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#21 Postby george_r_1961 » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:47 pm

English...at one time I spoke enough German to get by but I have forgotten a lot of it. I can understand it better than
I can speak it. A little Spanish and a few Russian phrases. Very little French.
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#22 Postby sunny » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:48 pm

One :D
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#23 Postby azsnowman » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:28 pm

cycloneye wrote:Wow I am very surprised that many members speak at least a little spanish. :) Dennis continue to learn that language and I will see you posting soon in spanish. :)


That's my goal Luis, to be able to speak, understand and write in Spanish, it's actually a pretty easy language.......except one *little* thing, the "a's and o's", masculine, female, now THAT I'm kinda having a hard time with!

Linda, sign language IS a language so yeah, you know 2 different ones!

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#24 Postby azsnowman » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:31 pm

OH YEAH.....I forgot :roll: I used to speak Apache now I only understand it, talk about a HARD language SHEEEESH, it's a LOT like Navajo, no written and VERY nasaly, ya know, like Raymond :lol:

Dennis 8-)
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#25 Postby Skywatch_NC » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:06 pm

azsnowman wrote:OH YEAH.....I forgot :roll: I used to speak Apache now I only understand it, talk about a HARD language SHEEEESH, it's a LOT like Navajo, no written and VERY nasaly, ya know, like Raymond :lol:

Dennis 8-)


More like Raymond's cousin Girard..."Oh nooo...the white-out is making me dizzy." :lol:
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#26 Postby streetsoldier » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:13 pm

Here we go again...I speak, write and read English, Old Saxon/alter bayerisch, deutsch, provencal, francais, espanol, lingua romana, and am working on intermediate Pocckye (Russian).

I can understand Italian (many Latin cognates), Norsk and Dansk; engage in some conversation with them, but have trouble reading them.

'Nuff said.
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#27 Postby Lindaloo » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:20 pm

We all better learn to speak Spanish. They say in 10 years Spanish will be the number one language in the United States.
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#28 Postby kevin » Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:30 am

Lindaloo wrote:Does fluent in sign language count? :D


Yes. Because (as you know) it isn't a cipher of english but a complete language with inflectional rules et cetera.
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#29 Postby JQ Public » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:08 am

English, pretty good w/ Gujarati and know some french
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Re: Languages=How many you know?

#30 Postby Stephanie » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:33 am

azsnowman wrote:
cycloneye wrote:I speak Spanish and English.


Si`, me also! LOL! I'm in the process of learning Spanish via a GREAT program, it's a 10 cd series...doing pretty good! I figure with ALL the immigrants we have in Az, particulary PINETOP now, one HAS to KNOW Spanish!

Dennis


Muy Bueno!!! :wink:

It's an easy language to learn, but like everything else, if you don't use it, you lose it! Italian is very similar. I started that in Middle School in NY, but unfortunately when I moved to NJ, they didn't offer it. It was easy to convert to it though.
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#31 Postby El Nino » Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:11 am

French, Dutch, English, Spanish and a little bit of German.



:grrr:
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#32 Postby Skywatch_NC » Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:13 am

El Nino wrote:French, Dutch, English, Spanish and a little bit of German.



:grrr:


Why the :grrr: face?
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#33 Postby El Nino » Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:47 pm

Just for fun :wink:
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#34 Postby arkess7 » Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:43 pm

English and a tiny bit of Spanish..........used to work in the restaurant business and i picked up alot of spanish when taking orders.......a lot of food words.. :wink:
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#35 Postby breeze » Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:17 pm

English, very little Spanish, and, though I can't actually
use the deaf sign language, I know the deaf alphabet and
can make words and sentences.
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Re: Languages=How many you know?

#36 Postby lurkey » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:42 pm

Speak fluently? -- One --> English ( and sometimes that is debateable)

My accent is too atrocious when speaking Spanish or attempting French. .


Read and Write (other than English) -- Spanish, some French and I can muddle my way through reading most Romance (Latin based) languages.
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#37 Postby alicia-w » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:11 pm

English and a little Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Hebrew (enough to get by). used to know some Tagalog but havent used it in a LONG time.
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#38 Postby stormie_skies » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:50 pm

English, enough French to maybe get by, a tiny tiny bit of Spanish and a little bit of Egyptian colliquial Arabic (something I tried to teach myself once - before I got completely flustered trying to learn the alphabet - and plan on taking up again).

Actually, isn't there a government program that gives grants to students who want to become fluent in Arabic?
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#39 Postby gtalum » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:05 pm

stormie_skies wrote:Actually, isn't there a government program that gives grants to students who want to become fluent in Arabic?


Well I know you're pretty much guaranteed a pretty high pay-grade job in the FBI and/or CIA if you speak Arabic fluently.
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#40 Postby Stephanie » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:30 pm

breeze wrote:English, very little Spanish, and, though I can't actually
use the deaf sign language, I know the deaf alphabet and
can make words and sentences.


That's a great talent to have!
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