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Post by Marina on Jun 1, 2011 12:57:01 GMT -5
Anyone else here speak any other language fluently other than English?
I myself was born in a different country and didn't speak English fluently until I was about thirteen. My primary language is Russian.
I fell in love with the language. I practically breathed books, which is why I learned the language so fast. It is also why I became an English major and will now be in a Publishing program in Emerson College.
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Post by Olive on Jun 1, 2011 12:58:55 GMT -5
I don't think I'd call myself bilingual, or fluent really... but I am majoring in German (as well) and have been studying it for... well, too many years to not yet be comfortable calling myself "fluent."
I've always been slightly fascinated by Russian, and have wanted to learn it for a few years.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 1, 2011 13:41:51 GMT -5
I have studied French, Spanish, and Latin (in that order; two years of each). I'm not fluent, but I've studied them and despite not having studied French in about...seven years?, I can still read it and write a bit. Spanish I'm more comfortable with and don't even get me started about how much I hate Latin. I'll be studying Italian (<3!!!!!!!) come the fall.
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Post by Marina on Jun 1, 2011 13:53:05 GMT -5
Ha-ha. Well, if we're going to mention languages we know, but not fluently. I guess I know a little French. I love knowing even a little bit of a different language for when an author uses a different language in a book. Jane Eyre there is some French, Tolstoy uses it, and even Dan Brown. I love being able to know what they're saying without consulting a dictionary!
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Post by mapachita on Jun 1, 2011 14:37:17 GMT -5
My first language is Spanish, and I've been studying English since I was 6 years old.
I've studied japanese (one year at university before I changed my major), portuguese (I can read it and understand almost everything.... but I'm not confident enough to speak it!), and italian (same). I'm trying to teach myself quenya and old english, but I haven't been successful yet, haha.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 1, 2011 15:43:30 GMT -5
Quenya? What is that? I've never even heard of it....
I love languages. Absolutely, positively adore them. But I still can't stand Latin. >>
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Post by mapachita on Jun 1, 2011 19:59:45 GMT -5
Quenya is the language spoken by the high elves of the Middle Earth. It was created by Tolkien  |
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alyoshka
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Post by alyoshka on Jun 1, 2011 20:41:07 GMT -5
I speak Chinese  |
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Post by cyanea on Jun 1, 2011 22:54:17 GMT -5
I took a year of Chinese. The only thing I can remember from it is how to say hello, "I am a student", and to know that every time I order General Ts'ao's chicken from the takeaway across the street I know I'm saying it wrong but it's a hard habit to break.  |
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Post by andy on Jun 2, 2011 1:09:42 GMT -5
I'm bilingual too. I grew up in Romania, but now I live in Scotland so I speak both Romanian and English (hopefully at some point I'll manage to learn Scots too). I'm also somewhat fluent in French (I can read modern texts and understand conversation if the person doesn't talk too quickly) and I took German and Latin.
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rayyychul
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Post by rayyychul on Jun 2, 2011 1:14:19 GMT -5
English is my primary language and the language that is spoken in my home, but I learned French alongside it!
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 2, 2011 1:59:48 GMT -5
English is my primary language and the language that is spoken in my home, but I learned French alongside it! That's because you're Canadian. |
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Post by Katherine on Jun 4, 2011 12:57:32 GMT -5
I speak English (obviously), and a bit of conversational French, from school. Yes, I am Canadian |
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Post by Josefine on Jun 4, 2011 17:12:54 GMT -5
My native language is German, so I'm obviously fluent in that as well as in English ^^ Additionally I've learned Latin (and forgot most of it), Italian and French at school, but I'm far from fluent in either of them... I definitely need to work on French because I chose it as second foreign language for my CompLit major *cough* and it would be a shame to just let the little Italian that I do know slip away like that. Keeping up with languages is just so difficult if you don't have them in class or get forced to learn your grammar/vocabulary...
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Post by pjthefey on Jun 6, 2011 8:45:46 GMT -5
Fluently?
None.. Enough to have basic conversations and navigate a shopping mall?
Mandarin
Korean
... maybe French and Japanese if given enough time to remember everything I have forgotten.
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