What languages does everyone speak?

[yoko]

English I'm and after working in call centers I'm excellent when it comes to understanding crazy american accents.

Also BASIC, C++, and some html. XD but those are the wrong kind of languages I'm guessing

 

[Laurelin]

Fluent in English and (Canadian) French. Fluent enough in Spanish and ASL to hold a conversation and eavesdrop on people

Haha. Yeah I know enough ASL and Spanish to be able to follow a lot of conversations too. My sister and I used to make our parents mad because we both knew enough ASL to talk to each other across the dinner table without them knowing what we were talking about.

I only speak English though really but can read Spanish fairly decently and speak enough to get by.

 

[Pops2]

if you already have some of a language BUILD on it and encourage your children to do the same. if a person can score 2/2 ILR or better on listening & reading in a whole bunch of non european languages & can get a secret security clearance, the average salary ranges from high 5 figures to low 100K. as your proficiency and clearance go up your salary potential goes up. a 3/3 or better & a top secret compartmented information clearance can net you 1/4 mil to 300K or more.

 

[stardogs]

Just English. I used to be able to get by in ASL pretty well, but I haven't used it in so long that I've lost a lot of my skills. Spanish I can read way better than I can speak and that's not saying a whole lot. lol

 

[Toller_08]

English only. I wish I knew another language but nothing seems to stick! I know a few words in french and spanish, but not enough to hold a conversation.

 

[LindaJD]

igpay atinlay

 

[Puckstop31]

English, 'conversational' German (its been a long time. Can read it well, speak it????) Powershell and Uber Geek.

<swapf> back out to lurker land <swapf>

 

[Dizzy]

Wales has places with names like this:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch


I struggle sometimes and yes, that's a real place.

 

[yoko]

Wales has places with names like this:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch


I struggle sometimes and yes, that's a real place.

I've seen signs online before like that. How do you say that??

 

[Dizzy]

I've seen signs online before like that. How do you say that??

Like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNN3Cpnur1k

I try and pronounce the place names, and usually get corrected because I am wrong. The Welsh alphabet is pronounced totally differently from the English, which is where the confusion comes from!!

For instance... I live near a place called Machynlleth and a place called Dolgellau. They don't sound anything like they're spelt

Mack-clun-cleth and dol-geth-lie... except the 'mack' is in your through 'maccccck' like you're hocking up spit, and the 'geth' is is actually ge-ll.

ll isn't translatable... It's the noise you make when you push the tongue to the roof of your mouth and blow air through it....

Ahhh fun.

 

[AllieMackie]

English, fluent all around.

French I can understand very well, speak decently, and write terribly. I took partial French immersion all through school, which meant half of my classes were entirely French. Since I haven't practiced much in 8+ years, I've lost a lot of it. I would love to read some French novels to get back up to speed. Being bilingual is very handy in our city, since we border Quebec and have many residents of Quebec who live and work here, and vice versa.

Since I know French well enough, I can also understand Spanish somewhat, and other Latin-derived languages.

I also know like... 200+ Japanese words, but cannot connect them to speak, read or write at all. That's only due to watching SO MUCH subtitled anime from high school to now, LOL.

 

[Gixxermike]

english and spanish I live in miami so I speak spanish most of the time.

 

[Romy]

Fluent English.

Enough Russian to get in trouble. Somehow I pronounce it well enough that Ukranians think I'm a native speaker until they actually have a conversation with me and realize my vocabulary is crap. lol

I can understand a lot of spoken Spanish, but can't speak it back.

Understand quite a bit of German and can usually manage a coherent response. Of all the languages, that's the one I'd probably pick up fastest if I was immersed in it.

Latin. That's my <3 language. My prof studied under the pope's Latin teacher in Rome, and is one of about 100 fluent speakers in the entire world. I took it from her for two years. The first several months she grilled us on classical pronunciation because she wanted to scream every time someone called it a dead language. Also, she used to be on a panel at Oxford that people getting their doctorates would do their presentations to. She always wanted to fail the pretentious scholarly types trying to get a doctorate in Latin, who didn't even know how to pronounce the language. The other people on the panel always out voted her though with the "it's a dead language" argument.

Ha ha, I have Winnie Ille Pu, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis, Cattus Petasatus, Quomodo invidiosulus nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem abrogaverit. I need more Seuss books in Latin. The kids have heard them all several times. lol

ETA: apparently someone translated the Wizard of Oz into Latin. I need that too. Aurelia loves that book.

 

[Romy]

if you already have some of a language BUILD on it and encourage your children to do the same. if a person can score 2/2 ILR or better on listening & reading in a whole bunch of non european languages & can get a secret security clearance, the average salary ranges from high 5 figures to low 100K. as your proficiency and clearance go up your salary potential goes up. a 3/3 or better & a top secret compartmented information clearance can net you 1/4 mil to 300K or more.

And now I understand how my brother was able to afford his house. lol