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post #31 of 344
4/7/06 at 2:07am
I can speak English, French and Tagalog fairly fluently. Learnt French in school & uni, Tagalog (main dialect of Filipino) I picked up as I lived there for a year as a kid. Went back over a year ago for 2 weeks and in 1 week, I was fluent again. Yea!

I could also survive in Japan on my limited knowledge of the language, it was much better a few years back. Also have a smattering of Spanish from my Tagalog (!) & French knowledge. Tagalog has a lot of Spanish in it, would you believe!

Desperately want to learn German, have some ace German pals and would love to go there too. Also important in terms of classical music. Latin too, but highly unlikely I'll get that far.
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post #32 of 344
4/8/06 at 12:58pm
i can speak, read, write and understand english, korean and conversational japanese.
i would like to learn spanish as i only know how to ask questions but not understand the answers hah.
mandarin as well seeing how 1 in 6 people is chinese.
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post #33 of 344
4/8/06 at 2:22pm
just english hah
done 6 high school years of french and kno useless words like pool, sea, i am etc lol
it annoyed me i dont have the patience to learn stuff like femine and masculine words etc lol
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post #34 of 344
4/8/06 at 2:49pm
I speak english and spanish.. being puerto rican my spanish is very slangy and if i talk to different kinds of spanish people sometimes they dont understand.
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post #35 of 344
4/8/06 at 3:22pm
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post #36 of 344
4/8/06 at 5:11pm
I really need to learn Spanish cuz it would be really helpful in nursing.
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post #37 of 344
4/8/06 at 5:47pm
Polish - (In a famillial context - My Mom's side of the family speak it when we get together)

Italian - conversational (I lived in the Veneto and Tuscany for a little while)
Chinese - limited (took it in college)
French - four years in high school
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post #38 of 344
4/13/06 at 9:41pm
I speak trailer trash.
I speak English fluently, and I don't take French in school anymore but anyways I know the very basic (not future tense... I forgot it from school) stuff. I know very minimal Spanish (I'm taking it in school for the 2nd year now) and I can BARELY speak Laotian (it's in Asia)- but I can understand enough of it to live. =)
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post #39 of 344
4/13/06 at 9:48pm
I speak English. OH YEA!

I want to learn:
Tagalog (my mother tounge)
Farsi (so I can communicate better w/ my in-laws)
Arabic (so I can start praying)
Urdo (so I can understand Indian movies w/o reading subtitles)
Spanish (duh! cause like everyone in California speaks it)

Parishoon, are you Persian? My husband is Afghan.
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post #40 of 344
4/15/06 at 9:30am
I speak German, English (I hope to speak it better than I write it), Russian, Polish and Serbocroatian.
I'm doing a PhD in slavic studies, so this explans why I'm focused on slavic langugages.

I did Latin at school (7 years).
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post #41 of 344
5/16/06 at 5:34am
I speak Finnish (my mother tongue), English, Swedish and German. I'd like to learn French and Italian too, mainly because they sound so beautiful! They'd also be quite useful as I'm into wine and they're the main languages in the wine world. I'm hoping to work in Norway at some point, so I guess I'll have to learn some Norwegian too.
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post #42 of 344
5/16/06 at 8:40am
I speak English and Vietnamese fluently while I can only speak a bit of French, German, and Spanish. I would love to learn all the languages in this world! =)
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post #43 of 344
5/16/06 at 12:02pm
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post #44 of 344
5/16/06 at 4:13pm
Je parle français, c'est ma langue maternelle
I do speak and write english but sometimes I still make mistakes...
I started a german class but stopped it to soon, I'd really like to learn it well.
Maybe some russian(?) too
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post #45 of 344
5/16/06 at 5:27pm
I speak some french, some german. There are about 7 languages that I would like to be fluent in. Hmmm, that may take some time. I know a lot of basic words in several languages due to travel, but my skill level would lead to very short converations.

