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

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#21 Post by kedaha »

I'm UK English through and through and speak standard English. I also speak Spanish having lived in Spain for many years and studied the language at university; I'm fully bilingual.
I studied French at school and always regret not continuing with it.
I'm very interested in languages and don't discount the idea of either taking up French again or learning another language, which could be a minority language like Welsh or Scots Gaelic.
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#22 Post by Segfault »

kedaha wrote:I studied French at school and always regret not continuing with it.
I hated my german teacher because she demanded too much from me (or so i thought). Man, was I thankful when I happened to be in Paris and damn waiter ignored us until I started speaking in german. Then once in Portugal I got lost big time, gas was real low already (GPS wasn't invented yet), but there was someone who was able to guide me - in german. Or once in Austria I was able to socialize in a beercellar and have great time. Thanks go to my German teacher.
BTW, my favorite country is Greece. Or at least it was until they had all those fires and economic collapse. The water is still beautiful blue there, not muddy as at Costa de Sol. My wife puts something into toilet to make the water blue, I wonder if they use the same stuff ...

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#23 Post by marcetm »

I'm from Spain, I speak spanish and I try to do the same in English.

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#24 Post by None1975 »

I am from Lithuania. I speak Lithuanian, Russian and a bit in English.
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#26 Post by Bloom »

I am Flemish and live in Belgium. My arterial language is Flemish or Dutch (the difference being something like the difference between British and Australian English). I can speak English and German fluently and French reasonably well.

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#27 Post by debiman »

Bloom wrote:My arterial language is Flemish or Dutch (the difference being something like the difference between British and Australian English).
Do you mean like that's a large or small difference?

Anyhow, I dither equally between German, English and Finnish.
English mostly written, or passive (entertainment, culture).
"Arterial" is German.
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#28 Post by Jimmyfd »

I'm from Denmark and I speak danish and English and a bit German.
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#29 Post by Bloom »

debiman wrote:
Bloom wrote:My arterial language is Flemish or Dutch (the difference being something like the difference between British and Australian English).
Do you mean like that's a large or small difference?
The difference is quite small. There is a joint Flemish-Dutch language commission that ensures that we keep speaking and writing the same language, except for a few oddities here and there.

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#30 Post by debiman »

Bloom wrote:The difference is quite small. There is a joint Flemish-Dutch language commission that ensures that we keep speaking and writing the same language, except for a few oddities here and there.
similarities and differences between languages are interesting, and often funny, when only particular words differ in meaning while the rest is understandable.
there's no definite difference between dialect and language.

interesting to me:
  • Luxembourgish sounds like a 50/50 mix of german and french
  • Slovenian sounds like a 50/50 mix of italian and russian (or rather pan-slavic, never say "russian" to someone from the former occupied countries)
  • Estonian sounds almost like finnish, but much more melodic
etc.

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#31 Post 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?
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#33 Post 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!
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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.

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#35 Post 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.
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#36 Post 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.

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#37 Post by sjukfan »

Sweden and Swedish, also speaks English fairly well. Understand like 50% Norwegian and 50% written Danish.
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#38 Post by debiman »

sjukfan wrote:50% written Danish.
:lol:

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#39 Post 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

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#40 Post 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 :-(

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