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JZer
Joined: 16 Jan 2005
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Location: Pittsburgh
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| English and German. I will soon have a Master's degree in German Literature and then I will move to Brazil and learn Portuguese. |
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vespertine
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
Posts: 35
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| English and fluent Italian, some Spanish. |
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Olivia
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
Posts: 35
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| English, Polish and Spanish |
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Sara Avalon
Joined: 25 Feb 2004
Posts: 254
Location: On the Prowl
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Are you Monolingual, Bilingual, or Multi-lingual? |
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English, Arabic, French.
In that order.  |
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guangho
Joined: 16 Oct 2004
Posts: 476
Location: in transit
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Just checking to see if the sheepless one and sheepgirl are making wool together yet.... |
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younggeorge
Joined: 15 Apr 2005
Posts: 350
Location: UAE
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| matttheboy wrote: |
Used to have fluent french until i started learning spanish 15 months ago. Now understand french fluently but speak like a total muppet (pretty good esfrangnol actually).
Went to paris a couple of weeks ago and found it incredibly frustrating being able to understand everything but not being able to respond. Anyone else had this problem when learning more than 1 romance language? |
The languages don't have to be closely related. I speak (or used to) Turkish pretty well and a bit of Farsi and Arabic. They're completely unrelated but share a lot of vocabulary and using a word that you're more familiar with from one of the other languages can throw you into the wrong language for the rest of the sentence. I suppose that's one of the differences between knowing the languages a bit and being multilingual. |
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MELITTA
Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 9
Location: usa
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I speak Albanian, Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian, English, and i have a good knowledge of French.
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Veritas_Aequitas
Joined: 15 Jul 2004
Posts: 88
Location: Jalisco, Mexico
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| matttheboy wrote: |
Used to have fluent french until i started learning spanish 15 months ago. Now understand french fluently but speak like a total muppet (pretty good esfrangnol actually). Spanish needs another year before i'd call myself fluent but i'm pretty proficient and never speak english with my chilean english speaking girlfriend.
Went to paris a couple of weeks ago and found it incredibly frustrating being able to understand everything but not being able to respond. Anyone else had this problem when learning more than 1 romance language? |
Speaking Spanish and Portuguese can be confusing. When I lived in Brasil for the second time, and came home to speak Spanish with a lot of people, it completely threw me off for a little while. Now both languages wax and wane according to if I'm hanging out with Brasilians or Spanish speakers. |
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WYSIWYG
Joined: 17 Oct 2004
Posts: 149
Location: It's good to be in my own little world. We all know each other here!
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| Slowly but surely I'm learning Mandarin via the Pimsleur audio lessons. I'm probably learning just enough to get myself laughed at, but what the heck, gotta start somewhere. |
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glace
Joined: 06 Jun 2005
Posts: 8
Location: vietnam
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| English and Vietnamese. Speak Vietnamese at lower intermediate level. It have been learning for about 3 years, better now than ever and I seem to be learning at a much more rapid pace than before. Not the easiest language with 5/6 tonal(depending Sai Gon or Ha Noi) possibilities for each syllable and very close minimal pairs. Probably not the easiest choice for a first time language learner, but kinky! |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Posts: 4946
Location: Blabbing
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Fluent English, pretty good Chinese (Mandarin), passable French and Korean. Rusty Japanese. Some Albanian and Spanish.
Would love to learn German. |
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dyak
Joined: 25 Jun 2003
Posts: 630
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I am trilingual. I'll try anything lingual...  |
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