how many languages do you speak?

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:38 pm

i have no talent for languages. i know a small smattering of french and latin. Bothwell has a genius for not only languages, but regional dialects/accents. my italian grandmother spoke 7 languages fluently, was a WWII interpreter for the US. i didn't get that gene. what languages have you mastered? ....and if you answer this post in a language i cannot read i am going to sentence you to reading every post of "Bothwell's Pub".:wah:

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:45 pm

Well - I speak English. I know a few words of Spanish - enough to know when I am being called a bit*ch as a sub and most of the curse words in French and German. My mind doesn't work that way either - my affinity is for math, science and music.

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:47 pm

I havn't even mastered English yet..:wah:

A little spanish, not nearly enough considering I live in Spain

Even less Italian, and me having an Sicilian dad.

Tut tut disgraceful!!

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:05 pm

lady cop wrote: i have no talent for languages. i know a small smattering of french and latin. Bothwell has a genius for not only languages, but regional dialects/accents. my italian grandmother spoke 7 languages fluently, was a WWII interpreter for the US. i didn't get that gene. what languages have you mastered? ....and if you answer this post in a language i cannot read i am going to sentence you to reading every post of "Bothwell's Pub".:wah:
Chcę rozmawiać z kierownikiem!:yh_bigsmi

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:06 pm

abbey wrote: Chcę rozmawiać z kierownikiem!:yh_bigsmisame to you buddy!! go start reading!

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:07 pm

HA HA! See you in 6 months Abbey.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:13 pm

kurwa mac!;)

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:14 pm

abbey wrote: kurwa mac!;)oh yeah? sod off!!:p

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:18 pm

lady cop wrote: oh yeah? sod off!!:p You speak polish???:eek:

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:21 pm

abbey wrote: You speak polish???:eek:no, just British English! my Dad told me i better speak the Queen's English or else!

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:31 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote:

My friends tell me I talk b******s which may be another language

I've been told once or twice that i speak that language! :rolleyes:

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:00 pm

When i was much younger i had a date with an Italian who did'nt speak very much English, my friend Rosa (italian) taught me a phrase in italian to make him feel more at ease.

It was'nt til after the date she told me that i'd said " tonight i want you to make passionate love to me".......

.

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And no, he did'nt! :p

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:01 pm

I hear Italians are not very passionate but very selfish.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:03 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote: How did you fend him off after saying that ?:wah:I said it in the cinema! he was like a demented octopus, i went to the loo and buggered off home. :wah:

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:04 pm

Coward.:wah:

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:05 pm

pina wrote: I hear Italians are not very passionate but very selfish.:DI married an Italian, he was selfish to the extreme, but maybe that was just him.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:05 pm

abbey wrote: I said it in the cinema! he was like a demented octopus, i went to the loo and buggered off home. :wah:

oooohhh you tease you!!! :wah:

I would love to have seen his face when he realised you weren't coming back!!:yh_rotfl

Bet you gave your friend a mouthful!

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:06 pm

abbey wrote: I married an Italian, he was selfish to the extreme, but maybe that was just him.

I think it's most of them. I know my dad was.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:07 pm

pina wrote: Coward.:wah:I was really out of my depth with him & to be honest he frightened the life out of me.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:07 pm

my Italian Dad the most generous man on earth.

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:10 pm

lady cop wrote: my Italian Dad the most generous man on earth.

You got the exception there LC. Lucky sod.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:10 pm

lady cop wrote: my Italian Dad the most generous man on earth. I have known some really beautiful sensitive italian men,

i'm just so sorry i married a pig.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:12 pm

hey, i used to think Brit guys were kinky and weird, and then the love of my life is a Brit. go figure. we just can't stereotype i guess.

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:13 pm

I know lots of Italians and Sicilians they are all charming, but just ask their wives and they will say different. Everyone said my dad was charming and the most polite man they had met, but he was a b.....d at home.

No offence here LC your dad is not included.

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:17 pm

lady cop wrote: hey, i used to think Brit guys were kinky and weird, and then the love of my life is a Brit. go figure. we just can't stereotype i guess.

