How many languages can you speak?

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  1. Red

    RedMonk Well-Known Member

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    I could speak and understand German to GCSE level. Sadly lost it through non-use. I was pretty good at French as well but chose German as my GCSE.

    I've been on and off learning Cantonese for the last 12 years. Its bloody hard but can understand some things and can have a basic conversation with Cantonese speakers. Self taught so its all a learning experience. I might go to the Cantonese school in Sheffield with my daughter when she is old enough to go.

    I've always fancied having a go at Italian. I have a cracked version of Rosetta Stone language software with most of the language packs so I have a quite a few to chose from. Urdu anyone?
     
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    LDRed Well-Known Member

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    Foreign phone conversations are a nightmare, once you get behind trying to decipher/translate one question/statement the whole conversation goes wrong.
     
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    I'm thinking about redoing my gcse German online. Or doing French. I can cobble together some German but generally I'm limited to English, talking a bit louder and slower, acting, and stuff like that. As a module of my degree in English Lit I did a module in Anglo Saxon, which meant that I had to be able to read and translate from manuscripts. I did enough to get a 2:1. You don't get much call for it to be honest. 'hang on this menu is in Anglo Saxon - can anyone understand it?'. I only did it because it was mandatory if you didn't have A Level French German Italian or Latin. So I **** out and had to read Beowulf.
     
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    Murhaba kev nasilsin
     
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    iyi teşekkür ederim

    Pronounced different to how that looks
     
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    I reckon after learning any halfway difficult language (such as Cantonese) that Italian would be an absolute doddle. My dad was studying it around the same time I started seriously studying Russian grammar, and I remember looking at one of his textbooks and thinking I could basically master Italian in under six months it looked that simple.
     
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    Scottish, Irish, American, and abit of Australian.
     
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    English and Norwegian, probably better in Norwegian now.
    Understand 90% of Danish and Swedish.
     
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