap from Spanish)
- Japanese (I'm jealous of my 2 fluent friends)
- German

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:07 pm

It's pretty much a given that I know English :biggrin:

For foreign languages, I only know little bits and pieces of Ancient Latin and German (having taken both respectively in high school and college...and was lousy with both) :tongue:

Would be nice to learn some Japanese, though.

Tim (aka the Slipperman)

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:10 am

I speak Finnish, English, Swedish and Spanish, and wish I knew Italian and Latin.

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:50 am

I know, in order of proficiency, high to low:
Dutch (Flemish)
English
French
German

Want to learn:
Norwegian

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:41 am

Know:
English (Fluent)
Spanish (Basics/Enough to function for about a day in mexico)
Latin (Various Words and phrases that I can peace together to make new phrases)

Learning/Want to Learn:
Latin
Navajo

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:21 pm

I know English and Scottish slang, little Italian and "Hello" "Goodbye" "12345678910" in French and Spanish, and some little phrases in Latin

I would like to learn Japanese. Or at least be able to write in Japanese.

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:02 pm

I know English and some schoolboy French, a tiny bit of German and an even tinier bit of Russian.

I'd like to learn more Russian because the letters look cool :happy:

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:58 am

I know:

English
French
Arabic (Gulf dialect - Khaleeji, if you want to be specific)
Farsi
Urdu
Hindi
Pashto
Punjabi
Dari
A little Italian and Spanish.

I wish I knew:

Japanese
Korean
Chinese
More Italian and Spanish

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:48 pm

I know :

English
Turkish
Farsi
A bit Elvish

And want to learn :

Complete Elvish( j.R.R Tolkien )
Esperanto
German
Japanese

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:44 pm

Sadly I am only fluent in Dutch and English, and I have some rudimentary knowledge of German as well. Plus some really basic skills in French and Latin that barely deserve mentioning. I'd like to become fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish and Russian, all of which I find to be fantastic languages. I doubt that will ever happen though.

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:54 pm

Fluent in english obviously and fluent in a game related language called Hymmnos. Specifically the Cental standard version, with the majority of my words being metafalss notes.

Ma num ga yorr rifaien accrroad endia xevxl
Your revival will herald the end of my suffering..

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:31 am

Know:
Finnish (native)
English
German (Limited. I know only the basics.)
Swedish (Limited. Same as above.)

Want to learn:
Spanish (It's one of the most spoken languages in the world, so it might come in handy.)
Navajo (I'd like to learn at least one native American language.)
Dovah (I'd also like to learn at least one fictional language. Unfortunately it's hard to learn. Krosis

)

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:48 am

Know:

English
French

Trying to learn:

Afrikaans
Hebrew

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:52 pm

I speak Finnish, English, Swedish and Spanish, and wish I knew Italian and Latin.

Im guessing your Finnish. Why learn Spanish ? Dosent seem like it would be very practical.

Also suprised at so many people saying Japanese, unless you intend to (or already have) visit(ed) Japan I dont see a need. Anime has subs, I assume most manga is translated. So why is it so popular ? Or are lots of people planning on visiting Japan ?

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:45 am

I'm fluent in Icelandic, English and Danish.

I can speak / read / write German, Norwegian, French and Japanese (I know very few kanji though), but I'm not fluent in any of those languages.

Mandarin/Koean/Japanese/Vietnamese (Only one Eastern language)

I know English and very little French, I want to learn Japanese.

Want to Learn:

Japanese

I only speak English, but I really want to start learning Japanese again, I learnt it for about 3 years or so, but now I can't remember much more than a few words. I can still remember most of the kana though, so thats a start.

Want to learn:
Japanese

i want to lern japanese so i can watch my animes as they were supposed to be watched with my waifu ~uguuu~

Would love to learn any these following language as well: any of the Chinese language would be fine for business reason and/or Japanese and Vietnamese for entertainment values.

Want to learn:

Japanese

Would like to know:

- Japanese (I'm jealous of my 2 fluent friends)

Would be nice to learn some Japanese, though.

