Do you speak another language?

[Dancing_in_rain]

Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

Je parle un peu francais. Tu es nee en France...?

Non, je suis née en Angleterre. Mais ma mère est à moitié pied-noir d'Algérie et Canadienne Française tandis que mon père est à moitié Écossais et Anglais. Donc je suis un vrai mélange. Par contre, j'ai aussi habité en Russie, à Moscou, pendant 5 ans. :P
Translation:
No, I was born in England. But my mum is half pied-noir from Algeria and half French Canadian while my dad is half Scottish and half English. I'm a mix. However, I also lived in Russia, in Moscow, for 5 years.

PersephoneX, you live in South Africa don't you? I went there last Christmas and went a few times when I lived in Russia. Where in SA are you? I wanted to pick up Afrikaans and hopefully IsiXhosa, IsiZulu and Setswana but that didn't work out very well. I'm trying to learn now.

[killer_asian_Dax]

Originally Posted by Drake Dun

One of my goals in life is to be fluent in three completely unrelated languages.

Same here. I think I've almost accomplished that. Still working on my Japanese and Russian penmanship though. Don't ever ask me to write you. I'll butcher it! (Damned stroke orders!!!)

[Drake Dun]

Go here and click on ポイント. You can also look up pretty much any kanji and get the stroke order on this site, but actually, after you learn the basic principles you can get about 85% of them right without having checked the character's stroke order first.

There are certain notable exceptions of course, including the enigmatic 飛.

Drake

[Drake Dun]

Oops. It would probably help to have the link, eh?

http://kakijun.main.jp/

Drake

[Cyntrox]

Originally Posted by PersephoneX

I speak English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, a bit of German, a bit of French, a bit of Latin, a bit of Norwegian, SQL, HTML and C++...

How could I forget...

I also speak HTML, Javascript, GML and a tiny bit of Java and C++.

[Shyantra]

Let us see what pretties I speak.
Latin, Japanese, Spanish (past is sooo confusing in this language) X|, English xD (native tongue), & Navaho (my grandfather on my dad's side native tongue).

As for how many I understand, way too many to count. Basically anything with a latin base (I took it for 4 years and did my SAT 2s in it).

[killer_asian_Dax]

Thanks much Drake!

[PersephoneX]

Originally Posted by Drake Dun

SELECT language FROM persephone_spoken_languages WHERE language IN (SELECT language FROM human_languages)

Drake

People suck, I'd rather speak a language that makes me happy. Computers dont criticise or stab you in the back...and if they do, rm * or format...

[chelseagirl]

Originally Posted by DarkGentleman

Cussing or offensive language doesn't count, by the way.

I speak the language of love...does that count? haha

Unfortunately, I don't think my brain is wired to be able to learn languages easily. I would love to learn Spanish and German though.

[Cyntrox]

Originally Posted by PersephoneX

People suck, I'd rather speak a language that makes me happy. Computers dont criticise or stab you in the back...and if they do, rm * or format...

agree=true

[PersephoneX]

Originally Posted by Dancing_in_rain

PersephoneX, you live in South Africa don't you? I went there last Christmas and went a few times when I lived in Russia. Where in SA are you? I wanted to pick up Afrikaans and hopefully IsiXhosa, IsiZulu and Setswana but that didn't work out very well. I'm trying to learn now.

Molo! Ungubani wena?

I live in the sunny Western Cape, in Cape Town...Famous for Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was encarcerated, Table Mountain, Jackass Penguins, Fynbos and Great White Sharks. I used to live in Port Elizabeth, which is known as the windy city. P.E has a very high Asian population.

Afrikaans is easy, but its a dying language. And fewer people are speaking Xhosa...also, yo have to be careful, because Xhosa people get offended if you speak to them in Tswana, or Zulu and Zulu people are offended if you mistake them for Xhosa. Zulu people tend to find Xhosa people very lazy...

[DarkChildOne]

I know a little bit of gaelic, ASL, a handful of japanese, and one phrase in russian that means "I know nothing."
Unless Drow counts as a language, thats all i have to offer.

[Drake Dun]

Originally Posted by Cyntrox

I also speak HTML, Javascript, GML and a tiny bit of Java and C++.

public HumanLanguage[] getHumanLanguages (Person subject) {

Language[] allLanguages = subject.getLanguages();
ArrayList<HumanLanguage> resultList = new ArrayList(allLanguages.length);

for (Language current : allLanguages) {

try {

resultList.add((HumanLanguage)current);
}
catch (ClassCastException exception) {}
}

return resultList.toArray(new HumanLanguage[resultList.size()]);
}

Drake

[PersephoneX]

Ha ha ha...Drake, i think i love you...

Humane Languages are over rated though...

[Minyaliel]

Lol at Drake. Nerdy humour at its best...

My first language is German. I learned Norwegian at the age of five, and English at school. I know a bit of French, having had four years of tuition (I wish I hadn't given it up). I can pronounce, and understand a fair bit of Italian (due to participating in opera and classical song, where this language is prevalent) and Spanish (which I want to learn properly). I also speak a fair bit of Sindarin ("Elvish"). I am trying to learn Scottish (due to not being able to master Irish; the two are similar, and so I'm hoping to be able to learn Irish once I've got a fair grip on Scottish). I can understand and imitate Danish and Swedish (most Norwegian speakers are capable of this), and I can understand Dutch to a certain extent if I concentrate. I'm a language addict...

[Caught]

My original language is dutch (don't mix it up with german), then I speak french as my second language, I think I'm ok with english, I'll learn german next year and I even know a little japanese.

[Shyantra]

Originally Posted by Minyaliel

I'm a language addict...

So am I, but don't tell anyone.

[bleedingheart344]

Learning German and trying to learn japanese. ps. hey shyantra *wave*

[killer_asian_Dax]

I don't think "Elvish" is a true language. It's not spoken by any country, nation or otherwise.

As far as being a language junkie- when I was growning up (between the ages of 6- 15) I taught myself a fair bit of Latin and was being taught how to read and write Egyptian heiroglyphs. Take that!

[DarkChildOne]

Originally Posted by killer_asian_Dax

I don't think "Elvish" is a true language. It's not spoken by any country, nation or otherwise.

Well! There is a fair bit of space in my head and i speak it in my mind! Its empty enough to be a country.... ^.=.^

[Minyaliel]

Elvish is defined as a language (two, actually) in the dictionary, just as Esperanto is. Made- up or not, it's still spoken by a bunch of Tolkien fans worldwide. You don't need a country to have a language (example: the saami people of north Norway/ Sweden/ Finnland/ Russia).

[Drake Dun]

Originally Posted by PersephoneX

Ha ha ha...Drake, i think i love you...

Originally Posted by Minyaliel

Lol at Drake. Nerdy humour at its best...

It's fun! Here's "I speak Japanese" in first order logic:

(∃d)(∃j)(Sdj)



Drake

[Drake Dun]

Actuallly, the existential quantifiers are needless since I used names and not variables. Woops.

Sdj

Drake

[Cicero]

Originally Posted by killer_asian_Dax

I don't think "Elvish" is a true language. It's not spoken by any country, nation or otherwise.

As far as being a language junkie- when I was growning up (between the ages of 6- 15) I taught myself a fair bit of Latin and was being taught how to read and write Egyptian heiroglyphs. Take that!

Ah, so we're counting ancient languages?

In that case I also know more Ancient Egyptian than most other people. I've been playing around with hieroglyphs since I was 8. I can also understand written Latin.

[PersephoneX]

Originally Posted by Drake Dun

Actuallly, the existential quantifiers are needless since I used names and not variables. Woops.

Sdj

Drake

Now you're just showing off!