How many languages do you speak?

[angeliki_sr]

You love Portuguese too?Wow wow and triple WOW!I'm obsessed with Portuguese!...but I'm more obsessed with Greek at the moment so that will be the first stop for me!

[Adrienne]

Yes, I love portuguese too hehe.. I tried to learn it by myself, bc i know spanish and italian.. but it's more difficult than i thought
hehe

[JenerationX]

I can speak English perfectly, am fluent in Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, and can speak a little Spanish, German, and French.

[Ghostphase310]

1 and only 1



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[Luvya]

first of all i'd like to say i'm amazed how many of you speak or learn german. even for me as a native speaker the grammar really sucks sometimes for those who don't understand german: how does the language sound to you? some people told me that it sounds aggressive and snatchy so i'd like to hear your opinion on that point.

so, my languages are:
German: my mother tongue as i said...learning for 20 years now and it's one of my majors at university (third semester now)
English: learned it in school for 6 years at school but i'm also watching movies, talking to you guys etc. don't have any problems expressing what i want to say.
French: after 8 years of french at school i'm now studying it at university (my other major, third semester too). i've also been to france for an exchange, an internship and to work during the semester break. next year i'm going to move to paris. i hope my french is good enough to understand all the university stuff. i mean i can handle all kinds of everyday situations but my level of speech is not really academical.
Spanish: 4 years at school, 1 year at university and 2 weeks in a tiny little language school in málaga, spain, which helped me more than the 5 years together if you want to learn a language you really have to go into the country! so, i can communicate more or less well in spanish...tend to forget all my vocabulary though. the university course is finished, so i'm glad to translate for you guys to keep at least some of it alive.
Dutch: as it isn't that much different from german i understand a lot (in reading more than in listening though). my father is fluent in dutch and he taught me to pronounce it etc. so i can read books but i don't have any active vocabulary
Italian: 3 years at school but not as a real course but a club, so we didn't really do any grammar or stuff. as it is quite similar to spanish i can understand most of it though (at least if it is written)
Latin: not a spoken language but still i've been studying it for a year now and i'm pretty good at translating (so far i encounterd my dear friends seneca, caesar and plinius the younger). don't know all the forms and stuff though, just do most of it from the context and it works fine

What I'd like to learn someday is Polish because everyone always thinks I'm Polish because of my name. My ancestors like a thousand years ago must have come from over there. So it would be cool to fool people
Further, all the romanic languages (as to speak portuguese, romanian, rhaeto-romanic) are related to my subject at university and easy to learn if you know other languages of their group.

that's pretty much it...if my dream comes true and i'll work for an international organization or anything one day i'm sure i'll see some more countries whose language i like too

[igrec]

Hey Luvya. I don't know German at all. In my classroom are some mates which their second language is German, mine is French. I met some germans and they were very kind, avoiding to speak in their mother language. But they "showed" me how German sounds, I mean spoken by a native. It's a little agressive, because of that tough sounds (ts, h...) Personally, I would like to know the language only because in Germany are a lot of universities which receive students from Romania. I must say that Germany is one of the most clean country in the world. And Germans, as people, are straight and honest.
As far as I heard, there are still differences between the E Berlin and V Berlin, right ? I saw some documentaries about this subject (I'm obssed with the 1,2 WW; and with Hitler too) and still now, are differences (not in mentality, in structure)
But you, as a german, what do you think about Hitler ?
I saw up that you would like to learn Romanian. It's a tough language, but it doesn't sound like yours :-p Our grammar is hard, but it's a latin language and it is not impossible.
Greatings.
Ps: If you need any help in learninng Romanian, I would be glad to give you a help.

[Luvya]

Hey Sosollikos

Have you ever been to Germany? Or how do you know how clean it is? It's true by the way: Germans care much about their property, house, car...in rural areas you see everyone cleaning the street and the car every saturday
I don't know if we're all straight and honest though. Especially for my region it's said that people like to talk behind other's backs.
Sad but true, there are still huge differences between the East and the West, not only in Berlin. The East is mostly poor, very little jobs there, more nazis than in the West
It's cool that you think about studying in Germany. I can only speak for my college but they care a lot about the foreign students and organize a whole bunch of things for them like trips, parties, courses etc. When will you finish school?
I hope you mean "obsessed with Hitler" like in "interesed in history"? What do you think I think about Hitler?! Of course I don't like what he did or anything. See, I'm writing in English and joined this board to help understand other cultures and get to know them myself. If I was one of the dumbfools glorifying Hitler, I would march around an beat strangers instead. ^^ Hope, I made that point clear.
The Romanian language is not as close to French as for example Spanish, is it? I had to read a text in Romanian for class and it seemed very strange to me, all that a's and u's.

