How many languages can you speak?

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  1. SuperTyke

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    Do you attempt to write about how nice Putin is but accidentally end up calling Luke Steele a lovely person?
     
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    Спасибо ( i think thats how to spell it ? )
     
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    Rather good in French, but can get by in Spanish and I'm decent in Turkish
     
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    Hahahah!! I think that Hemsy's dislike of Luke and Bobby pales into insignificance compared with how much I despise Putin!
     
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    My French is good enough for me to know how bad it is.
     
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    Speyke Barnsley and Yorkshire but nivver quite mastered English. Oh and a smidgeon of French.
     
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    I've managed to order a beer in most languages by a combination of pointing and grunting ;)
     
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    Jibberish.


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    Having lived in Barnsley, Wakefield, Leamington, Coventry, Harrogate, Grimsby, Perpignan, Central London, Kew, Doncaster and Lincoln, I'm quite obviously fluent in Italian.

    I also try but frequently fall short in understanding the universal language that is football, particularly when it was locally spoken with a Bolton-Berkcroft accent.
     
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    I spoke England, Yorkshire, Queens Yorkshire, (only in North America) I got a grade 1 in French at school which I've forgotten and have no desire to revisit. Oh and and bit of Svensk.
     
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    You mean everything you write in Russian is criticism of Luke Steele and saying that German football is *****?
     
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    Precisely! It's no wonder they made me redo my tax return.
     
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    I speak English, Tarn and ******** fluently. Can order a couple of beers in most European languages and speak tourism French, as in I can order food, reserve a room, ask for the bill or directions, that sort of thing. Can't get the French to understand the way I pronounce quatre though, even when I hold four fingers up. If I want 4 beers or 4 croissants, I've got to ask for 5.
     
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    They probably do it to the tourists to sell more. good marketing ploy.

    You should ask for three then when he brings em ask for 1 more.
     
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    Every time you make a restaurant reservation for 4, do you have to tell them that the other person was ill?

    I had a bit of a disaster in France the other week when ordering what I thought was veal, and asking for it rare, it turned out to be veal kidneys. One word, but a world of difference. Smelled a bit pissy and bled all over the plate. It wouldn't have been so bad except I'd ordered them for my sister-in-law, having taken responsibility as the only "French speaker" in the group. I felt so guilty that I gave her my (amazing) cuttlefish stew, and ate the offal myself.
     
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    Or you could say
    "Can I have 3 beers please"
    and then when they ask if that is all say
    "Can I have a beer please"
     
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    22 fluently

    all via my Lyinguistics degree LHons.
     
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  18. Jay

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    When I do it my way I get an extra beer or croissant.
     
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  19. EastStander

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    Good point!
     
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    I'm not confident enough, or good enough, to speak in French on the phone. When you turn up to a restaurant and there's four of you, they sort of get the idea without you having to say quatre.
     
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