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#79218 - 04/21/05 10:15 PM Multi-lingual?
Student Offline
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Registered: 03/09/04
Posts: 14
Loc: USA
How many languages (and dialects) can you speak? I thought about this while thinking of Pope John Paul II...I believe he's fluent in 8 languages.

Here are mine:
Pangasinan
Tagalog
English
Spanish

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#79219 - 04/21/05 10:44 PM Re: Multi-lingual?
Pia Offline
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Registered: 04/03/05
Posts: 134
Loc: Finland
Finnish
Swedish
English
Spanish
German

..not fluent in Spanish and German yet, though.

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#79220 - 04/21/05 11:15 PM Re: Multi-lingual?
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Registered: 10/17/04
Posts: 553
Loc: Desert of Arizona
I speak fairly good english, and enough spanish to get something to eat, something to drink and get my face slapped, or sometimes get lucky. laugh laugh
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#79221 - 04/22/05 03:21 AM Re: Multi-lingual?
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Registered: 12/01/01
Posts: 181
Loc: Cambridge UK
I speak English, French and Spanish. Plus Scottish, after a few pints anyway!

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#79222 - 04/22/05 06:00 AM Re: Multi-lingual?
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Registered: 10/30/04
Posts: 291
Loc: Madrid
english, Spanish, French and a bit of German.
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#79223 - 04/22/05 07:57 AM Re: Multi-lingual?
The_Keeper_at_Home Offline
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Registered: 03/16/04
Posts: 64
Loc: Madrid
>>>I believe he's fluent in 8 languages.
rolleyes
Not wanting to be picky but shouldn't this be past tense. wink

Any mine are English, Spanish (a bit), French (a bit less), finnish (Virtually none), bulls#*t (Fluent) laugh
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#79224 - 04/22/05 08:00 AM Re: Multi-lingual?
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Registered: 06/06/00
Posts: 798
Loc: Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, Eng...
It's interesting to see who can speak what cool

You know there was some research done recently in the UK which showed that a bi/multilingual prowess was found to be the most attractive asset a man can have (please forgive my referencing capabilities, I've no idea where I originally heard this). Of course, I'm sure it's the same for women.

I can do high school French, but I am ashamed to say that although I have the ability to guesstimate quite a bit of written and spoken Spanish, I am only fluent in grammatically incorrect (Cumbrian/Yorkshire) English - oh and the international language of the sheep(s) of course ... baaaaa rolleyes

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#79225 - 04/22/05 08:28 AM Re: Multi-lingual?
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Registered: 07/07/00
Posts: 1437
Loc: Charlotte, NC. U.S.A.
Typical Us education I'm ashamed to say -
English; school French - meaning I can read and write far better than speak; Spanish - the speaking ability comes only when I've been lucky enough to be immersed in the language - reading just doesn't cut it - and, when I've had a few glasses a wine, a smattering of Hawaiian. :o
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#79226 - 04/22/05 09:00 AM Re: Multi-lingual?
Jerezano Offline
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Registered: 10/12/04
Posts: 109
Loc: Fez/Jerez
English, Spanish, French, Italian and Darija (the Moroccan dialect of Arabic)
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#79227 - 04/22/05 09:03 AM Re: Multi-lingual?
PrincesitaDeVA Offline
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Registered: 10/09/04
Posts: 22
Loc: Virginia, USA
I actually didn't learn a second language in school. So that makes US education look worse. lol I am making it my choice to try to become fluent in Spanish. So im fluent in English and I know enough Spanish to get by! lol

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