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Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-09-02 08:39
by Hallvor
Norwegian (of course), English, German and a *little* Italian.
debiman wrote: [*]Estonian sounds almost like finnish, but much more melodic[/list]etc.
Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-09-02 08:47
by arochester
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Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-09-02 21:23
by eor2004
I'm from Puerto Rico, I speak spanish 100%, english 80%, japanese 1 or 2%, still trying to learn some japanese and in the future I want to learn russian too!

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-09-03 17:24
by debiman
Hallvor wrote:Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?
yes.
it does sound a little funny; quite comparable to how swedish sounds to norwegians and vice versa, i guess.

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-09-04 12:40
by None1975
Hallvor wrote:Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?
Finnish and Estonian are not mutually intelligible. They belong to different sub-branches of Finnic languages.

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-09-04 18:44
by debiman
None1975 wrote:Finnish and Estonian are not mutually intelligible. They belong to different sub-branches of Finnic languages.
maybe my statement was a little broad; of course those are two distinct and different languages, but an Estonian and a Finn can communicate fairly well, if they want to, both speaking their own language.
a person fluent in finnish can understand most of what's going on when visiting Estonia (*). compared to someone who doesn't know either finnish or estonian.
at least that's my experience.

(*) they are, however, advised not to just start speaking finnish to people; it's equivalent to english tourists only speaking english when visiting spain.

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-09-06 14:41
by sjukfan
Sweden and Swedish, also speaks English fairly well. Understand like 50% Norwegian and 50% written Danish.

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-09-06 15:05
by debiman
sjukfan wrote:50% written Danish.
:lol:

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-10-23 09:35
by Liamza2314
I'm from cape town, which is in south africa, actually right at the bottom of sa
Most people here speak Afrikaans or Xhosa, though I never learned afrikaans because I'm crap with languages
It's super hot here at the moment

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-10-26 03:49
by debiman
^ well you're not crap with English!

anyhow, does that mean your own laguage is Xhosa? cool...

also, i'm jelly for the weather there.
i always prefered hot to cold (maybe because i never get enough of it, except in sauna).
here, it's like this :-(

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-10-29 15:43
by frank38
I'm from Italy. I speak fully Italian. I studied English and French at school, but I'm very poor in these languages.

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-10-29 18:13
by Targenor
Born in Sweden, so speaks Swedish and English.

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-11-01 18:33
by Roel63
The Netherlands, born and raised and still living there.

Next to Dutch I speak English, German, French.

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2018-11-10 16:38
by Starborn
Roel63 wrote:The Netherlands, born and raised and still living there.

Next to Dutch I speak English, German, French.
Hey, look, a neighbour from the north. :)

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2019-02-13 06:41
by llivv
I'm currently in N America. I look for commonalities in all languages, especially if words, phrases, construction or sounds have common ancestors or roots.
Eu estou atualmente na América do Norte. Eu procuro semelhanças em todas as línguas, especialmente se palavras, frases, construções ou sons tiverem ancestrais ou raízes comuns. sintaxe, semântica e etimologia

I'm sad that I cannot make it to Debconf this summer in Curitiba. I'm sure it will be a great event for those who are interested in contributing
to the Debain Community.
Estou triste por não poder ir para a Debconf neste verão em Curitiba. Tenho certeza que será um grande evento para quem estiver interessado em contribuir para o Debain Comunidade.

parlez-vous anglais mon natif

voce fala ingles meu nativo

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Posted: 2019-03-05 13:14
by petr
Czech Republic so Czech language.

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