What languages do you speak?

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:46 am

Felino wrote:When will benol stop posting lame posts.

He is getting to be worse than retro master..

I wouldn't say that. Noone is ever worse than Retromaster evar. But still, Benol, all of your grammar nazi posts are completely unneeded.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:10 am

CFC Fodder wrote: 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.

Yeah, I believe I used Jenny's First Year Latin (ISBN 9780205061778), as well as Jenny's Second Year Latin (ISBN 9780137973903).

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:52 am

Kurt_ wrote:Ausfahrt

That's spelled correctly, but it's a special kind of exit, one for cars, in fact.

Gluck Auf

"GlÃ¼ck auf" is an expression only people who work under the earth (in a mine, for example) use. It litterally means "Luck up", as in "good luck getting up here again"

"dubist fette"

"Du bist fett", your translation is correct.

Just so you know

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:30 am

I'm in Spanish 3, my school requires 3 years of one language (or at least up to the 3rd grade level), or 2 years each of 2 different languages. I'm alright at Spanish, half my family can (or could) speak it fluently. Definitely not gonna take Spanish 4 though.
I kinda wish I'd taken Latin, it seems a lot more useful to have a good Latin vocabulary so you can recognize words in a flash.

benol · Post by **benol** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:50 am

Felino wrote:When will benol stop posting lame posts.

He is getting to be worse than retro master..

Ummm... Worse than retromaster would be this:

IM SPAMMAN!!!1111ONE VIDEOGAMES ARE FOR DUMMEEZ AND PPL WHO HAV @ MUCH SPARE TIME!!! MY LANGAJES ARE WTF AND 1337TTHD<BDB<BJF

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:50 am

OH MY GOD! HE IS WORSE THAN RETROMASTER!!!

@ Kyo: "Ausfahrt" is from the exits on the highway. I'm sure "offramp" would suit it better, right?
Gluck Auf has a much more dismal meaning than I thought. I came across this on a tour of an old mine.

benol · Post by **benol** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:04 pm

Grammatically, compared to all of the other languages in the world, English is pretty screwed up. Adjectives come before nouns, verbs have only 2 conjugations in the present tense, and pronunciation isn't phonetic.

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:21 pm

english and like 3 words in spanish as i just started spanish 1 a few days ago.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Post by **lifeisbetterwithketchup** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:44 pm

benol wrote:Grammatically, compared to all of the other languages in the world, English is pretty screwed up. Adjectives come before nouns, verbs have only 2 conjugations in the present tense, and pronunciation isn't phonetic.

Agreed. English is a very screwy language. Spanish makes a bunch more sense. The main thing for me is that, like you said, it's phonetic, so spelling isn't a pain in the rear. Also, less exceptions to rules! English is horrible with those.

schmellyfart · Post by **schmellyfart** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:31 pm

Kyo wrote:Wait, isn't english a modern language?

What the heck does that even mean?

Thats just what they call it at our school because alongside with x credits of english, we need to have 2 credits from two consecutive language classes i.e. Japanese I & II to graduate

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:48 am

Kurt_ wrote:@ Kyo: "Ausfahrt" is from the exits on the highway. I'm sure "offramp" would suit it better, right?
Gluck Auf has a much more dismal meaning than I thought. I came across this on a tour of an old mine.

Yeah, offramp sums it up pretty much.

you know, I heard the term "glÃ¼ck auf" for the first time in my life a few years ago when I was taking a tour of an old mine myself.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:56 am

Yeah... English is pretty odd.

'I' before 'E' except after 'C'... yeah, okay. Bull****.

TheOnlyOneHeFears · Post by **TheOnlyOneHeFears** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:00 am

English (duh

), German, French, tiny bit of Spanish, even less Japanese, miniscule amount of Russian.

Our school is big on languages. French is compulsory at GCSE, and I also did German. I've dropped French for A Level, but I'm still doing German. I really like it. We did Spanish at primary school, Japanese I picked up from karate, and we did a bit of Russian for a laugh in a couple of lessons last year.

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:22 am

I speak English, French and Dutch (native). Those are the 3 languages everyone gets here at school. German is optional but I think 3 is enough

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:37 am

I speak English. I will not learn Spanish. I will learn Japanese.

If I have to pass Spanish to [gradurate] I will kill my Spanish teacher.

SS