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How many languages are you fluent in?
I'm assuming you're already fluent in English.
Just English
 
 62.8%, 27 votes
English and another language
 
 32.6%, 14 votes
English and two other languages
 
 2.3%, 1 vote
English and three other languages
 
 2.3%, 1 vote
English and four other languages   0.0%, 0 votes
More than five languages   0.0%, 0 votes
Multi-voting is disabled. 43 users have voted.

Hiryuu

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Posted on 03-31-09 10:06:47 PM Link | Quote
Yea...per my knowledge, I don't think those under Kansai'd be saying anything like 'hockey hosers, eh?'.

More like anything ending in -ze. -ze...eh? I guess they sound similar.

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Posted on 03-31-09 10:08:16 PM Link | Quote
Just English. I should speak Spanish seeing as it's my heritage but I don't very well, even after 3 years of classes and being partially exposed at home. I can understand it in conversations somewhat well though, picking out key words if I try hard. I think I'd want to learn some Japanese because it's interesting.

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Posted on 03-31-09 10:08:48 PM (last edited by Erika at 03-31-09 07:09 PM) Link | Quote
I guuuuuess....I will be the first to admit we have some truly ridiculous round-about phrases for asking and answering simple-ass questions (like HOW ARE YOU), but other than that...we get pegged as a loud bunch with strange pronunciation who like to run yellow lights. Or...something

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Posted on 03-31-09 10:09:50 PM Link | Quote
Also, tongue roll...or almost so.

Must stop now before overload.

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Posted on 03-31-09 10:15:14 PM Link | Quote
English.

I know SOME spanish (it was started in 6th grade for me) but my godawful AP class which I ended up thrown into for part of the year basically killed it. I'm worse than I was last year.

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Posted on 03-31-09 10:25:41 PM Link | Quote
Psh...you're just naming all the stereotypes also I probably should have just put one...I'm really not fluent in English I just study and use the internet a lot...

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Posted on 03-31-09 10:30:00 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Erika
Psh...you're just naming all the stereotypes ...


I figured I would just to be mean.


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Posted on 03-31-09 10:43:33 PM Link | Quote
Portuguese (native) and English. I can read/communicate reasonably in Spanish as its similar to portuguese, but I wouldn't consider me fluent. I have been studying french for about a year, so perhaps it may become my third (fluent) language .
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Posted on 03-31-09 11:10:17 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by messiaen
Portuguese (native) and English. I can read/communicate reasonably in Spanish as its similar to portuguese, but I wouldn't consider me fluent. I have been studying french for about a year, so perhaps it may become my third (fluent) language .


I agree, I can read and understand Portuguese rather well (I'm fluent in Spanish) but I'm not fluent in it because I can't say much in the language.
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Posted on 03-31-09 11:16:13 PM Link | Quote
I can only speak English fluently. I took a few years of Spanish in Elementary school and learned absolutely nothing from it. I learned a good bit in freshman year of high school but I've forgotten most of it.
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Posted on 03-31-09 11:26:18 PM Link | Quote
Welsh is my first language then English, I only know a few phrases in French, German, Spanish and Japanese.

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Posted on 03-31-09 11:52:38 PM Link | Quote
I speak English all the time but sometimes I speak Thai
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Posted on 03-31-09 11:56:06 PM Link | Quote
I'm only fluent in English, but I know a little Japanese and am working on learning it.

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Posted on 03-31-09 11:57:24 PM Link | Quote
Right now I'm only fluent in English although I've always wanted to learn Japanese. Does anyone know of any good ways to learn it?

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Posted on 04-01-09 12:05:24 AM Link | Quote
I've been using My Japanese Coach for the DS. But I stopped. I should pick it up again.

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Posted on 04-01-09 12:09:53 AM (last edited by Madman200 at 03-31-09 09:11 PM) Link | Quote
Primary language is English. Also supposed to be learning Spanish in school.
But it's not working.

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Tyty

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Posted on 04-01-09 12:11:16 AM Link | Quote
With Japanese once you understand sentence structure and modifiyers, it should be easy to pick up words from Anime and such.

Learning to write Japanese is a different story.

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Posted on 04-01-09 12:17:31 AM (last edited by VGFreak877 at 03-31-09 09:18 PM) Link | Quote
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Anya, I've heard some good things about that piece of software, but I've not tried it myself. My languages are: English (fluent), Spanish (have not spoken it in 12 years though, since graduating from high school), and Japanese (intermediate level -- completed the level 7 kanji kentei, can read about 800 to 900 kanji and write about 400 to 450).

Yeah Kaguya, writing is very challenging, I find myself missing a stroke especially writing the 4th grade kanji.

Erika, I remember when I heard Kansai-ben being spoken for the first time a few years ago. Since I was used to the standard dialect, I was taken aback when I heard it. It's not that bad when you get used to it. (Listening to the comedy group "Downtown" will do that to you.)

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Posted on 04-01-09 12:20:02 AM Link | Quote
Why does everyone want to learn Japanese? Is just the whole anime/video game thing?
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Posted on 04-01-09 12:21:14 AM Link | Quote
Yeah, it probably is.

Plus being able to understand things without translations/subtitles is always nice.

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