Quote: Ray Dawson @ June 7 2008, 11:38 PM BSTI speak fluent bullshit!
You're just saying that.
What languages can you speak? Page 2
I started to learn Esperanto.
It's a registered charity. How can that be?
Quote: Alan C @ June 7 2008, 11:09 PM BSTI tend to converse in foreign languages via babelfish
Yes, yes you do!
Quote: Ray Dawson @ June 7 2008, 11:38 PM BSTI speak fluent bullshit!
Yes, yes you do!
Quote: Timbo @ June 7 2008, 11:02 PM BSTHande hoch?
Corporal Jones! 
I speak a bit of Russian (well I can read it at least), and am currently learning. The accent is easy, and I can read out something if written down, but wouldn't really be able to hold up a conversation as yet.
French I can pick out key words and just about get the gist (jist?) of a conversation if they would speak f**king slowly enough, but really have no clue how to string a sentence together. German I did a year of at school and was really good at, but wasn't allowed to do any more and had to continue with French, which I had no f**king clue about at all. I also know a few bits of Danish.
My brother though, is some kind of genius. He's totally fluent in German, and will be studying it further at uni come September (combined with history I think, although that's irrelevant here), and also rather good at French.
My Klingon is better than my English.
ghuy'cha!
native language (see: Location), quite fluent Russian and English.
I've dabbed also in French, German and Norwegian.
Learning from dictionaries or self-teaching books is basically a waste, IMHO. In order to master a language you need to live in its environment for at least a year.
Should be difficult with Klingon or esperanto, I guess 
Quote: Aaron @ June 8 2008, 1:28 AM BSTMy brother though, is some kind of genius.
My sis is like that. Apart from fluent Russian and English, she's also fluent in Norwegian, and knows some Arabian (!).
Yes, but can she cook?
I can speak some English and as much Spanish as I needed to achieve my objectives..
I work in a construction type industry and it has a lot of different languages (as it's very global), I work with a guy who speaks, German, French, Spanish and some African dialects.
I really want to learn a language now but I don't know what, I'm tempted to learn Canontese (that spelt right?) but it looks very complicated so I may stick to something like German or Spanish.
And it's weird but like Aaron I can follow a conversation in french to some extent but I can barely speak a word... it's very weird.
Quote: Paul W @ June 8 2008, 12:02 PM BSTI really want to learn a language now but I don't know what, I'm tempted to learn Canontese (that spelt right?) but it looks very complicated so I may stick to something like German or Spanish.
Yes it's spelled correctly. The craziest thing about languages like that is that they're not just based on individual sounds as English is, but also on the tone in which they're said.
I'm quite liking Polish at the moment.
I like the way Polish people sound. I can imagine I'm in some Eastern European village. Fun!
There's the farm labourers again!
I can speak Ukrainian, which means I can understand quite a lot of bits of Eastern European other stuff: Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, etc as they're all pronounced and/or written similarly.
And English, obviously. My French isn't so bad, but they speak too fast.
I'd love to learn Italian but it's obviously the most useless language to know as it's only spoken by a single country. You get to shout at everybody without them taking offence, which is great.
I did German for a year at school, but all I know is 'Der Domme, bitte' or 'The cathedral, please?'. Which means I would have to navigate Germany by cathedrals... not that I would understand the directions...
Dan
Quote: Paul W @ June 8 2008, 12:02 PM BSTI really want to learn a language now but I don't know what, I'm tempted to learn Canontese (that spelt right?) but it looks very complicated so I may stick to something like German or Spanish.
One of my housemates at uni was Chinese and I asked him to teach me. F**king hell, I'm normally quite good at picking up languages but this was very hard.
Like Aaron said it's as much about tone as anything and you could be saying something completely different just because you didn't quite get the tone right.
Quote: Aaron @ June 8 2008, 1:28 AM BSTCorporal Jones!
I speak a bit of Russian (well I can read it at least), and am currently learning. The accent is easy
Do you think so? I cannot pronounce my 'r's the way they do, just don't know what they put where to get that sound.
And I forgot to mention, I speak some Arabic as well due to living with a bunch of them for 3 years. I know a lot of very offensive words in that language as well, one of which my housemate told me meant good morning so I said it to someone else without knowing. Yeah, very f**king funny!
Quote: ian_w @ June 8 2008, 12:38 PM BSTDo you think so? I cannot pronounce my 'r's the way they do, just don't know what they put where to get that sound.
Funnily enough, Russians feel the same way about English 'r's and 'th's. And, well, many other sounds Russians as rule have very distinct accent, when speaking in English.
I speak l33t.
I used to be almost fluent in German, really had an affinity for it, then I left college and it all dripped out of my ears.
Was never that great at French, but can still speak a bit.
I started to teach myself Mandarin, then gave up as it was too hard. 