What languages do you speak? [Archive]

rhsunderground

05-23-2005, 10:52 PM

i'm intrigued to see what the responses are, especially from the international crowd.

i speak spanish well, a wee bit of french, and i know a couple russian words and one albanian phrase. and peace in swahili.

PeOfEo

05-24-2005, 08:50 AM

english?

ewomack

05-24-2005, 11:18 AM

Stephen Philbin

05-24-2005, 01:03 PM

Just english really. I started with Japanese and Spanish but ditched Japanese because learning both took way too much time, Japanese was taking most of the learning time (because of the non-Laitin base) and I'd already been learning Spanish for a few years longer.

I certainly wouldn't consider myself good enough at Spanish to say I speak it (hence me not ticking any boxes), but I can understand most spanish I hear.

rhsunderground

05-24-2005, 03:55 PM

i forgot to mention that i had about 4 years of german and can remember a couple phrases of it.

theuedimaster

05-24-2005, 06:50 PM

I'm finishing my fourth year of german right now :)

Jupac

05-24-2005, 07:33 PM

English
Viet
And some spanish

MikeFlyer

05-25-2005, 01:51 AM

I've dabbled in a bit too many languages. I have knowledge of these:

Español (my best by far)
Française
Japanese ( 日本語 )
Arabic
Nederlands

I've also picked up some snippets of Vietnamese, Hindi, Russian, and others as I meet native speakers. What better way to start up a conversation?

About me i do speak English, arabic, and couple of russian words, i've forgot them by now :P

hey where did you learned arabic,,,,, :D

Snitchcat

05-25-2005, 09:10 AM

I know the following and speak at least 2 fluently:

French
German
Cantonese
Mandarin
Japanese
Spanish (written only)
English (goes without saying)

Take care,
Snitch.

ewomack

05-25-2005, 01:07 PM

hey where did you learned arabic,,,,,

I took 2 years of Arabic in college. I don't remember a lot of it, unfortunately, and I never travelled to an Arabic-speaking country to try it out. So my knowledge is kind of rusting. Oh well. I really enjoyed the writing, though. It has a very beautiful script.

Ben Rogers

05-25-2005, 08:41 PM

Uh, english? Do leet or pig latin count? No? What about C syntax? I'd like to learn Japanese, but frankly, I don't see myself putting in the commitment for it. Hell, I don't know if I'll be able to muster the enthusiasm to master Spanish.

gimp

05-26-2005, 09:27 AM

English and Russian and PHP. Wait, php doesn't count...

hooloovoo24

05-26-2005, 01:02 PM

English, Spanish, and a very small bit of tagolog. Mostly the bad words. Ahem.

gorky

05-26-2005, 01:19 PM

English, French, L33T, and Scotch (It's a bit of a stretch but Scotch is Scottish-English dialect that is to English as Cantonese is to Mandarin)

digital_hannah

05-29-2005, 12:19 PM

as it turns out, I only speak langauges of the germanic language tree --- among them english and some french...
btw doesn't programming languages count? :p

Ravasz

05-29-2005, 01:24 PM

Heh... I was assuming people would list programming languages too! I know very few of those, only HTML and CSS fluently. A bit of JavaScript and PHP, but nowhere near fluent.

As for spoken languages, English is obviously my first language. I started teaching myself Japanese almost nine years ago now, and am quite fluent in it. 「日本語が大好きだなぁ」 I love the Japanese language to death, and I spend a lot of spare time on forums helping others with translations, etc.

I took six years of Spanish back in school, but I've forgotten nearly all of it. I hardly ever have an opportunity to work with it, so without practice... Last year, I began teaching myself Mandarin, but I'm pretty terrible because I haven't had much time to seriously study it yet.

And languages I only know tiny bits of would be Hungarian and Gaelic. My grandmother was Hungarian, and my late uncle was of Irish decent.

Flunky Monkey

05-29-2005, 04:55 PM

german I speak and english

digital_hannah

05-29-2005, 05:15 PM

Heh... I was assuming people would list programming languages too! I know very few of those, only HTML and CSS fluently

Ah, well...
About the programming languages --- I am still learning when it comes to the deep levels...but I have a pretty good understanding of C, C++, C#, Java is my best language, and ofcourse some basic pascal --- plus I'm currently splashing into xhtml, xml --- working myself into .php, ASP.net, Javascript and such...
Ah And sql ---can't forget that one, because I was attending a university course on db's not long ago ;)

Ultimater

05-29-2005, 07:20 PM

Other.
I speak English cas' I'm american and I've spoken fluent Hebrew for 2½ years.
Hebrew was the very first language in the world, ya know. :)
Anyone know the story of how Hebrew sprouted into 70 languages and the tower of babel?

Ultimater

05-29-2005, 08:08 PM

Yo, is the voting information supposed to be keep hidden? I think I encountered a glitch and found-out who voted for what :D

Ben Rogers

05-29-2005, 08:35 PM

On a side-note: Ravasz, where did you get your Japanese fonts? That whole thing turned as question marks for me.

rhsunderground

05-29-2005, 08:56 PM

Yo, is the voting information supposed to be keep hidden? I think I encountered a glitch and found-out who voted for what :D
no, i set this poll to allow viewage.

Ultimater

05-29-2005, 09:14 PM

Oh, ok, good :) I was hoping I didn't stumble accross a glitch.
*wipes sweat off face with elbow*

rhsunderground

05-29-2005, 09:31 PM

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Ultimater

05-29-2005, 09:41 PM

Opera! how could you! :eek: j/k :D Pretty cool how it tabs all multipul windows though:)
Now remove that image! hehe :D It's too big!

