Do you speak a language(s) besides English?

[Dawson Leery]

If so, which other language(s) do you speak?

[Renew Deal]

1. Yes. I also speak American.

:patriot:

[murphyj87]

16. Oh, so....

So you say "Indians" instead of "First Nations people" and "Eskimos" instead of "Inuit"?

[Renew Deal]

19. And hoser instead of

:evilgrin:

[murphyj87]

33. No wonder...

No wonder Americans have absolutely no understanding of Canada or Canadians, and have such weird ideas, urban legends, and conspiracy theories about Canada. They can't understand Canadian English.

[Renew Deal]

42. lol

:pals:

[WatsonT]

59. And instead of "eh?" we say " "

[kentauros]

70. Well, you can thank SCTV for that,

you hosehead! :P

[a la izquierda]

75. Like tooks (however that's spelled) and loonies and toonies?

:)

[murphyj87]

78. And......

First Nations instead of "indians", Inuit instead if "eskimos", Jos and Louis instead of "Twinkies", to not even scratch the surface.......

[a la izquierda]

81. My husband has toured Canada with a bunch of different...

punk bands. He loves the orange milk, different candies, and new vocab he learns. Canada is the one country he'd willingly move to if I got a job.

[WatsonT]

2. Does mathematics count?

Because if so . . . then no I don't.

[slackmaster]

3. Español

I can even type in it.

[Ghost Dog]

55. I find the Spanish keyboard has all the characters and diacritics I usually need,

with the annoying exceptions of the two currency symbols ¥ and £, and the quote brackets « and ».

Saludos.

[mmonk]

87. yo también.

[Deep13]

4. Not yet.

I have to learn one or two for my graduate degree.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Only at church...

[murphyj87]

35. Yeah...

There's a fairly large Polish population here, so I can go to church and hear the service in Polish, and other places where French is used.... as well as English.

[Aerows]

6. French

My gf is also teaching me Portuguese.

[Brickbat]

7. Three others fluently, I can get by in two more, and I know words and can pick through writings in

several more.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. I'm fluent in the universal language - profanity.

4 years in the marines and having to deal with bosses, computers, lousy drivers and bubble wrap have enhanced my fluency and keeps me in practice.

[w8liftinglady]

74. LOL...I am fluent in Chinese,Italian, and Spanish profanity...as well as good ol' military.

BOHICA...the military had some great ones!

[quinnox]

9. No

English is a wonderful language and I'm more than satisfied with it. Other languages don't do much for me.

[KansDem]

10. Deutsch

I lived in Switzerland for several months while visiting a friend. I took German as my undergraduate language before then.

That was the early 1980s. I'm afraid, though, I am quite rusty today.

[pipi_k]

11. I think English very well...

but to speak it?

No. It's hard for me to translate from my thoughts to language.

So really I don't actually SPEAK any language. Not well, anyway.

[murphyj87]

12. Two others....

Canadian English (as opposed to American English) ... et Français (Acadien, pour être plus exact)

[tularetom]

13. Falo portugues

[Throd]

14. Spanish and Hoosier

[L0oniX]

15. Does pig latin count?

[dawg]

29. Esyay!

I inkthay itay ouldshay ountcay.

[flor-de-jasmim]

17. Portuguese, Spanish, Danish - can get by in French

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Japanese-English translator

who can get by in German, French, Spanish, and Chinese.

And no, each additional language is actually EASIER than the first one.

[DFW]

20. 8 others

Swedish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Catalan, Italian and Russian.

Can get by in Schwyzerdüütsch, too.

Know smatterings of Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Polish and Japanese, too, but not enough to say I can speak them.

[WhollyHeretic]

21. Some Spanish and I'm in the process of learning French.

[Iggo]

39. Thinking I might try a French class or two.

I've been listening to French Pop from the 60's and, I don't know, I just got the urge.

[Aerows]

41. Once you have learned on Romance language

It's a lot easier to pick up another one.

[Iggo]

46. Yeah, I've got a ton of Spanish....

...and when I saw the lyrics to the songs on paper, I was picking up on maybe 20-40% of it.

[IDemo]

22. Passable Spanish n/t

[laundry_queen]

23. french nt

[OKDem08]

24. French / bonjour tout le monde

[Iggo]

25. Yep. I'm hip to the hispaniol. (n/t)

(EDIT: I seem to be having trouble with the inglayz this morning, though.)

