What languages do you speak?
What languages do you speak?
What's your mother language?
I think this could be interesting.
I say it from the beginning: Rubbish, nonsense, gibberish, garbage and similar ones DO NOT count.
I grew up bilingually. My mother languages are Bavarian dialect and German.
Apart from that I speak (quite fluently) English and Japanese.
I can read and speak little Mandarin Chinese, Classical Chinese, Classical Japanese, Italian.
I learned Latin in school for 5 years.. forgot a lot.
From my Latin and Italian knowledge I can derive a bit of French and Spanish, reading simple things is ok.
Next thing I want to learn is Korean and/or Cantonese. At least I'll try.
Geez! You're your own walking translation site!
As for me, not much at all.
English is my language, and I know enough Spanish to get by...
That's all for my list!
My translation sites are all on the internet. Unfortunately I have to look up dictionaries from time to time.
Should I need English German or
Vice versa I use
or
For Japanese English and
Vice versa it's the name Jim Breen you should remember.
English-Chinese (both ways) you get at
A very good Japanese-German site is
And of course there's babelfish and google translations, which work quite good.
English
Dutch
German
Turkish
a bit French
Is it true that all Dutch can speak German?
This would be ashaming. So little Germans speak Dutch...
...
English and Spanish
English, and French (a little) for me, I know very little spanish, but I'll mention it anyway.
Is it true that all Dutch can speak German?
This would be ashaming. So little Germans speak Dutch...
That's not really true. Most people can understand it though, and speak it a little. I've had German at school for some years and speak it a bit. Problem with a language is, that if you don't use it you'll forget quite some things pretty fast.
I speak Dutch and English, a bit of German, and I'm going to take a course of French (although I've had French for three years I forgot most of it, I need it for my job now).
i speak English and know a couple words in other languages
I can speak Norwegian, Swedish, a little Danish, English, a little Spanish and a couple of words in Greek.
I can speak English, french and some Spanish.
English, I was taught french for a half hour every school day for 10 years, and I still only know what bonjour means.
I am pretty much the same way. I didn't have to take French in High school! Because I sucked at it so badly.
Just english and spanish for me. I was pretty dern good at Spanish in high school, I had three years of it . Now, for the life of me I can barley get out a sentence. Wonder what happened....
No se preocupe a hombre. Puedo enseñarle si usted desea. ¡Justo llámeme el amo magnÃfico del canguelo!
Yay for internet translators!
English and thats it. i've taken spanish and Frech classes, so i know some of each, but i cannot speak it at all...
i speak english, english, english and english.
"Midwest" English and enough German to get me to a bathroom, bank or resterant (and maybe a smidgen more). Oh, and maybe 1/2 a dozen or so words of Icelandic.
I say "Midwest" English because certain southreners it seems like you need closed captioning to understand them as well as certain British people (not all brit's are created equal when it comes to understandable English).
Attenzione!
English, and enough Italian ^ to get by, if I was ever to visit. I should know more of that language, since there's like 1/4 Italian in my ancestory, but I've just never learned everything.
Oh, I apologie; I also know English English.
Attenzione!
English, and enough Italian ^ to get by, if I was ever to visit. I should know more of that language, since there's like 1/4 Italian in my ancestory, but I've just never learned everything.
Oh, I apologi
Aren't you part a Fin too?
Yes, indeed, and it's a very hard language to learn. My mother had cousins in Finland that she'd correspond with, and she had a English/Finnish dictionary, and it would take her hours to translate the 1-page letters!
Italian and Indian (Native American) was on my father's side, Finnish was on my mother's.
Hyvää huomenta! (not sure about that...)
Wow, that I call an ancestry... I somehow feel a bit lame. 100$ German in the last 2 generations.
Hyvää huomenta! (not sure about that...)
Wow, that I call an ancestry... I somehow feel a bit lame. 100$ German in the last 2 generations.
Oh, you're wife is Japanese? Cool. You shouldn't have to feel lame for beeing 100 percent German.
Hyvää huomenta! (not sure about that...)
Wow, that I call an ancestry... I somehow feel a bit lame. 100$ German in the last 2 generations.
Heh. I can't understand that phrase; the only word I know in Finnish is Marsu (guinea pig). I know a lot more Italian words.
Off-subject, how did you put the umlaut over the "a" with the computer? I've been trying to figure that for years!
Yeah, and don't feel "lame" about the German heratige, and if you have a kid--
German efficiency + Japanese innovative ideas & tradition = the kid will most likely be a genius!
I get the umlauts by installing the German language pack from the WinXP disc.
I have a Japanese computer, so I had to install German. You can also install Finnish, Swedish or other language sets and then you can switch between llanguages in the down right corner.
You just have to find out where the umlauts are on your keyboard. On my Japanese kleyboard they are on the @,+,* keys. That might be different on us keyboards.
Or zou use this page , search the characters zou need and copy-paste.
And I still feel lame about being German. Look at the scum who call themselves politicians...
I get the umlauts by installing the German language pack from the WinXP disc.
I have a Japanese computer, so I had to install German. You can also install Finnish, Swedish or other language sets and then you can switch between llanguages in the down right corner.
You just have to find out where the umlauts are on your keyboard. On my Japanese kleyboard they are on the @,+,* keys. That might be different on us keyboards.
Or zou use this page , search the characters zou need and copy-paste.
And I still feel lame about being German. Look at the scum who call themselves politicians...
Our window settings are set for English/Icelandic. They have some f'd up characters like
æ Æ þ Þ ö Ö ð Ã
Don´t feel lame about being German..... German's are cool. When people think about the US they can name tons of assholes who made the world a not so good place. Germany only had Hitler and David Hasselhoff.
On that Hasselhoff bit!
Thanks for the help, Manuel, I'll check out that link and see what I can do. My real last name (it's not Vania, believe it or not), is supposed to have that umlaut over an A, and my Aunt always complains that I don't use it when I write her!
Our window settings are set for English/Icelandic. They have some f'd up characters like
æ Æ þ Þ ö Ö ð Ã
He, he. We have these: Æ, Ø, Å.
Sorry Jenni but Hitler wasn't German.
I know English and some Español.
Sorry Jenni but Hitler wasn't German.
No, he was Austrian, right?
Sorry Jenni but Hitler wasn't German.
No, he was Austrian, right?
Correct, he was also Jewish, his grandmother was Jewish.
That was/is an unconfirmed rumour. It was thought that his grandmother had become pregnant whilst working in a Jewish household, which would make him 1/3 Jewish. As he had no idea whom his ideological grandfather was, it cannot be confirmed if he was Jewish or not. Modern research often displaces the belief that he was a Jew. Many believe it was socialist propaganda to undermine his ideology.
We also have this one
ß
It's an "sz".