However, I do have a very special gift with languages. I am able to swear in several different languages. I am quite proud of that. Kind of like a really cultured potty mouth.
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post #46 of 344
5/16/06 at 5:51pm
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Originally Posted by Willa
Je parle français, c'est ma langue maternelle
I do speak and write english but sometimes I still make mistakes...
I started a german class but stopped it to soon, I'd really like to learn it well.
Maybe some russian(?) too

Je parle francais, aussi Willa! I took 4 years of it in high school and then placed into 102 my freshman year...I didn't take a language last year (wish I did) and this past Spring I took Portuguese which I LOOOOOVE!! I can't wait to take the upper-level class in the Fall, but until then I'm gonna pick up one of those little language kits from Barnes and Nobles or Amazon.com. I've always dreamed of visiting Brazil (I'm hoping to take a trip there as a gift to myself after graduation) so I figured it might be helpful to learn the native tongue, ya know?

I can also speak/understand a little Spanish, but I'd like to be better at it since I wanna move to CA or FL someday....I can also speak/understand Padua (pronounced potwah)--it originated in Jamaica I believe :confused: , but my mother is from Trinidad and the rest of her family is from Grenada/St. Croix and they speak a certain dialect of it as well....if you guys know who Sean Paul is, he speaks Padua! I'd like to learn Arabic and Swahili as well

It's good to see so many women want to broaden their horizons (or have already done so) and expand their cultural knowledge! This is a really motivating thread, Thanks OP
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post #47 of 344
5/16/06 at 9:10pm
SChotgurrl, alors je décrète que nous sommes amies dès aujourd'hui!

Never been to South Carolina..
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post #48 of 344
5/17/06 at 12:22am
I speak English and can get by in Spanish. I also speak THE most important language for this website:MAC.
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post #49 of 344
5/17/06 at 12:46am
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Originally Posted by Willa
SChotgurrl, alors je décrète que nous sommes amies dès aujourd'hui!

Never been to South Carolina..
Pourquoi oui, Willa je conviennent totalement!

I've never been to Canada either! I'd love to visit someday though....*sighs dreamily*
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post #50 of 344
5/17/06 at 11:16am
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Originally Posted by SChotgurrl
Pourquoi oui, Willa je conviennent totalement!

I've never been to Canada either! I'd love to visit someday though....*sighs dreamily*
You should come over this summer!
I have a place for you at home
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post #51 of 344
5/17/06 at 11:42am
Seriously???? I found tickets on studentuinverse for $300!!!! Girl don't tempt me cuz I seriously would do it!!!!!
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post #52 of 344
5/17/06 at 12:08pm
i speak german (mothertongue), english (could be better :-()
and i want to learn spanish in summer
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post #53 of 344
5/17/06 at 12:42pm
English is the only language I am proficient in, although I do speak some Spanish. I had 2 years of German and a year of Latin in college, so just enough to be dangerous lol! I am in the process of learning Hieroglyphs (although no one knows how ancient Egyptian was pronounced as they didn't have vowels....) and I have to learn Arabic at some point in the next 3 years. Whew. I'm going to be really confused lol!
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post #54 of 344
5/17/06 at 12:45pm
I can speak English (mothertongue), i used to be really fluent in French but i forgotton most of it, i can order a beer and cola in spanish and some other stuff, couple words in german and thats it lol
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post #55 of 344
5/17/06 at 2:05pm
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Originally Posted by SChotgurrl
Seriously???? I found tickets on studentuinverse for $300!!!! Girl don't tempt me cuz I seriously would do it!!!!!
I'm serious!
If we get to know each other, it could be fun, i'd help you with your french and you with my english.

Just pm me and we'll ''talk''

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post #56 of 344
5/18/06 at 9:53pm
basically i'd just like to "finish" what languages i've started learning.. in order of progress not counting English which is my mother tongue..
Spanish (which i can understand and speak quite a bit more than i give myself credit for, hence the first place but if someone asks i'll be like "i don't know much)
German
Japanese
French
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post #57 of 344
5/21/06 at 3:14pm
I speak fluent english
Arabic when i pray althought would love to hold a conversation in it
urdu, punjabi, hinko, one or two pushto words
and did spanish at school think i've forgotten most of it!
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post #58 of 344
5/22/06 at 2:43pm
i speak english, cantonese and mandarin

i want to learn french, finnish, spanish and italian! : D
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post #59 of 344
5/30/06 at 10:16am
i speak german...and a little bit english. french not so good but i understand something. I learn it in school and english, too. i would speak spanish and more english and french.
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post #60 of 344
5/30/06 at 12:54pm
ehhhh sad to sat English is my second language and korean is my first, but i must admit im better at english
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