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Besides English, what languages do you speak?

None. I only speak English.
Total votes: 55 (24%)
German
Total votes: 47 (20%)
Dutch/Afrikaans
Total votes: 14 (6%)
Other North Germanic lang (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese)
Total votes: 11 (5%)
Spanish
Total votes: 22 (9%)
Portuguese
Total votes: 4 (2%)
French
Total votes: 22 (9%)
Italian
Total votes: 4 (2%)
Other Romance lang (Romanian, Catalan, etc.)
Total votes: 3 (1%)
Greek
Russian
Total votes: 10 (4%)
Other Slavic lang (Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Bulgarian, etc.)
Total votes: 7 (3%)
Arabic (any dialect)
Total votes: 2 (1%)
Japanese
Total votes: 9 (4%)
Korean
(No votes)
Mandarin or other Chinese dialect (Min, Wu, Yue, Cantonese, etc.)
Total votes: 4 (2%)
Tai-Kadai lang (Thai, Lao, etc.)
(No votes)
Indo-Aryan lang (Hindi/Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, etc.)
Total votes: 4 (2%)
Any notable Conlang (Esperanto, lojban, Interlingua, etc.)
Total votes: 2 (1%)
Other -- Let us know in the comments!
Total votes: 12 (5%)
Total votes: 233
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What languages do you speak?

#1
We're such a diverse crowd, so (as a budding linguist) I'm naturally very curious as to what languages we speak.

Unfortunately, I had to group some languages by family (Tai-Kadai, North Germanic, Chinese languages, Indo-Aryan, Slavic, etc.) or by mutual intelligibility (Dutch/Afrikaans). But if you fall in one of those groups, tell us more in the comments!


As for me, I only speak German, and even that only for a few years. But I'd love to learn Mandarin.
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Re: What languages do you speak?

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TheJuggler wrote:We're such a diverse crowd, so (as a budding linguist) I'm naturally very curious as to what languages we speak.

Unfortunately, I had to group some languages by family (Tai-Kadai, North Germanic, Chinese languages, Indo-Aryan, Slavic, etc.) or by mutual intelligibility (Dutch/Afrikaans). But if you fall in one of those groups, tell us more in the comments!


As for me, I only speak German, and even that only for a few years. But I'd love to learn Mandarin.
We have a moderator named Grumblesaur who is interested in linguistics. He doesn't seem to be here as often as he used to be. I miss that. :(

Perhaps your interest will tempt him to post more again. ;) :angel:
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Re: What languages do you speak?

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Victor Tombs wrote:
TheJuggler wrote:We're such a diverse crowd, so (as a budding linguist) I'm naturally very curious as to what languages we speak.

Unfortunately, I had to group some languages by family (Tai-Kadai, North Germanic, Chinese languages, Indo-Aryan, Slavic, etc.) or by mutual intelligibility (Dutch/Afrikaans). But if you fall in one of those groups, tell us more in the comments!


As for me, I only speak German, and even that only for a few years. But I'd love to learn Mandarin.
We have a moderator named Grumblesaur who is interested in linguistics. He doesn't seem to be here as often as he used to be. I miss that. :(

Perhaps your interest will tempt him to post more again. ;) :angel:
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#12
Dinosawer wrote:Odd thing, despite having learned French a lot longer than English my English is a lot better. :lol:
Alors présentez-vous à 0600 pour une session d'entrainement rapide.

La pratique est la seule chose qui compte pour les langues. Je propose donc la motion suivante pour aider Dinosawer:
-> Le forum "Suggestion" n'accepte plus que les suggestions en français.
Comme ça on fait d'une pierre deux coups: Dino améliore son français et Josh n'a plus besoin d'excuse pour ignorer les "feature-creeps" qui résultent de la lecture de ce forum.

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#13
Native German (as far as Austrian dialects are considered to be "real" German by our northern neighbours :P) speaker with good English and passable Italian here, as a medical student also some form of latin... (only passive) :thumbup:

Something quite interesting I personally experienced is that I start thinking solely in English while using it, something I don't do with Italian or Latin.
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MWJ wrote:Native German (as far as Austrian dialects are considered to be "real" German by our northern neighbours :P) speaker with good English and passable Italian here, as a medical student also some form of latin... (only passive) :thumbup:

Something quite interesting I personally experienced is that I start thinking solely in English while using it, something I don't do with Italian or Latin.
There are only 2 groups of people who speak real german:
Austrians and Bavarians.

Those filthy prussians dont speak german :P

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