What other languages do you speak? I'm learning French and getting better at my Spanish.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Bet there aren't many Swahili speakers here!
Kama wena kubali Kiswahili, kuja sukumuza!
Petter
Level 9
May 5, 2018
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Pole pole, Bwana!
@GoldenDoll Wena kona kaa wapi? Mimi ni mwaninchi ya Kenya. Na salewa Nairobi.
@Petter - I once had a Zairian boyfriend who spoke Swahili to me. He even recorded Swahili songs.
@GoldenDoll They only speak Swahili in the very Eastern part of Zaire, where it shares a border with Tanganyika.
I grew up on a couple of farms in Kenya, and Swahili was the very first language I could speak. Later I learned English, then French, then Spanish. I also have a smattering of Norwegian and can handle very basic communication in Italian.
Fortran, COBOL, Assembler, Vision.....
A smattering of Basic and C++......
bigpawbullets
Level 9
May 5, 2018
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What? No HTML?
@Petter
Nope... by then, I wasn't allowed to touch code.
I was moved into management where I could do less damage.
As Korben Dallas said, 'Lady, I speak two languages--English and bad English.'
memorylikeasieve
Level 7
May 5, 2018
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I have 7 in varying degrees of fluency. English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Smatterings of Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese are tenuously clinging to a few synapses, but nothing to write home about.
I also am fluent in FORTRAN, Basic, Mathspeak, and Physics.
evidentialist
Level 8
May 5, 2018
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I speak very little Spanish. I would love to become fluent in it.
Browneyedlady
Level 7
May 5, 2018
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@SpikeTalon I took two years of French in high school, and I am surprised I could read a majority of which you replied. I would have answered you back in another language, but I would have had to cheat,and that's not how I roll. lol
@SpikeTalon - Now that really doesn't make sense - Essaie encore une fois! And don't use google translate, c'est de la merde.
@SpikeTalon - All the words are wrong. You said "i am involved to the french myself even though"Just coz one of your ancestors was French doesn't mean you are.
Haitian Creole, French, Spanish, Thai, some Japanese
birdingnut
Level 8
May 5, 2018
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@Redcupcoffee I was born of American missionaries in Haiti and grew up there. The western side of the island, the Dominican Republic, speaks Creole and French, the eastern two thirds speak Spanish. So I grew up hearing and speaking the languages with my friends.
The Thai I Iearned from living in Thailand since 2010, and Japanese I learned while commuting 4 hours each way to teach in Narathiwat, on the border of Thailand and Malaysia. I stopped doing it when the Japanese began overwriting my Thai.
I can swear in German, Spanish & Korean. Currently I'm learning naughty words in Japanese.
chucklesIII
Level 7
May 5, 2018
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A small amount of Korean and Japanese. At one point, I had decent talent with Spanish, but not as much practice now.
HonkyBMcfunky
Level 6
May 5, 2018
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I can speak some Spanish. I am a midwife, so it was mostly prenatal visits, labor, birth, post partum visits, and birth control. I picked it up from the interpreters. I would ask them how to say different words and phrases and have them write it down. I did fairly well with it. My accent was not too bad either. Since I retired I noticed that I am forgetting some, so I have a couple of email sites that I use to refresh my usage. I took French in high school, but that was about 55 years ago, so I remember very little. I also study Irish, since our horses are from Ireland, I'm Irish, and our horses names and the farm name are all Irish. I'm not good at it though. Just barely get it.
Wisewoman3
Level 7
May 5, 2018
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French, basic Spanish. I can’t wait to try one of those live translator earbuds!!!
Lydiaeli
Level 6
May 5, 2018
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@Redcupcoffee started as a tot in school and then decided to major in it in college. Traveled to get fluent. I try to keep it up watching movies and listening to music. More fluent after wine, hahahahahha!
The way to get good at a language is to just keep trying no matter what an idiot you feel like.
Italian
Gatovicolo
Level 8
May 5, 2018
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@Redcupcoffee Bella Italiana
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) and hindi (हिंदी). I can manage Konkani to some extent
Spongebob
Level 7
May 5, 2018
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@Redcupcoffee supposedly konkani, but I grew up with Kannada as my native language. I picked up Hindi in college.
French fluently - it was the lingua franca at work (EC in Brussels) and we even spoke it in Delegation in India when that opened, and of course in the Delegation in Geneva. Fluent Italian - I just loved it from the first time I heard it, went to Italy to learn it, bought a little house there. I used to teach French & Italian when I came back to England (nothing else to do with languages here!). I'm pretty good at German, as I sat next to a German woman in the office who never shut up on the phone. And now as I'm a supply teacher I can blag it pretty well in Spanish, as it's so similar to Italian. And I was married to a Russian for a while, so I know all the worst Russian swearwords.
GoldenDoll
Level 7
May 6, 2018
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I am getting better in Spanish, but far from strong. I just started learning Italian. I am fluent in profanity
DaveSuvada
Level 5
May 6, 2018
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French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, in order of fluency!
YeuxSansLaine
Level 4
May 5, 2018
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@Redcupcoffee Whenever I travel somewhere, I listen to tapes in my car. I've always loved languages.
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