How many languages do you know?

[AbsoluteIce]

Yep, really bored, so started this thread up. Here's the 50 cent question, however ; How many languages do you know? And what languages are you interested in learning? Personally, for me, I know Malay, English, 4 Chinese Dialects (Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, and Mandarin), Thai, Korean and Laotian. I'm really interested in learning Vietnamese and Khmer (Cambodian), and i'm in the process of learning Japanese, and Burmese. What about you?

[Acolyte]

I know a bit of Spanish and a bit of Japanese. Not enough that I could get by in either Japan or any Spanish speaking countries, but it's cool to see words in other languages and know what they mean.

I'd like to learn Italian, and properly learn Japanese someday.

[yuyu!]

Geez. You know a lot of languages, Absolute. O_o And your English is really solid.

...English is the only language I know. I used to know some Sign Language, but I forgot it. :p 2 years of ASL classes down the drain.

[Sophist]

english german russian ;o

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Egnlish.

[Gaming Princess Luna]

German and english and I try to learn japanese. (\s/)

[AbsoluteIce]

Geez. You know a lot of languages, Absolute. O_o And your English is really solid.

...English is the only language I know. I used to know some Sign Language, but I forgot it. :p 2 years of ASL classes down the drain.

I might know alot of languages, however, I have flaws in each one. For example, my Hokkien Caliagraphy is terrible, but my speech is excellent.

[Space]

I suck at languages. I tried to teach myself Japanese, but I found it really difficult to focus on it.
I learnt French, German and Spanish in school. I also forgot French, German and Spanish in school

So that leaves me with English and Basic. And my Basic is rusty D:

[Arrow]

Eng...lish... but I'm really good at it. I do words good.

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Egnlish is the best language.

[The Shadow]

English, spanish, swedish, turkish.

I also understand norwegian, but I can't speak it :/. I also understand the danish
language, but barerly.

[pacdiggity]

I recognise only four languages: that of words, that of sound, that of numbers, and that of people. I'm yet to meet anyone capable of understanding all.

[pacdiggity]

Do I win most pretentious post now

[Moss.]

English, mainly.

I can understand Spanish to a degree, based mostly on my limited knowledge of vocabulary and some (if I do say so myself) pretty stellar contextual-based reasoning. I absolutely cannot speak it, though.

I can sort of understand British people. Sometimes I need subtitles. Dr. Who and Top Gear has helped me with this.






Is music theory a language? I mean, if someone starts playing a progression of chords on the guitar, and I can guess what he's going to do next based on the context, the key, the style, etc, isn't that similar to finishing someone's sentence because you understand what they're saying, because you understand their language and know where they're going with their train of thought?

Nah, I guess not.

[Shalaren]

A bit random...
Family comes from Ukraine so Ukrainian. but for some reason they also know Russian... so Russian,
however they moved to Israel (where I was born) so Hebrew, and then they we moved to Canada, so French and English,

so.... Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew, French and English.

[PhoenixFire]

English for me, but I would love to learn Japanese. I know a tiny tiny tiny tiny....amount of German, and about the same amount of Spanish.

[Malson]

Is music theory a language? I mean, if someone starts playing a progression of chords on the guitar, and I can guess what he's going to do next based on the context, the key, the style, etc, isn't that similar to finishing someone's sentence because you understand what they're saying, because you understand their language and know where they're going with their train of thought?

Nah, I guess not.

Try to say "I bought milk and eggs at the store this morning" in music theory.