Which languages do you know?

[Blanquist]

I know English, Spanish, Russian and Mandarin Chinese.

The only other languages I'd be willing to learn are probably Portuguese (should be easy) and Japanese (would take time)

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I know English (American :p), Spanish (the Dominican and Salvadoran dialects; it is very hard for me to understand everything Iberian Spaniards say), and French (traditional, from France; I am pretty fluent, but not completely fluent). I am also learning classical Latin at a local church of mine.

[X5N]

Native speaker of English. I can say "I am learning Icelandic," and "My name is Morgan" in Icelandic, as well as several different ways of calling someone a fucking idiot. Presently learning the language, obviously.

[Landsharks eat metal]

This thread again?
Native English, fairly decent French (but I have to brush back up on it), fairly crappy Russian, and not much Dutch but working on remedying that if I can get myself motivated again.

[Prometeo liberado]

I speak the language of love. :tt1:

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I speak the language of love. :tt1:

NO. Love is strictly verboten in my new Stalinist dictatorship. You are only allowed to speak Russian.

[Bostana]

I know American English and the Ancient Language of Gibberish

[The Young Pioneer]

NO. Love is strictly verboten in my new Stalinist dictatorship. You are only allowed to speak Russian.

Says the guy speaking English. ;) But I suppose since the dictatorship is yours, you are above the law, Oh Great Leader? :D


Speaking of Russian, a guy from Russia once told me in thick accent, "Everybody speaks three languages: Their mother tongue, sarcasm, and profanity."

...That pretty much sums it up, yeah.

[Caj]

Just English :crying:

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I am about to make a thread about the differences between American and British English.

[El Oso Rojo]

I speak German and Spanish, not a whole lot though.

[Prometeo liberado]

I am about to make a thread about the differences between American and British English.

I have posted a thread in russian love language about Comrade Commistar post about starting a thread on the differences between American and British English.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I have posted a thread in russian love language about Comrade Commistar post about starting a thread on the differences between American and British English.

:confused: This Russian love language is also verboten.

[Railyon]

German, English, Japanese.

Would love to learn Danish, Spanish, French and Russian but alas... too lazy

[Deicide]

^ Can you really speak Japanese?

As for me.. English, Lithuanian and Russian. I'd like to add French and German to that list.

[Nox]

English
Semi-fluent Russian
GCSE level French
Very limited Mandarin
Want to learn Albanian

[Railyon]

^ can you really speak japanese?
当たり前だよ！君も出来るか？

[Deicide]

当たり前だよ！君も出来るか？

How did you learn Japanese? Or is your family from Japan?

[Railyon]

How did you learn Japanese? Or is your family from Japan?

Autodidact. Been in the scanlation business for like 3 years now... :) Which helped a lot (meaning I actively translate stuff from Japanese to English). Better and more interesting than any language course, obviously. Always have people to ask (among them native speakers) if I have questions so it's not like hitting a dead-end is as easy as other autodidactic projects.

[RedAnarchist]

I'm a native Anglophone.

As for other languages, I know a few words in many other languages, but couldn't have a basic conversation in any of them. French is probably the nearest language that could claim to be my second language, and even then I barely know more than a few hundred words of it. Whilst I cannot speak any other language, I can read foreign languages fairly well, and understand them much better in the written rather than the spoken word.

I would like to be fluent in French, Spanish, at least one Scandinavian language and maybe a few others, but at the moment I'm a monoglot.

[Crux]

Sadly only swedish and english. Did 1 year of german and 4 years of spanish in school, but you know saying I understand either is pushing it, saying I speak either is simply false. Give me a fairly simple spanish text and I might be able to decipher it. Thinking about actually learning spanish some day.

[Welshy]

I only speak English fluently, but I know some Uzbek, Turkish and was at an upper intermediate level with German not too long ago and probably will be back up there soon.

[Nox]

I only speak English fluently, but I know some Uzbek, Turkish and was at an upper intermediate level with German not too long ago and probably will be back up there soon.

How/why did you end up learning Uzbek?

[gorillafuck]

English is the only language I speak. I took french in school but stopped taking it after 10th grade.

[Comrade Samuel]

My first language was English as is common for most people who live in the US of A but I speak a good bit of Russian and very little German and French (only the required public school amount :D) I would actualy like to look into learning a language of the far east (probably some form of chinesse) as I imagine it will be useful when they decide to invade us after the years of Americans refusing to pay off our debts.

[Loony]

English - fluent
German - native, fluent
Afrikaans - fluent
Xhosa - enough to get around, understanding better than speaking

[Sentinel]

I'm pretty much fluent in Finnish, Swedish and English. I also studied German for a few years at school but unfortunately didn't learn it very well, and have forgotten most of the little I did learn, as well.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I speak Dutch and English fluently and I know a bit of French and German.
I want to learn Russian and Spanish.

[Permanent Revolutionary]

Faroese, Danish and English (Fluently). I understand Icelandic, Swedish and Norwegian. I also studied German and Spanish in school, but don't ask me about those

[Railyon]

Surprises me there are so many German speaking people around. Is it actually of much use to any of you?

The languages I speak I use daily, but I wonder about non-native speakers of German having any use for it. Can be interesting for Marxists, but for anyone else? Dunno...

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Never had to use it outside of school.

