What other languages do you speak?

war_bloodline · Post by **war_bloodline** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:46 am

English, a little bit of Gaelic and an even smaller amount of German.

Ciamar a tha sibh?-Gaelic
How are you?

Daniel

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:31 am

I speak Latin (fairly good at it when I last took it but rusty). French (horrible French barely counts as being able to speak it.) and a little bit of Japanese and Spanish.

PinkyAndTheBrain · Post by **PinkyAndTheBrain** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:13 am

Swahili.

Think Lion King:

Hakuna=none or nothing

Matata=problem or trouble

Simba=lion

Rafiki, the prophetic monkey=friend

Shenzi, the leader of the hyenas=umm........... sh!t

Kweli=really, or truly...as in 'sh!t ni shenzi kweli'

KiwiTaker · Post by **KiwiTaker** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:45 am

Lol going back to a half loaf. It is a smaller loaf of bread. Was invented to allow those on low incomes being able to afford bread.

ignotus · Post by **ignotus** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:28 am

Some Slavic languages are similar. My home language is Croatian, but Bosnian and Serbian are very similar (Serbian uses cirilic, if you learned it as I, 18 years ago, when Yugoslavia was still a state then you have no problem). Slovakian, Macedonian and Czech I can fairly understand, but not speak. Besides that I can speak English and understand German and Latin. I have even learned (ancient) Greek, and studied (unsuccesfuly) Turkish and Arabic. :arrow:

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:55 am

I know a dude who knows one of the almost-gone original mexican languages.

heavycola · Post by **heavycola** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:59 am

I speak the binary language of moisture vaporators.
And baachi- it's like a second language to me.

btownmeggy · Post by **btownmeggy** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:34 am

unriggable wrote:I know a dude who knows one of the almost-gone original mexican languages.

Yeah, I'm always enthralled when I walk by someone in the grocery store and realize, "Holy moly! That guy was speaking Nahuatl!"

When I lived in the Pacific Northwest I heard more Mayan. A couple of years ago, my job involved a study of Guatemalan poultry workers in the US. Lots of schools in rural Mississippi and North Carolina now have ESL classes specifically for Mayan-speaking children, the poultry workers' kids.

firstholliday · Post by **firstholliday** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:02 am

1.Dutch Native
2. English (Fluent)
3. German (fluent)
4. Vlaams (belgium)(fluent)
5. Thai ( a bit)
6. French ( a bit)

diddle · Post by **diddle** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:07 am

i speak diddlish

rallison · Post by **rallison** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:30 pm

1 - English
2 - Spanish

I learned spanish because I lived in mexico for 2 years.... I am still pretty fluent in it, but i dont get enough practice... maybe once I move to CA :-)

Genghis Khant · Post by **Genghis Khant** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:05 pm

I speak Welsh, English & French fluently, and I can just about stumble by in German and Spanish.