Luvya

[igrec]

Originally Posted by Luvya

Hey Sosollikos

Have you ever been to Germany? Or how do you know how clean it is? It's true by the way: Germans care much about their property, house, car...in rural areas you see everyone cleaning the street and the car every saturday
I don't know if we're all straight and honest though. Especially for my region it's said that people like to talk behind other's backs.
Sad but true, there are still huge differences between the East and the West, not only in Berlin. The East is mostly poor, very little jobs there, more nazis than in the West
It's cool that you think about studying in Germany. I can only speak for my college but they care a lot about the foreign students and organize a whole bunch of things for them like trips, parties, courses etc. When will you finish school?
I hope you mean "obsessed with Hitler" like in "interesed in history"? What do you think I think about Hitler?! Of course I don't like what he did or anything. See, I'm writing in English and joined this board to help understand other cultures and get to know them myself. If I was one of the dumbfools glorifying Hitler, I would march around an beat strangers instead. ^^ Hope, I made that point clear.
The Romanian language is not as close to French as for example Spanish, is it? I had to read a text in Romanian for class and it seemed very strange to me, all that a's and u's.

Luvya

Hey Luvya.
All the people care for their teritories and lands etc. I know the Germans organize many things for the foreigners.
About Hitler... He succeded to rebuilt Germany in a few years, he helped Germany. A pity is that the this nazist doctrine was misunderstood. Anyway, the point is that Germany succeded to become a world's power, between 5th. It's amazing how germans build such surable constructions and roads. What can I say about cars ?! BMW rulles. And Opel, Volkswagen are awesome too. Well, Romania with the maresal Antonescu signed a contract and we helped the nazis to erase the ciganski (some instable people, dark skin, who had stolen all their life and they're miserable). My grandfather had fight in the ww2 and nazis were more kindly then the russians. It's good to respect the others, it's honorable for you as a human, but not all the peolpe should be respected. And Hitler had right to keep Germany away and safe of some people. The bad thing is his expansion. But I guess this is past.
Romanian lessons ?! wow, what profile are you ? We have many words from French. If you'd know my language you would see them, but it's very hard. What can I say, that are Romanians who speak our language bad. I get nervous, how can you be so ... to live in a country and to do not know her language ?
I'm finishing high school this year. My profile is Filology Clasical languages ( Ancient Greek + Latin).

Have a nice night.

[igrec]

hehe Luvya... Romanian is an open language because of her vowels. we use many times a, u, .. all I guess (haha)
If you have time, paste me the Romanian text. I'm really curious what is about

[Luvya]

Hey Sosollikos...

Be careful with your opinion on the nazis there....if you'd voice this in Germany, you'd be called a nazi right away. We're very sensitive on that point. It's the old people who always say "but Hitler built the roads" or "Hitler made the streets safe" or anything. But you have to imagine that he did all that with the purpose of war in mind. He built the roads for the tanks and the streets were "safe" because all people he didn't like were in concentration camps. I think you're talking about Sinti and Roma? I don't understand how you can say that not every person should be respected. Everyone no matter what he or she has done has the right to live and to live in dignity. Besides, it is completely unfair to single on a whole group of people if some of them did something wrong in the past. The expansion is really not the only bad thing he did. He killed millions of people in the cruelest ways. And no, here, all this is not at all past...a few weeks ago a famous TV host lost her job because she said in an interview that the way mothers were honoured in the Third Reich was good. She didn't contemplate that this was only done to keep the production of new soldiers going.
I study Romance and German languages and literature (mainly French and German). We sometimes have to read textes in other romance languages like Romanian too. Unfortunately I can't show you the text because it was in a book from the library. But I can tell you that it probably was about linguistics because the course was called "Theories and methods of romance linguistics".

Luvya

[igrec]

Originally Posted by Luvya

Hey Sosollikos...

Be careful with your opinion on the nazis there....if you'd voice this in Germany, you'd be called a nazi right away. We're very sensitive on that point. It's the old people who always say "but Hitler built the roads" or "Hitler made the streets safe" or anything. But you have to imagine that he did all that with the purpose of war in mind. He built the roads for the tanks and the streets were "safe" because all people he didn't like were in concentration camps. I think you're talking about Sinti and Roma? I don't understand how you can say that not every person should be respected. Everyone no matter what he or she has done has the right to live and to live in dignity. Besides, it is completely unfair to single on a whole group of people if some of them did something wrong in the past. The expansion is really not the only bad thing he did. He killed millions of people in the cruelest ways. And no, here, all this is not at all past...a few weeks ago a famous TV host lost her job because she said in an interview that the way mothers were honoured in the Third Reich was good. She didn't contemplate that this was only done to keep the production of new soldiers going.
I study Romance and German languages and literature (mainly French and German). We sometimes have to read textes in other romance languages like Romanian too. Unfortunately I can't show you the text because it was in a book from the library. But I can tell you that it probably was about linguistics because the course was called "Theories and methods of romance linguistics".

