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Old 12-06-2011, 03:00 PM
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Besides English?

I speak French of the Quebec style.
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Old 12-06-2011, 03:02 PM
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German, a little Russian, some Spanish, a touch of Italian. I'm only good at German, though.
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Old 12-06-2011, 03:04 PM
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oh français québécois... it sounds kinda funny, especially if you're used to french french and belgian french.

Luxembourgish,English, German & French and some random italian & spanish & flemish.
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Old 12-06-2011, 03:14 PM
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It definitely does sound very funny! To some extent it can become really really hard to understand!

I speak French (belgian) and could speak a bit of german if i got back into it... (used to live in Berlin years ago)

Spent 6 weeks in Argentina last year and i was surprisingly ok with spanish although i never spoke it before!


In the end the 2 languages i really speak are french and english though!
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Old 12-06-2011, 03:18 PM
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Old 12-06-2011, 03:19 PM
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Funny, but to my ears European French sounds a but strange. But if you really want to hear some really funny French, listen to what the Cajuns speak down in Louisiana!
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does swearing like a sailor count?
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Old 12-06-2011, 03:45 PM
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I understand enough Spanish to get the idea of something being said to me in simple situations.

I speak enough Spanish to ask your name, order some food, order some beers, and ask where the bathroom is.
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Old 12-06-2011, 04:18 PM
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I speak the language of love.
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Besides English?

I speak French of the Quebec style.
F* yeah me too dude lol.

I speak Italian too because I lived in Rhode Island for so damned long lol.

When people speak in my dreams, they're speaking in Italian..Weird huh?
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French fluently, some basic Italian, basic Serbian, enough Swedish to get by, basic Japanese, basic Arabic, Portuguese (although I haven't used this in ages), Latin (yes, I can actually speak it like a modern language), ancient Greek (ditto previous comment about Latin), about 400 signs in BSL, 100 signs in ASL, some Spanish (picked up from a Spanish-speaking friend of mine) and some other phrases and words in about 10 other languages.
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Old 12-06-2011, 04:26 PM
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I can spit those out pretty easily. Especially the latter.
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EVERYONE speaks at least one other language: Gibberish!
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Old 12-06-2011, 05:04 PM
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A mixture of Quebec French and the French spoken in France.
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Old 12-06-2011, 05:14 PM
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I speak the language of love.
dang, beat me to it.

i speak english and music. my dad grew up in europe and he spoke at least 4-5. i grew up in america and i am pretty darn bad at languages; i feel lucky that i have a decent command of spoken english (i know the rules of written english pretty goodly).
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Old 12-06-2011, 05:16 PM
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Old 12-06-2011, 05:32 PM
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I speak English with an accent similar to Midwestern US, appropriate for a professional broadcaster.

Or I speak Swedish Chef: Eschverdy bass-a player hooorn!
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Old 12-06-2011, 05:36 PM
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Hem. Interesting question. I speak English (Montreal dialect) and Québécois French.

Except that at home we really speak Montreal's unofficial throat disease: Franglais.
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Old 12-06-2011, 05:55 PM
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