1st language: English Others: Spanish (fairly well), French (kinda...lol), German (What I learned from 99 Red Balloons and 1 year of classes... ) Arabic (About 2 words) Swahili ("Hello" and "White Devil" lol) Italian (Tiny bit) Russian (Couple o' words)
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1st language: English Little bit of Spanish learned from elementary to middle school. Plus the dirty words learned from Mexicans I worked with in the past.
The only German I know is from "Hogan's Heroes." Gott in Himmel! Swine! Snell! Rouse! Mein Fuher! Ja! Nein!!!
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English naturally, Spanish (though not as good as I would like it to be), and surprisingly, a basic understanding of Japanese due to all the anime that I watch.
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English primarily. Pretty good at spanish since my wife is Mexican and one of my good friends is Puerto Rican. A few Japanese words thanks to Kill Bill.
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English is my first and only language. I know a bit of French and a couple of German words. Scheisser means shit in german
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One advantage of being a European...I can speak several languages.
I also had 6 years of classical Latin in school. This may come in handy if I ever jump into a time machine to travel 2000 years into the past to visit the old Romans.
Two other languages that I learned to speak during my years in South Africa are Xhosa and Afrikaans...unfortunately they are spoken nowhere else on earth.
My parents lived in China for a few years, so I can speak a couple of phrases in Mandarin. (Did you know that one chinese dialect is called Wu? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Chinese)
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Other than english, I can also speak spanish. I can speak it more than enough to get by (I'll say 90%), however I can understand it perfectly when people talk to me in that language. If I hung out with Eva Mendes all day, speaking spanish to each other, we'll be able to get along quite well.
I can definitly speak it better than Jessica Alba and Christina Aguilera combined.
But foremost, english is the language I'll live and die by.
quote:Originally posted by National: Other than english, I can also speak spanish. I can speak it more than enough to get by (I'll say 90%), however I can understand it perfectly when people talk to me in that language. If I hung out with Eva Mendes all day, speaking spanish to each other, we'll be able to get along quite well.
I can definitly speak it better than Jessica Alba and Christina Aguilera combined.
But foremost, english is the language I'll live and die by.
Ayyyy mi burro es loco!
(You understand the application of the subjunctive too!? - that's a tricky concept...)