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    Im fairly good at English French is not bad after 20yrs, Breton, the important words the rest is all Double Dutch

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    English was my only langauge ,but now after reading the documentation covering the new government legislation effecting my work I am now fluent in utter B******s .

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    English....
    Read - fluent
    Write - fluent
    Speak - fluent
    understand - fluent

    FRENCH
    Read - very little
    Write - none
    Speak - some
    Understand - some

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    Late to the party,

    English....
    Read - fluent
    Write - fluent
    Speak - fluent
    understand - fluent

    DUTCH
    Read - enough
    Write - enough (some grammar errors etc.)
    Speak - good
    Understand - good

    @gnaeusmorosus
    And now the "Dead Languages" -- learned for that long-ago Archaeology/Ancient History degree.

    Latin
    Read-Proficient
    Write-No. Just...no.
    Speak-No. Just...no.
    Understand-No. Just...no.

    Ancient Greek
    Read-Proficient
    Write-No. Just...no.
    Speak-No. Just...no.
    Understand-No. Just...no.
    Was this in case you dug someone up who could still speak?

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    Italian - Native

    English
    Spoken - fluent
    Read - fluent
    Written - good

    French
    Spoken - almost fluent
    Read - good
    Written - not so bad

    German
    Spoken - a very little
    Read - I can read it, but I can't almost understand what I'm reading
    Written - OMG

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    English. Native
    Italian. Read, Write not as well, understand pretty well, but out of practice
    Spanish. Not quite as well as Italian.

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    Italian. Read, Write not as well, understand pretty well, but out of practice
    If you you want to speak italian just message me: you'll practice your italian, I will answer in english

    Marco

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    Japanese
    Read - a little (can read a menu but not a newspaper or novel) maybe around 400 characters*
    Write - a little (can write a postcard or simple letter but not much more than that)
    Speak - good conversational
    Understand - good conversational

    * sounds a lot, but it isn't. Maybe around 4th grader level.

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    Portuguese - native

    English
    Read - fluent
    Write - Almost good
    Speak - Good
    Understand - good

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    German
    Read - some
    Write - some
    Speak - some
    Understand - a little

    Italian
    Read - a little
    Write - a little
    Speak - a little
    Understand - a little

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    dwei bu qi, wo de zhong wen bu hao.
    dwei bu qi, dwei bu qi. Wo bu zhr dao ni shuo shen mo.
    mei gwan xi, wo de zhong wen xing fu le.
    mei gwan xi, mei gwan xi. Wo hai yao gen ni dang peng you.

    (chinese (taiwanese dialect). enough to understand most of that.)

    Other than that, I know stratsvutei (hello in russian) for the fun of it. That's all.

    Oh, and english

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    Spanish, French, Catalan: native
    English (UK): fluent
    German, Dutch: basic, simple texts, understands if spoken slowly
    Arabic: litteral, a little reading, writing, no fluent speaking
    Japanese: in progress ( really? )
    Thai: nip noi...

    Al

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    English:
    Read - no problems
    Write - no problems
    Speak - no problems
    Understand - no problems

    Filipino:
    Read - native
    Write - native
    Speak - native
    Understand - native

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    Hello all! A decent line-up of multi-lingualism here.

    I am born and raised anglophone, but after 18 months living in France and Belgium, I have a decent handle on French:
    Spoken - Assez bien pour converser.
    Read - Assez bien pour comprendre.
    Written - Not as well.
    Understand - depends on the accent/dialect of the speaker!

    I also took classes in American Sign Language from a friend (who was deaf). But he moved south and I haven't seen him in a while, meaning my ASL vocab is fading away...

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    hi, everyone, i don't know if this post are still important, but i write in it anyway

    English:
    Read - no problems
    Write - no problems
    Speak - no problems
    Understand - no problems

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    Quote Originally Posted by mgp2148 View Post
    hi, everyone, i don't know if this post are still important, but i write in it anyway

    English:
    Read - no problems
    Write - no problems
    Speak - no problems
    Understand - no problems
    And because you are from Argentina, it can be assumed that you are fluent in Spanish.
    Any other languages ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zakopious View Post
    And because you are from Argentina, it can be assumed that you are fluent in Spanish.
    Any other languages ?
    jajaja, oh my god!
    forgive my mistake.

    yes, i'm fluent in spanish ....

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    German--fluent

    English--enough to get by

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    Dutch:
    Read: a few words
    Write: not at all
    Speak: Somewhat, have to think before I speak in Dutch (Come to think of it, I have to do the same in English)
    Understand: Pretty good, so long that it isn't spoken fast.

