Conquer Club

I am interested to know how many CCer's can speak more than one language reasonably fluently. I myself know a bit of Japanese but not very much.

English, russian fluently

French, latin decently

I was better at speaking German in college, but I have lost most of it. I know enough to tell people I am hungry or thirsty...

I took a semester of german and got kicked out for too many WW2 jokes.

I did German for a bit ages ago some guy kept wanting to know about Hitler till the teacher told him Hitler was actually Austrian.

borox0 wrote:I did German for a bit ages ago some guy kept wanting to know about Hitler till the teacher told him Hitler was actually Austrian.

So is Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he has admitted that he liked Adolf Hitler. Must be those Terminator genes he has running through his loins!

I can speak English decently and gibberish fluently.

i can speak english fairly fluently, german fairly well and i have some irish but not enough so i voted 2

AndrewLC wrote:I took a semester of german and got kicked out for too many WW2 jokes.

*Nazi 5*

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english, french, spanish and body
all fluently...

I have no problems with Dutch and English, and I could have a little conversation in german, but it's far from fluent

I speak fluent Pleasant.

I speak Mountain West, Southern, Pip-pip, drunk-Irish-bastard, burrito, and Broncs all fluently.

Take that, BAM!

BANG! And the dirt is gone!

I speak English, some Danish, some sign language (SEE). I USED to speak French and a little German, but the key is "used to".

I can speak:
English
Spanish (native)
French
Welsh
Mandarin Chinese
Chinese Wu
Japanese
German
Italian
and Russian

means strong
means pretty good
means okay
means enough to get by

damn it cypress....wow....

I'm fluent enough in English, Spanish, and Portuguese to live my entire life in a totally normal manner speaking any of these languages, to work in any sort of job that I'm qualified for, to have a meaningful romantic relationship (this is what I consider the real standard of fluency... it's not just a linguistic barrier, but a cultural one... learning a language to a high enough level helps to prepare you culturally).

For my work, I'm considering spiffing up my French (which is currently pretty poor), or learning Italian (which I can already understand pretty well, but not perfectly, and I surely can't speak it) or Basque (which would definitely be the most difficult to learn). Which do y'all recommend?

does pig latin count?

i know intermediate spanish and elementary arabic

i can get by with my spanish. it's become pretty rusty which is riduculous since I'm in Arizona. i've been studying Afghan Farsi(Dari) and Mandarin kind of as a hobby.

btownmeggy wrote:I'm fluent enough in English, Spanish, and Portuguese to live my entire life in a totally normal manner speaking any of these languages, to work in any sort of job that I'm qualified for, to have a meaningful romantic relationship (this is what I consider the real standard of fluency... it's not just a linguistic barrier, but a cultural one... learning a language to a high enough level helps to prepare you culturally).

For my work, I'm considering spiffing up my French (which is currently pretty poor), or learning Italian (which I can already understand pretty well, but not perfectly, and I surely can't speak it) or Basque (which would definitely be the most difficult to learn). Which do y'all recommend?

French definitely. If you already have spanish, you'll get by with Italians. Euskara would only be useful if you were gonna live in the Pyrenees and even then, only a quarter of the basques actually speak it. And since french is spoken officially in over 30 countries, it seems the sensible choice.
Having said that, Italian is such a beautiful language and great to argue in...
What about Mandarin or Russian? These languages are getting more useful by the day.

mandyb wrote:4
english, french, spanish and body
all fluently...

How did you pick up the french?

living in Switzerland....the french part

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english, Ukrainian, russian.