What languages do you speak?

Sonic Angel Knight · Jul 23, 2016

E-N-G-L-I-S-H..... And giberesh as well

Red9419 · Jul 23, 2016

I speak English and Spanish.
Since I'm a filthy weeb, I'm learning Japanese.

the_randomizer · Jul 24, 2016

English is my native, but I speak Japanese too

jayjay123 · Jul 24, 2016

MionissNio said:
I use English as my main language mostly . I can read and speak urdu as well but I suck at writing it. I can only read Arabic syllables but actually do not understand the meaning of the text so. I really want to learn Japanese though but i am unaware if I would have the time to do so.

I say give it a go!
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/

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VinsCool said:
My native language (French) is incredibly useless worldwide. Thanksfully, I've greatly improved my English.

No way, it's a great language. I've been trying to learn - not easy for an Anglo tongue lol. I spend enough time in Haiti, Rwanda and other French speaking countries to really be able to use it - I wish I could speak French better. Of course Canadian, Rwandan, Haitian French are all significantly different from French as the French speak it... a bit like Afrikaans is to Dutch sometimes... but still close enough to understand each other easily.

VinsCool · Jul 24, 2016

jayjay123 said:
I say give it a go!
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/

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No way, it's a great language. I've been trying to learn - not easy for an Anglo tongue lol. I spend enough time in Haiti, Rwanda and other French speaking countries to really be able to use it - I wish I could speak French better. Of course Canadian, Rwandan, Haitian French are all significantly different from French as the French speak it... a bit like Afrikaans is to Dutch sometimes... but still close enough to understand each other easily.

Close enough? Depends to which. Canadian French and France French are very similar, they are comparable to UK and US English, in my opinion.

FAST6191 · Jul 24, 2016

I don't know if I would say that, I don't know French down to hardcore differences in dialect level like I know a lot of English dialects but even with what I know I would be hesitant to make that remark for Canadian and mainland. No argument that you could move from one place to the other and only be tripped up by the odd idiom and phrasing differences for the most part. Certainly though when games got localised if a company thought they would just hire some Quebecois to do it as the same time as the North American release and then just copy and paste for Europe it was not good.
I quite like http://www.onestopenglish.com/gramm...ritish-english-grammar-article/152820.article for the US and UK English differences if you do want to look up what goes*. Granted French linguistics does have a lean, a bit militant at times, towards what I believe they call the prescriptive (this is what you should say and how you should use the language vs descriptive which is more common in English where "use what you like and if it sticks will we note the change") which helps things a bit here.

Never spoken to a Haitian in French but I did try to have a conversation with a lady from Senegal once. That was hard, though it was not exactly many people involved and that could be different people there could be easier -- I was listening to that French language station that broadcasts on long wave from Germany not so long ago... could not understand the host for anything, maybe one word in 20 at times where the other five odd people on his panel were fine. Similar story for a French detective show I saw once, could not understand the lead at all where everybody else was fine.

*I probably linked it before, maybe even in this thread, but

VinsCool · Jul 24, 2016

FAST6191 said:
I don't know if I would say that, I don't know French down to hardcore differences in dialect level like I know a lot of English dialects but even with what I know I would be hesitant to make that remark for Canadian and mainland. No argument that you could move from one place to the other and only be tripped up by the odd idiom and phrasing differences for the most part. Certainly though when games got localised if a company thought they would just hire some Quebecois to do it as the same time as the North American release and then just copy and paste for Europe it was not good.
I quite like http://www.onestopenglish.com/gramm...ritish-english-grammar-article/152820.article for the US and UK English differences if you do want to look up what goes*. Granted French linguistics does have a lean, a bit militant at times, towards what I believe they call the prescriptive (this is what you should say and how you should use the language vs descriptive which is more common in English where "use what you like and if it sticks will we note the change") which helps things a bit here.

Never spoken to a Haitian in French but I did try to have a conversation with a lady from Senegal once. That was hard, though it was not exactly many people involved and that could be different people there could be easier -- I was listening to that French language station that broadcasts on long wave from Germany not so long ago... could not understand the host for anything, maybe one word in 20 at times where the other five odd people on his panel were fine. Similar story for a French detective show I saw once, could not understand the lead at all where everybody else was fine.

*I probably linked it before, maybe even in this thread, but

I've read the article linked about the difference between US and UK english, and this seems close to what I was thinking about French. They do have characteristics proper to their origin and localisation, but aren't impossible to understand. Other than than, I find British English easier to understand, while I hear someone talking in a video, for example. Maybe is it just me? Lol.

jayjay123 · Jul 24, 2016

Haitian French is often peppered with Kreole, so can be quite different for some things.

MartyDreamy · Jul 24, 2016

FAST6191 said:
I don't know. Quite a few people have French as a second language and there are a few countries that speak it, including some pretty sweet holiday destinations. I will grant that English is probably more useful when all is said and done.
Equally if you do finally finish that time machine you are working on then it would be quite useful in old Europe if you plan to hang around the nobility.

True. French is my 3rd language. I'm studying it at School (same for english)

Flirkyn · Jul 24, 2016

I'm French so.... french

And English, not the best one I think, but i don't have many problems with it (thanks video game/anime/site/serie/etc... in english xD). I learned some spanish at school, but I'm not really good with it, and I tried to learn Japanese at university, and I was really bad at it ...

retKHAAAN · Jul 24, 2016

English and some Spanish. Enough Spanish to know when someone is talking about me anyway.

jayjay123 · Jul 25, 2016

Why is it that inanimate objects in French have gender... and I've always asked myself - why are toilets and cars female

The one gives you ####
The other is full of ####

/ducks

VinsCool · Jul 25, 2016

jayjay123 said:
Why is it that inanimate objects in French have gender... and I've always asked myself - why are toilets and cars female
The one gives you ####
The other is full of ####

/ducks

Yeah, this is painful for non native French speakers XD

EarlAB · Jul 25, 2016

English, I think.

DavidRO99 · Jul 25, 2016

Tomato Hentai said:
I'm just sorta interested in what languages some GBATemp users can speak, it would be nice to see how much diversity there is here language-wise.

I understand Italian, can't speak that for the life of me(even after 4 years of being in italy), English, and my native language is Romanian

Xanthe · Jul 25, 2016

Personally, I speak Russian. I'm not quite sure how to speak English yet.

baileyscream · Jul 25, 2016

English and idiot
Sometimes even a bit of broken stupidity

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TheGreek Boy · Jul 25, 2016

RevPokemon said:
All I speak is English but I do plan on studying Hebrew and Greek eventually.

Good luck with greek

Davidosky99 · Jul 25, 2016

English, Portuguese, French and German, all in order by my mastery level of the language.
And I speak some peterish as well

RevPokemon · Jul 25, 2016

TheGreek Boy said:
Good luck with greek

Yeah don't have to learn it now but I am trying to listen and learn a little bit to ease my transition.

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