Denise. You look like a gangster in your picture. Your like "Ёу ёу, где the vodka at? ёу ёу. It's cool.
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Denise. You look like a gangster in your picture. Your like "Ёу ёу, где the vodka at? ёу ёу. It's cool.
My spoken english is not as good as I want it to be :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Евгения Белякова
:( You will get better :)
I don't look like as much of a gangster as i would like to.
Govoryou po anglysky, frantzusky i irlandsky. But Russian is the dream!! 8)
Niamh, speaking Irish, does it mean you can understand Scottish aswell. How mutually intelligible are they?
English - native
Latin - good, but a whole lot of good that does
Spanish - bad (which doesn't make sense because my grandma was fluent, but my dad never learned it from her)
Russian - errm...getting there
Sioux - taught to me by family
Armenian/Croatian - conversational; taught to me by friends
Dutch*, German, French, Italian - dabbled in
* dutch is probably the funniest language you will ever hear or see...there are words with three "e"s in a row... "eee..."
Whoever said that languages should be taught earlier is absolutely right. I always envied this one girl whose parents sent her to language school at a very young age, so she was fluent in 7 languages by the time she was 10. If we learned them younger, when the part of our brain responsible for language is more active, things would be so much better...
Helloooooooo again
I can speak (Spanish) quite well, a decent english ( I guess), I was able to speak Arabic in my childhood (said my relatives) because until 8 y.o I was living in Morocco but now I can not I have forgotten everything. I can understand and speak ( a little) french, Italian and Portuguese ( is close to spanish). Russian is my next goal.
There's no such language as Scottish. The Celtic language closely related to Irish is simply called Gaelic in Scotland. Scots, on the other hand, is/ was a germanic language closely related to English. The latter gradually usurped the former as the de facto national language, just as it was itself later usurped by modern English after the Union.Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language
Big deal :DQuote:
Originally Posted by nightfaerie
длинношеее :wink:
I think Niamh is goodlooking :oops:
Yes dutch is just weird, I was at a restaurant in Rome a while a go, and when there was dutch guys next to me, hadn't I known it was dutch i'd say - a crossing of English German and arabic :lol:
Any that I have has been similar but I haven't heard much. Scotcher- whats the phrase for your cheers? Slainte barr or something? Well there we'd say i mbarr na Slainte but I think they both mean the best of health so yea, similarites to the point of maybe Italian and Spanish now I reckon.Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
Zhenya- spasibo bolshoi :wink:
Yahooo I'm being adressed to by a woman! :D :DQuote:
Zhenya- spasibo bolshoi
By the way, "Baile atha cliath" - Dublin right, but what's the litteral translation?
A little but shorter haircut, some tattoo, a few gold tooth and a heavy gold chain (about a pound or two).Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
You forgot to mention about one mandotory accessory of a real russian gangster :a golden cross with a gymnast :mrgreen:.Quote:
Originally Posted by alexei
I think it's not a good idea to blaspheme at Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenisM
Take it easy, I didn't mean to offence anyone...Quote:
Originally Posted by alexei
I'm not religious and I just forgot about it. :thanks:
:!: Get this---Wattleford..........Quote:
Originally Posted by Zhenya
Wattleford...hm........
I was not offended, I just thought it was not right. Проехали.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenisM
No idea Niamh, I can't speak a word of Gaelic. It's 'Here's tae ye!' in Scots though :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Hehehe! Have you seen the film "So I Married An Axemurderer"?? The Scottish dad is ledge! I love the bagpipe karaoke scene.Quote:
Originally Posted by scotcher
Better late than never, I always say!
