erufiku Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Well, I went to this Anthro class last week and apparently my city (MTL) has the highest number of trilinguar people in all of North America. I'm wondering what's the situation like here at the HFC.I'll start boasting... Why not Fluent in English, Spanish, Russian and Polish.Learning Italian (active) and French (passive).Also basic Japanese and German.Hoping to learn Arabic (the int'l modern variety) real soon too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Fluent in English and Spanish... some extremely weak French, Italian and Latin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cemab4y Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I do a lot of international work. 11 years in all. Germany, France, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan. I am in the USA at a training conference, and leaving for Iraq next month.I have solid French and German skills.I speak Russian every day, my wife is Russian.I am a qualified American Sign Language interpreter, but I do not my certification (I cannot interpret in court, for example)My ex-wife was from Thailand, I can speak enough Thai to order a meal in a restaurant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubernerd83 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'd like to think I speak English quite fluently, and got by quite easily with my a-little-better-than-rudimentary German skills when I was in Berlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoopy1966 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 English is my language and I have been learning Arabic also. I can speak enough now to survive in an Arabic country. I can understand more then I can speak Arabic. I can read and write, but still struggle a bit. I am learning the classical Arabic along with some Egyptian slang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScotsman Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Queen's EnglishAmerican English (they are different languages! if you don't believe it, just tell an American English speaker you are headed outside for a fag)functional JapaneseTha Gàidhlig agamsome spoken Hebrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egontheviking Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I am grounded in English and I am currently learning koine greek which would be considered new testament. some pretty interesting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecoalition Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 englishi was fluent in spanish (8 years educated and 4 3 week endeavors to spanish speaking countries) plus working an entire summer in a kitchen where no one could speak english only dominican spanish which imo is the hardest slang and dialect to fuckign understand,however i havent had to use it for 4 years now so im pretty sure i cant remember it if i tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrj99 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 (edited) English, Italian, French and some German, Spanish and Hindi. Edited January 19, 2008 by Perrj99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tati Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Fluent in English and Portuguese.Lots of Spanish and French, but my Hebrew is kinda rusty...I want to learn Italian and Russian.Im really surprised by the answers so far. Most of the people I know are lucky they at least know English... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garykainz Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 i speak englishy yo hablo espanol, mas o menos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erufiku Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Wow this place is like the tower of Babel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oggie505 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 i can speak english of course.choppy german and am thinking of learning madarin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdl Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Engrish.Lacking French.Learning Russian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockchick04 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 QUOTE (erufiku @ Jan 18 2008, 10:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well, I went to this Anthro class last week and apparently my city (MTL) has the highest number of trilinguar people in all of North America. I'm wondering what's the situation like here at the HFC.I'll start boasting... Why not Fluent in English, Spanish, Russian and Polish.Learning Italian (active) and French (passive).Also basic Japanese and German.Hoping to learn Arabic (the int'l modern variety) real soon too.Sweet, fluent in Polish? Me too.. Polish and English. And a couple of words of Norwegian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassinho Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Español es mi idioma primario but i speak english just fine et français un petit peu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinamon Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 QUOTE (mdl @ Jan 20 2008, 01:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Engrish.lol me tooand cantonese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvansLight Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 English, Bad English, Really Bad English, Dirty English... hmm oh and l33t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racemyghost Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 EnglishArmenianSpanglish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shisha fan Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 englishdutchsome frenchsome german Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvansLight Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 QUOTE (racemyghost @ Jan 20 2008, 01:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>EnglishArmenianSpanglish oh that reminds me, i know a bit of spanglish as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eifah Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 I'm quite fluent in English, and I can get along well enough in Slovak and Spanish too. I plan on studying Russian and Brazilian Portuguese next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokehooka Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 QUOTE (Eifah @ Jan 20 2008, 04:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm quite fluent in English, and I can get along well enough in Slovak and Spanish too. I plan on studying Russian and Brazilian Portuguese next.english and arabic.I'm Palestinian yo'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tati Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 QUOTE (Eifah @ Jan 20 2008, 05:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm quite fluent in English, and I can get along well enough in Slovak and Spanish too. I plan on studying Russian and Brazilian Portuguese next.If you need a tutor in Portuguese, I can definately help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScotsman Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 QUOTE (erufiku @ Jan 19 2008, 05:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Wow this place is like the tower of Babel Actually, it would make some sense, depending on just what drew people to enjoying a hookah. I am just amazed we don't see more middle eastern languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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