Besides English, What Languages Do You Speak?

[Bugguy]

Korean - the hard way. No english speaker for a 50 mile radius.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

I think that you've got something there.lol In the Army, though, we used to say that the universal interpreter was the M-16...

I totally agree. It is related to the days when Sam Colt made it so that many men could be equal, unless one of them left home without theirs....

 

[Tomasso]

I found a universal language, spoken any place I have ever been so far in my travels around this world, known as "cash". It seems to be understood no matter where you are, or the language of the locals.....

True, but the more language you have, the less cash you'll need.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

True, but the more language you have, the less cash you'll need.

That should be a universal quote, sir!

 

[cookie]

Spanish (Chilean accented) Portuguese (Brazilian accent) passable Italian and French, can defend myself in German and a smattering of Slavic languages like Serbo/Croatian, Russian, Polish and Japanese.

 

[Marzena]

Oh, thanks for the welcome gentlemen.

 

[Enrique Menéndez]

Me alegra ver que buena parte de ustedes hablan español. I speak some English, Spanish ofcourse, and Asturian , the native language of my region, Asturias (Northern Spain).

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Me alegra ver que buena parte de ustedes hablan español.

"I'm happy to see that a good many of you speak Spanish."
...look Ma, no GoogleTranslate!

Even though I took Spanish in school over 30 years ago and haven't really spoke it in years, thanks to the Internet I'm starting to pick it up once again (as well as some other languages). And welcome to the Lounge, Enrique. I think you'll like it very much here. There's plenty of history buffs here (I'm a big military history buff myself )

 

[RichardH]

I don't think that we've asked this question before of our Loungers, so here goes...

Besides English (which all of us have to know to a certain degree in order to participate here...), what other languages are you at least somewhat proficient at? (By somewhat proficient, I mean able to say a bit more than just "Where is the restroom?")

For myself, I speak Spanish (particularly Castilian, Cuban, and north-west Mexican dialects). I can understand quite a bit of Italian (which I studied a little in college) and European Portuguese, but am not nearly proficient in either. Can speak small amounts of Arabic, Armenian, and Tagalog...

Yes, Norwegian (It's my mother tongue tehee) . I had french in school, so I could hold a small conversation, but I've forgotten it now though.

I'd also like to learn spanish & italian properly though, especially spanish since a good friend of mine (and his family) is chilean (So I'd actually have a chance of speaking it daily).

 

[LoveMyHats2]

"I'm happy to see that a good many of you speak Spanish."
...look Ma, no GoogleTranslate!

Even though I took Spanish in school over 30 years ago and haven't really spoke it in years, thanks to the Internet I'm starting to pick it up once again (as well as some other languages). And welcome to the Lounge, Enrique. I think you'll like it very much here. There's plenty of history buffs here (I'm a big military history buff myself )

I will second the "hello" to anyone new here.

Like you, I had at one time been not too shabby speaking Spanish. Now I can listen to other's in conversation and make out if they are discussing going to the store to buy some milk, or they are telling each other they dislike me standing there sticking my nose into their business!

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Spanish (Chilean accented) Portuguese (Brazilian accent) passable Italian and French, can defend myself in German and a smattering of Slavic languages like Serbo/Croatian, Russian, Polish and Japanese.

How much do you travel?

 

[cookie]

Used to a lot ...in the airlines...

 

[Widebrim]

Just a bump for some of the newer members who may not have seen this...

 

[HungaryTom]

Magyar- mother tongue
English- Fluent
German- Fluent
French - Passable
Russian - little 3 years in grammar school

 

[Hunter_aka_Scotty]

Scottish Gaelic. Fluent.

I learned German in High School but it is now mostly lost to me.

 

[argyle]

I'm rather fluent in Australian. Very big down under.

 

[Atticus Finch]

I can make myself understood in Spanish, but I am fluent in both Southern and Defendant.

AF

 

[tridentine]

Some Latin.

I picked it up from the Mass I go to every week.

 

[Aerojoe]

I speak English, Spanish and French. I probably should have learned German too but I really enjoy English.

 

[Rathdown]

School boy German, French, and Spanish, and enough Irish to have once held a position in the Irish Civil Service.