what languages do you know?

FTGFOP · 05-06-2011 04:27PM

bluewolf wrote: »

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

Are you starting from scratch as an adult? How are you finding it?

I reckon one year of wanting to learn a language is worth five of being forced. Who's with me?

languagenerd · 06-06-2011 12:36AM

Fluently: English
Semi-fluently (aka "getting there"): French and Spanish
Semi-fluently (aka "could hold in-depth conversations on some topics but have no vocab at all on others") : Irish
Can read: Catalan, Portuguese, Occitan, Jèrriais and some Creoles

I know random bits of Korean because I used to do Taekwon-do (though I'd never use it in Korea, who knows what counting to ten and saying "L-stance, back reverse turning kick, knifehand block" might lead to :P) and I can count to ten and say my name and age and what foods I like in German, not that that's much use!

My username is probably misleading, but I do intend to take up more languages. Once my degree is finished, I'm thinking of learning either a Scandinavian or an Eastern-European language, broaden my horizons from the Latin ones.

Compton · 06-06-2011 12:47AM

English and Jewish

Coeurdepirate · 06-06-2011 12:49AM

English and French, half decent Irish and teaching myself Swedish.

theboat · 06-06-2011 12:57AM

English and French (not fully fluent, but can comfortably hold a conversation, and can read and understand it completely). Lost virtually all of my spoken Irish while I was away in France this year, but hope to get back into it. Was never fluent, but could talk away at one stage. Can still read and understand it fine.

Oranage2 · 06-06-2011 12:59AM

English and irish pretty fluent.

I can Also say i like football in french

Tonyandthewhale · 06-06-2011 01:17AM

English obviously and I can understand french pretty well but I haven't used it in a while so the productive stuff is sort of gone down the tubes. Want to learn spanish so I can travel more easily and russian so I can properly read doestoevsky at last (apologies if I spelt that wrong, it's very tricky).

WoollyRedHat · 06-06-2011 01:21AM

Simish

Azureus · 06-06-2011 10:37AM

English, Irish, French. Good comprehensive french but a little rusty speaking it-getting better though.
Want to learn Spanish for work/travelling.

Gigabytes · 06-06-2011 10:41AM

Tá gaeilge agus béarla agam
I speak irish & english

Sefirah · 06-06-2011 10:44AM

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

It's a pretty hard one- I did a semester of Arabic in college and didn't bother keeping up with it, since they were teaching modern standard, which basically isn't much good for speaking with people since all countries have their own dialects and whatnot. Best of luck with it- for some bizarre reason, the only word I remember is the one for 'snow' lol (talking about weather in the Christmas oral :P)

shblob wrote: »

English and Jewish

They made us into our own language? Cool.

English and Irish as usual, German from secondary school and near-fluent in reading/ writing/ speaking Hebrew, but a work in progress!

Herb Powell · 06-06-2011 11:21AM

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.

Ah sure why should any French people bother learning English before coming to Ireland; most schools here teach French as a second language

06-06-2011 11:25AM

shblob wrote: »

English and Jewish

lol

Kya1976 · 06-06-2011 11:42AM

Fluent in Swedish and English. I can understand and speak a bit of Spanish and I can understand Norwegian.

the groutch · 06-06-2011 11:46AM

D4

The Agogo · 06-06-2011 11:49AM

English, a little Irish, a lot of German, a bit of Polish and Music notation

s20101938 · 06-06-2011 12:22PM

Zapotec, Shluh, Gilyak and Malto.

I also speak Smug.

emeraldstar · 06-06-2011 01:35PM

Fluent: English
Very good: Irish, French, Spanish
Verrrry basic (sometimes ok at understanding; awful at using): Italian and German

And like another poster, random bits of Korean due to having learnt Taekwon-do. Fat lot of good that'll ever do me

I love languages though, European particularly.

El Horseboxo · 06-06-2011 01:39PM

For the amount of Irish people that say they speak español i never bump into any one that can speak it any way decent and almost everyone tries due to how i look.

Michellenman · 06-06-2011 01:46PM

Kya1976 wrote: »

Fluent in Swedish and English. I can understand and speak a bit of Spanish and I can understand Norwegian.

Do you find it easy to understand german too? I remember walking in to my kitchen once and my swedish friend and german friend were conversing in their own languages, they could get the general gist of what the other was saying, it was kinda cool

I'm a native English speaker, study French at university and spend one year living in France so my french is good, but not near fluent. Irish I can understand and would watch TG4 shows occasionally but my spoken is horrendous, I'm really crap with grammar

Understand bits of Italian and a little spanish if they speak slowly and clearly

languagenerd · 06-06-2011 02:04PM

Kojak wrote: »

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.

That is a seriously ignorant statement. If we all learn French/Spanish/German at school, why would they want to learn English to come here?

If you're going to another country, you shouldn't expect everyone to speak your language. And as for "most, if not all countries" - that is not true. The countries who have many English tourists might, but not every country, not even close - and even then, if you want to travel beyond the tourist resorts, you'll need at least a few phrases of the native language to survive!

Cunning Stunt · 06-06-2011 06:58PM

wow - with the amount of Irish speakers in this thread alone, I'm surpised the language isnt thriving... Sure there's enough of you on here to fill a whole Gaeltacht! Who'd have thought!

AFC_1903 · 06-06-2011 07:01PM

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

English obviously and I can understand french pretty well but I haven't used it in a while so the productive stuff is sort of gone down the tubes. Want to learn spanish so I can travel more easily and russian so I can properly read doestoevsky at last (apologies if I spelt that wrong, it's very tricky).

If you think spelling Dostoevsky is tricky, wait until you try learning Russian - spelling his name will be the least of your troubles!

Dudess · 06-06-2011 07:14PM

Bit of French, German and Spanish.

AFC_1903 · 06-06-2011 07:15PM

Fluent:
English
Doric

Beginner:
Polish (Teaching myself. Currently at basic conversational level - phenomenally difficult language)
French (Currently regaining my knowledge. Weak at conversation, OK at reading it)

Basic/Survival level:
German, Spanish and Slovak.

Hope to learn:
(Three or more from) Irish Sign Language, Norwegian/Swedish, German, Spanish, Serbian or Persian. :eek:

Really wish I had taken to languages at a younger age, but my school did everything they could to make me despise the idea for many years. :mad:

kfallon · 06-06-2011 07:15PM

French!

"Passez-moi le poulet!!!!"

Einhard · 06-06-2011 07:19PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

I love languages though, European particularly.

Racist!:eek:

:pac:

English fluently. French to a fairly high degree, especially reading. Able to read and write Latin too, whih will be handy when I go to Italy.(:D)

tolosenc · 06-06-2011 07:39PM

Fluent in English, Irish and French. Could hold a conversation (at a push) in Italian and Spanish, but wouldn't enjoy needing to speak either of them.

Greyfox · 06-06-2011 08:01PM

Only English, I'd rather clean kitchen floors with a toothbrush then do something as tedious as learning another language

deise go deo · 06-06-2011 08:02PM

English and fairly decent Irish. When I can read Peig(Never had to do it in school so want to see what all the fuss is about) I will move onto Japeneese.

what languages do you know?

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