How many languages do you speak?

[Canadian with a hyphen]

Emil Krebs, an interpreter who understood 100 languages and learned armenian in 9 weeks.
Carlos Do Amaral Friere is a Brazilian linguist: He can easily translate 60 languages .
Do these people have unusual brain wiring?
in 2003 German neuroscientists examined the postmortem brain of Emil krebs and found that the area of his brain that governed speech didn't have the same asymmetry as monolingual speakers.

Interesting !! ha?

I think life circumstances is a reason for someone to or not to learn languages.

hey glossprincess you can add carina (pretty girl) and Carino (handsome guy)to ur italian list of words

 

[selfactivated]

HOW MANY LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK?

1 very badly.

 

[Vereya]

I speak English, French and a liiiitle bit of Spanish. And Russian, of course

 

[Finder]

English (of course)
French I can read and communicate ok in.
Spainish I used to be better with but I can still pick up some things here and there.
Italian because of my French and Spainish I pick up on some of the Latin between them. ;-)

Thats really about it. I am trying to learn a very little German.

 

[dekhqonbacha]

Re: RE: How many languages do you speak?

dekhqonbacha, you need to work on your accent.

how do you say "how are you" in Japanese?

 

[Machjo]

English, French and Esperanto fluently.

Studying Chinese, Arabic and Persian (though I can get by in basic Chinese and my chinese is MUCH better than my Arabic and Persian; too busy two study the last two lately, but will get onto it as soon as I have more free time).

Interesting, I noticed Arabic showed up quite a few times. What's causing all the interest?

 

[dekhqonbacha]

0 too bad 10 very good

languages ....... English French Russian Tajik Uzbek others
speaking ...........4........ 4....... 4....... 8...... 6 ......0
understanding ....4........ 4....... 5....... 8...... 7 ......2
writing .............5........ 4........ 4...... 6...... 6 ......2
reading .............6........ 5....... 5...... 10..... 9 ......2


basicly, I'm not perfect in any languages, even though I master 5 of them and some others. :downtown:

 

[FascistCanuck]

As your new fascist leader of Canada, I would seek to abolish French as a national language. It is too divisive and a completely irrelevant language. As one may have seen posted here, very few people speak it hence it would not do well in the current World Order. As your leader, I would demand that only English be spoken. No exceptions. All French schools would be reopened as English-only schools under my rule.

 

[FiveParadox]

RE: My Languages

It would be quite a cumbersome task to acquire a majority government, FascistCanuck, if one would discount each of the seventy-five seats in the House of Commons for the Province of Québec. Je suggerais que beacoup de personnes sur Canadian Content peuvent parler en français (au moins, assez pour avoir une conversation); c'est, après tous, une langue du Canada.

 

[FiveParadox]

RE: My Languages

On the topic of languages:

• I can speak English;
• Je peux parler en français (plus ou moins), eh;
• 私は日本語をべあんきょうします。(watashi wa nihon-go wo benkyou shimasu)

 

[FascistCanuck]

Re: RE: My Languages

It would be quite a cumbersome task to acquire a majority government, FascistCanuck, if one would discount each of the seventy-five seats in the House of Commons for the Province of Québec. Je suggerais que beacoup de personnes sur Canadian Content peuvent parler en français (au moins, assez pour avoir une conversation); c'est, après tous, une langue du Canada.

I am fully aware of the role Quebec must play in my rise to power but trust me, I have that planned out. I never forget Quebec in my plans. Just remember, if ever I gain power in Canada, Quebec will cease to exist as an entity.

 

[FiveParadox]

As an entity? What do you mean, FascistCanuck?

Are you advocating the destruction of Québec?

 

[dekhqonbacha]

As your new fascist leader of Canada, I would seek to abolish French as a national language. It is too divisive and a completely irrelevant language. As one may have seen posted here, very few people speak it hence it would not do well in the current World Order. As your leader, I would demand that only English be spoken. No exceptions. All French schools would be reopened as English-only schools under my rule.

How the h**l are you? "As your leader,", are you talking about your dreams? You know there is diffirence between the dream and reality these days?

 

[starry]

Re: RE: How many languages do you speak?

dekhqonbacha, you need to work on your accent.

how do you say "how are you" in Japanese?

"Doomo" ,I got it from googel

 

[dekhqonbacha]

I believe "konichua" is "how are you".
once, I had to learn Japanese.
Now, it's completely forgetten. Sometimes some words pop up in my mind. I gotta go back to school to practice it.

 

[gopher]

English and Spanish. Actually, I speak Brooklynese and Spanglish.

 

[Lineman]

French and English and some kinda gibberish when I have a few too many Crown Royals.

 

[manda]

English, French Spanish fluently read spoken and written. Some Japanese, studied it for a year at school, a few words of German, and a few words of whatever Inuit dialect Jo rants off in

 

[Andem]

Re: RE: How many languages do you speak?

I speak English (fluently), French (quite well), a TINY bit of German, some Swiss German and a miniscule amount of Hungarian. And I can count to 10 in Italian

Achjö, kahnsst dü schwiezertüütch verstorn? Dah späeter koönten wir üf de echt geil tütche spraache rede.

 

[Colpy]

English.

Full stop.