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by **Encarnacion** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:39 am UTC

Here to chime in as a speaker of English, Southwestern US American "dialect", and Spanish, pertaining especially to Baja California, Mexico. I also know a bit of American Sign Langage words, but no true grammar skills yet, and a few words and phrases in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Greek. I can fake my way through understanding written Portuguese, French, and sometimes Italian.

by **ZLVT** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:20 am UTC

That's rather impressive, but are you sure you weren't looking for this thread? Welcome to the forum, enjoy.

by **neelakantankk** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:15 pm UTC

Let's see, I know...

1) Hindi (Fluently)
2) Bengali (Fluently)
3) Tamil (A fair amount)
4)Malayalam ( A smattering)
5) Latin (Still studying it)
6) German (Still studying it)

by **ZLVT** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:40 am UTC

Yes, this isn't specific to native languages (cf. threads on Volapük, Klingon, Esperanto, Toki Pona, and Anglisc) so feel free to start one.

by **LittleKey** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:28 am UTC

I'm interested as to why there isn't a North Germanic language practice thread. I would make one, but I don't speak any Scandinavian language. If I'm succesful in my pursuit of Norwegian, I'll make a Norwegian or a general North Germanic language thread. But seeing as I don't, why doesn't someone else do it instead?

by **steewi** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:10 am UTC

I'm interested as to why there isn't a North Germanic language practice thread.

I've seen Danish and Swedish floating around somewhere. Are they on the OP?

EDIT: Apparently not, but here is the Danish thread. It could do with revival.

by **ZLVT** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:23 am UTC

Swedish and Danish are both on the OP and there was debate as to a Norwegian thread (iirc), but I don't think there was much support. Swedish is also waning a bit so a N. Germanic thread might be good.

by **LittleKey** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:27 am UTC

Oh hahaha, I went right by Danish and Swedish without seeing them, on the OP. Yeah, a united N. Germanic thread would be excellent.

by **Pit** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:03 pm UTC

I'm not sure many people speak this (or plan to learn it), but I know Bahasa Indonesia, and through that, Tagalog (Filipino).

by **ZLVT** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:12 pm UTC

I think we've had some discussion on Bahasa before, don't know about Tagalog.

by **Pit** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:39 am UTC

Oh? If there are more people who speak either, we could definitely start a practice thread...

by **ZLVT** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:51 am UTC

So now we play the waiting game.

Anyone speak Tagalog/Bahasa?

by **Etni** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:42 am UTC

Another Finn reporting in.

by **ZLVT** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:39 am UTC

I think you guys should start a thread, there seem to be quite a few floating around.

by **LittleKey** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:25 pm UTC

Pit wrote:I'm not sure many people speak this (or plan to learn it), but I know Bahasa Indonesia, and through that, Tagalog (Filipino).

If you know them, why not start the thread? If there are any other speakers they'll show up once they see the thread. I say try it.

by **Celtic Minstrel** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:17 am UTC

Does anyone speak Welsh here?

by **ZLVT** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:29 am UTC

No, but damn that'd be cool.

by **Quarian** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:13 pm UTC

Ooh, there was another Finn up there. Yes, Finnish is my native language too. I also speak English (fluent), French (not quite as fluently) and Swedish (we have to study Swedish). So if anyone wishes to ask anything, feel free.

by **Rilian** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:43 pm UTC

I'm learning Romanian.
I also learn spanish, german, and french, but I take classes for those in summer. However, I can find no romanian classes.

My CS teacher, who is from romania, told us this in class:

Asa e usor a scrie renumitul si utilul numar.
3....1...4..1...5......9........2...6.....5

by **ZLVT** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:18 pm UTC

Care to explain?

by **Rilian** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:29 pm UTC

Oh.

It means "Thus it is easy to write the renowned and useful number."

The number of letters in each word is the number in pi, with "asa" refering to the 3 before the decimal point.

by **ZLVT** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:05 am UTC

hey that's cool. I just keep 3.14159265358 in my head

by **thornahawk** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:01 pm UTC

I present myself as being a good speaker of Filipino (which strictly speaking is derived from Tagalog but != to it).

F'rinstance...

