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umiman

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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2008, 01:00:26 pm »

English, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Bahasa Melayu, Japanese.

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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2008, 01:35:24 pm »

Dutch ( mother language ), English ( very fluently ), German ( somewhat fluently ), French ( very fluently ) and a few glimpses of Russian.
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2008, 02:13:08 pm »

Jai parles tres, tres un pu frances.
As, no doubt, you can tell from the American phonetic spelling.
I also speak American, English, Canadian, and (though not fluently)Australian, oh, and I'm about half competent in Spanglish.
Finally, I am starting to be able to read Dwarven, though only a few words ('Dagger', 'Ale', and so on)
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2008, 05:09:09 pm »

English, Swedish, C++, Linoleum, Spanish.

English is the language I prefer, and speak 100% fluidly, I have a heavy ascent I think (cant remember actually having heard myself) but I have been told I sound like a mad scientist so thats ok.
Swedish is my native language.
C++ I have been programming in for several years, but I cant say I'm extraordinarily good at it.
Linoleum I discovered very recently, but I find it so intuitive it feels like I've been thinking in it since before learning Swedish. (could be that my understanding of it is fey-mood fuelled, and will pass)
Spanish I know a little, but not at all enough to actually speak much, and I have probably forgotten most of even that.
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2008, 05:14:34 pm »

Finnish, fluently.
English, fluently, having lived in the States during my childhood.
French, well, best in my class, which is not that much. (PTTG??, it's written "Je parle un peu de francais", with a funny squiggle under the 'c')
Swedish, taught in the school, also very well.
Basic Klingon, long forgotten.
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2008, 05:19:41 pm »

Man, I feel like a dope.  I don't even speak English all that well, though I have a better grasp of British English that a Texan has a right to.

If you throw some Spanish at me I'll get the gist of it, and if you give me a minute and a dictionary I'll give you a response.  Beyond that, I'm wasted.
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2008, 05:34:07 pm »

Well, If I were to boast about my linguistic abilities, I'd say I'm a fully qualified translator in English, Russian and Polish. I'm trying hard to learn Chinese, but it's dwarvenly insane.

And yeah, I speak dwarven as well.    ;)
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2008, 06:03:40 pm »

English and Russian here. I might wriggle my way out of a conversation in German, but wouldn't count on it.
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2008, 06:30:50 pm »

Fluent English, and just enough Spanish to look like a grade-A douche.

I feel inferior.
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #24 on: November 07, 2008, 06:36:16 pm »

I speak Gibberish.
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2008, 08:26:30 pm »

English (native language)
Spanish (solomente un poquito)
Japanese (A few basic phrases. Just started learning.)

The DM for my online D&D game is a Canadian who lives in and teaches English in Japan. He tells me there's a joke there that goes something like this...

Q: What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
A: Bilingual.
Q: What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
A: Trilingual.
Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language?
A: American.
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"The ale barrel is over there. There is a dwarf in it."
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--They're: A contraction of the words "they are".
"They're going to pull the dwarf out of the barrel."

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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2008, 08:46:31 pm »

American.
English only.

That joke is spot on.
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2008, 09:10:59 pm »

My Eurofag language that I'm not telling you about, English quite fluently enough, and learning German( know the basic grammar, but my vocabulary is of no substance)
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #28 on: November 07, 2008, 09:44:26 pm »

I also speak ... (though not fluently)Australian

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W.r.t. the OP, I speak English (Australian), learnt a very little Japanese and Italian in school (which I promptly forget), and can speak about 20 mangled words of Polish, the most useful of which is "Yastum niet gwodny, babcia!" (At least that's what it sounds like to me, I have probably bastardised that horribly).
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Re: Languages Spoken.
« Reply #29 on: November 07, 2008, 10:09:50 pm »

Something, not, something, Grandma?
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