languages!

buzhwa · Post by **buzhwa** » 6/9/2005, 4:12 pm

What languages do you know? If you only know a little bit of one, specify which ones you're less fluent or more fluent in. Also tell which you want to learn, if any.

Here are mine:

English (Midwest U.S. dialect) - native speaker
Spanish - almost fluent
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) - what web pages are written in. This is not a spoken language, of course.

I can understand a bit of written French and some spoken or written Portuguese.

I want to learn Finnish, Thai, Greek, and maybe German.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 6/9/2005, 4:22 pm

flouant in enlish

:mrgreen:

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 6/9/2005, 4:27 pm

enlish eh?

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 6/9/2005, 4:31 pm

i can:

speak:
Spanish ~ i'm pretty fluent in conversation, but i'm taking a grammar course in school.

the tiniest bit of Portugese ~ only if i ever need to find the bathroom, :lol:

understand:
formal Polish ~ my mother's polish, and i use to take a class in it too, but my mom took me out of it since i didn't speak a word of it, :lol:

i can't really keep up a casual conversation anymore, though. :uh:

italian ~ if you know spanish, you can understand italian. :nod:

squamish (native american language near the vancouver area) ~ when i was in the 4-7th grades, and a substitute came by, i was always skippin out on math to go to the squamish classes (no one cared, because others came with me. and the squamish teacher was the coolest dude ever. :mrgreen:

)

quechua (incan language, argentinian variety, though) ~ my daddy's side of the family are technically incan descendants.

Post by **xjsb125** » 6/9/2005, 4:33 pm

Redneck/Southern US English - Fully fluent
French - I can barely remember any of it, but sometimes I can read a little bit of it.
Spanish - I can speak a very minimal amount, and read very little.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 6/9/2005, 4:41 pm

cool, you know squamish!

i know:
english (just .. standard english. ehh)
french (i am pretty good at reading + writing)
spanish (the teeniest bit)
korean (i was born there. i can understand it + read it + write it perfectly but my vocab and speaking skills are steadily declining :uhh:

)

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 6/9/2005, 4:55 pm

I know...
Fluently:
English
Russian
Gaelic
Learning/Mostly fluent:
French
Learning/Basic understanding:
German.

Post by **faninor** » 6/9/2005, 4:57 pm

English - I can get by with what I know.
HTML
Pascal
C
PHP
MySQL

French - Just a little . . . c'est nul means you're welcome, right?

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 6/9/2005, 5:18 pm

English - native
French - un peu

If we are including programming languages:

Very well:
C/C++
C#
Java / Javascript
Tcl/Tk
HTML
XML
IDL
UML

Moderate:
VB
Python
ASP
SQL
ToolBook scripting
Batch

Some:
FORTRAN
Perl
MATLAB

Dabbled with:
Ruby
PHP

Used to know well but it has been a while:
BASIC / QBASIC / GWBASIC
Eiffel
LISP
Assembly

..whew... I think thats it.

thirdhour · Post by **thirdhour** » 6/10/2005, 12:36 am

holy shit, this board is full of so. many. geeks. who knows TWENTY-THREE programming languages, seriously? :freak:

oh, i speak english and french. well, my french isn't nearly as good as it should be. I have trouble understanding movies, but that's because our classes are taught to us by french-speaking english people, so that's the only accent we know. if i were to spend some time in a frenchish place, i'd be perfectly fluent.

Waiting to Exist · Post by **Waiting to Exist** » 6/10/2005, 12:38 am

I speak English. I spoke Italian in first grade, what with the living there and all, but I've since lost it. I'm going to start learning it again next year.

I took four years of Spanish, but they were elementary school, so, you know... I didn't learn anything.

Post by **faninor** » 6/10/2005, 2:14 am

thirdhour wrote:holy shit, this board is full of so. many. geeks. who knows TWENTY-THREE programming languages, seriously?

A lot are very similar, once you know one it's very easy to pick up a bunch of others. For instance, I didn't list javascript, and I'm not particularly experienced at making stuff with it, but if I look at javascript code I can pretty much understand it and tweak with it if there's something I want to change.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 6/10/2005, 2:34 am

Dutch - native speaker.
English - fluent.
German - basic understanding, both written and spoken, I can speak it a little.
French - very basic understanding, written only.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 6/10/2005, 3:49 am

Woohoo we get to include computer languages!! :lol:

US English (I think... sometimes I'm not quite sure, though)
HTML
JavaScript

Used to know, probably still would if I just studied a little bit for reminders:
Pascal (:lol:)
Basic
some others that I don't feel like thinking of the names of... a bunch of ones used on the web

Pretended to know:
I took French for 2 years, but never really learned anything. :*)**

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 6/10/2005, 4:56 am

faninor wrote:
thirdhour wrote:holy shit, this board is full of so. many. geeks. who knows TWENTY-THREE programming languages, seriously?

A lot are very similar, once you know one it's very easy to pick up a bunch of others. For instance, I didn't list javascript, and I'm not particularly experienced at making stuff with it, but if I look at javascript code I can pretty much understand it and tweak with it if there's something I want to change.

I was just going to say that.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 6/10/2005, 7:21 am

Proper English english - fluent
German - a bit rusty, but I can get by and read books and watch movies and stuff.
French - I studied it at school for 5 years, but that was a long time ago now.
Russian - I know a few words and phrases
Dutch - I can sometimes read/understand because it looks like German lots of the time.
COBOL - pretty much fluent
SQL - I use quite a lot too
CICS - I can write with a little help from manuals/copying other bits of code!

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 6/10/2005, 8:58 am

I'm fluent in english, and not too bad in french. I've been taking weekly spanish (mostly latin american) lessons for 2 months or so now, and know some basic conversation stuff and important vocabulary I'll need for my trip there in august.

superboots · Post by **superboots** » 6/10/2005, 9:39 am

spanish
english

superboots · Post by **superboots** » 6/10/2005, 9:40 am

oh yeah and some sign language that i learned when i was working with autistic kids
-yes
-no
-sit down
-stand up
-all done
-play
-more
-toilet
-drink

that's all you need really in life

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 6/10/2005, 4:05 pm