What other languages do you speak?

DiM · Post by **DiM** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:23 pm

1. romanian - native
2. english - very good
3. italian - good
4. spanish - good
5. french - poor
6. german - poor
7. latin - poor

glide · Post by **glide** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:21 am

I speak English, some french, enough spanish to get my face slapped, and of course....mock swedish. :lol:

(I spiek Ingleesh, sume-a ffreech, eeuoogh spuneesh tu git my ffece-a sleppid, und uff cuoorsi....muck svideesh.) :lol:

DAZMCFC · Post by **DAZMCFC** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:04 am

Bertros Bertros wrote:
DAZMCFC wrote:like bertros said, i feel most in the uk are to ignorant to learn a different language(probably me included).

I said nothing of the sort! I said most people in the UK would like to have better language skills than they do which is very different from being too ignorant to bother. There are a lot of those sort everywhere, not just in the UK, but I believe they are in the minority for us. It really gets my back up the way brits are so quick to degrade ourselves without thinking, especially where language is concerned. I've said it before in these forums but what the heck. The reason that the number of people fluent in a foreign language in the UK is low is becuase nearly every other person who doesn't speak English and whats to learn a second language learns English. Its the international language; Portuguese businessmean speak to Danes in English, not Danish or Portuguese. The motivation just isn't there to learn another language in the same way as it is for those who don't speak English already as we are so much less disadvantaged by it. Thats not ignorant or lazy, its just common sense.

i`m only joking. calm down, we are at a disadvantage because at my age we did not start german until secondry/high school, while in most of scandanavia they start at the age of 5. now my son is 6 and he is starting to learn a few words in french. :lol:

Phobia · Post by **Phobia** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:16 am

English - Fluent (Obviously

)
French - Good
German - Good
Latin - Poor
Spanish - Poor

I only really know these languages cos I spent years at school learning them, I dropped Latin and Spanish a while ago, but still remember a bit, but now GCSE's are done, I dropped French and German too.

KiwiTaker · Post by **KiwiTaker** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:31 pm

Actually I was talking about Dundee in Scotland. There are a few words that are only spoken there. I may be a Kiwi but my dad is from Dundee. Lol the city in New Zealand is Dunedin. It sounds similar because a bunch of Scottish settlers from the highlands setled there.

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:43 pm

btownmeggy wrote:And, then, of course, traveling to Italy, seeing amazing sites, eating delicious food, being surrounded by beautiful women who ride mopeds in high heels.

It's probably the eternal optimist in me, but some of the first phrases I committed to memory were, in fact, "you're beautiful" ("Sei bellissima") and "may I have your telephone number?" ("Posso avere il suo numero di telefono?")

KiwiTaker wrote:Actually I was talking about Dundee in Scotland. There are a few words that are only spoken there. I may be a Kiwi but my dad is from Dundee. Lol the city in New Zealand is Dunedin. It sounds similar because a bunch of Scottish settlers from the highlands setled there.

There are definitely unique elements of accent and dialect to Dundee (just as any local dialect has its own, everywhere.) I personally wouldn't be 100% sure exactly which words, etc, were unique to Dundee. I would prefer to just refer to "Scots" dialect.

The only (alleged*) one I can think of, off the top of my head, is "circle" for what the rest of the UK calls a "roundabout". I know the Americans have a thing they call a "circle", but that's not the same thing as what a Dundonian might refer to as a "circle". This is useful to know, to avoid crashes.

* alleged, meaning I don't know that it's unique to Dundee. But the word is real.

DAZMCFC · Post by **DAZMCFC** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:54 pm

KiwiTaker wrote:Actually I was talking about Dundee in Scotland. There are a few words that are only spoken there. I may be a Kiwi but my dad is from Dundee. Lol the city in New Zealand is Dunedin. It sounds similar because a bunch of Scottish settlers from the highlands setled there.

i bow down to you Stopper, very good and well thought out. :oops:

do you know KiwiTaker, as you seem to know his family was probably from Scotland and indeed the city you were from. :roll:

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:58 pm

DAZMCFC wrote:do you know KiwiTaker, as you seem to know his family was probably from Scotland and indeed the city you were from.

