Languages: Which ones do you speak?
 

Okay, lets be honest here. If you know how to say "bonjour" that does not mean you speak French.

State only the ones you can fluently speak, at least to some degree...be sure to specify quantitatively how much of the language you know.

For example me:

I speak Spanish natively, I am proud to say that my Spanish is superb 100% , even better than my English.

I speak well, English, the language which personally I dislike. There is nothing fun about it.

I am slowing becoming more fluent in French, I would say I can hold a pretty decent conversation. I listen to a lot of music and watch the news a lot 80%.


The other languages that intrest me are German, because I love German culture, music, science and oddly enough Nazi military marches. I sing to songs in German, I march to marchs in German, but I cannot yet speak German. lol :mrgreen:

Note: I do not like any aspect of the Nazi's horrific ideas, but man their music is like magic, it wakes you up, fills you with the desire to work, it replenishes me with determinism!!! Most of their music is from previous eras anyways.

Arabic is so fucking beautiful, I love it because I have this thing for Palestinian girls. All I can say is that I love their curls. :wink:

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My spoken spanish is better than my english; but my grammar, spelling, vocabulary is probably worst at this point (in writing).

I took 3 semesters of german in college, but i don't feel you can quite master a language unless you're immersed in it (living in germany, austria, etc..). I like Rammstein quite a bit.

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native Portuguese
fluent English (or is that considered native too?)
fluent French (read books without dictionary - took 2 courses conducted in French)
proficient in written German (read books only with dictionary - I'm actually slowly reading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse right now - but bad at speaking)
2 years of Japanese in college, wish I took Russian instead.

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I bet finding a job in Mexico would be pretty hard, you need to catch up on your grammar or you maybe ridiculed.

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God damn! Very nice, I tried learning Portugese at some point. Then I learned French instead, it is easier. It is good you read a lot, that definately helps.

I take it you are Brazilian :p

In French I am reading "Essai philosophique sur les probabilités" By Pierre Simon Laplace, you will learn about him in Electrodinamics, famous for his works in probability, celestial mechanics, and mathematical physics . The Laplace equation makes him popular.

Div (Grad V) = 0 , where V is ofcourse a scalar function.

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Yeah, I'm Brazilian.

If you're interested in reading foreign language books, get an eReader (SONY PRS-T1 has the best dictionaries and it's only $130). It's so easy to get free out-of-copyright books (if you're interested in the classics). Unfortunately I couldn't find a copy of the book you mentioned, but since it's out of copyright, all it takes is someone to type it up and share.

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actually grammar's fine I think (may have exaggerated up there); is just the spelling at this point. Nothing reading a few book wouldn't fix. Not practicing makes you lazy and you end up using some spanglish instead of remembering words around family.


I gather fluent as having perfect dominion of the language; accents being acceptable. Native would mean you have the region's accents/slang/etc.. i gather.

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Cantonese, Mandarin, Wenzhouese, Japanese, English and taking Spanish 111 in college...


SPANISH IS HARD!!! The grammar is so confusing

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I think Spanish would be hard for someone with your background. I am glad I Spanish is my first language! I love it

It sounds so formal, direct, and elegant at the same time. Too bad people in the U.S make it sound all ghetto and shit.

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I think I'm native in English then. :???: Not sure, I came here when I was 11, but I speak it flawlessly, maybe only with a slight accent.

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Native Spanish and fluent English. My English is a bit better than my Spanish but I've been speaking Spanish a lot more lately and my grammar is excellent on both languages.

I'm also learning français and português, but I'm focusing more on Portuguese at the moment. I can pretty much read and pronounce %70 of the Portuguese language, but I have yet to learn how to speak it (português brasileiro).

If you guys are interested in learning new languages, go to livemocha.com that's where I'm learning French and Portuguese. I've actually made new friends in Rio de Janeiro, Uberlândia, São Paulo, and Brasilía. You'll learn from the courses you take, but you learn even more because you get to talk to native speakers of the language you're learning. It's totally free.

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I only know English and Spanish. I am very fluent in both languages. In fact, I speak and write better Spanish than most of the adults that come from Mexico. When I refer to a parking spot in Spanish I actually know that its "estacionamiento" and not "Parkiadero" lol I love it when I correct people in Spanish; just makes me look more educated then them haha

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Are you from Brazil?

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Yeah, and looking at your name I guess you are too.

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Claudio Torres sounds like a Spanish name to me. Then again Portuguese and Spanish names are often too similar.

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English and Portuguese. My English is better though, but that's because my reading and writing in Portuguese is frozen at a 2nd grade level.

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What is with all the Brazilian people around here!

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..I'm from Portugal.

Just kidding. I'm from Brazil.

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I'm not gonna lie......i'm from the lost city of Atlantis. Only a few of us are alive today and we pass on the secret and culture from generation to generation. We were once a sacred tribe and a lot of people think we're a myth. I speak Atlantisimis.

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Fo sho, bunch of cuñados up in here...

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fluent in korean and japanese but idk how to write well in japanese thou...

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Fluent in English and Spanish

I know some French, I can read with some sort of comprehension

I am trying to be better at the language while learning italian

I wish I could learn in a more proficient manner, but at times the stress deters me from being consistent in learning a new language :(

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Hey I tried that livemocha website and its cool and all. but it isnt free. you have to buy those stupid tokens...what a rip

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Fluent in spanish and english, currently trying to learn arabic

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Spanish first language
English, French at 100% from my elementary years :D
Yay I have a heavy accent in all 3 of them :P

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i see too many ppl claiming fluency in french....this guy's not buying it.

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i aint buying it either.......u guys should open up a french thread to prove urself...

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I want to see it too! Je veux le voir!! lol

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feel like a slacker i only speak spanish and english.