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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2010, 09:30:48 am »
Wow.

It's amazing how many more languages a person tends to speak in Europe compared to here in the U.S. :-|
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2010, 09:31:07 am »
English: Advanced
Chinese: Intermediate
Spanish: Pre-Beginner (I know like the numbers and colors from school)
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2010, 09:40:18 am »
Portuguese - native
English - advanced
German - Beginner

Spanish - similar enough to Portuguese, so if I learned subtleties and more vocabulary (I know some already from trips and movies), I could be Intermediate
Italian and French - able to pick up simple phrases, again languages derived from latin
Japanese - know some words, would like to learn speak and maybe write in a romanized form
Also curious to know about grammar rules and special things about Latin, Greek, some African and ancient languages

I would like to invest some free time learning languages but I never get patience to choice the resources to use (some website, buy a book and choose games).

By the way, when you refer to Chinese, you are always referring to Chinese mandarin, correct?
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2010, 10:11:27 am »
Quote from: Deep Thought on July 27, 2010, 09:30:48 am
Wow.

It's amazing how many more languages a person tends to speak in Europe compared to here in the U.S. :-|

That's because the US only have one official language :D To give you a frame of reference: Belgium, a very small country, has three. (Dutch, French and German)
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2010, 10:25:12 am »
Quote from: mapar007 on July 27, 2010, 10:11:27 am
That's because the US only have one official language :D

Although a great majority of the population speaks english, the US dosen't have any official language.
« Last Edit: July 27, 2010, 10:25:47 am by apcalc »
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2010, 10:25:21 am »
English: Advanced
Chinese (Mandarin): Intermediate/Advanced
Spanish: Beginner
Bleep Bloop: Knows all words in this language.  :P

Chinese Translation:

英语：高级
中文（普通话）：中级/高级
西班牙语：初级
Beep Bloop：知道在这门语言的所有单词 :P

Spanish Translation:

Inglés: Avanzado
Chino (mandarín): Intermedio / Avanzado
En español: Principiante
Bleep Bloop: Conoce todas las palabras en este lenguaje. :P

Bleep Bloop Translation:

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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2010, 11:30:39 am »
Quote from: apcalc on July 27, 2010, 10:25:12 am
Quote from: mapar007 on July 27, 2010, 10:11:27 am
That's because the US only have one official language :D

Although a great majority of the population speaks english, the US dosen't have any official language.

Oops, sorry. Isn't all the administration in the US done in English?
« Last Edit: July 27, 2010, 11:31:00 am by mapar007 »
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2010, 11:32:19 am »
English: Native Language
Dutch: I learned it at the same time as English, living in Belgium, but I have lost most of it now.
American Sign Language: Mostly fluent
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2010, 04:59:00 pm »
Norwegian - Native language
English - Advanced
German - Ich spreche nicht gut deutsch
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2010, 07:14:45 pm »
English: Native Language
German: Beginner
Spanish: Beginner
« Last Edit: July 27, 2010, 07:15:14 pm by JCW »
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2010, 07:17:57 pm »
English: Native

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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2010, 07:53:56 pm »
Quote from: mapar007 on July 27, 2010, 11:30:39 am
Quote from: apcalc on July 27, 2010, 10:25:12 am
Quote from: mapar007 on July 27, 2010, 10:11:27 am
That's because the US only have one official language :D

Although a great majority of the population speaks english, the US dosen't have any official language.

Oops, sorry. Isn't all the administration in the US done in English?

Ya, I believe so. But we don't technically have an official language, like he said. English, however, is the national language.
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #27 on: July 27, 2010, 08:40:46 pm »
english: a level incomprehensible to all you lesser forms of life :P

spanish: intermediate/advanced(i can web chat in spanish with very few issues, but speaking is still a bit difficult)

latin: basic grammar and limited vocabulary(i may have never gotten to dative, but i know stercus =D)

swedish/german/japanese/french: a few basic words and phrases picked up from movies

lojban: i think i glanced at a web page about it once...

blithering idiot: mazeface (a trauma-inducing bastardization of colloquial english which my friends and i use to communicate when we dont want to be understood by those around us)
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #28 on: July 27, 2010, 09:38:43 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on July 27, 2010, 09:30:48 am
Wow.

It's amazing how many more languages a person tends to speak in Europe compared to here in the U.S. :-|

I wouldn't use this thread as an accurate basis for such a generalization. Bearing in mind, people who participate in this community tend to be more on the educated side.

There are around 28 million Spanish-speakers in the U.S. French and German number around 1.5 million each. Chinese is around 2 million. There are some U.S. territories that are bi- or trilingual, due to their location, or cultural backgrounds. Given, it's probably not as intermixed as some parts of Europe. Where the U.S. is more of a melting-pot of every single culture, European areas tend to be more dense mixes of specific cultures and backgrounds.
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Re: Human Languages
« Reply #29 on: July 28, 2010, 02:02:50 pm »
French: Native language. Good, although I mostly know canadian idioms, not ones from France.
English: Intermediate. I am far less good when speaking it than writing it, as I never got to practice it as much
Spanish: I bet I pretty much forgotten anything by now (besides Como te llamas?). I only took spanish class one year (2002-03 school year) and it was not really serious

TO be honest, I noticed a lot of people from USA and western Canada that only know one single language, though. They probably live in areas where there is no need to learn any other language.

If you notice, for example, in the TI community, you'll see a lot of TI-BANK users posting on english TI forums in English language, even if French is their native language, but you will hardly ever see english users post on French forums in French language. In Kv83, Lionel Debroux case as well as myself, we even run websites that aren't even in our native language. I believe Ticalc.org founder's native language wasn't english either (I think it was swedish)
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