Of course I do - he's one of my multis...

EDIT: Actually, I wonder if "multi", meaning a high-rise, is unique to Dundee...? It probably isn't. Hmmm.

DAZMCFC · Post by **DAZMCFC** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:08 pm

probably not. :roll:

KiwiTaker · Post by **KiwiTaker** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:38 pm

Lol one of the ones I am thinking of is Keeker. That is Dundonian for black eye. Oh and dowp which means butt.

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:59 am

KiwiTaker wrote:Lol one of the ones I am thinking of is Keeker. That is Dundonian for black eye. Oh and dowp which means butt.

I just thought of another. Do you know, or does your Dad remember, what a "half-loaf" is...?

KiwiTaker · Post by **KiwiTaker** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:00 pm

Lol my Dad remembers what a half-loaf is.

sam_levi_11 · Post by **sam_levi_11** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:32 pm

english- well its my first(native) language
spanish- meh
french- poorly
germn- i know 1-10, ur mom is a....and many words at the end, england and hail

lord twiggy1 · Post by **lord twiggy1** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:15 pm

other than English i also speak Spanish and German

Spanish: I speak really fleuantly(sp?) because i went to a spanish immersion school in elementary and continued it through 8th grade(only one class in 8th though but in 6th and 7th about half the time) and im gonna be taking it again(which really sucks because i hate learning in it) this year in 9th grade

German: almost none just started taking lessons from those cassettes and CDs you get at the library.

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:53 pm

KiwiTaker wrote:Lol my Dad remembers what a half-loaf is.

Well, here's a short story for no reason. When I was 6 or 7, or something, my Mum sent me to get some stuff from the shop for her. We'd moved to England at that time, and I was (and still am) very deaf, so I was slow to catch on up on language of any sort, never mind dialect.

She sent me to get a half-loaf - to my mind, this surely only meant what it seemed to say - half a loaf of bread. So I went round three shops looking for "half-loaves", and ended up asking an (English) shop assistant if they had a "half-loaf".

"Well," she said, very sweetly, "we have all those whole loaves."

"Naw," I said, "My mum says it's got to be a half-loaf."

Got a bollocking when I went home empty-handed. But I found out what a "half-loaf" was...

salvadevinemasse · Post by **salvadevinemasse** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:21 pm

Stopper wrote:
KiwiTaker wrote:Lol my Dad remembers what a half-loaf is.

Well, here's a short story for no reason. When I was 6 or 7, or something, my Mum sent me to get some stuff from the shop for her. We'd moved to England at that time, and I was (and still am) very deaf, so I was slow to catch on up on language of any sort, never mind dialect.

She sent me to get a half-loaf - to my mind, this surely only meant what it seemed to say - half a loaf of bread. So I went round three shops looking for "half-loaves", and ended up asking an (English) shop assistant if they had a "half-loaf".

"Well," she said, very sweetly, "we have all those whole loaves."

"Naw," I said, "My mum says it's got to be a half-loaf."

Got a bollocking when I went home empty-handed. But I found out what a "half-loaf" was...

Bollocking meaning she spanked you or gave you a hard time? What is a half loaf? Is it like a cracker?

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:01 pm

salvadevinemasse wrote:
Stopper wrote:
KiwiTaker wrote:Lol my Dad remembers what a half-loaf is.

Well, here's a short story for no reason. When I was 6 or 7, or something, my Mum sent me to get some stuff from the shop for her. We'd moved to England at that time, and I was (and still am) very deaf, so I was slow to catch on up on language of any sort, never mind dialect.

She sent me to get a half-loaf - to my mind, this surely only meant what it seemed to say - half a loaf of bread. So I went round three shops looking for "half-loaves", and ended up asking an (English) shop assistant if they had a "half-loaf".

"Well," she said, very sweetly, "we have all those whole loaves."

"Naw," I said, "My mum says it's got to be a half-loaf."

Got a bollocking when I went home empty-handed. But I found out what a "half-loaf" was...

Bollocking meaning she spanked you or gave you a hard time? What is a half loaf? Is it like a cracker?

