Spanish is my first language, so i can pretty much understand: Italian, latin and portugese. Then Is english and french. I'm trying to learn Japanese, punjabi and russian.
Spanish is my first language, so i can pretty much understand: Italian, latin and portugese. Then Is english and french. I'm trying to learn Japanese, punjabi and russian.
Shall these bones live?
I can do fluent spanish and english, my italian still needs quite a lot of work.
I'd try learning french in the distant future.
Ningún hombre llega a ser lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que lee.
- Jorge Luis Borges
I can speak 3 languages, Russian, Ukrainian, and English. But I'm not fluent in any of them. I need to read more.
"Dullness. Ethereal, ephemeral, allegorical dullness. The blunt boredom rises from the gorge of her insufferable lips and floats like the tiniest feather of a long dead bird until it lands, naked and tired memory next to your fleshy feet. But she is gone now, away, away, like all the others, away, away! Only I, poet man, has chosen to stay. And I welcome you, travelers, to the memory catacombs of the Brunnen-G!" (c) Poet Man
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2. English and Spanish. And I went to J-school for 2 years and sped through 4 years of it.
Ah, same. I can pretty much understand all Italian, Latin, French, and Portuguese. Sometimes it just takes a few seconds/minutes to fully grasp the concept if I'm reading it, but Spanish really does open a lot of doors to those other languages if you understand the way words sound and what parts of words mean. (:
Japanese is pronounced just like Spanish, so it's easy peasy. :]
"It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel."
-- Sister Carrie
I can speak fluently Finnish (of course) and English. I know enough Swedish to read a book or a newspaper, if it's not very difficult text, but I don't speak it fluently.
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Hindi and English. I can understand a few other Indian languages.
I would like to learn Urdu, I can understand it though, but I want to learn the written form. I really like the way it's written, and how it's read (what we have as the first page of a book is the last page in an Urdu book, and instead of writing from 'left to right' it's written 'right to left'). Also, if I get a chance I would like to learn speaking an European language, any one.
Just english, and not that well
Fluent may be a tall order, but I can make myself understood in my native Danish, and I can understand (and most often be understood) by my Scandinavian neighbors in Norway and Sweden.
I can with difficulty carry a conversation in German.
I can with great difficulty spell my way through simple French texts, but speak less than 50 words, and quite often mistake spoken French for Greek.
And, finally, I manage to make myself understood in English (most of the time).
We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.
~ Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
This is the beauty of the E.U. Many langauges, many people.
Only English..... but if you listened to my mother, she would frequently claim that I was also fluent in Full-Mouth and Potty-Mouth.
Full-Mouth ---> English Translation
Peef pash mi duh thalt ---> Please, pass me the salt.
I won't even bother with a Potty-Mouth translation.... You all get the idea!
Yes, Urdu is a nice language, the words sound good in it (the way it's read as you have mentioned), at least to me. Poetry in Urdu is also beautiful!But it's not too easy to write it for a person who is new to this language I think. It's quite complicated. Its joining of letters (unlike English spelling) is very complex. I still make mistakes in that though I am good in it at school.
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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I like itYes, Urdu is a nice language, the words sound good in it (the way it's read as you have mentioned), at least to me. Poetry in Urdu is also beautiful!it's a very polite language.
I must say that I usually speak Hinglish. Well, that is Hindi + English. When speaking in daily life, we talk using mostly Hindi words, and many English words. So I don't really speak pure Hindi.
uhm...almost 4. I speak fluently Dutch, Bosnian and English. my German is just OK, but still not fluent. And considering the fact that I live in Austria now, this probably wont take long.
Nightwish: ˝Fare thee well, little broken heart
Downcast eyes, lifetime loneliness
Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone˝
Heh we have this trend of Urd-English here as well, but it depends from person to person. Some people add a word or two of English in five or six sentences while others try to say just 'how are you doing, guys' and basic greetings in English. Those who know it try to impress/perhaps not by speaking just in English even in the front of those people who they know have no idea what it means.I like it
I must say that I usually speak Hinglish
I personally prefer to stick to one language Urdu while speaking though it's another thing English words force themselves out of my mouth at times.
I think though it might be looking okay while mixing up the two languages in a conversation, but English and Urdu can't get along while writing! We have different letters...
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
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