Thread: languages

Thanks Dogboy and waxwing, but I haven't said that my English was bad. I meant that it's not fluent enough according to my standards of fluency, I also think that evaluating someone's fluency basing on what one writes on a forum is rather approximate. It indicates some skills, of course, but it doesn't give the idea about the easiness with which a person expresses himself in foreign language and that is the main component of fluency, IMHO.

Originally Posted by Jasper May

i talk Dutch good

Learn it from the book?

Myself: English well talking and here speaching American.

verry good, yes. not from hte book, sily sir "bad manners" sir, im teh fantastic duthc speeker cozz my mother is dutch and i live in nederland and im kewwwl!!11! lolol.

Originally Posted by Friendy

...of course, but it doesn't give the idea about the ease with which a person expresses himself in foreign language and that is the main component of fluency, IMHO.

Thanks, scotcher.

I'm fluent in Russian and English and i hope to be fluent in French some day (I'm currently in French IV in high school)

Originally Posted by astarz41

I'm fluent in Russian

lucky you.

wut R U tallkin abowt, Amerikans dun't hav bad speling and gramer. I no four a fakt that I am exselent in English.

P.S. On a side note I have been reading Huck Finn in my English class. I think that book takes the cake for the worst grammar, especially the character Jim. He speks lik funy all like dumb purson!

Originally Posted by Fritos

P.S. On a side note I have been reading Huck Finn in my English class. I think that book takes the cake for the worst grammar, especially the character Jim. He speks lik funy all like dumb purson!

Made good sense though! - "It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened".

lucky you.

I'm just lucky I was "born with it." I can't imagine learnign Russian as a foreign language...all the tenses in French are already difficult enough for me. Though I guess I have it a little easier because I can relate a lot of grammar to Russian while native English speakers can't. Plus I think that kids in the US should start learning foreign languages a whole lot earlier. I started English in kindergarten in Russia and it was a whole lot easier to learn than French is right now.

skissa i gissa

Not that I want to say anything bad about your Swedish, дорогой Dogboy, but what does that mean? They all mean things individually but together they just look weird. Maybe you want to write "skissa och gissa"?

I speak English, but I am not a native speaker. I am was adopted and Russian was my first language, but my adoptive parents are Americans and so I wasn't exposed to it anymore so I forgot it. Now I am relearning it, and it seems to be coming back.
I also take Spanish in school and I want to be fluent

I haven't been in this forum in soooo long,lol
Ok, I speak Russian(native), English(completely fluent without an accent) and Spanish(conversational but not fluent).

I couldn't agree with you more astarz, they should be teaching foreign languages to kids at a younger age. As for me I speak english as a first language and my Japanese is tolerably good. (enough to survive anyway.) My russian is pretty good, at least I think it is. I'm a beginner in Chinese and I learnt German for two years in primary school but I've forgotten most of it now. I can still remember the numbers and how to introduce myself.

Guten tag, Ich heiBe smartdude. (No german experience needed.)
where B = Beta

Mr. SmartDude,

You snobby little... 'More or less'... The eszett is pronounced exactly as 'ss'.

I know it is, dear Jas-Jas, but I wanted to be extra sure, because saying it is pronounced exactly like "ss" could have some super anal-retentive guy saying "but using 'ss' or '

Da da, I thought as much. I just love picking on anything you say about the German language. I'm jealous, that's what I am.

Jealous you are? Why, you've overtaken me in Chinese and most likely Russian by now. I must satisfy myself with the remnants of my former glory, do excuse my snobbishness!