The Tagalog syllabary is A Ba Ka Da E Ga Ha I La Ma Na Pa Ra Sa Ta U Wa Ya

while Filipino borrows the 26 letters of the English alphabet plus Ñ and Ng.

...and since Filipino now tends to borrow a lot of words from a lot of other languages nowadays, only very few really speak Tagalog.

Anyway... just to convince you that I can do Filipino/Tagalog:

Magagawa ko kayong kausapin sa wikang Filipino. Kung ninanais ninyong masanay makipag-usap sa wikang Filipino ay narito ako upang mag-turo.

~ Werner

P.S. Filipino did derive some of its words from the Malay language... but it also borrowed words from the Chinese, Arabic, Indian, and Spanish (that's what 300+ years of being a colony does to a country

) languages as well. Ergo... "close, but no cigar."

by **Julien** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:32 pm UTC

Ok you're gonna cry. Not that I'm impressive, but most that I'm a bit frightening. I speak :
-Belgian French
-South-African English
-Luxembourgish, or at least Luxembourg German
-Afrikaans, or at least very bad Dutch

Please, just don't ask me why.

by **ZLVT** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:45 am UTC

What's luxembourgish like? It sounds like german pronounced as french.

by **Neris** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:14 am UTC

I speak tagalog.

by **ZLVT** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:33 am UTC

Yay, now pit has a chat buddy.

by **Pit** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:02 pm UTC

This makes Pit a happy person since her Tagalog and Bahasa has been dying due to the introduction of college (and thus, less talking to family members)

by **thornahawk** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:16 am UTC

If any of you start a Filipino thread, I would be quite happy to talk a bit on the nuances.

Takers?

~ Werner

by **Probably Human** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:32 am UTC

I'm supposed to be able to speak a little bit of French, but so far one of the only things I can remember is "Je suis poisson." I can speak some Indonesian, and a few words in Spanish. I think that Indonesian has to be one of the easiest languages to learn, all the words are spelt exactly how they sound! Thank god for phonetics.

by **ZLVT** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:09 am UTC

anyone speak persian here? I'm taking it but I could use help with the tenses.

by **geomailer** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:47 pm UTC

Hi, I'm a new reader from Hungary (haha, who would have thought a Hungarian started this topic) and I like these linguistic topics a lot. You can put me up in the Hungarian group and I also speak German on middle level.

by **ZLVT** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:57 am UTC

Alas, we have no magyar thread yet, but I may start one as there seem to be a few floating around. Amugy Udv.

Also, did I hit the wrong button or did someone remove Urdu from the list up top?

by **geomailer** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:00 pm UTC

Yeah, I meant the list in your first post, detailing the language speakers. If one more guy shows up, we can launch a thread.

Addig is üdv, meg a másik magyarul beszélő usernek is.

by **ZLVT** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:18 pm UTC

De szilard meggyozodesem hogy en az Urdu nyelvet is oda raktam nemreg, de ugy tunik, hogy vagy elrontottam, vagy kivettek. Mindegy, de lassan kene mar egy magyar threadet (mi a szar a thread magyarul?) kezdeni. Te amugy honnet vagy?

by **alitheiapsis** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:44 am UTC

Gujarati is my second language. I can speak fluently, but reading the script is a slight problem (whoo hoo transliteration). The Gujarati and Devanagari scripts are similar enough so that I can read either, with minor difficulties. I would lovelovelove to have some practice in either Gujarati or Hindi--I sure as hell need it. :)

by **ZLVT** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:28 am UTC

aneeshm and tendays speak hindi, and the urdu thread is bound to have some, you can also try the say somethign in an indian language thread.

by **Alpha Omicron** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:42 am UTC

Mr_Rose wrote:(I speak 'Tolkien English' rather more fluently than I speak modern English due to having first read the books when I was six, hence my interest and my tendency to write complex multi-clause sentences using slightly archaic meanings of words in common use...)

Pretentiousness OVERLOAD!

by **ZLVT** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:34 am UTC

there can be no such thing.

by **TheCitadel** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:51 pm UTC

Hi you guys... I speak Spanish (native language,and I know a lot of words in the equivalent to slang in Buenos Aires, which is 'lunfardo'), so feel free to PM me if you have any doubts about the language...
I'm studying English and German, and I had five years of French, which I enjoyed but don't feel like resuming

. That's it for now.

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