こんにちは！

Step 1: Get the http://www.google.com/intl/ja/ime/ so you can write japanese on your non-japanese keyboard like I just did ^
Step 2: Sign up for http://www.textfugu.com/ (check out their http://www.textfugu.com/free-lessons/)
Step 3: Follow their lessons to the letter

do those three steps and in a few months you'll be able to read and write hiragana and katakana and you'll have a pretty good vocabulary to continue learning japanese

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:04 am

Know:
Finnish (As most of the people around these parts speak it. Well, nowadays that and russian :hehe:

)
English (i have the internet and games to thank for that ^_^

)

Knew:
Swedish (Jag kan inte tala svenska. More than that, i mean :hehe:

)
German (Thoug i was never too good at it :blush:

)

Want to:
Japanese (some of the stuff that little island produces is relevant to my interests

)
Russian (it would really help in getting employed around these parts nowadays).

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:11 am

I know:
Finnsh
Swedish
English

Want to learn:
-
-
-

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:59 pm

Russian (it would really help in getting employed around these parts nowadays).

Why would you need Russin to help get employed ?

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:05 am

Why would you need Russin to help get employed ?

Because he's from Finland

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:35 am

Why would you need Russin to help get employed ?

Here in the southeast corner there are a lot, and i do mean A LOT of russian tourists and residents (that is why this 10.000 people town has half a dozen malls :lmao:

), and as such being able to speak russian would look really good on a resume. It isn't that much help on other parts of the country, on the west coast it would be useless, whereas swedish would be pretty much required.

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:45 pm

Im guessing your Finnish. Why learn Spanish ? Dosent seem like it would be very practical.

Yes, I'm Finnish. I've lived in California for a considerable part of my life, though, and began Spanish lessons there, where the language is spoken more. Spanish courses were offered at the Finnish school I started attending once I moved back to Finland, so I continued with it.

Here in the southeast corner there are a lot, and i do mean A LOT of russian tourists and residents (that is why this 10.000 people town has half a dozen malls :lmao:

), and as such being able to speak russian would look really good on a resume. It isn't that much help on other parts of the country, on the west coast it would be useless, whereas swedish would be pretty much required.

This is true here in the Helsinki area as well, although to a lesser extent. Swedish is more commonly used than Russian (and is essentially a requirement for a lot of jobs), but we get loads of Russian tourists as well.

And Japanese tourists. Which is a bit odd.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:50 am

Languages I know:

American English (obviously

)
Spanish (tiny bit)

Languages I would like to know:

Japanese
Chinese

Personally I would really like to learn Japanese not just hearing but reading it however it's just a real PITA from what i've seen. The Kanji symbols can be hard as heck to read having different meaning when putting them together. Only Japanese that I even remotely know is what I learned through anime which is kind of sad. Mostly know words for cute, stupid, and dog so i'm in pretty sorry shape if I travel to Japan.

» Sat May 12, 2012 10:39 pm

Languages:
- Norwegian (which automatically gives us a understanding of swedish and danish aswell).
- English
- I had Spanish for 6 years in school, but I would still consider myself an absolute beginner at it as I never was enthusiastic towards learning it.

Want to learn:
- German
- Turkish
- Arabian

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:10 am

Because he's from Finland

Thats the point. If I moved to another country I should learn their languange instead of having them learn mine. My school had quite a lot of Polish people, dosent mean we should learn Polish because of that.

Here in the southeast corner there are a lot, and i do mean A LOT of russian tourists and residents (that is why this 10.000 people town has half a dozen malls :lmao:

), and as such being able to speak russian would look really good on a resume. It isn't that much help on other parts of the country, on the west coast it would be useless, whereas swedish would be pretty much required.

Part of me thinks you shouldnt need to learn Swedish either, its Finland after all. But iirc Finlnd used to be part of Sweden (no offense if I have this wrong) which explains the amount of people who know Swedish. Infact I swear I heared more people spoke Swedish than Finnish. Not sure. S