Well, either she or my Dad give me a clout oer me heid. I'm no sayin nowt aboot the half-loaf til the New Zealander replies, and you gotta gie them the chance, what wi the time zones bein as they are!

salvadevinemasse · Post by **salvadevinemasse** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:19 pm

Stopper wrote:
salvadevinemasse wrote:
Stopper wrote:
KiwiTaker wrote:Lol my Dad remembers what a half-loaf is.

Well, here's a short story for no reason. When I was 6 or 7, or something, my Mum sent me to get some stuff from the shop for her. We'd moved to England at that time, and I was (and still am) very deaf, so I was slow to catch on up on language of any sort, never mind dialect.

She sent me to get a half-loaf - to my mind, this surely only meant what it seemed to say - half a loaf of bread. So I went round three shops looking for "half-loaves", and ended up asking an (English) shop assistant if they had a "half-loaf".

"Well," she said, very sweetly, "we have all those whole loaves."

"Naw," I said, "My mum says it's got to be a half-loaf."

Got a bollocking when I went home empty-handed. But I found out what a "half-loaf" was...

Bollocking meaning she spanked you or gave you a hard time? What is a half loaf? Is it like a cracker?

Well, either she or my Dad give me a clout oer me heid. I'm no sayin nowt aboot the half-loaf til the New Zealander replies, and you gotta gie them the chance, what wi the time zones bein as they are!

Damn Stopper, I gotta ask with the spelling tonight.. How much have you had!? lol.

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:34 pm

I've had a fair bit, but I've checked what I said, and there isn't a single spellin error there. "Clout" stands alone. "Oer" means "over". "No", as far as I put it there, means "not" (though no always). "Gie" sounds exactly like "gee" and means "give", "wi" rhymes with "wee" and means "with". G's at the end of words are omitted where they are simply not spoken, just as in ebonics.

No mistakes, there, bonny lass, trust me...

salvadevinemasse · Post by **salvadevinemasse** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:40 pm

Stopper wrote:I've had a fair bit, but I've checked what I said, and there isn't a single spellin error there. "Clout" stands alone. "Oer" means "over". "No", as far as I put it there, means "not" (though no always). "Gie" sounds exactly like "gee" and means "give", "wi" rhymes with "wee" and means "with". G's at the end of words are omitted where they are simply not spoken, just as in ebonics.

No mistakes, there, bonny lass, trust me...

*screams in her head* That hurt reading it for some reason! Maybe I shouldnt have tried contacts for the first time today! lol I'm gonna go shower and go to bed I've had a bunch of late nights due to stress and I'm really tired

0ojakeo0 · Post by **0ojakeo0** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:43 pm

Stopper wrote:I've had a fair bit, but I've checked what I said, and there isn't a single spellin error there. "Clout" stands alone. "Oer" means "over". "No", as far as I put it there, means "not" (though no always). "Gie" sounds exactly like "gee" and means "give", "wi" rhymes with "wee" and means "with". G's at the end of words are omitted where they are simply not spoken, just as in ebonics.

No mistakes, there, bonny lass, trust me...

looks gud to me

KiwiTaker · Post by **KiwiTaker** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:29 pm

As far as I can tell a half-loaf is something to do with a loaf of bread lol. I've forgetten what the definition from my Dad was. I can't ask him as hes gone to have a drink with his mates. :shock:

misterman10 · Post by **misterman10** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:26 am

I talk english fluentedly

Iliad · Post by **Iliad** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:29 am

lord twiggy1 wrote:other than English i also speak Spanish and German

Spanish: I speak really fleuantly(sp?) because i went to a spanish immersion school in elementary and continued it through 8th grade(only one class in 8th though but in 6th and 7th about half the time) and im gonna be taking it again(which really sucks because i hate learning in it) this year in 9th grade

German: almost none just started taking lessons from those cassettes and CDs you get at the library.

You sure don't speak English fluently j/k. And I doubt you know a language fluently just by learning it in school for 2 years.

OnlyAmbrose · Post by **OnlyAmbrose** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:40 am

Aside from English, I speak a fair amount of French. I'll be taking my 6th year of it this coming school year.