[Ian David]

26. Je suck at parlez francais. n/t

[etherealtruth]

54. Moi aussi

[CurtEastPoint]

27. French, Spanish and Italian. And a little Portuguese.

Portuguese is HARD!

[backscatter712]

28. Un peu de Francais, und ein bisschen Deutsch. n/t

[Myrina]

30. klein mehr als ein bischen deutsch ...

:hi:

[Sheepshank]

31. magyarul...csak nagyon kicsit, et francaise ..un peu

[KamaAina]

32. E ola mau ka 'olelo Hawai'i!

(long live the Hawaiian language)

I'm actually better in Spanish and French, though. :-)

[bobbolink]

62. Malama pono!

Its such a beautiful, poetic language.... I wish I knew it.

At least I can enjoy it... and I appreciate that.

Here's to the Merrie Monarch this weekend! :toast:

[pipi_k]

91. Can't speak it, but I do love hearing it spoken...it's so

melodic.

Oh, and my user name...Pipi_k

If I tell you it's a shortened version of the word "pipikaula" I'm sure you'll know what I'm talking about.

No significance to it other than I think it's a real cool word.

:7

[lunatica]

34. English and Spanish

[socialist_n_TN]

36. Well I voted yes, although I don't consider myself

fluent in anything, but English. But I can carry on a basic, albeit slow, conversation in Mandarin and I'm a little more facile in Espanol.

I'm at the point in both of the languages where I could use a few months in country to become fluent.

Oh yeah and I took and passed two years of HS French. Of which I can say "Je ne pas parle Francais bien." :) And that's probably not correct.

[Canuckistanian]

37. French. Some German, some Russian

And even some Scots Gaelic. Languages and linguistics at University.

[JackRiddler]

38. Ellinika & Deutsch

[bobbolink]

63. I was wondering if anyone would mention Greek. Yasou!

I used to dance in a Greek dance performing group and I know just enough of the (beautiful) language to be dangerous.

At least I can get through the alphabet.

Aspro Pato! :toast:

[socialist_n_TN]

66. All I know of Greek is some SERIOUSLY dirty.........

insulting phrases. I had a buddy back when I was a late teen named Lignos who taught me only that. :)

[bobbolink]

68. Those phrases can come in handy for reducing tension in annoying traffic.

Unless you are in a Greek-speaking area, of course. ^_^

I was with two women from Austria in a rather small-ish town on one of the islands, and 3 Greek men decided to befriend us. We went into a taverna, and as the Greeks do, put our stuff down on a table where we wanted to sit, and went in to the kitchen and picked out our food.

As we were coming back to our table, one of the guys said, in Greek, "What is that shit?" pointing to my camera and tote bag. "Then eena scata" I casually replied (That's not shit).

They didn't speak any Greek the rest of the evening. :rofl:

[socialist_n_TN]

71. Yeah, I understand. Mine would probably get me into

a fistfight is Greece. Well no might about it. :)

[sakabatou]

40. Japanese and to a lesser extent, Hebrew

[COLGATE4]

43. Spanish, French, Portuguese and Yiddish

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

44. Italian is my native tongue, but I am fluent in American English, French,

Latin American Spanish and Castillian Spanish. I can understand written and spoken Catalan and German, as well as a bit of Portuguese. I can read cyrillic (due to having taken some Russian in college and many years of boring ancient Greek in Italian schools).

I will be soon be starting Mandarin via Rosetta Stone. I'd like to be somewhat familiar with Arabic and Japanese. But for the life of me, no language so far has been as hard for me to understand as my city's dialect which is a mixture of Gaelic, French, Occitan and Germanic languages... check it out at www.bulgnais.com

[socialist_n_TN]

67. How in the world do you do it? I have a problem..........

with ANY language that I can't regularly converse in with someone. It's easy enough here to speak with native English speakers (of course :)) and there's a lot of Mexicans and other Latinos and a SOLID contingent of folks who speak Mandarin, but I don't know ANYBODY who speaks anything else.

I'd love to pick French back up, but I know that without conversation, it would be useless.

[w8liftinglady]

45. Hablo Espanol, como muchos Tejans

Se hace mas facile a hablar a todo de mis pacientes.

Being a nurse who is bilingual is a good thing in Texas.

[socialist_n_TN]

72. Claro, amiga, claro........

:)

[Marr]

47. I learned French to tweak my right-wing family members, lol.

[spinbaby]

48. Fluent German,

marginal Japanese, terrible French.