I take back everything I said about Italians. Your right LC I am just stereotyping. It's when I think of my dad I tend blame the nation for way he was. SORRY.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:18 pm

lady cop wrote: hey, i used to think Brit guys were kinky and weird, . Now you know what i know about Brit guys LC;)

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:20 pm

abbey wrote: Now you know what i know about Brit guys LC;)

Be afraid - very afraid....................

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:21 pm

he may have been the exception, but my Dad was devoted and faithful to my Mom until his dying day. he sacrificed everything he ever had for his Mom, his brothers, and his children. and then he bought up a whole street in Mass. and built houses on it...where he quietly made sure every family in those houses had food and shoes on their kids' feet. i still get letters that the road is not the same without him. not to mention he was a genius and MIT professor as well as director of naval research. this man was born and raised in a tiny village in italy near lake como. he was also very emotional but rarely showed it. i'm like that too.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:22 pm

pina wrote: I take back everything I said about Italians. Your right LC I am just stereotyping. It's when I think of my dad I tend blame the nation for way he was. SORRY.you have nothing to be sorry about! :-4

pina · Post by **pina** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:24 pm

lady cop wrote: he may have been the exception, but my Dad was devoted and faithful to my Mom until his dying day. he sacrificed everything he ever had for his Mom, his brothers, and his children. and then he bought up a whole street in Mass. and built houses on it...where he quietly made sure every family in those houses had food and shoes on their kids' feet. i still get letters that the road is not the same without him. not to mention he was a genius and MIT professor as well as director of naval research. this man was born and raised in a tiny village in italy near lake como. he was also very emotional but rarely showed it. i'm like that too.

He sounds wonderful....I'm sooo jealous.

rainbowsmiles · Post by **rainbowsmiles** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:25 pm

I speak Spanish and English fluently and I studied Hebrew but I can't speak it and I can only read some of it and usually only what comes out of the Torah.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:27 pm

If you mean knowing and understanding word of a given language, I know 7. If you mean fluent, none.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:09 pm

I know great Spanish, with that western Spanglish dialect thrown in, and read alot of ancient languages. If I could learn another language, it would be Navajo and Cherokee.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:19 pm

Every native language is different. Cherokee uses a syllabary, based on their phonetics. Other native languages use English letters to approximate sounds, diacritical marks and accents. Below is the Cherokee syllabary.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:23 pm

fascinating!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:39 pm

Some are similar, but most have definite differences-just like the difference between Spanish, Italian and French. Similar language family, but distinct languages.

Down there in Florida, even the Seminole speak two distinct languages: Creek and Miccosukee-languages related to each, but distinct enough that speakers cannot understand each other.

actionfigurestepho · Post by **actionfigurestepho** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:49 pm

I speak a bit of valley-girl English, and I'm not too bad at Spanish, although my listening comprehension is much better than my speaking or writing since I mostly used my skills when working at the mall and I was trying to determine whether or not someone was lying to me.

I took several intensive years of French and I tried to push it out of my mind, but I can still actually read on an elementary level and occasionally I dream in gramatically perfect French, although ask me while I'm awake and aware of what's going on and I'd draw a total blank.

I think reading a language is always a lot easier than trying to speak it. Especially when you have an Ohio non-accent and people laugh at it :-1

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:57 pm

actionfigurestepho wrote: I think reading a language is always a lot easier than trying to speak it. Especially when you have an Ohio non-accent and people laugh at it :-1
Try Japanese.

actionfigurestepho · Post by **actionfigurestepho** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:59 pm

The horror!

Can you speak it without a Texas accent?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:07 pm

I've only been here a couple of months.

I think my Texan has more of a Japanese accent. You want some bah bi ku pahk wis some bean and lice? :wah:

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:07 am

Well I've only ever studied French and German at school, and can't say that I'm really any good. I would love to study Japanese though as I have always wanted to visit there. Though I agree with Ac, I know that's it one heck of a hard and awkward language to try and learn.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:43 am

Japanese would be cool, so would Korean-since I have a brother and sister who are Korean. I remember all the kids words I learned, but not enough for an intelligent conversation. Always impresses a new Korean student when I say something simple, then that's it, I can't really say much more!:wah: