How many foreign languages do you know?

[_Ace]

Still hasn't answered me, sorry...

Anyway, I speak portuguese as native, then I've got english, spanish, french and a bit of italian.

If you know Spanish then I know Portuguese, I just have to add a lots of o's everywhere and turn z's into s's (and ñ into nh ).

Anyway, I know English, a little bit of French and enough German to get killed.

 

[TrongaMonga]

If you know Spanish then I know Portuguese, I just have to add a lots of o's everywhere and turn z's into s's (and ñ into nh ).

Anyway, I know English, a little bit of French and enough German to get killed.

Any portuguese knows spanish, the opposite does not apply. You can't make our sounds.

 

[CerebralChain]

Besides from Norwegian, Swedish and maybe Danish (if I really, really concentrate and listen, I might understand what they say); German and English.

 

[_Ace]

Any portuguese knows spanish, the opposite does not apply. You can't make our sounds.

Still, Portuguese is really close to Galician, and I can understand Galician because I live next to them soooo...

 

[TrongaMonga]

Galicians are actually the only spanish people we can speak portuguese with. The rest (and those madrilens abuse) really can't hear a word of portuguese, or they'll quicly say 'No t'entiendo'.

For some reason Galicia always wanted to be portuguese.

 

[_CM]

luxembourgish as my native language

then german, french and english fluently...

 

[Galatia]

In their language, perhaps. In english, it's hebrew.

Hebrew and Yiddish are two totally different languages.

Btw, besides my native greek, I speak english and french and I have studied german and italian.

 

[TrongaMonga]

Never heard of Yiddish, then. Is it founded in Aramaic too?

 

[Jason]

Yiddish is a slang language for Jews. It's basically like saying black people speak Ebonics.

 

[_Ace]

Galicia never wanted to be part of Portugal, just a part of their political history was influenced by independentism, which is not noob-Portugal-anexionism

 

[Pale_Horse]

Engish, Spanglish, Ebonic(ese), some chinese, (cantonese) and can curse fluently in spanish.

 

[Magikarp]

Just English. I'm thinking of picking up a language course next year, but I'm not sure what yet.

I think you would be able to handle Chinese. I don't think most colleges offer it, but it's probably the most important foreign language you can speak as of now. Also, if you do study Chinese, you might as well learn Japanese, since they share the same pain-in-the-ass writing system (Although there are differences, but not enough to render the kanji in one useless to the other).

 

[CelestialBadger]

Japanese was under consideration. We have:
-ASL
-Arabic
-Chinese
-German
-Japanese
-Russian
-Spanish
-French
-Italian
-Portuguese

 

[Jimbo]

CB, french is spoken the most in the world, second to english. I'd say pick that, if you ever plan on traveling....

Either french, or chinese.... Both are hard though... oh well, you can handle it.

 

[Pale_Horse]

I thought spanish was the second most under english?

 

[CelestialBadger]

I believe it's Mandarin Chinese.

 

[Magikarp]

@CB: German, Japanese, Chinese, or Arabic. Economics or potential warfare. Of course, I don't know what you're planning on doing in the future, so yeah. But if you want a language that is nice to speak in general, those four would probably be best.

 

[CelestialBadger]

In the future I'm planning on staying as far away from economics or potential warfare as possible. I'm majoring in film and animation, concentrating on animation. I have no idea what I'm going to do in the future...

But I'll definitely consider one of those. I decided not to take a language next semester, figuring that it would probably make more sense to take one fall semester so I won't lose any continuity over the summer. I don't really trust myself to practice speaking a foreign language for three months without class.

 

[_Ace]

CB, french is spoken the most in the world, second to english. I'd say pick that, if you ever plan on traveling....

Either french, or chinese.... Both are hard though... oh well, you can handle it.

There it goes, from someone that knows nothing about the world outside the U.S.

 

[TrongaMonga]

CB, french is spoken the most in the world, second to english.

LOL!

What the hell?