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What languages do you speak?
If you speak English as a first language, please say which country you live. I'm sorry for just focusing on English but I suspect that this site is mostly used by English speakers. I'm looking for at least conversational fluency to be considered being able to speak a language so no clicking on something if you can just give a couple of phrases. Also tell us what is the other language that you speak.
For those of us where English is not your first language, please tell us what your first language is and what the other languages you speak.
“All that a well-organized secret society can do is, first, to assist in the birth of the revolution by spreading among the masses ideas corresponding to their instincts, and to organize, not the army of the revolution—the army must always be the people [—] but a revolutionary General Staff composed of devoted, energetic, intelligent and above all sincere friends of the people, who are not ambitious or vain, and who are capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the popular instincts.” - Bakunin the Leninist
first language greek. I speak english (not extremelly well but I can make people understand) , some french even though I forgot most of it and currently I live in Bulgaria and I'm going to stay here for at least 4 years more so you can say that I speak bulgarian too.
I voted English + 1 other language because I only really speak French with any kind of proficiency. I do know a little German though and have been looking at Spanish on and off.
"Her development, her freedom, her independence must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right to anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children unless she wants them; by refusing to become a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc. ... by freeing herself from the fear of public opinion and public condemnation. Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free, will make her a force hitherto unknown in the world, a force for real love, for peace, for harmony; a force of divine fire, of life-giving; a creator of free men and women."~ Emma Goldman
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Raised with Swedish. Learning English is wholly mandatory in Sweden. Beyond that, I've been unable to learn another fully... I've done 3.5 years of Spanish, 1.5 years of Russian, 1 year of Mandarin, 1 year of Latin.
australian and i also speak the french
Poor on English grammar, perfect in Russian, Lithuanian and Lithuanian sign language.
A tat unlikely for someone to visit this site pr this poll while not being able to speak English.
Dutch and English - mastery and proficiency (C2); German - conversational fluency.
EDIT: Someone mentioned Afrikaans. Which I can speak at 'conversational fluency' as well, though it is, for all intents and purposes, a dialect of Dutch so that doesn't really count I suppose.
Last edited by Tim Cornelis; 11th December 2013 at 23:27.
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There are some search browsers and web browsers (e.g. chrome) that will automatically translate any foreign text online into the language you're using.
FKA Chomsssssssky, Skwisgaar, The Employer Destroyer, skybutton
My native tongue's Serbian (which is essentially identical to most of the Balkan Slavic languages), along which I speak English (evidently) and Slovak (not with the highest of proficiencies, but I could manage a conversation). Non-English + 2 for me.
Along that I "know" (read: know a thing or nil about) German and Latin. Wouldn't be able to effectively communicate in either of them, though. Could perhaps translate a simpler sentence.
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English and small amounts of Spanish- am currently doing a GSCE in it.
Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti.
Socialism resides entirely in the revolutionary negation of the capitalist ENTERPRISE, not in granting the enterprise to the factory workers.
- Bordiga
English (Da You Kay)
I voted just English but I could easily have a conversation in Spanish as well, though I am not fluent.
I voted English +1I took nine years of Spanish, but I'm horribly rusty, I should definitely reeducate myself!!
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
english and marxism
"We must flee from Time, we must create a life that is feminine and human - it is these imperative objectives that must guide us in this world heavy with catastrophes."
Jacques Camatte, Echos from the Past
"For example, to say that the relation between industrial capital and the class of the wage workers is expressed in precisely the same way in Belgium and Thailand, and that the praxis of their respective struggles should be established without taking into account in either of the two cases the factors of race or nationality, does not mean you are an extremist, but it means in effect that you have understood nothing of Marxism."
Amadeo Bordiga, Factors of Race and Nation in the Marxist Analysis
Serbo-Croatian and English.
It's a pity I never followed through with learning Spanish, but I guess it's never too late.
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“The possibility of securing for every member of society, by means of socialized production, an existence not only fully sufficient materially, and becoming day by day more full, but an existence guaranteeing to all the free development and exercise of their physical and mental faculties – this possibility is now for the first time here, but it is here.” Friedrich Engels
"The proletariat is its struggle; and its struggles have to this day not led it beyond class society, but deeper into it." Friends of the Classless Society
"Your life is survived by your deeds" - Steve von Till
I said English and one other. Though I have studied other languages (Russian and Dutch), I kind of slacked off with them and am only really conversational in my native English and French, which I studied in high school and occasionally practice with my mother or watch movies in. When I was in France, I was able to get along using almost all French, so I consider that something I speak
The freer the verse, the freer the people.
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English and no other. It's my mothertongue and i was failed by my school when it came to learning German. Spent most of it without a teacher that could actually speak German.
Real Dutch. But I haven't studied in a while. Been too lazy, I guess.
The freer the verse, the freer the people.
I was a Russian language major in college, with German as a minor, though now my German is kind of rusty. In recent years I have spent a lot of time translating political articles from Spanish into English. I visited Mexico twice and thought about retiring there, but it is just too dangerous there now; when I served in the Navy, after college, I spent some time in southern Spain, which is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. I thought of settling in Spain, and now I wish I had, but I was just too young to do that by myself then. Where I live now, at least half the TV stations broadcast exclusively in Spanish.
If we really want to transform life, we must learn to look at it through the eyes of women. – Trotsky, 1923
The ballot box is the coffin of class consciousness. – Alan Dawley
Proud member of the 47% since 2010 – Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
