Jasper, i am curious...what is your IQ?
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Jasper, i am curious...what is your IQ?
Why? I haven't had it tested, but some louche internet-test a couple of years ago told me I'm a 186. :lol: Ridiculous, naturally.
IQ tests are passe.
Seriously. They don't measure anything useful, really. And they're rendered totally moot by the theory of multiple intelligences.
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Originally Posted by Kamion
It's a game i used to play with V on some swedish website. I forget how to say AND in swedish, so i just put I. But skissa / gissa means "Draw and guess". And that's about all the swedish i know... besides
Prutt med fart.
I know they're pass
I speak English, Russian, Swedish, French, some Finnish, Norwegian and German...
very interesting languages...
I'm going back a few pages here but I've been away. Just to point out that I say that here you could ask someone if they speak Irish and it's fine to put it that way - just remember it's 'slainte' instead of 'cheers' in the pub. We have an prominent Irish language T.V. station which gets good ratings & there are a lot of Irish language learning / travel programmes. There's an Irish Language Cafe in the city. Probably not much chance of a huge revival but it's plodding along well. Strangely I have different people say that when spoken fluently it doesn't sound altogether dissimilar from Russian. Anyway my native language is Irish. I speak English and am improving in Russian.
haha, very important to know (mycket viktigt att kunna) :)Quote:
Prutt med fart
I'm only fluent in english and bahasa Indonesia (for nation wide language). Knows a little bit of arabic. But for tribal language with small amount of active speaker back in my hometown (you may call it a bit ancient language), I'm fluent in three of them. Another joke, I'm fluent in three non-human language :D. The last three are computer languages. Actually I know 4, but the last one I consider is a toy language. The computer languages are C, C++, and Assembly language :twisted: .
German --> fluent (mother tongue & school)
Italian --> very good (well I'm italian)
English --> good (myself&school)
Latin --> translating into german (school)
Korean --> actually i just can read it (myself)
French --> I've just begone to study it (at school)
Russian --> Well..I started with it two weeks ago...(myself) :roll:
Norwegian: Fluently,I`m Norwegian.
English: Fluently, school, leisure etc.
Russian: Began to study it myself a year ago, I`m not very good.
French: School. I s### at it. I`m trying to improve.
And I want to learn Arabic. Spanish would be nice too. And German, Italian and Kurdish. Albanian, Polish and Hindi also.
Don't forget the Punjabi!Quote:
Originally Posted by Psyche
Irisheyes - I've been intending for a while to learn Irish; do you have any suggestions or recommendations on good resources for a beginner?
I can speak in English,Korean,Cantonese and a little bit Russian
Hey guys why don’t you also tell us you age?
It amazes me that some of you know so many languages. I want to know several foreign languages too. So could you tell your age? That would give me some ideas how long it takes to be more or less fluent in several languages.
Russian is my native language, and I’m okay in English (I’ve been living in America for three years). And I’m only 23 (or maybe I should say I’m already 23 :?:
hey, i just happened to glance in this forum... It was a surprise to see someone who speaks Indonesian! It was one of my first languages (along with English) but I haven't spoken it for so long, that I've pretty much forgotten it. I'm only fluent in English, and I know some Russian and French.
Начальница, простите, чего? :D
Loo loo loo, native English, ok French, working on Russian and Japanese. I miss Spanish and German.
~dUcK!
PS - for the lamb -- I just turned 19.
I'm fluent in English and I'm studying Russian at the moment. :D
Hmm.
Really, what about age of people. I am 26 already and i had time to learn only English and very little Spanish. English for business and Spanish for my soul. And i want to learn Sweden but I have not free time! Do you have so much free time?
I can teach you, Cliffy! ;)
hmmm... languages
English - i live in australia so...
Italian - been learning it for four years at school and i'm almost fluent in it
French - very very very basic i spent a year learning it at primary school
Russian - been trying to learn it for over a year but have gotten absolutely no where
i also have very limited vocab in tamil, elvish, atlantean, old english, ancient egyptian, and other various, useless languages that my boyfriend speaks (except for atlantean... that's my way of getting back at him but i liopai saano).
for the person who asked about ages i'm fifteen atm almost 16 but have only been learning languages for the last five years.
allora. for the americans/brits here could you tell me some slang you guys use? i'm interested in the difference between american/GB slang and aussie slang. and do you guys know what 1337 is? my friends use it but i don't get it oh well.
whoa! i didn't know there were so many russian learners around my age.(14) I thought i would be criticized for my youngness and youth-minded intellectual abilities :roll:
I was 12 years old when I began to learn Russian, so don't let age bother you! Although I don't really believe it's easier to learn languages at a younger age, you can think of all the time you saved by starting early! ;)
About "1337" I had a good laugh. Dogboy, it's yours.
