What languages do you know and want to learn?

Eugene Blackgaard · Post by **Eugene Blackgaard** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:45 pm

I know English, and some extent of Engrish.

I'd also like to learn Yiddish, and I'm currently studying french.
Others on my list are Austrian, Irish, and Socttish.

Fenix · Post by **Fenix** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:34 pm

I know:
Pascal
Java
C (kinda)
C ++ (i think i do at least)
English

Languages that I want to know include:
Fortran
Chineese
Prologic
German
Hazkell
SML
Russian

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:03 am

I speak English (duh!) and am halfway competent at reading Spanish. I don't usually attempt to speak it. So that's a language that I want to finish learning.
I don't think Pig Latin counts as a language....
It would be handy to know all languages but the one that would currently be most useful to me is Korean.

poWerbOy · Post by **poWerbOy** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:14 am

I absolutely love spanish!!! I have been learning it for several years and want to be somewhat fluent someday. I think it would also be neat to learn some CHINESE becaus i have some chinese friends and it would be a challenge.

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:16 am

For those who'd want to learn Chinese (Fenix and pOwerbOy), which dialect which you learn? Mandarin? Cantonese? Or some obscure village dialect?

AIOfan11 · Post by **AIOfan11** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:55 am

I don't want to learn Chinese, but I didn't even know there was different types of Chinese. They say Chinese is the hardest language to learn, then comes English!

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:08 am

What makes Chinese so difficult to learn is that they don't have an alphabet. Thus, its writing is not related to phonetics. Then you have the different tones. I could be saying something with the inproper tone . . . and people will completely misinterpret what I'm trying to say.

Elf of Rivendell · Post by **Elf of Rivendell** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:11 am

Yeah, the same goes with Japanese. It's just one word, but depending on what "syllable" you stress, you could either be joking, being friendly, sound surprised, or completely offend someone.

Flyah · Post by **Flyah** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:14 am

Pig Latin

ode ouye etge hatwe I'me ayingse?

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:46 am

Flyah wrote:Pig Latin

ode ouye etge hatwe I'me ayingse?

Excellent, Flyah.

esye Ie ode, nie actfe!

Elf wrote:Yeah, the same goes with Japanese. It's just one word, but depending on what "syllable" you stress, you could either be joking, being friendly, sound surprised, or completely offend someone.

Gotta be real careful how you go about speaking . . . I guess it's no less different than if I were to say "what a wonderful day" with a cheerful or sarcastic attitidue. But when learning Chinese or Japense, one needs to be concerned with the stresses on every word.

Andrea Meltsner · Post by **Andrea Meltsner** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:53 am

Trent DeWhite wrote:What makes Chinese so difficult to learn is that they don't have an alphabet. Thus, its writing is not related to phonetics. Then you have the different tones. I could be saying something with the inproper tone . . . and people will completely misinterpret what I'm trying to say.

I think this is right....anyway they speak on main language everyone can understand ( Manderanin) and eveyone has their own little dielect. like People in Hong Kong do not talk like people in Shanghi and so on...kinda like people saying howdy as aposed to hello or how do you do...

Sonuna · Post by **Sonuna** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:03 am

I can speak reasonably fluent Chinese (Mandarin, w/Beijing accent... and a small southerner accent too... o_o), English, HTML and Inform (...Text adventure programming language.)
I can speak small bits of Java, CSS, Javascript, and Japanese... though it's probably classified as fangirlian.
And I wish to learn Java, Japanese, Quenya and Sindarin.

Manda · Post by **Manda** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:05 am

AndreaMeltsner wrote:
Trent DeWhite wrote:What makes Chinese so difficult to learn is that they don't have an alphabet. Thus, its writing is not related to phonetics. Then you have the different tones. I could be saying something with the inproper tone . . . and people will completely misinterpret what I'm trying to say.

I think this is right....anyway they speak on main language everyone can understand ( Manderanin) and eveyone has their own little dielect. like People in Hong Kong do not talk like people in Shanghi and so on...kinda like people saying howdy as aposed to hello or how do you do...

Right.

Evil Chick · Post by **Evil Chick** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:50 pm

I speak both English and German fluently. I had 4 years of Latin, but I don't speak it.

I know a little bit of Russian, since we have a lot of Russian-German friends. And I would love to learn Italian! I have a good friend who is Italian, and it sounds so cool! I do NOT want to learn Spanish!

Padme Solo · Post by **Padme Solo** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:52 pm

I know:

English
Latin
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I'm learning:
Spanish
German
Elvish
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I would like to learn:
Arabic

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:10 pm

Good thing several of you are learning Elvish. That way you'll have someone to talk to.

Me · Post by Me » Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:52 pm

Sonuna Hydris wrote:I can speak reasonably fluent Chinese (Mandarin, w/Beijing accent... and a small southerner accent too... o_o), English, HTML and Inform (...Text adventure programming language.)
I can speak small bits of Java, CSS, Javascript, and Japanese... though it's probably classified as fangirlian.
And I wish to learn Java, Japanese, Quenya and Sindarin.

lol. fangirlian.

Fenix, your post made my day. I speak GW BASIC.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:16 pm

Elf of Rivendell wrote:Yeah, the same goes with Japanese. It's just one word, but depending on what "syllable" you stress, you could either be joking, being friendly, sound surprised, or completely offend someone.

Not to mention they have three alphabets.

-Jonathan

Jessicado · Post by **Jessicado** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:08 am

English
Used to know Spanish, but have forgotten most of it.
Pig-Latin

Want to re-learn Spanish
Sign language
Gaelic

JesusFreak777 · Post by **JesusFreak777** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:30 pm

Speak English
some German
a few spanish phrases

want to learn
more german
gaelic