Do you speak any other languages?

Lia_lia

I started school in France and lived there during my childhood for a few years. So I was fluent!

Since I left school (leaving cert French) and haven't been speaking it it's not great. I can understand it perfectly but I not really comfortable with speaking it anymore. My Father still lives in France so whenever I go back there it comes back to me after being there for a few days!

stillalive88

Italian, French, Latin, English.
But know some people that know four, five times more languages

Nomis21

Dhivé, It's the language of the Maldive Islands.

I hitched a ride with a fishing boat from Sri Lanka in the 80's. We were shipwrecked in the Addu Atoll on an island called Hithadhoo.

I had to stay there after the boat was repaired as one of the island girls claimed she was pregnant with my child. I taught english in the island school while the Maldive Government decided my case. There was no DNA in those days but the child when born did not have European features and I was allowed to leave, by now fluent in a language which is probably even less useful than Irish.

HughWotMVIII

My mother tongue, one Ugandan language, Kiswahili, French, English and a smattering of Swedish.

stillalive88

Nomis21 wrote: »

Dhivé, It's the language of the Maldive Islands.

I hitched a ride with a fishing boat from Sri Lanka in the 80's. We were shipwrecked in the Addu Atoll on an island called Hithadhoo.

I had to stay there after the boat was repaired as one of the island girls claimed she was pregnant with my child. I taught english in the island school while the Maldive Government decided my case. There was no DNA in those days but the child when born did not have European features and I was allowed to leave, by now fluent in a language which is probably even less useful than Irish.

And I thought the plot of Arrow was not believable

Manach

duolingo is a handy resource to boost language skills to an intermediate level.

pragmatic1

Irish and English. Spoke Irish exclusively until the age of 8.

AlanS181824

Been learning German for 5 years so I've a fair amount of confidence in that.

However I was in Berlin in November and a few times I had to resort to asking... Sprechen Sie Englisch? (Do ya speak English?)

Seanf999

I speak some Turkish and the usual Irish and French because I do them at school so I don't know if I can really count them..

calanus

A couple of Scandanavian languages already popped up here. Just adding Icelandic to the mix. I can get away with general everyday stuff at the moment but I can't go beyond basic conversations... I can read it pretty well though

Mountainsandh

French is my first language, English, and did Spanish in school but only remember enough to understand it, would love to relearn it on my own terms, and probably will some time. I did have to do Latin for 2 years back in France but I only remember scraps of grammar. Can understand Italian a good bit since it's so similar to French.
Would love to learn more, any language, they are all fascinating, but don't have the motivation yet. I will some day, with YouTube it's so accessible.

80s Child

Does gee-lick count?? It's late, I should hit the hay.

lecker Hendl

Fluent in shite talk

4zn76tysfajdxp

stillalive88 wrote: »

Italian, French, Latin, English.
But know some people that know four, five times more languages

You know people who can speak 16-20 languages?

MsBubbles

I did my degree in German and Spanish. My German is pretty good and my spanish is ok. I studied French up to LC but can barely say Bonjour now.

The Peanut

Nomis21 wrote: »

Dhivé, It's the language of the Maldive Islands.

I hitched a ride with a fishing boat from Sri Lanka in the 80's. We were shipwrecked in the Addu Atoll on an island called Hithadhoo.

I had to stay there after the boat was repaired as one of the island girls claimed she was pregnant with my child. I taught english in the island school while the Maldive Government decided my case. There was no DNA in those days but the child when born did not have European features and I was allowed to leave, by now fluent in a language which is probably even less useful than Irish.

Love the hitched a ride bit; it must be a thousand miles. Are you Michael Palin?

BeerWolf

Nope, I can barely pass for speaking German without the constant use of a Eng-Ger Dictionary... moving to Ireland I was exempted from Irish, and even from the country I was born in I can't even speak the language there...

I

AM

FECKING

USELESS

AT LANGUAGES!

Hoop66

French, not fluent but I can get by no bother. Farsi, used to be near-fluent but lost most of it now. Bahasa, the same.

Gibberish, of course.

inforfun

My Dutch is pretty good.

Can handle myself in German and French if i would really need to do so. Definitely better reading those languages than speaking them though

Kev_2012

French at a moderate level, can get by with basic enough spanish.

murpho999

Pretty fluent in Dutch as my Mrs is a cloggie and I lived there for 7 years.

Enjoyed learning and speaking it.

Shocking how few Irish people speak a 2nd language.

Also, see people here who use Google translate to compose e-mails in foreign languages to international customers which is plainly wrong and makes them look stupid and shows that they have not spoken other languages as word for word translation is not how languages work.

They look at me as if I'm crazy and/or arrogant when I point this out.

vienne86

I speak pretty good French, did German and Irish in schoold and am useless at both. Would like to know some Spanish.

ronjo

Can hold a conversation in Slovak. Really wish I could speak Business slovak for work but I havent the time/am too lazy

Calina

murpho999 wrote: »

Also, see people here who use Google translate to compose e-mails in foreign languages to international customers which is plainly wrong and makes them look stupid and shows that they have not spoken other languages as word for word translation is not how languages work.

People do this?

I feel a little sick inside.

4zn76tysfajdxp

murpho999 wrote: »

Shocking how few Irish people speak a 2nd language.

Why? Sure most Irish people will never need to know any other language but English.

Asmooh

Dutch, English, Swedish

Oink

I once had a convo with someone who only spoke Italian and Piedmontese. I don't speak either but if you add an O at the end of everythingo and wave your handso a lot it seems to work.

Afrikaans is cool though. EDIT: except when I speak it. That time I thought I was saying "I'm tired, let's go home". I actually said "I am a ******* [gay person], lets go home".

Mesrine65

Fluent Drunkenese.

Magico Gonzalez

spanish.

Day Lewin

Irish, first language. English, nat'r'lly
French, Italian (BA Hons), Spanish.
Latin to read but one doesn't actually "speak" it, and I can read Portuguese as well.
Also Irish Sign Language to level 3 but that is not exactly "spoken" either.
Actually I love languages and find them easy to learn. I even had a bash at Welsh! (ugh, it was hard)