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hojucandy

Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: In a better place
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:35 am Post subject: |
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I speak 'Strine
but I can also speak Hindi, Urdu and several Melanesian languages. And a little Korean of course. |
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uk27
Joined: 19 May 2009 Location: Korea
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:56 am Post subject: |
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Upper-Intermediate Italian.
Not too difficult a language to learn, and a fun language to speak. Let's see if Korean shares those same qualities... |
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yingwenlaoshi

Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:40 am Post subject: |
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English
French
Mandarin (upper-beginner)
Korean (upper-beginner)
I, however, don't really know how to classify my Mandarin and Korean. I can get around pretty good with my Korean, but conversations are pretty hard. Haven't spoken what little Mandarin I learned in almost five years. I don't know. Listening skills in both are getting better. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:24 am Post subject: |
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English - native
French - native
Korean - fluent
Spanish - intermediate (but out of practice) |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009 Location: Gyeonggi-do
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:53 am Post subject: |
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French (fluent)
Scots Gaelic (fluent)
Latin (conversational)
Russian (enough to get me by)
Japanese (ditto). |
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losing_touch

Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Location: Ulsan - I think!
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:58 am Post subject: |
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English - Native
German - Basic
Thai - Conversational |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:27 am Post subject: |
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English- Native
French- Almost fluent in understanding, Uppder intermidiate in speaking
Korean will be up next, and I'm gonna try to pick up Inutittut when I get back home for work. |
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Epicurus
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:33 am Post subject: |
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tzechuk wrote: |
Epicurus wrote: |
tzechuk wrote: |
English - native
Cantonese - native
Mandarin - native
German - conversational / intermediate
Korean - conversational / intermediate
Italian - conversational / beginner
French - very basic |
out of curiosity, how can you be "native" in both Cantonese AND Mandarin?
did you speak Cantonese to your Dad and Mandarin to your Mom, etc?
that's about the only way I can envisage it. |
Yes, exactly that.
Born in HK. Father speaks English and Cantonese, mother speaks mandarin and cantonese. English nanny spoke only English. Paternal grandparents spoke Hakka, and I still speak it, but not very often. Maternal grandparents spoke only mandarin, so we spoke only mandarin to them. |
btw.. I don't mean to be disrespectul of you career choice(s)
but what are you doing in ESL?
you can be pulling very serious bank with that language skillset.
When I tried to get a gig in Hong Kong with a division of my firm based there, I was told they were specifically looking for people with that skillset.
You can be in management of many many firms doing business in China.
the world should be your oyster my dear. |
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smoggy
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:16 am Post subject: languages |
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French & Italian - fluent, but not as fluent as a native
German - very rusty |
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furtakk
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:31 am Post subject: |
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english - native
french - intermediate. i was in a french immersion program for 4 years when i was younger so i have forgotten quite a bit, but still retain a lot. i can get around with locals, but it's not great.
portuguese - intermediate. about on par with my french. parents are both immigrants and my grandparents don't know too much english so i have picked up a little. it is embarrassingly bad though. it should be much better. |
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Steelrails

Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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pig latin- advanced
Other than that I speak the typical American English teacher mix of
English- Midwestern, Rural(Southern/Western), and wannabe British, plus various immigrant accents
Forgotten H.S. Spanish
Wish I paid attention more French
Nazi War Movie German
Quotable Latin- Sic Semper Fidelis and all that oh wait I mean tyrannus.
War on Terror news based Arabic (Dude don't do that, that would be haram. You don't want someone to issue a fatwa on you.)
Butchered Korean
Jive
1-2Words in Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Russian (I can read cyrillic) Greek, Gaelic, Afrikaans, Swahili, etc. to impress people and look like a moron. |
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MissLady717
Joined: 04 Jun 2009
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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english- native
cantonese- native, but my listening skills are super higher than my actual speaking...
japanese- intermediate, still learning
korean- beginning. maybe i should start since im leaving in 2 weeks... lol
spanish- horrible, even though i took it in high school for 3 years |
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tzechuk

Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:41 am Post subject: |
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MissLady717 wrote: |
english- native
cantonese- native, but my listening skills are super higher than my actual speaking...
japanese- intermediate, still learning
korean- beginning. maybe i should start since im leaving in 2 weeks... lol
spanish- horrible, even though i took it in high school for 3 years |
Yay for another Cantonese speaker!!
W00t!! |
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Chambertin
Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Location: Gunsan
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Japanese
Enough to shock the piss out of the local Korean high school teacher of Japanese. (translator in a previous job, far from perfect though)
It was so much fun to have a real Japanese conversation in Korea. Said teacher was really good and I dont want my skills to rust away.
German
Lots of studying but it is being overwritten by Japanese and Korean faster than an old Hard Drive at the CIA
French
Simple party tricks
Spanish
Only because it is so similar to French I can guess my way through directions. |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Location: Korea sparkling
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:38 am Post subject: |
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fluent in japanese. It makes the kids at the local high school go "waaaaaaaaa"
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