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    English
    Read - fluent
    Write - fluent(or so I'd like to think, after being abroad for 17 years it went downhill)
    Speak - fluent
    Understand - fluent

    Dutch
    Read - fluent
    Write - little bumpy but well enough
    Speak - almost fluent, got the right accent but my vocabulary isn't as big as I'd like to. Hardly noticeable though.
    Understand - fluent except for some archaic words and weird sayings
    German
    Read - fluent
    Write - eh...not so good, horrible grammar mistakes that I, strangely enough, do not make verbally.
    Speak - well enough
    Understand - fluent

    Other languages that I have learned(but have eroded from my brain over the years); Hebrew, Aramaic, Russian, Italian, Sanskrit. All in order of how good I am at them with Sanskrit being awful. I only know the alphabet!

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    French native

    English fluent read/write/speak. From time to time baffled by some accents...

    German Even though I had 8 years of German language courses during junior high and high school, my vocabulary and grammar are very poor... Can read some, could probably write a little, can still speak enough to get by, and understand fine though.

    Italian Read well if I can take my time
    Speak a little
    Understand if not too fast
    I love the language though, beautiful rhythm.

    Can curse a blue streak in both Polish and Russian.

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    English: Native
    French: Pretty good once upon a time
    Japanese: Very good.

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    English: Native
    French: Pretty good once upon a time
    Japanese: Very good.

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    I've been studying Spanish for a couple years but am by no means fluent yet.

    Read: Fair
    Write: Fair
    Speak: Some
    Understand: Some

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    Dutch: native ...
    English: speak/read/write/understand --- fluent
    German: speak/read/understand --- fluent, write --- quite good
    French: speak/read/understand --- reasonably, write --- not sure (never do it ...)

    Cheers,
    Aardvark1430

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    to quote a line from one of my all time favorite movies (the 5th element) "...look lady, i only speak 2 languages....english, and bad english."

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    "The Fifth Element" is one of my all-time faves, too, Phillip!

    English - native (heck, I even TEACH the subject to high school kids!! - and for many of them, it's a foreign language!)
    German - fluent in speak/read/write/understand
    Italian/Russian/French/Spanish - as Sir Andrew Aguecheek might say, "Nay, let me alone for swearing!" What well-rounded education doesn't teach one the necessities?!

    All the best,
    Matt Materne

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    Currently i'm learning Polish since September.

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    Not since September 1st?

    (Sorry, I just had to )

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    Nooo Actually i think i started near the end of August

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    Please break it down to Read, Write, Speak and Understand.

    Summarised: Llanfairpwllgwyngylliogogerichwyryndrobwlllantisyliogogogoch if anybody was wondering.

    Means "St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the fierce whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave" ...

    English, German and French if anybody's not too busy writing the above down!
    Last edited by Tonx; 04-20-2015 at 22:23. Reason: Includes translation into English

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    English English - Native

    US English
    Read, Write & Speak - Fluent
    Understand - Enough to get by in the Midwest and Texas

    German
    Read & Understand - Enough to do my job
    Speak & Write - just a few words

    French .....
    I failed French at age 16 and never really tried again

    Italian
    Speak & Understand - Enough to have a good time on holiday
    Read & Write - a few words

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    Sorry Barnaby, but the correct spelling is :- llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Spot on with the translation, though....
    John.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bumblie3 View Post
    llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
    John,

    Copy That - thank you for correcting my slight 'Sp!' there

    It was my Uncle who flew HP Halifaxes with 4 Group Bomber Command during WW2 who was actually from there in real life. Extremely proud of being Welsh until the day he died aged 91 in 2004. RIP Uncle Irwin.

    I suppose that to my list I could also add 'International Flying Language' (Official) if I wanted to be pernickety ... But having mentioned Uncle Irwin and bearing in mind what he inspired me to do in life I think I am best not being. I mean ... With a Logbook full of BAe 146s, Boeing MD-11Fs and Airbus A330s could I do what my Uncle did out of Elvington with 4 Group Bomber Command? No. Lest We Forget ...
    Last edited by Tonx; 04-21-2015 at 03:06. Reason: MD-11F Typo!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aussietonka View Post
    John,

    Copy That - thank you for correcting my slight 'Sp!' there

    It was my Uncle who flew HP Halifaxes with 4 Group Bomber Command during WW2 who was actually from there in real life. Extremely proud of being Welsh until the day he died aged 91 in 2004. RIP Uncle Irwin.