English - Native
Spanish - Semi-Fluent (I know all the tenses and rules, just not all grammer)
Portuguese - Conversational, I can understand pretty well
Russian - Just starting, basic rules and phrases
And, of course, being a programmer, Java, C++, VB6, VBScript, Basic, HTML, XML, .NET, Assembly Language (this stupid language was required in college...(?)) C#, all fluent :)
-Fantom
I'm very tallented
English
little Maroi (New Zealand)
little Italian
little Greek
little Japonese
Little chinese
little arabic
little german
tiny bit russian
and other languages
A little Maori? You're not Maori are you? (Yes, I know you live in Australia, but I see more Maoris in my suburbs than I saw in main street Auckland for the days I was there :lol: ). The reason I ask is because I don't know how worthwhile learning the language is for me. Becasue, I never hear them speaking anything but English. I only know that the Haka and other rituals are learnt in the mother tongue. The strength of their accents suggest to me that maybe they do. But, that could be put down to the Kiwi neighbourhoods they've imigrated from.
Kamate! Kamate!
Ka ora! Ka ora!
Ka mate! Ka mate!
Ka ora! Ka ora!
Tenei te tangata puhuru huru
Nana e tiki atu Whaka whiti te ra
A Hupa ... ne! a H upa ... ne!
A upa ... ne! kaupa ... ne!
A upane, ka upane, upane, kaupane Whiti te ra! Hi!!
Hi, I'm new to this forum!!
My native languages are:
Spanish
Catalan
French
Other languages I speak:
English
Russian
Hungarian
Chinese
Italian
And others I'm studying or studied:
German (here in Berlin i'm surrounded of German!!)
Japanese
Basque
Adyghe
Georgian
Hebrew
And others I would like to speak: the rest of languages!!
But for the moment, I'll do my best to refresh my Russian here.
до свидания!
JCA
Stupid language?? It's wonderful!!!! :DQuote:
And, of course, being a programmer, Java, C++, VB6, VBScript, Basic, HTML, XML, .NET, Assembly Language (this stupid language was required in college...(?)) C#, all fluent
how on earth do you manage to learn all those languages? are you proficient in most of them?
wow all i can speak is English (my mother tongue) and I still suck at it.
I am attempting to learn French and Russian too, would like to do German someday but I doubt I will be able to at school.
I'm sure that it is useful, and would have given me a better understanding of programming, but it was the last class required from my CS degree, and was required ONLY after I learned C++, Java, and VB... What, no binary??? :twisted:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jca
Lucky you, I hadn't Assembler at my CS degree here in Barcelona. But I had already known it when the the fever of Spectrum, Vic 20, and all those gadgets arrived in the 80's. But god, I'm not so old!Quote:
Originally Posted by fantom605
Do you mean me? Well, not so proficient. Apart from Catalan, Spanish and French (speaking them since childhood), and English (after many years struggling with it and nowadays working almost 8hrs a day in English), in the rest I'm still a student.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angel_of_Death-NZ
лет 12 назад я говорил лучшеe, чем сейчас, когда учился и пробыл в москве, но конечно совсем (только совсем?) забыл. поетому я сдезь сейчас.
Я учусь русский язык, но я могу говорю по-английский язык.
My probably wrong attempt ^^. I'm learning Russian, but English is my native language.
After mastering russian, I hope to learn German or Punjabi.
:D Don't forget the Punjabi!
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Originally Posted by Jca
That's impressive. Молодцы!Quote:
Originally Posted by fx
I have a question, though. What are your criteria for being "fluent"?
My two cents:
English - native
Russian - reading and listening, can understand at least the gist of most anything except the floweriest poetry, street slang and badly mumbled/drunk :lol: Russian. Jokes often have to be explained to me, though. My writing's not so bad, but my speaking's not that great...
Czech - just started learning a couple weeks ago. J
Russian, Ukrainian - mother tongue
Hebrew - fluent
English - good
French - have only started (about 6 months) and as of now can only read
German - few hundred words and some basic grammar, rusty .
.. and of course C/C++, VB, VBA for AutoCAD and Solidworks, APDL (Ansys Parametric Design Language) .
:D
Hee. What a great TV commercial that would make.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pravit