what languages do you know?

Shenshen · 05-06-2011 12:09PM

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

number10a · 05-06-2011 12:13PM

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 · 05-06-2011 12:14PM

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

Luxie · 05-06-2011 12:16PM

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

RachaelVO · 05-06-2011 12:17PM

orourkeda wrote: »

Bollocksology

There's a good few AHers fluent in that!

noel farrell · 05-06-2011 12:20PM

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 · 05-06-2011 02:00PM

French, Dutch and Spanish.

Chris P. Bacon · 05-06-2011 02:06PM

English,and a small bit of Polish and Thai.

Show Time · 05-06-2011 02:09PM

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

Contessa Raven · 05-06-2011 02:11PM

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 · 05-06-2011 02:33PM

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 · 05-06-2011 02:40PM

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 · 05-06-2011 02:41PM

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

Diabhal Beag · 05-06-2011 02:43PM

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 · 05-06-2011 02:48PM

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 · 05-06-2011 02:50PM

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

Kojak · 05-06-2011 02:51PM

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 · 05-06-2011 02:56PM

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 · 05-06-2011 03:01PM

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 · 05-06-2011 03:01PM

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

05-06-2011 03:05PM

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.

Meeting people/making friends from other countries (many people don't speak English that well, if they speak it at all), travel (expecting people to speak English everywhere you go is a bit ignorant), access to culture (books, films, plays), work (dealing with clients abroad, tourist/airline industry etc). Loads of reasons.

plein de force · 05-06-2011 03:14PM

Just English and French for me

and i know a tiny bit of irish

Kojak · 05-06-2011 03:18PM

Can anyone here speak Klingon?

teaandtoast · 05-06-2011 03:18PM

I like the accents of language that would make me want to learn them if I was going to travel to places where the language is useful and necessary. I find the french, Italian and spanish accents easy on the ears. I don't like the eastern european accents they sound angry and agressive. The chinese accents are not nice they are like 'Ho yi ya' and all that. I like the indians accents they are nice and cute. The arabic accents are not that nice at all and some of the african accents are definately not easy on the ears, some of them kind of shout it maybe thats how they have to pronouce it. I havn't hear all language to know but the accents of some are strange and some are very nice.

Lawrence1895 · 05-06-2011 03:19PM

German and English fluent, plus a few bits and pieces in Polish, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Irish.

And I can talk to my cat as well

Kevin Duffy · 05-06-2011 03:21PM

Kojak wrote: »

Can anyone here speak Klingon?

Is there a word in Kilngon for lonlieness? Ah yes, here it is, "Gardak!"

Posy · 05-06-2011 03:27PM

English. I'm learning Irish at the moment but could only have a very, very basic conversation in it so far.
I did French in school but I was always crap at it and have forgotten it all anyway.

I speak excellent Pig Latin though, and can also belch the alphabet and most one-two syllable words. Does that count?

brimal · 05-06-2011 03:42PM

English, Irish and learning Hebrew

Eve_Dublin · 05-06-2011 03:44PM

English and fairly decent level of Spanish as I'm living in Spain. Cupla focal gaeilge but was decent in school. Once I get the Spanish down, I'm going to learn Portuguese.

Salty · 05-06-2011 03:59PM

English (naw)
I have a very good grasp of Irish, thinking of studying it in college.
I have French to LC standard. I can see all of it being forgotten fairly quickly after the exams, however. I do a cracking French accent though, got me through the orals!:P

what languages do you know?

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