In britian i hear they walk around and say something is "Leet", while here in america we walk around saying "Man that was so one three three seven". I think that's the biggest diffrence i've seen.
(you're 14, i was 15, it's not that big of a deal).
I know a brother and sister, moved here from Rostov 3 years ago. The Guy is 18, his sister is 15. The guy, can speak conversationaly perfect english, but he has an accent and sometimes fumbles. yet, his sister who is now 15, (moved here when she was 12) who i never talked to untill today, speaks perfectly perfect accentless normal english.Quote:
I don't really believe it's easier to learn languages at a younger age
I think that age can play a diffrence... Once you get to a certain point, the muscles in your mouth (along with your brain) can't / wont want to work to creat difrent sounds, and your brain has a harder time accepting the info.
I know that difrent people have diffrent skills, they both seemed to learn english just fine, but i think it's pretty obvious age had something to do with it here.
I think I can vouch for that assessment Dogboy :lol: :lol: :lol: I'm so old that I've forgotten how old I am :!: - if I knew I was going to live this long I'd have taken more care - but I didn't :lol: :lol: :lol: And, so Dogboy, your description is perfect....... :bouncy:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
That reminds me, Dogboy. A friend of mine father came from Russia at age 1. He spoke English with a Russian accent, even though he had lived in the USA for almost his whole life. And his wife came here at age 15, and she spoke English with no accent at all. Though she wrote things phonetically. I think you can't generalize it, because for each person it's different.
Bollocks. At the ripe old age of 1 no one can be said to have a specific accent - at that age you just babble producing all sorts of sounds in all kinds of accents. Either he grew up in a Russian ghetto surrounded by speakers of Russian 24/7, or you're telling porkies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Евгения Белякова
I have an Arabic friend who's 17 and his older brother is 20-something. My friend still speaks with an accent yet his older brother speaks with a completely normal American accent.
Perhaps it is easier to pick up on accents and such when you're younger, but I don't believe it is easier to actually learn/master languages when you're young. Most people master languages when they are older, as far as I would know.
BTW, I have never heard anyone say "one three three seven." I was expecting a hax0r worthy definition of 1337 from you, Dogboy! Shame!
1337 is a language used primarily by reclusive gamers (myself) and h4x0rs (myself) to hide from the real world. It is pronounced leet, and derives from the number 31337 (pronounced elite), the internet port used primarily for system exploitation (hacking), in the early days (Apple ][)
I speak English, French, and Spanish fluently. I've studied French for 4 years and Spanish for 3 years consistently. I'm now studying German, but my vocabulary is very limited. On the other hand, I know everything about the grammar! I study Russian also, Russian is my favourite language of all! My grandmother is Russian, but I never see her. I think Russian sounds the best of any other language known to this world!
ROFL. Age 1 ? I don't believe you. You can't even talk at age 1... (maybe like "poo poo, weener" but no real words". It's impossible to say that someone has an accent when moving at age 1.
I too know someone, Сергей, the Serjified russian, who moved here from belorus when HE was 1 (so small, he tells me, he couldn't walk up our big american stairs), and he now knows perfect english.
lol, 1... are u sure u don't me like, 111.
@pravit. Die.
thanks for sort of explaining 1337 (or leet) to me... i sort of get it now although i still don't understand it and why do you use it as a descriptive word... to me, being an aussie, it's just another useless sms language or a way to write three word stories. mnah doesn't matter i'll survive without it :tongue:
It just means like cool. But, no one really says it to be seriouse... Usually its just joking around.
Like, wow MR forum is so 1337.
BTW, i downloaded this sweet 5 Kiloton nuke add on for OFP... 1337.
BJ Hendy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
People in my neck of the woods use it all the time.
"Dude, I'm F****** 1337!"
"This new X-Box game is teh uber 1337!"
"OMFG PWN!"
You guys have once again broken the rules and strayed away from the topic, but I shall follow. I have never heard 1337 before in my life. That's hysterical. I'm sure if I said it around here I'd either get laughed at or shot at. Depends on the neck of the woods, of course. Leet. Is it in the dictionary?
@Dogboy...you're really beginning to bring me down with all this death talk. Seek help. :lol:
Note to self: This was my 100th post!
I don't even remember my 100th post. Oh wait, yes i do, i was like, man im n00b.
Fluent english and French, good German, understanding a bit of Spanish and try to learn Russian. Italian is my native language.
I wish to improve English, French and German and move on to Russian, Spanish and Portoguese seriously. By the way, recently I passed my First Certificate Exam in English with grade A . Now I'm looking forward for the CAE in English and DELF in French.
Anyway, I really love this forum, where there are so many people interested in languages and loving to study them. I feel like at home... :oops:
Ciao a tutti
Oh hush, Dogboy. Gimme 2 years. I'll be right where you are! And you will probably be president of some former USSR country or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182