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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    quote: ebonics and jive,
    Those two different languages?[:D]
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  • mp5shooter
    fo shizzle
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Finnish (my native to tongue)
    English (little)
    Swedish (little)
    German (little)
    Spanish (little)
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  • Doc
    I have studied German and Spanish and I have sort of learned some Ancient Greek and Latin on my own. But I am not capable in any due to lack of practice and usage.

    My wife is much better at languages and I think she can get by in German, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek, French and Italian.

    She's very handy to have along when traveling. [:D]
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  • kristov
    Two: English and Polish, plus a little Serbo-Croatian. My wife speaks five languages (English, Italian, Spanish, Franch and Latin), my oldest daughter speaks six (her mom's five plus Polish) and my youngest girl two (English and nearly perfect Spanish).

    It should only be a matter of time (perhaps minutes) before the usual gang pops in with "I live in America where one langauge: ENGLISH, should be all I'll ever need to speak".
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  • ljwrench
    Took German and Spanish in H.S. but don't remember any of it. My Grandpa (Mom's dad) spoke Polish, Russian, German, French, and English fluently. He didn't learn English until he was 9 and he was a natural born U.S. citizen.
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  • Jacob2008
    Some spanish, little german, and english.

    Grandpa can go all day speaking german.
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  • Jorge
    Fluent Spanish, and well enough English.

    [:D]
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  • A J Christ
    English

    Switzer Duetch

    German

    Japanese

    A little French

    A little Vietnamese

    Some Spanish cuss words
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  • mongrel1776
    I survived a year of German in my sophomore year of high school -- I could still count to ten or order a beer if my life depended on it.

    Finally took a Spanish class a few years back -- problem was, many more years ago I took a "full immersion" course working in a liquor store across the street from a bar that catered to, ah, "undocumented" aliens of Hispanic persuasion. Seems the Spanish I learned in those days doesn't conform to classroom as-spoken-in-Spain Spanish. Doesn't matter, after almost twenty years of no longer being in that environment and not keeping in practice, I can't really speak any version of the language.

    I never looked at it as trying to cater to someone who hadn't learned English. It was a chance to learn something I didn't know, and its coming in handy (good to know what a drunk's mumbling after you've refused to sell him more cerveza [;)]) was a fringe benefit. It's one thing to not have the opportunity to learn, or even to not care to learn, but something else entirely to be actually proud of what one doesn't know.
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  • Henry0Reilly
    I can order a beer in German, Japanese, Korean, & Spanish.
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  • jwb267
    PIG LATIN[:D]
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  • Permanently deleted user
    I used to speak German fairly fluently and a little Japanese...Now, I have a hard enough time keeping up with English...
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
    I can order a beer in German, Japanese, Korean, & Spanish.


    Well at least you have your priorities in order...like any good Marine should![;)][:D]
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  • wsfiredude
    I live in America where one langauge: ENGLISH, should be all I'll ever need to speak.


    sorry kristov, i was just joking around.[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

    a little Japanese (well, enough to get beer and, um, .....)

    a little Spanish
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  • kristov
    quote:Originally posted by wsfiredude
    I live in America where one langauge: ENGLISH, should be all I'll ever need to speak.


    sorry kristov, i was just joking around.[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

    a little Japanese (well, enough to get beer and, um, .....)

    a little Spanish


    Here are classics from the last go around on this subject:
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    I speak English. I see no need for any other language, but I do know a little Spanish.


    quote:Originally posted by KrinkovMan
    English the only language I should have to know in America!!!


    quote:Originally posted by crims40
    quote:English the only language I should have to know in America!!!
    X 10
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  • rustyh
    quote:Originally posted by SaxonPig
    I have studied German and Spanish and I have sort of learned some Ancient Greek and Latin on my own. But I am not capable in any due to lack of practice and usage.

    My wife is much better at languages and I think she can get by in German, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek, French and Italian.

    She's very handy to have along when traveling. [:D]


    Uh....Where do you travel to use the Ancient Greek?
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  • rustyh
    English
    Southern English
    French
    Italian
    Teenager - multiple dialects
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  • Captplaid
    Country and Western
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  • dkb2003
    quote:Originally posted by mp5shooter
    fo shizzle
    NO NO NO...ITS FO SHIZZLE MY NIZZLE...Or FO CHEESES MY NEEEZZy[8D]
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  • LaidbackDan
    I haven't learned any new languages since this was last asked, but then again I have most likely forgotten some of what I did know since the last time this was asked.
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  • pickenup
    English, and a little.......sign language.
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  • buschmaster
    a little spanish, german, serbo-croatioan (bosnian), and pig latin.

    in college, in speech class, we were talking on the same subject, and there was this guy from Turkey who could more or less speak 10 languages.
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  • sarge_3ad
    I can of course speak english and a little German. I can also ask for up to 2 beers in French. However, most folks would say I do poorly at all.
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  • zipperzap
    3-all of them.
    [:D]
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  • catpealer111
    I have yet to master American standard English. Until then, I will not be pursuing a second language so I can devote my entire attention and time on the first.
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  • Zebra
    too busy pressing 1 for English, sorry!
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  • CHEVELLE427
    English



    the rest is just gibberish to me
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  • Spider7115
    I speak fluent conservate English but don't understand a damned word of liberal English.
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  • garand101
    Beer-o Kudasai and Cervesa Por-favor
    Oh yeah....beer please.
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