[brigadista]

spanish italian irish jamaican english and vv fluent in bullshit
intending to learn arabic and greek in the near future - all learnt in the university of life on a budget

[El Oso Rojo]

Surprises me there are so many German speaking people around. Is it actually of much use to any of you?

The languages I speak I use daily, but I wonder about non-native speakers of German having any use for it. Can be interesting for Marxists, but for anyone else? Dunno...


Kinda of for me, I live in saint louis, which is a very German city but we have good number of spanish speakers here.

I don't use German except for on the internet because they live in areas that I can't go to without being bother by the Police. So I mostly learn and speak Spanish in public places, I hope people don't think i assume they don't speak english because when I see a German speaking person or spanish speaking person. I don't speak English, I speak either German or Spanish. Like for example: I couldn't find chocolate milk at a store, i saw this Latino couple and ask the guy. "Donde es el leche chocolate?"

[Magón]

Spanish, English, enough Portuguese to get around in Brazil at least, and some phrases of Italian and French. Though my pronunciation of French is pretty bad compared to the others.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

I know English, obvs, but I also know a little bit of French and some Bulgarian. I'm hoping to learn much more Bulgarian at some point in the near future as I plan to visiting there a lot for various reasons (not just touristy shite). I'm also picking up a lot of Italian from my girlfriend who asks 'Che cosa significa?' whenever I laugh at something.

[The Young Pioneer]

I'm gearing up to take my TORFL (Russian equivalent of TOEFL) exam this year or next. Ideally I'd like to score in the level 2-3 range the first attempt.

I picked up basic Finnish when living there but couldn't hold a conversation on, say, existentialism in it. ;)

Next month I'll start learning Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian at a summer intensive.

And in school I studied Spanish and Chinese for four years.

[gozai]

Fluent in danish and english (through i think my pronunciation is still just a little off), and i am studying and can understand a little french and a little japanese (wery little for both of them), would like to become fluent in both of them.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Native English, a smattering of French, a few phrases in Japanese and one short prayer / offering in Ancient Eqyptian (gf taught me)

[Rusty Shackleford]

aramaic

[seventeethdecember2016]

Fluent English
Some Turkish
Some Hebrew
Semi-Fluent Ladino
Some Spanish

[ВАЛТЕР]

Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Montenegrin/whatever the fuck we call it nowadays just to spite each other.

English

and I can read Russian and get a good idea of what the text is about. However I cannot speak it very well/at all. :P

[Welshy]

How/why did you end up learning Uzbek?

I did some research on it for a class of mine and through two semesters of work on the language I was able to learn a good bit.

[Zav]

English and French, and I know varying amounts of Russian, Icelandic, German, Japanese, Esperanto, and Sindarin. I'd like to take the time to become fluent in a couple of them, definitely German, at least, and perhaps pick up Arabic or Mandarin. Unfortunately I am lazy and unmotivated.

[Robespierres Neck]

English and some French. I'd like to learn more.

[BOZG]

Fluent English, bad Irish, bad French and bad Swedish.

[Ned Kelly]

Fluent English
Average Irish
Bad Italian
Bad French

[Rooster]

I didn't want to make a new thread on this, but I was looking something up and I came across the wikipedia page for Esperanto. On it, it disclosed that Esperanto was banned in the USSR under Stalin as "the language of spies" exiling and executing Esperantists despite the language having a measure of some support previously as an expression of internationalism.

[Prometeo liberado]

:confused: This Russian love language is also verboten.

Goddamnit! or сын сука!

[seventeethdecember2016]

I didn't want to make a new thread on this, but I was looking something up and I came across the wikipedia page for Esperanto. On it, it disclosed that Esperanto was banned in the USSR under Stalin as "the language of spies" exiling and executing Esperantists despite the language having a measure of some support previously as an expression of internationalism.
That page distorted Stalin's words a bit. Stalin, who was a big linguist, thought it was too early for an Internationalist language, rather this would come along with the implantation of Communism. It was also Imperialistic, as the Central Asian and Caucasian countries didn't approve of such a purge of their cultural languages. Each culture had their own languages, and only adhered to Russian for respectful purposes. In turn, Russians also learned the languages of their constituents.

[Raúl Duke]

I know English, Spanish, a bit of basic Italian, and a few phrases/words in Japanese and Russia.

I would like to continue learning Italian.
I would like to learn Japanese and perhaps another.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I know broken English, French, German, Russian, Romani and little bits of various other languages.

[Sir Comradical]

English and Malayalam.

[Firebrand]

English, basic Spanish, very basic French

[black magick hustla]

perfect english and spanish and i can get around with french

[Blanquist]

That page distorted Stalin's words a bit. Stalin, who was a big linguist, thought it was too early for an Internationalist language, rather this would come along with the implantation of Communism. It was also Imperialistic, as the Central Asian and Caucasian countries didn't approve of such a purge of their cultural languages. Each culture had their own languages, and only adhered to Russian for respectful purposes. In turn, Russians also learned the languages of their constituents.

Stalin-only-spoke-russian-and-georgian-he-never-managed-to-learn-any-languages

[Os Cangaceiros]

I can speak english well. It's my native language but many of my friends can't speak it very well at all.

I have a poor opinion of my spanish abilities, but actually I have a fairly good knowledge of spanish vocabulary. Constructing sentences and verb conjugation, though....not too good at that.