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How many can you speak? Which ones can you speak? Are you learning at the moment, or planning to learn?

I speak English as a first language, and German as a second language. I can speak Welsh too, but it's very rusty indeed. Being Welsh, I find it slightly embarrassing that Welsh is in fact my third language per se.

I did a beginner's course in Dutch last term too. I thoroughly enjoyed it but couldn't carry it on this term because of commitments to other modules. I really would like to carry on with it.

Hypotheticlly, I'd like to learn Japanese, Russian, Arabic and Latin but I doubt I'll be able to do even 1 of them.

Mein Deutsch ist kaum perfekt aber es ist immer mehr besser als mein Walisich.

Dw i siarad cymraeg a dw i'n mwynhau siarad 'cymraesneg'. Dw i'n dod am Nghogledd Cyrmru a dw i'n byw yn Sir-y-Fflint.

Hoi! Mijn naam is Thom. Ik kom Noord Wales uit. Het is geen demonym voor 'Welshman' in Nederlands.
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Stories and hints welcome.
 
English as first language (although get told by my mates that I learnt American English first :lol:). I'm pretty fluent in French (mais je suis lent quand je faid une phrase :P). I've lost all knowledge of my Mandarin, apart from "🤬 you". And I'd like to fully learn an Asian language, Russian and German.
 
MazdaPrice
How many can you speak?
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There was a similar thread about foreign languages

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=97484&highlight=how+many+languages+do+you+speak

MazdaPrice
Hoi! Mijn naam is Thom. Ik kom Noord Wales uit. Het is geen demonym voor 'Welshman' in Nederlands.
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Let me help you with that.

Hoi! Mijn naam is Thom. Ik ben afkomtig van Noord-Wales. Er is geen inwonersnaam voor "Welshman" in het Nederlands.

Even better: Er bestaat geen inwonersnaam voor ......... .
 
Ah, I did try a search function but obviously I didn't search hard enough.

I think by 'in Nederlands' I probably meant just 'in Nederland'; as in, "There is no demonym for Welshman in Dutch" as opposed to 'in the Netherlands'.
 
I speak Dhivehi as my first language, I can understand all 4 dialects although I can only speak two of them:D

English is my "one and a halfth" language:dopey: I used to have a Scottish accent since I studied there for three years when I was young, lost it now to a more South-Asian one:lol:

I can also understand some Hindhi and Sinhala although I can't speak any of them for sh:censored:

I'm learning Russian and Arabic (Qur'anic) now.
 
kikie
Let me help you with that.

Hoi! Mijn naam is Thom. Ik ben afkomtig van Noord-Wales. Er is geen inwonersnaam voor "Welshman" in het Nederlands.

Even better: Er bestaat geen inwonersnaam voor ......... .
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Very good Kikie, where did you learn Dutch? :P Didnt know you could speak it.

On-topic:

I am half Dutch/half Thai

Born in Holland, but grew up in Tampa Bay, FL

So American English is my first language :sly:

I also speak and write Dutch fluently.

I can speak Thai, but not write it.

And because I've had Spanish throughout my whole school career I speak very good "book" Spanish :D
 
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Very good Kikie, where did you learn Dutch? :P Didnt know you could speak it.

On-topic:

I am half Dutch/half Thai

Born in Holland, but grew up in Tampa Bay, FL

So American English is my first language :sly:

I also speak and write Dutch fluently.

I can speak Thai, but not write it.

And because I've had Spanish throughout my whole school career I speak very good "book" Spanish :D
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Simple, I'm Belgian and Dutch is my first language. :D

You have to use a - between Noord-Wales.

MazdaPrice
Ah, I did try a search function but obviously I didn't search hard enough.

I think by 'in Nederlands' I probably meant just 'in Nederland'; as in, "There is no demonym for Welshman in Dutch" as opposed to 'in the Netherlands'.
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I see but it's still not correct. The correct translation for Dutch = Nederlands, not Nederland. So in grammatical, your sentence is correct but it's not the correct way to say. It's sounds a little "odd".

With Dutch, you are referring to the language, not the country. And don't forget, Dutch is spoken in many countries. => The Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, The Nederlandse Antillen etc.. .
 
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English is my first language, and German is my second. My so-called "mother tongue", Irish, is my third language, and I couldn't give a damn if it died tomorrow. It would mean I get 35 minutes to learn something more useful anyway. :sly:
 
I speak English and I'm on the way to learning French. I'm not fluent yet, but I'm starting to make some progress.
 
I know Spanish (main language) and dominate English pretty well as a second language. I would like to learn some basic Italian and German in the future.
 
I can speak English (being from England) and my conversational Chinese (NOT Manderin but a regional dialect of the language) isn't so bad. Strangely it gets better once I'm drunk, must be a confidence thing.
 
I learnt polish from my parents as a toddler but being in Australia english took over. I'm still fluent in polish, and being in high school, one of my subjects is Japanese.
 
I'd like to learn Finnish so I can understand my music. :lol:

I know enough Italian to not get myself screwed up while working on Italian cars.

"Olio Cambio" is gearbox oil, while "Olio Motore" is engine oil. You dont want to drain gearbox oil then add 12 quarts of engine oil haha.
 
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I can speak English (being from England) and my conversational Chinese (NOT Manderin but a regional dialect of the language) isn't so bad. Strangely it gets better once I'm drunk, must be a confidence thing.
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My parents and my dad's siblings all went to Welsh Language Schools but English is by far and away the first language of people where I live so they'd only use Welsh in school, or to wind other people up but they're not 100% accurate having left school many years ago. My dad tells me that while he might talk to his brother in welsh occasionaly, and we use language humour amongst ourselves (saying football cliches in welsh and so on), he claims that when he's drunk his Welsh is word perfect. I wouldn't know if it works because I don't drink but it must be all about confidence..
 
MazdaPrice
[...] he claims that when he's drunk his Welsh is word perfect. I wouldn't know if it works because I don't drink but it must be all about confidence..
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*runs to off-licence to buy Jack Daniels for Irish class*
 
I can speak English, I am near fluent in Hebrew. I also have a little knowledge of other languages: French, Spanish, Russian, Aramaic, Yiddish.
 
Well, I'm speaking English, of course (pretty well, if I may say so myself :sly:) and German, of course, which is my native language.

I know French a wee bit, but I'm not particularily good at it, quite the opposite... Then there's a bit of Dutch, just enough to understand what people say if they're speaking slowly, though.
And, lastly, i know Latin. Not very useful, and I'm quite rusty, but I think I ncould still manage to translate some Latin scriptures if I had to :D
 
I speak spanish, my native language, and english. I would like to learn japanese, but I don't really have the time. However, I did learn some interesting things about japanese that made it seem easier than I thought.
 
Uh, hm....German (mother tongue), English, French and, most important, BAVARIAN!

Oh and the mighty (and dead) Latin.
 
I speak English, rusty but relatively proficient French, Cantonese and enough Mandarin to get around.

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English and some Cantonese. I'm 40% white-washed.
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How did you come up with that specific number? :lol:
 

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