[hfojvt]

49. other: nein

lociento, no habla espanyol.

[nadinbrzezinski]

50. Spanish, Hebrew, and yes English... we speak and write American

and it is different enough chap, take my word on this. And Cockney is really a foreign language.

(Yes there are some local dialects in the south that are that different as well)

[Matariki]

51. German, poorly recalled Italian, and learning Haitian Kreyol.

[jberryhill]

52. Fluent Gibberish

[Liberal_in_LA]

53. Fluent DU

n/t, moran, +1, lol

[CaliforniaPeggy]

56. Yes--a little French, and less Spanish...nt

[Ferret Annica]

57. I know French and an learning Spanish,

But I also was an account holder at FReeperland a couple of years. Which was long enough to learn how to talk to the animals.

[Fuzz]

58. I speak German, badly. I understand it much better though.

[sfpcjock]

60. I was OK in Spanish in high school...

so later I decided to learn German because of how it influences the English language. I'm passable now although it took a small toll on my Spanish.

[provis99]

61. yeah, I speak Amurkin.

ah'm proud to bee an amurkin, were aht least ah no ahm free!

[AsahinaKimi]

64. Sukoshi Nihongo ga hanashimasu

I speak a little Japanese! (Just have a hard time reading it.)
日本語がもとじょずになりたいです。

[LadyHawkAZ]

65. After many years on Internet message boards

arguing with (R)s, I'm pretty fluent in Crazy and can translate basic Stupid and Ignorant, although many of the local dialects are confusing and beyond my skills.

Other than that, no.

[SoCalDem]

69. I speak "kitty"

I can also read their minds:) (my kitties, that is)

[Keith Bee]

73. Yes

I also speak Irish, Scottish, Australian, and American. (I had a bad experience with a woman from New Zealand, so I'm deliberately omitting that country from my list.)

[tnvoter]

76. yes, chinese.

[a la izquierda]

77. English and Spanish

and I can read enough French, Portuguese, and German to get by. I'll be learning German over the course of the next year, in the hopes of getting out of here for a while in the future.

[Warren DeMontague]

79. Yes, but I am ashamed to say that my Spanish is pretty bad for someone who took 5 years of it.

Still, a week in Mexico and I'm back up to speed.

[a la izquierda]

82. It remains in your brain...

you'd be surprised. I took four years (including AP) in high school and 2 in college...then nothing for years. I switched my focus to Latin American history as a grad student. I still don't speak it as well as I should, but I read and write it well.

[Capitalocracy]

80. Yes, Spanish, and I'm kind of amazed at the results so far. nt

[hobbit709]

83. Viennese German

With a smattering of Italian, Turkish, Mexican Spanish and I can cuss real well in Russian.

[TBF]

84. A few semesters of Spanish -

hardly remember much because I don't use it, but I can read some of it. Should be taught along with English in this country.

[Recovered Repug]

85. I speak Hogan's Hero's German. nt/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

86. Si. nt

[TorchTheWitch]

88. Unfortunately no

I wish I did. When I was growing up being bilingual got a raised eyebrow. For some reason, we were supposed to be proud of the fact that we could speak only English. Foreign language instruction was only offered in high school, it was very cursory, were only elective courses and precious few languages to choose from (French, Spanish and German).

My oldest brother is fluent in 17 languages including sign language (actually I think he may have added a few in the last few years), and most of them he can read or write or both besides just being able to speak them. He must be some kind of linguistic prodigy or something, but I'm still envious. I'd be so happy if I knew even one other language fluently... or even just marginally fluently.

At one of the clubs I used to work at several of the women I worked with were fluent in English and either Spanish or Portuguese. I used to like to listen to them converse in the dressing room and marveled how they could so easily switch back and forth from one language to the other even having two conversations going on at the same time, one in English and the other in Spanish/Portuguese. I have enough trouble trying to have two conversations at once in only one language. My sister in law grew up with both English and Hungarian and she does the same thing.

One summer my brother tried to teach me and my sister sign language. She picked it up easily and still remembers a lot of it, but I sucked at it and the only two words I still remember are the words bacon and egg. Maybe I have crappy memory when it comes to languages or something.

[MrScorpio]

89. Yes, Bad English. n/t

[tuckessee]

90. French, Russian and some German. n/t