Ben Rogers

05-30-2005, 12:25 AM

Ulta, what do you mean "pretty cool it tabs all windows?" That's kind of the standard, IE is the only visual browser I know of lagging behind. By the way, lay off the smiles, would you? Geez...

Ultimater

05-30-2005, 12:40 AM

Make me :)

Ravasz

05-30-2005, 12:59 AM

On a side-note: Ravasz, where did you get your Japanese fonts? That whole thing turned as question marks for me.

That's weird, usually people with Japanese encoding have no problem seeing what I write. I use the Microsoft IME because I'm cheap, it's free, and it works for me. What browser are you using?

I have a pretty good understanding of C, C++, C#, Java is my best language, and ofcourse some basic pascal --- plus I'm currently splashing into xhtml, xml --- working myself into .php, ASP.net, Javascript and such...

Excellent... that's much more than I'll ever know. I'm sure the bulk of people on this forum know most of what you know. I don't understand why, but I couldn't grasp any of the harder coding languages. I tried learning PHP, CGI, and Java at different times, but became very frustrated and couldn't get very far.

With things like PHP and JavaScript, I mostly cut and paste codes, although I've asked so many questions about them, I feel comfortable editing them a bit without totally screwing them up.

omnicity

05-30-2005, 09:43 AM

English, Scotch, plus I can usually understand American-English if it is written down. (Although I rarely seem to understand the American people!)

</provocation>

Ben Rogers

05-30-2005, 03:56 PM

Ravasz, I could see the English just fine, but the Japanese characters come up as question marks. Should've been clearer on that. I'm using Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/). I just don't have any Japanese fonts on my system yet.

Ultimater

05-30-2005, 04:30 PM

Ravasz, I could see the English just fine, but the Japanese characters come up as question marks.
So what, they come-up as boxes for me in IE because I don't have the font.

I just don't have any Japanese fonts on my system yet.
Can you see this text that appears in my signature in cursive?
"If this text isn't written in cursive, then you lack the following font"

Ben Rogers

05-30-2005, 04:32 PM

You DO know that Japanese characters are in an entirely different character set, I hope? Of course I can see text that's in a latin-based language, no matter the font- if I don't have it, it's just shown in a default.

Oh, and no, I haven't/am not going to download that. I ignore people's signatures, especially ones with unneccessary styling...

Ultimater

05-30-2005, 04:45 PM

No wonder you can't see any fonts correctly. You probably only have one font on your entire computer. Let me guess, Arial. You must've deleted all the rest of the fonts on your computer manually for you can't find a computer today w/o 'em.

Btw: this whole website looks way better in IE than in FF.

Ben Rogers

05-30-2005, 04:59 PM

Yeah, only one font (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y300/bcrogers/fonts.png). :rolleyes: 'Cuz I'm a retard who can't handle multiple fonts, and make damn well sure everything looks like ass.

Oh, and seeing as I used to use IE- IT LOOKS THE SAME IN BOTH BROWSERS. Or it would, if I didn't use a custom stylesheet- something you can't do in IE- that makes it look pretty decent (Jona's, for anyone who cares to know).

Ultimater

05-30-2005, 05:27 PM

Oh Yeah!? Here are two different screenshots taken of my signature on the same computer using both browers.
FF Screenshot (http://www.aplustv.com/pics/ff_sc.bmp)
IE Screenshot (http://www.aplustv.com/pics/ie_sc.bmp)

Ben Rogers

05-30-2005, 05:34 PM

Yeah? The FF version looks better. Subtle differences anyhow- irrelevant, even.

Ultimater

05-30-2005, 05:43 PM

The wingdings font didn't even show in FF! On the same computer, even!
Why are all the links underlined in a different color that it's font color?
FF doesn't even understand the color midiumslateblue!

Ben Rogers

05-30-2005, 05:48 PM

Gee, maybe because midiumslateblue isn't a valid colour? As for the wingdings, I don't know, or care- that's the wrong way to go about making stars. I know it's the only way to do it on these forums, but it'd be better to do without. I have no idea what you did to the underlines- that doesn't happen for me.

Ravasz

05-30-2005, 08:58 PM

Hehe... I never knew debates over fonts and browsers could get so fiery.

Ravasz, I could see the English just fine, but the Japanese characters come up as question marks. Should've been clearer on that. I'm using Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/). I just don't have any Japanese fonts on my system yet.

No worries, I understood that it was the Japanese you couldn't see, although I thought you meant even with encoding you couldn't see them, which is why I thought it strange.

Forgive me if this is wrong, but the Japanese input I use is something that requires encoding to see, isn't it? I didn't think it had anything to do with installing fonts, because I have no Japanese fonts (like .ttf) on my computer. Unless your terminology is the same thing I'm talking about, then I'm just behind the times, but we're all clear. ;)

Arqueete

05-30-2005, 10:22 PM

I chose French, though I definately don't speak it fluently. I've taken it for 3 school years (Including this year) and had it half a year before that (If that really counts because its not like we learned much from once a weak for a semester...). My vocabulary is small, especially when it comes to verbs, so I'm limited as to what I can say in that way :-) I can, however, say, "J'aime le pomme de terre et le fromage, et toi?" so therefore I should be able to count it as a language I speak ;)