Thread: languages

Originally Posted by DenisM

Take it easy, I didn't mean to offence anyone...
I'm not religious and I just forgot about it. :thanks:

I was not offended, I just thought it was not right. Проехали.

Originally Posted by Niamh

Originally Posted by brett

Niamh, speaking Irish, does it mean you can understand Scottish aswell. How mutually intelligible are they?

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.
Zhenya- spasibo bolshoi

No idea Niamh, I can't speak a word of Gaelic. It's 'Here's tae ye!' in Scots though

Originally Posted by scotcher

No idea Niamh, I can't speak a word of Gaelic. It's 'Here's tae ye!' in Scots though

Hehehe! Have you seen the film "So I Married An Axemurderer"?? The Scottish dad is ledge! I love the bagpipe karaoke scene.

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 ). 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

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

Stupid language?? It's wonderful!!!!

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.

Originally Posted by Jca

Stupid language?? It's wonderful!!!!

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???

Originally Posted by fantom605

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???

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!

Originally Posted by Angel_of_Death-NZ

how on earth do you manage to learn all those languages? are you proficient in most of them?

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.

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.

Don't forget the Punjabi!

Originally Posted by Jca

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

Originally Posted by fx

French: mother tongue
English: fluent
German: good
Italian: very good
Spanish: very good but rusty
Russian: 60% of my target level

That's impressive. Молодцы!

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 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) .

Originally Posted by Pravit

Don't forget the Punjabi!

Hee. What a great TV commercial that would make.