06-02-2002 04:44									#1
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I will reach prince, damn it! (sorry, simple rant)

As we all know, since people always do the favor of telling, many (perhaps most?) of the posters here are from non-english speaking countries, which i assume, means that they speak multiple tounges (heck, they post in english), while at the same time, most persons who live in the english speaking world have a hard enough time with one language alone, far less two or three. I think this applies to Yanks and Brits, though I am not sure about ANZAC education practices. So, yet another wonderful poll. And of course, folk are welcomed to dicusses either the wonders of bilingualism, or the stupidity of english speakers, or about how those non-english languages are really funky, and thank god they will all disappear within the next century.

	06-02-2002 04:49									#2
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quote: Originally posted by GePap I will reach prince, damn it!

Not in this forum.

	06-02-2002 04:51									#3
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But to answer your question, I only speak english - and I had a hell of a time learning that alone, I've taken both french and german classes before, but I simply am not very good at learning languages.

	06-02-2002 04:54									#4
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I speak english, and I'm fairly decent at Spanish, too. I managed to test out of 11 credits worth at the beginning of the year.

	06-02-2002 04:56									#5
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Just English. Programming languages don't count.

	06-02-2002 05:00									#6
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One an a half? I speak English, obviously, and I can generally get by in French - make myself understood, understand enough of what's said or written, and be able to ask for clarification at a slightly slower speed...

	06-02-2002 05:12									#7
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One-- English.

I'm learning Latin right now, though.

	06-02-2002 05:15									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov One-- English. I'm learning Latin right now, though.

Does that count?

	06-02-2002 05:17									#9
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Chowlett brings up a good point-

try to round up. If you are good at a second languge but don't feel yourself to be proficient, for this poll, just go with bilingual. If all you can do is ask where the bathroom is, well, stick with mono.

	06-02-2002 05:17									#10
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English, Dutch, French, German, Luxembourgish and a bit of Spanish and Italian.

	06-02-2002 05:19									#11
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Latin does count, since people do speak it, though not many. Programming languages don't count, since no one speaks them, unless you are having C++ discussions with your friends, in which case, get away from your computer and go get some help.

	06-02-2002 05:21									#12
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English, Nederlands.

Two Languages|Twee Tallen. Isn't that clever|Is dat niet knap.

Does Gibberish count.

	06-02-2002 05:23									#13
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quote: Originally posted by GePap Programming languages don't count, since no one speaks them, unless you are having C++ discussions with your friends, in which case, get away from your computer and go get some help.

01100100011101010110110101100010...

Whoops, sorry, slipped into binary there for a second.

	06-02-2002 05:29									#14
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quote: Originally posted by loinburger 01100100 01110101 01101101 01100010... Whoops, sorry, slipped into binary there for a second.

dumb

Did you mean that?

	06-02-2002 05:32									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Chowlett dumb Did you mean that?

	06-02-2002 05:35									#16
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quote: Originally posted by loinburger quote: Originally posted by GePap Programming languages don't count, since no one speaks them, unless you are having C++ discussions with your friends, in which case, get away from your computer and go get some help. 01100100011101010110110101100010... Whoops, sorry, slipped into binary there for a second.

I also converse in binary, but I get Trillian or MSN messenger to translate it for me.

	06-02-2002 05:46									#17
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Finnish, English and Swedish it is... the three languages that law says everyone should know around here (Swedish being the first )
I've studied Latin, but forgotten it since. Perhaps I'll learn it again in the summer, if I have nothing else to do

	06-02-2002 05:51									#18
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English, plus 3.5 yrs of German, 1 year of Spainish. I plan to continue taking German, but take Japanese instead of Spanish. I'm pretty good at picking up foreing languages.

	06-02-2002 06:00									#19
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I like languages, but I'm not sure how good I am at them. I have a few years of German, a bit of elementary school Hebrew which I've been augementing by conversing with Israelis from Apolyton on ICQ, and a bit of Arabic which no one wants to practice with me. I was in the top decile on the German exams I took, and I took the Hebrew SAT II a few years ago and got a 380. I also speak a bit of Yiddish. I think that's about 2.6 languages, but math was never my strong point either.

	06-02-2002 06:20									#20
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quote: ....Luxembourgish...

Is that a language?

I speak English just fine, and I can kinda sorta mumble through French, German, and Russian (but not really well).

Steele

	06-02-2002 06:25									#21
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Dutch(Flemish), French and English

My French isn't as good as it used to be though, so I'm going to spend some time improving it this summer.... and maybe learn German too, it looks like an easy langauge

	06-02-2002 06:29									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Grrr English, Nederlands. Two Languages|Twee Tallen. Isn't that clever|Is dat niet knap.

Bedoel je niet "talen"?

	06-02-2002 06:29									#23
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I can speak English and Cantonese fleutnyl, and have a demi-passable French.

	06-02-2002 06:32									#24
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Add Korean to the list. I used to be quite good at Spanish but apparently my brain is limited to only two langauges at once.

	06-02-2002 06:34									#25
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I speak banana very well

	06-02-2002 06:34									#26
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quote: Finnish, English and Swedish it is... the three languages that law says everyone should know around here (Swedish being the first )

Holy Hell! The government forces you to be tri-lingual!

Remind me never to live somewhere besides the US no matter how bad things get here!

Anyway, I'm proudly monolingual

	06-02-2002 06:39									#27
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Dutch, English, Mandarin Chinese, German, French...and a little Spanish, Italian and I had Latin and Greek in school too.

Bow before me!

	06-02-2002 06:50									#28
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Quadrilingual:
English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish.

	06-02-2002 06:58									#29
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quote: Originally posted by David Floyd Holy Hell! The government forces you to be tri-lingual!

Yeah... about 5% of Finnish population list Swedish as their mother tongue, and about 75% (including me) are pissed off for having to learn Swedish in schools, but the government still insists us on learning it... Because of the Swedish colonization in Finland that lasted about from 1216 to 1808 most of the Swedish speaking population belongs to the upper class and they have much authority around here And still, Swedish is considered, especially by old people, as a 'fine' language, while our own Finnish is even shunned ( ) by some ...
And the thing with teaching Swedish is kinda sensitive issue around here, too...everytime someone brave politician suggests stopping teaching it, he's accused for being a racist sh*t... and more so, the 5% of the population who speak Swedish are situated in small coastal areas that make up about 5% of Finland's areal...

Well, I've found Swedish useful anyway. Of course, I would have found Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese or Estonian even more useful...

	06-02-2002 07:02									#30
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Do Spanglish and Jibberish count