what languages do you know?

rinuccini

hey, was reading the irish language thread, and was wondering about people being able to speak other langauges. I can barely speak english! what other languages can the rest of you speak, or read, or understand?

I'm trying to learn Arabic, been living in the Middle East for over a year. Its a difficult language, not at a level I want to be yet but hopefully I'll get there. I can read and write Arabic fairly well.

BlueBaron

English, Irish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swahilli, Sarcasm.

rinuccini

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I'm trying to learn Arabic, been living in the Middle East for over a year. Its a difficult language, not at a level I want to be yet but hopefully I'll get there. I can read and write Arabic fairly well.

its written right to left isnt it? must be difficult to just get yoiur head around that,

holystungun9

I know loads of languages but I can speak English, Spanish and a little German.

ball

If i'm applying for a job abroad I say I speak fluent Irish.

Sunnyisland

Dublin english, Irish, portuguese, spanish but not fluently.

dlofnep

English, Irish, C, Java, PHP

AG2R

English,Irish,Spanish(not fluently but could hold a conversation) Key phrases in Lithuanian and Some Russian.

RhubarbCrumble

English, Irish not quite fluent but pretty good, enough French to get by when in France.

rednik

English, Irish and BAD.

Kevin Duffy

I speak the Language of Love reeeeeaaaaalllllll good baby :cool:

Richard Dower

Fluent troll with a hint of douchebag.

KeithM89_old

Pig-Latin and Morse Code.
Though its a bad idea to combine the two...

irishdub14

English, Espanol and Francais.

blackdog2

English, Irish and Chinese

Ibt great bunch of lads /3 in 1 comments

ebixa82

I know about 15 languages but can only speak/read four.

silverspoon

English and pretty fluent in German. Terrible Irish though, I always say I don't speak it, since I pretty much can't.

I did irish in school, and I just about remember some of my french. I am studying german at the moment.

slimjimmc

English, Irish, and a little German, French, and ภาษาไทย in descending order of ability

Guill

just Inglish.

Herb Powell

I can speak English, Irish and French quite well (obviously my Irish and English are better, but my French is fairly good). I also learned the Cyrillic alphabet, the Khmer alphabet (but none of the languages associated with them lol) aaaaaaaaand I can understand some German.

Cunning Stunt

English, German and Danish

ShamoBuc

Irish, English, French - a little bit of German and Spanish.

English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. I did A Level German but have forgotten most of it and am currently learning Dutch (slowly).

Overflow

English, Norwegian

Im not going to say Irish, French or German just because i learned then in school and memorized a few phrases.

NTMK

fluent in English and German
can read and write Turkish
learning Spanish

RachaelVO

English, ****e Irish and Dutch. I can understand German (cos of the Dutch thing). I can understand bits of written Danish and Swedish too, but again that's cos of the Dutch thing, they all stem from German so you can get the bare basics of one from the other (if that makes sense)!

orourkeda

Bollocksology

Superbus

I could have a conversation in French if the other person spoke REALLY SLOWLY AND LOUDLY, WITH LOTS OF HAND GESTURES.

Can read Latin, lot of use that is.

orourkeda

Superbus wrote: »

I could have a conversation in French if the other person spoke REALLY SLOWLY AND LOUDLY, WITH LOTS OF HAND GESTURES.

Can read Latin, lot of use that is.

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French people understand it too.

Shenshen

German, English and French. I understand a bit of Italian and Spanish.

number10a

Irish, English, Spanish and French. And I can get by in Italian, Catalan and Polish too. With the French, Spanish, Italian and Catalan combinations too it's fairly easy to understand Portuguese, Galician and Romanian and anything else related to them.

Columbia

English, I remember some bits of German and Irish from school, and I'm currently learning Russian (a lot) and Georgian (a little).

Luxie

English, French, Irish (in that order of fluency). Bit of Dutch and Italian and currently tea studying German.

RachaelVO

orourkeda wrote: »

Bollocksology

There's a good few AHers fluent in that!

noel farrell

sad to say english only i have traveled to lots of spots in the world it has served me well . just now i notice most young people have some english and like to try it out . i try to learn hellow and thanks , and a few words anywhere i visit. i can hold my own with lots of bad stuff

Hookah

French, Dutch and Spanish.

Chris P. Bacon

English,and a small bit of Polish and Thai.

Show Time

English, French and a small bit of Irish. But i am fluent in norriespeak.:)

Contessa Raven

Fluently:

English
Can understand most Irish

Bits of:

Polish
French
Spanish

Learning

Japanese and Irish Sign Language.
So far I'm flying through Sign Language. Japanese is more difficult as I've no-one to practice with.

I-Shot-Jr

English and French fluently, very good spanish but not quite fluent. Enough Russian to ensure I don't starve or piss myself in Moscow as well as Italian and bits of Hindi and malayalam and rud picked up from work

Jigglypuff

I'll tell you what really annoys me...
When people on facebook have listed at the top of the page, Languages Spoken: English, Irish, French, Spanish, German... I know these people and they don't frackin' speak these languages! Junior Certificate German and being able to say une, deux, trois in French does not equate to speaking the language! Rant over. :cool:

Sonnenblumen

Well two very useful ones for giving orders: German and English.

Diabhal Beag

Contessa Raven wrote: »

Fluently:

English
Can understand most Irish

Not trying to be a dick but wouldn't fluent mean that you speak and understand all Irish?

teaandtoast

English of course. Can say and write a good few things in Irish. Can say few sentences of German and French. I can write my name in Arabic. I know a few words of Hindi, 'yaar' is friend. Can say one or two things in Telugu, 'pili' is cat, 'cheli' is sister. I can say hello in Japanese 'kon ni she wa'. Based on this the only language I can speak and write without having to think much is english.

Biggins

English (of course)
Some Japanese, German, French, Russian and Spanish.
I think the next one up I better genuinely learn is Chinese.

Kojak

I can speak English fairly well. Know a small bit of Irish and French from my school days.

I don't see why anyone would want to learn another language though, as most, if not all countries, learn english as a second language anyways.

scopper

English and German (living here so very much a must) and would love to learn some more but language learning is exceptionally difficult. Like most Irish people I used to list Irish until I was forced to properly learn a language and can confirm that knowing a few sentences does not 'knowing a language' make. We need to be more honest about that. I also did Spanish in school and don't remember a word :eek:

scopper

Kojak wrote: »

I can speak English fairly well. Know a small bit of Irish and French from my school days.

I don't see why anyone would want to learn another language though, as most, if not all countries, learn english as a second language anyways.

Depends how long you stay. Whilst a lot of Germans, in the only situation I am familiar with, speak English it is not as if you can go into a shop every week and expect the people there to speak English back. English is a kind of *youth* lingua franca too - a huge chunk of people can't speak it at all especially the old and the young (who are in the process of learning it in school). Then there is the issue of stuff that ain't translated - forms, instructions and so on. That's when the limitations of English become apparent.

Sonnenblumen

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Not trying to be a dick but wouldn't fluent mean that you speak and understand all Irish?

I assumed the poster meant fluent in english but understands most Irish, ie people?:D