languages!

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 6/15/2005, 1:16 pm

I can count to three in japanese. Or call you stupid.

Post by **saman** » 6/15/2005, 1:46 pm

ich. ni. san. baka!!

heeheehee

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 6/15/2005, 10:33 pm

hey cool. i have discovered this thread.

english - fluent
cantonese - i can understand anything said but i can't speak it at all. this unfortunately leads all my relatives to tihnk that i don't understand it either, just because i'm mute. but i always talk to people by listening in cantonese and answering in english.
french - good school-wise, but i've never applied it to life
classic latin - same. actually the derivatives have helped me out a heck of a lot, but the speaking part of it, no.
irish - i can say "kiss my ass" and "you're welcome"
mandarin - i can pick out bits and pieces and speak just a tiny bit but i would die if dumped in a mandarin-speaking location all alone
spanish - i can count to ten! and uh...el scorcho! yeah.
german - i know that lumberjack song. or at least the way it sounds. forgive me if i've spelled everything horrendously wrong, but the first line goes something like

ich bien hozfoller et fuhl mich stark

yeah. i know that's really wrong.

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 6/15/2005, 10:38 pm

Jen wrote:irish - i can say "kiss my ass" and "you're welcome"

that's gotta be real handy. :lol:

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Waiting to Exist · Post by **Waiting to Exist** » 6/18/2005, 2:30 am

http://www.zompist.com/numbers.htm

How to count to ten in over 5000 languages. Enjoy.

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 6/18/2005, 10:12 am

;dhasjdn,mc
no.
its irish gaelic.
poge ma hone!

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 6/18/2005, 11:55 am

Waiting to Exist wrote:http://www.zompist.com/numbers.htm

How to count to ten in over 5000 languages. Enjoy.

:O niiice

Waiting to Exist · Post by **Waiting to Exist** » 6/18/2005, 2:24 pm

I haven't heard of half the languages on there.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 6/18/2005, 8:44 pm

Oh my god. Was anyone else stunned by how they are almost all based on the same pattern?
Also, I deem that site to be lacking in pronunciation guide. Shoulda gone with the IPA.

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 6/18/2005, 9:12 pm

well yeah, that's basically the way languages work. especially with something as basic as counting to ten, all languages should all have a few similarities there. unless you invent a language that counts in ookad tunnor bleep.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 6/18/2005, 9:14 pm

well... my point was that it's an incredible preservation of how all languages have branched from each other.

gokirk72 · Post by **gokirk72** » 8/26/2005, 9:21 pm

Ok, I just found this... and I know like barely anything ...

English - fluent (yea, I'm typing in English and I don't know it)
Redneck - if you live where I live and don't know redneck, you'll get shot
Spanish - I'm going into my 4th year, and I still only know basic stuff (and if you go to ANY city around here, you'll pick something up)

I'm too lazy to learn any other spoken languages and computers scare me.

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 8/27/2005, 7:19 am

My spanish is improving, due to that whole, living in houses with Spanish Families thing. I'm hoping I'll be way ahead of the class when I take it in school next year.

Korzic · Post by **Korzic** » 8/27/2005, 10:29 am

Fluent in English (Australian, British, NZ, US, Canadian tongues/dialects) (this includes Strine)

Studied 5 years worth of Latin(used to be conversational in the thing too) as a result I have a base understanding of most European languages which have a Latin base and if shown a passage i can get its general meaning. (Italian, French, Spanish etc)

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 8/27/2005, 10:32 am

hooray for you and your latin!!!

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 8/27/2005, 11:30 am

I took latin in Catechism lessons. It's weird how I could associate french words with latin ones, and get meanings before we were told it. But i've forgotten everything I learned in Latin
meh