Luvya

You may have right in some points, I agree. But a person who betraids his country shouldn't be respected. This means to ofend a whole country. Because all that man achieved was because of the country. And to turn back and to betraid is ... I have no words to say. Are countries who keep with any price their images clear, and it's respectable this thing. How it'll be if one day one person would come and split all the countries secrets and operations ? Or to speak some bad words.
It's all about respect, because when a country respects the other one, relations are between the best.
The image of wars is still alive because may people died. We must avoid another war and atrocities. But, if the respect exists. It's impossible to respect a man if the respect isn't sent back.
Wow, I'm surprised about your course. It's very tough and hard to understand, I remember I spent at school many courses to prepare this subject.
Anyway, Germany is a wonderful country and many other countries should learn something from her History.

O seară plăcută Luvya ! (one plesant night)
Salutări . (greatings)

[Luvya]

hey sosollikos =)

i don't know if you're christian. i'm not, but jesus' idea about turning the other cheek may help me explain what i want to say: of course the basis of every relation (between people, countries or whatever) is respect. but just because someone doesn't respect you it doesn't give you the right to strike back with the same means or even worse ones. if you argue like that we're back at "an eye for an eye". do you really want that?
second point is: how do you know that what the state does is right? wasn't sophie scholl right in working against her country? she and her brother hans were sentenced to death by the nazis for distributing flyers that appealed for resistance. she acted in the true interest of her country, but the nazis of course said that what they did was the best and that she was acting against it. so you see that this for and against thing is a very subjective thing. Where is the line between critizing and offending? and isn't offending sometimes a way to critizise?

a pleasant night and inspiring dreams to you
luvya

[Merve-suriyeli-kizi]

hello all

happy to hear all that!

i speak English and Arabic since it's my native lang

i understand Turkish but i can't speak it very well..well u can say i speak it basing on my own grammars

i mean hey guys! the important thing is that Turks understand me
but after they stare a little bit and smile in my face

[Adrienne]

^^ Hahah Merve-suriyei-kizi that's exactly how i speak arabic lol..
they usually stare a lot at me and smile in my face like 'yeah, right'

[Merve-suriyeli-kizi]

yea that's what i meant Adrienne

[angeliki_sr]

I like arabic letters,they are great...But I can't understand a thing One of my best friends is an Algerian,he doesn't know arabic so good,he knows a little cause he's been living in Serbia since his birth.We talk sometimes about arabic and it seems to me that it's interesting language....

[Lady_A]

Hello everybody!
Romanian is my mother tongue
I am fluent in English
Fluent in Italian
I understand Spanish (i've learnt it on my own)
I have been studying French for 8 years, i know the business vocabulary
I am trying to learn Turkish but i find it very hard since it doesn't follow any rules i am used to...maybe somebody cand tell me some tips
As far as Latin is concerned, in my country it is compulsory during midschool and hifgschool, i understand it very well, but i don't like it.

[zqzq]

I have been searching for the information about foreign language learning and these are the main sites I have found related to this, www.abroadlanguages.com, www.esl.com and study languages . But I also have no idea about how to start the learning. I wonder if you could give me some other suggestion or recommendation. Any comments would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

[angeliki_sr]

Which language you wanna learn?

[lolita]

Hi

Arabic is my mother tongue << glad 2 teach who wants 2 learn >>
i have been studying E for 6 years
i took a course in French and i love it ,,
wanna learn italiano & spanish

[Spring]

oh you people make me depressed!!! I soooo wish I knew Dutch, French, Spanish... how the hell did you learn Spanish by yourself Adrienne ?
but Esbes made me laugh lol
anyways... I speak Serbian (understand Croatian, Bosnian, most of Macedonian, Slovenian, a little bit of Bulgarian )
I also speak English (obviously) and I learned Latin and German 4 years at school but managed not to learn anything.. I was spaced out in high school and the teachers weren't really productive ..maybe a few sentences or so
pfff

[Adrienne]

lol Spring i opened the spanish grammar and studied by myself lol.. Anywya, I have spanish at my uni now, so it's getting better and better