What languages do you speak?

schmellyfart · Post by **schmellyfart** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:30 pm

I know English and basic Japanese (Taking Japanese III/ Japanese 101 this year)

Our high school requires 2 years of a "modern language" to graduate.

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:38 pm

Wait, isn't english a modern language?

What the heck does that even mean?

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:59 pm

I speak English, English, and Braile.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:06 pm

I speak English, Irish I donâ€™t think anyone else here can speak that

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And a little bit of German.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:39 pm

CFC Fodder wrote:Way back in high school, I took 2 years of Latin and 2 years of French. Granted I had quite a bit of understanding at the time, but I remember very little of both, which can be summed up in two sentences: "Puella est in silva." and "Je n'ais parle pas Francais.".

I also grew up in southern California, and learned how to count to 100 and some very basic stuff just "on the streets". So yeah... no habla Espanol.

Wow, someone with the answer to the only Latin I ever knew (2 years in HS);
Ubi sunt puellae?

benol · Post by **benol** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:48 pm

What does that mean in Latin?

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:54 pm

Ubi sunt puellae?
Where are the girl? (Of course it's nonsense! I was bad at Latin!)
Puella est in silva
The girl is in the forest.

benol · Post by **benol** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:58 pm

Why would anyone need to say that?

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:02 pm

See, the thing about latin is you don't learn it like other languages. You don't learn to speak it as an everyday thing, so the few tidbits of info I have are from large paragraphs I have read.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:32 pm

I know english, I'm SUPPOSED to know french, and I know a few profanities and expressions in german from my trip there.

I couldn't tell you how to say much in french. I do remember "ferme la bouche" quite well, as well as "merde".

As for german, random things I picked up, like "Ausfahrt" (however you spell it) means "exit", "Gluck Auf" is an expression roughly translated to "put your luck on!", and "dubist fette" (probably spelt horribly wrong, it was an oral adventure) means "you're fat."

samus · Post by **samus** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:40 pm

i remember learning: du bist dick. meaning: you are fat

and sheiÃŸe is crap.... i think thats how you spell it..

Ben Cebhrem · Post by **Ben Cebhrem** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:00 pm

benol wrote: Why would anyone need to say that?

Because you can continue the nonsense with some thing like:
"Puella est in silva cum puero", which roughly means "The girl is in the forest with the boy"

Nah, but seriously, Latin is used in the Vatican. As far as a use for it in the modern world, it's biggest uses would be as a linguistic tool for European languages (both learning many of them, and disseminating them), and in certain scientific fields- for example, the naming of new species/elements/molecules/medicines/phenomenon/what-have-you.

And Totokan- awesome man, I had totally forgotten that man. What book did you use? I think I used Jennings et.al., or some such like that.

spinout · Post by **spinout** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:50 pm

I speak English and Spanish. I have been taking Spanish since kindergarten and it was the first language I could read and write in. But my Spanish grammar sucks but I speak it well. All Spanish native language speakers(and people like me) have this issue. What sucks though is that for the nine years I have been taking Spanish (k-8 ) I don't get any credit at all in Spanish. At least I entered as a freshman at Spanish 3 (not 4 or AP because my grammar=fail).

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:11 am

I speak English, HTML and Javascript. I'm currently learning PHP and MySQL.

Seriously though... nothing but English here; though I do know a tiny bit of Japanese, and, for obvious reasons, plan to learn much more of it once I get to college.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:15 am

When will benol stop posting lame posts.

He is getting to be worse than retro master..