Conquer Club

3, spanish, french and english.

I speak in spanish, learn in french, and live in english(canadian, eh). (if it makes any sense)

If you don't have to be fluent then I have four.

English, French( Im reasonabley good), Ukrainian, Russian.

im fluent in english and pretty good with spanglish.

Im fluent in English

But Im ok with Italian and Spanish

mandyb wrote: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.

I'm not terribly concerned with contemporary usefulness. I'm a historian. French is just GENERALLY useful. Italian is useful for my specific work, and Basque would be more of a gimmick: "Of course I speak Basque. Oh, you don't?"

Cypress333 wrote: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

I am seriously jealous...

I speak english, and I like to think that I can speak spanish decentley. I like someone's response above, "body". I'm prety good with that too

Hmmm, foreign languages eh? Well, I can put on a fairly passable Irish accent when the need arises...

Also, I can bodge up enough Spanish to get me by for a few weeks without having to resort to speaking English loudly and slowly. So that's good I guess...

Finally, I'm a bit of a pro when it comes to the old hand-gestures; which are of course the universal language of poorly educated travellers and charades players everywhere.

william18 wrote:3

english, Ukrainian, russian.

Ты? Из всех людей

Dancing Mustard wrote:Hmmm, foreign languages eh? Well, I can put on a fairly passable Irish accent when the need arises...

Also, I can bodge up enough Spanish to get me by for a few weeks without having to resort to speaking English loudly and slowly. So that's good I guess...

Finally, I'm a bit of a pro when it comes to the old hand-gestures; which are of course the universal language of poorly educated travellers and charades players everywhere.

I know a few myself...

In Tampa, I ran into a guy at the hotel bar who spoke German, and understood English, but couldn't speak it. Using my high school German, I was surprised to find that we could talk and understand each other. In other news, I could probably eat, get drunk, find a bathroom, and pass out somewhere sanitary in Germany.

Iliad wrote:

william18 wrote:3

english, Ukrainian, russian.

Ты? Из всех людей

Yes

btownmeggy wrote:

mandyb wrote: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.

I'm not terribly concerned with contemporary usefulness. I'm a historian. French is just GENERALLY useful. Italian is useful for my specific work, and Basque would be more of a gimmick: "Of course I speak Basque. Oh, you don't?"

Well then I guess it depends how good you are at picking up a new language. I'm learning german atm and finding it very slow going. If you're just into getting a language for gimmicks sake, then how about catalan? Having spanish and a some french would make this a very easy one to pick up.

Swedish, English, Norwegian, German and Spanish!

Total count 5, aint i great

[Grodanboll said: No you aint, you suck!]

PLAYER57832 wrote:

Cypress333 wrote:I can speak:

Welsh

I am seriously jealous..

Iv never been able to get any sort of a hang on welsh, i only life about 50 miles from wales and we did have an option for a GCSE years back when they formed their parliament as a sort of inter country thingymawotsit. But it really does sound like elvish to me. Still even if u can speak it just a little bit thats prety cool

In a basic order of fluency for me,
english
spanish (castilliano)
french
polish (this is the point were i can just about order some food and follow directions to places)
turkish
Itialian
Afrikaans (S.A) but this is really just for insulting people in atleast one language they dont know.

English is my first language.
My Spanish is pretty decent now, thanks to having a Spanish girlfriend.
I have school French, but somehow managed to retain most of it.

mandyb wrote:Well then I guess it depends how good you are at picking up a new language. I'm learning german atm and finding it very slow going. If you're just into getting a language for gimmicks sake, then how about catalan? Having spanish and a some french would make this a very easy one to pick up.

Mmmmm, CATALAN.

You are some sort of genius, yes?, or should I say gèniá (that's my impression of Catalan).

A few years back now, i was on a student exchange program and living with a spanish familly just south of santader. His grand mother was basque. Back then my spanish was prety poor but even now i would say thats a tough/ unusable language (outside that region). It reminds me of when my dad said the only reason he wanted to learn latin at school was to understand the names of plants when hes gardening...

Lazy_Pilgrim wrote:A few years back now, i was on a student exchange program and living with a spanish familly just south of santader. His grand mother was basque. Back then my spanish was prety poor but even now i would say thats a tough/ unusable language (outside that region). It reminds me of when my dad said the only reason he wanted to learn latin at school was to understand the names of plants when hes gardening...

I used to date a Basque. He'd grown up in a Basque nationalist family, so his Spanish wasn't very good. He taught me some Euskara and I still have all my cheat sheets, written on musical notation paper because we went to an arts school together and he was a music student. One May Day he carved O ta A (His initial, the shortened formed of the Basque word for "and", and my initial) in a tree with a heart around it. *sigh*

Anyway, the most INTERESTING word out of the 50 or so I learned was "gorria"... it means girl... but I already knew that word... because it's really common slang in Southern Brazil for girl!

I'm American. So yah, one.

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.

he was austrain, but i think he moved to germany or something... anyways, he was their leader during WWII

i know so many different sign languages including the little heard of Qued speech lol and then theres english of sourse

borox0 wrote: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.

German, but barely enough to ask what time it is or make a crude remark.

Latin, and even less than the above.

In both cases, I am learning.

demon7896 wrote:

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.

he was austrain, but i think he moved to germany or something... anyways, he was their leader during WWII

this igorance is scarry. I mean come on did you learn anything about WWII

Frigidus wrote:I'm American. So yah, one.

Sadly its prety common trait for the english aswell

btownmeggy wrote:Anyway, the most INTERESTING word out of the 50 or so I learned was "gorria"... it means girl... but I already knew that word... because it's really common slang in Southern Brazil for girl!

Its a really odd language from the limited experiece that iv had of it, i could never get round the change in pronuciation, but then i was trying to learn from an 80+ year only woman :S