Thread: languages

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. 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.

Originally Posted by Kamion

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"?

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.

Prutt med fart

haha, very important to know (mycket viktigt att kunna)

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 . 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 .

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)

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.

Originally Posted by Psyche

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!

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?

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.

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?