What Lanaguages Can You Speak? • Non-Gaming • General Non-gaming • Eurogamer.net

CitizenGeek 13 Mar 2007 16:13:17 3,491 posts
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Yeah, so what are your lanaguages? And what languages would you most like to learn how to speak? Or is it all just a waste of time?

JediMasterMalik 13 Mar 2007 16:14:12 11,820 posts
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Urdu and English, I got a B in GCSE french, but I am shite at it.

Learnt those two as I grew up.

Fat-Boy 13 Mar 2007 16:15:10 4,300 posts
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English, barely.

Got a B in GCSE French, but god knows how, I was terrible at it. I'm even worse now!

Edit: I'd really like to be able to speak French fluently to be honjest as I wouldn't mind moving there one day. Too lazy at the moment though!

Edited by Fat Boy at 16:16:07 13-03-2007

Deleted user 13 March 2007 16:16:02

French, Spanish, English.

But not Klingon.

jellyhead 13 Mar 2007 16:17:14 24,355 posts
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English, barely.
Welsh, a fair bit less.

The rest of my language skills are just from spending my life next door to Yurp and picking up bits and pieces over time.
I've also tried learning Russian and Korean at times so i know a few words of those.

Load_2.0 13 Mar 2007 16:18:06 33,582 posts
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The language of love.

/Air kisses.

CitizenGeek 13 Mar 2007 16:18:27 3,491 posts
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I speak both English and Irish fluently and I speak fairly good French.

English is my favourite langauge, it's so expressive and broad, unlike French, which I find is restricting. Irish is a great langauage, it;s so poetic and I wish I could speak it more often.

JediMasterMalik wrote:
Urdu and English, I got a B in GCSE french, but I am shite at it.

Can you tell me a bit about Urdu, please. I don't think I've even heard of such a language.

JediMasterMalik 13 Mar 2007 16:19:16 11,820 posts
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu

smoothpete 13 Mar 2007 16:24:46 37,743 posts
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Ebonics

and French, tiny bit of Spanish

Edited by smoothpete at 16:25:27 13-03-2007

ChimneyBug 13 Mar 2007 16:28:23 216 posts
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English, Japanese

Edited by ChimneyBug at 16:28:42 13-03-2007

moonowl17 13 Mar 2007 16:28:55 122 posts
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English and German fluently.

Edit: oh and learning Italian.

Edited by moonowl17 at 16:29:32 13-03-2007

StarchildHypocrethes 13 Mar 2007 16:29:20 33,974 posts
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Esperanto.

Angel_Treats 13 Mar 2007 16:30:27 11,070 posts
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English

Spanish: Got an A* at GCSE, worked in Gran Canaria for a while, still speak it half-decently and have no problems conversing with folk when I go there on holiday or reading a magazine or whatever. Am hoping to go back to studying it in September.

French: Got an A* in that too at GCSE but due to not having to use it, have forgotten most of it - but still remember a fair bit and on a recent trip to Paris, used it loads.

Can usually pick up the gist of something written in Portuguese due to it being similar to Spanish.

Murbs 13 Mar 2007 16:30:35 25,151 posts
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Load "$" wrote:
The language of love.

/Air kisses.

You are (the reincarnation of) Barry White aicmfp

deem 13 Mar 2007 16:31:10 31,667 posts
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matrim83 13 Mar 2007 16:32:47 5,713 posts
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JediMasterMalik wrote:
Urdu and English, I got a B in GCSE french, but I am shite at it.

Learnt those two as I grew up.

My grandfather used to write for a Urdu daily here. All in all he speaks seven different languages. I can barely get my head around three (four if you count rudimentary French).

Proof that people get dumber with each generation.

Edited by matrim83 at 16:33:28 13-03-2007

smoothpete 13 Mar 2007 16:33:22 37,743 posts
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Murbal wrote:

Load "$" wrote:
The language of love.

/Air kisses.

You are (the reincarnation of) Barry White aicmfp

"G'day, I'm tha love doctah"

billythekid 13 Mar 2007 16:34:21 12,595 posts
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Jive, the language from Airplane.

S'mo fo butter layin' to the bone. Jackin' me up. Tightly.

Onny 13 Mar 2007 16:35:08 5,695 posts
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Did you purposefully do both a spelling and a grammatical error in the thread title?

Angel_Treats 13 Mar 2007 16:36:57 11,070 posts
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ecosse_011172 wrote:

Angel_Treats wrote:
Can usually pick up the gist of something written in Portuguese due to it being similar to Spanish.

Me too, although spoken Portugese is a different matter entirely, I struggle big time with it.

Heh, I quite literally can understand nothing in spoken Portuguese whatsoever. I wish I could though, I love the sound of it.

/watches City of God, yet again

CitizenGeek 13 Mar 2007 16:39:46 3,491 posts
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Onny wrote:
Did you purposefully do both a spelling and a grammatical error in the thread title?

Noooo

I just noticed that I typo'd the shit out of the word 'Languages'. Why can't I fix this? Do I have to get a mod to do it?

Edited by CitizenGeek at 16:40:55 13-03-2007

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I'm currently learning Russian.

CitizenGeek 13 Mar 2007 16:41:54 3,491 posts
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Gremmi wrote:
I'm currently learning Russian.

Is it as mind numbingly difficult as it seems?

Edited by CitizenGeek at 16:46:58 13-03-2007

NOSAVIOUR 13 Mar 2007 16:42:16 2,845 posts
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ENglish, French and EGG.

reality_cheque 13 Mar 2007 16:43:30 7,486 posts
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I speak English, and can just about get by understanding Crying Girl.

I also speak fluent management bullshit. I can leverage synergies to expand the potential throughput like you wouldn't believe!

I speak some french (What is the time? The bakers shop is on the table) and would like to speak Japanese but mainly to piss off my Japanophile friends.

Edited by reality_cheque at 16:44:54 13-03-2007

Dragul 13 Mar 2007 16:45:12 5,536 posts
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English and Portuguese

and I understand and speak a little of:

Italian
Spanish
French

and I'm currently learning German...

nickthegun 13 Mar 2007 16:51:16 87,711 posts
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I speak English and LOUD. SLOW. ENGLISH when im in another country.

I also know almost every panjabi insult you care to mention. Mere tuttay choosla, motherfuckers!

CitizenGeek 13 Mar 2007 16:56:09 3,491 posts
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So, does anyone know how I can change the thread title, it's a little embarrasing to have a mis-spelled title of a language thread.

reality_cheque 13 Mar 2007 16:56:45 7,486 posts
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nickthegun wrote:
I speak English and LOUD. SLOW. ENGLISH when im in another country.

I also know almost every panjabi insult you care to mention. Mere tuttay choosla, motherfuckers!

Forgive my spelling (I'm guessing as I've only heard it said) but 'Banj ordri' is one of my favourite punjabi insults