    I suppose that to my list I could also add 'International Flying Language' (Official) if I wanted to be pernickety ... But having mentioned Uncle Irwin and bearing in mind what he inspired me to do in life I think I am best not being. I mean ... With a Logbook full of BAe 146s, Boeing MD-11Fs and Airbus A330s could I do what my Uncle did out of Elvington with 4 Group Bomber Command? No. Lest We Forget ...
    Hi Barnaby,
    Just couldn't resist being picky.
    I think about the Bomber Boys, like your uncle Irwin, and the Brylcream Boys (fighter pilots), and I can't imagine doing what they did, day after day, against all the normal weather hazards (without modern navigational and safety aids) and hostile defences and fighters. I like to think I would have, like thousands of others, risen to the occasion, but thank God, I never had to find out.
    Hats off to every one of them.
    RIP your uncle Irwin.
    John

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    French
    read - fluent
    spoken - fluent
    written - almost fluent

    English
    read - fluent
    spoken - fluent
    written - fluent

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    English- native

    Italian:
    Read - some
    Write - some
    Speak - some
    Understand - some

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    Yo - Dutch: spoken - conversational(ish); listening ok(ish); written very poor. But wife is Dutch so I have a translator on hand : ) Anyway, every Dutch person I ever met spoke English as well as me!
    French: Once I'm there for a few days - spoken - conversational - bad but get by; listening ok (ish); written poor.
    English - Yep : )

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeemagnus View Post
    Yo - Dutch: spoken - conversational(ish); listening ok(ish); written very poor. But wife is Dutch so I have a translator on hand : ) Anyway, every Dutch person I ever met spoke English as well as me!
    French: Once I'm there for a few days - spoken - conversational - bad but get by; listening ok (ish); written poor.
    English - Yep : )
    Ah bet you speak Devonian as well living in Newton Abbot. My wife is a Plymouth maid and many a happy hour spent in the olde Cider House in NA opposite the hospital with the kids when they were younger, that and the dreaded Trago Mills


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    English
    Read - Perfectly
    Write - Perfectly
    speak - Perfectly
    understand - Perfectly

    DEUTSCH
    Lesen - ein bisschen
    Schreibe - Gut
    Sprechen - Nicht sehr gut
    Verstehen - ein bisschen

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    dutch: native
    english: fluent
    cryptography: qsfuuz hppe
    ASM: JE and JNE
    Binary: 0
    1337speak: 5050
    Memetic: OVER 9000!!!
    D&D: STR 12 CON: 13 DEX 9 INT 15 WIS 17 CHA 12
    bull****: expert

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    English but have now lost the broad cockney accent I started with.

    French - Can get by verbally, can read it quite well, just can't understand the spoken language that well.

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    Oscar Wilde said that the Americans and British were two peoples divided by a common language...while that is unarguably true, I can get along fairly well in British English...however American English is often challenging depending on where you are. Having grown up in the New York/North Jersey area (correctly pronounced "New Yawk/Nort Joisey) every one I knew sounded like Vinnie in the film "My Cousin Vinnie" -- imagine my surprise when I moved to Pittsburgh and discovered they sell a book at the airport called "Pittsburghese" explaining the dialect and idioms of that area of the U.S. My first days there were a constant search for simultaneous translation.... for example: "Yunz gawn dontawn? Nuh-uh, gawn to red up my cupboard"...here is an instructive video on how to speak Pittsburghese (enjoy!):
    https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/s...5&action=click

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    I was very lucky in the municipal school system I attended -- all university bound students were required to take the following: 7th grade: 1/2 year German, 1/2 year Latin. 8th grade: 1/2 year French, 1/2 year Spanish. Grades 9-12 you could take what you wanted so I took 2 more years of Spanish and 1 more year of German. At university I took an additional 2 years of Spanish (I thought reading Cervantes in Spanish one of the most satisfying things I did in school). Many years later I attended a conference in Madrid and to my surprise the taxi driver understood my requests and simple attempts to converse (or he was too polite to indicate otherwise...)

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    Barely functional in one... English. Used to speak Californian...

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    Quote Originally Posted by fast.git View Post
    Barely functional in one... English. Used to speak Californian...
    Gnarly Dude....totally tubular!

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    English: American version with airplanes, drugstores, and rutabagas
    American Sign Language: Learned from youth not in the classroom so only good with native signers
    Restaurant Spanish: Tres tacos de lengua por favor

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tokhuah View Post
    Restaurant Spanish: Tres tacos de lengua por favor
    By that standard... I speak German, as well: Ein großes Bier, bitte!

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    It is all about the beer and tacos!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tokhuah View Post
    It is all about the beer and tacos!
    Facts. I do like me a good taco. Tough to find in my part of the world... but worth it all the more for the successful completion of the search.

    Back on topic, though... it's a shame so many Americans (myself included) are effectively mono-lingual. Even as an educator (and somewhat culpable?) I blame our public schools for an opportunity missed (oftentimes due to a lack of funding, to be fair). Tonight isn't the first time I wish my mother had taught me French as well as English...

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