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French
|     | 16 | 34.04% | |
Spanish
|    | 17 | 36.17% | |
German
|    | 18 | 38.30% | |
Sweedish
|    | 4 | 8.51% | |
Italian
|    | 1 | 2.13% | |
Chinese
|    | 1 | 2.13% | |
Rusian
| | 4 | 8.51% | |
Some dead language like Latin
| | 5 | 10.64% | |
Hebrew
| | 0 | 0% | |
Other
| | 9 | 19.15% | 
05-29-2004, 12:10 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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Ok, random question. What language do all you speak? If you respond to this, then I guess you can speak English, but what other languages? Sorry if I don't get all of them on the poll, or the poll working at all, but there's a lot of lanuages. | 
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05-29-2004, 12:27 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| Um... Some french, Latin, Old English and *hangs head in shame* Tolkinian Elvish. | |
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05-29-2004, 02:34 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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| Don't be too ashamed. I'm here to point out that it's actually called Quenya. | 
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05-29-2004, 03:18 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The great U.S.ofA.
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| German with a couple of words in Latin and Spanish.
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05-29-2004, 04:49 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Holland
Posts: 861
| English is my second language.... 
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05-29-2004, 06:18 PM
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#6 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
Posts: 22,912
| All of my ability seems to have been poured into English; I have little facility with other tongues, beyond the smattering stage. I can manage a very rudimentary present-tense Spanish, and an even more rudimentary Greek, both with a very slight vocabulary. I have forgotten all of the French and German I once knew, apart from "yes", "no", "I don't know" and "I don't understand" . And I can cobble together a few phrases in Latin and Old Norse, probably with horridly incorrect syntax and pronunciation... | |
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05-29-2004, 07:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2003 Location: NYC
Posts: 369
| Sweedish. Mm... sweet. Sounds delicious!
And one guy apparently agrees.
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05-29-2004, 08:20 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Vermont USA
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| You can't really speak latin because there is no-one to talk to!! I have taken German 1 twice, so I am pretty good at the basic stuff, but my vocabulary is lacking. 
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05-29-2004, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru *hangs head in shame* Tolkinian Elvish. | Quenya, Sindarin, or other?
Hey, didn't we have a "what languages do you speak" poll a month or so ago?
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05-29-2004, 08:29 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| Some Spanish (including a bit of preterite, pluperfect, and future tense, but not a heck of a lot), and smidgens of French, German, and Italian (enough to travel with), and hello/goodbye/I love you/thank you/small integers in Cantonese. Profanity in several additional languages...
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05-29-2004, 08:54 PM
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| MrBriggs... you spelled Russian (rusian), and Swedish (sweedish) wrong. . . is English YOUR second language? Just kidding of course. . .
I must admit i'm a strictly middle-class american in the language group. . . only english here. (But i do know a few words in French, German, and Latin)
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05-29-2004, 09:15 PM
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| Quenya. Look up Telka Nuru on a Quenya dictionary if you want. Here's a hint: I like to snipe in FPS games  | |
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05-29-2004, 09:53 PM
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#13 | | Just Joined
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| Does Klingnon, Elfin, Pig latin or ubby dubby count? | |
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05-30-2004, 10:26 AM
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#14 | | Just Joined
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bar Harbor, Maine
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| Yo hablo Espanol poco veces, para hablo Ingles normalamente. I'm American, so I guess it comes in handy now-a-days! 
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05-30-2004, 06:00 PM
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#15 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Newport, KY, USA
Posts: 74
| Hablo español bastante bien.
Und ich spreche nur ein bischen Deutsch. 
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05-30-2004, 06:36 PM
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#16 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,658
| Swedish is my first language and english my 2nd.
I'v also taken french (hated it back then!) and german. I can actually make myself somewhat understood in german!
French is a bit more difficult. I do understand "fencing-french" but apart from that I get by reading signs etc.
I can also understand & speak a bit in polish. (To be honest I actually think I understand more in polish than in french...) 
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05-30-2004, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by HillBilly MrBriggs... you spelled Russian (rusian), and Swedish (sweedish) wrong. . . is English YOUR second language? Just kidding of course. . . | No, I'm just dumb like that. Sorry to you Russians and Swedes who DO know how to spell your own languages correctly. | |
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06-01-2004, 07:35 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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| I've learned a lot of my spanish from fencing, from meeting people from so many different places. That's one of the things I love about this sport.
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06-01-2004, 10:08 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Tip of your blade..
Posts: 687
| I am taking spanish now and I'm doing ok. I want to take more in Russian this summer, I know only a few words (friends Russian and she's helping me). I know some Japanese, like maybe 2 words in Mandurian (sp?), and just bits and pieces of languages.
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06-02-2004, 06:58 PM
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#20 | | Just Joined
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| I know a little Spanish. I have never taken the time to study it in depth, just enough to pass a class. I feel like an ignorant Texan hic. I really should get off my laxy bum and learn Spanish (and other languages) fluently since I live semi close to Mexico. | |
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