How many languages can you speak?

DID YOU KNOW
If you are multilingual your brain, as you get older, will not deteriorate as much as the people who can speak only one language.

Ich kann Deutsch sprechen. Kann jedermand anders Deutsch sprechen. Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut aber es ist Ok.

Das ist gut :D:D

Kann du Deutsch sprechen RhapsodyInBlue

Kann du Deutsch sprechen RhapsodyInBlueIchpuchtli, Ich Dose, aber wir soll nicht unterschiedliche sprache auf forum sprechen.:eyebrow: :faint: :foot: Ich bin auf französisch fließender.:D :foot:

Translation=I said we aren't allowed to speak foregn language on forum:eek: :foot: ! ;)

~Viktoria------>:soapbox:

Actually, you're permitted to speak foreign languages in the appropriate International sections of the forums :D

Actually, you're permitted to speak foreign languages in the appropriate International sections of the forums :D
OOOooops, my bad:eek: :foot: !

s'ok Vik...I would encourage members from around the world to communicate in their native languages...just within their respective sections of the forums :)

Oh sorry I had no idea. But come on it was just a bit of fun anyway your other countries section is not very big.

Andrew how many languages can you speak?

the other country sections will grow, when we start attracting more international members.

At one time or another, I used to speak/understand French, Hebrew, Spanish, a little bit of German and on occassion, English :D

ok and I sorry I just reread the guidlines and taken a look around

I can speak 1/2 of 1 laugauge.... :p

me to mom!!:D

my native language is/was hungarian, then i learned english, which is now my strongest language and i also speak german. and having grown up around my hungarian friends who all spoke 4 or more languages, i feel pretty darn stupid at times. oh, "survival" french and italian, which i'd like to learn more completely....

in that case I know " survival" spanish.

fasttalkingmom what is the language that you can speak
:confused:

I speak English and German...and sometime both together all mixed up in one sentence!

I do that to.

There has got to be more people out there who speak another language because if there isn't most of you are going to become more and more forgetful.

What about Gaberla in the other country forum. :confused:

There has got to be more people out there who speak another language because if there isn't most of you are going to become more and more forgetful.


come on people I know there is more out there it's not hard for an ADD'er to learn a language.

This post just boots it to the top.

I understand when I am being cussed out in Spanish. One day a student totally cussed me out in Spanish, than gave me the English version.

Whats cussed out mean?

Come on be honest. You know Another language.

I moving this bacj uo the top.

Bad language such as $$@@@, $## is cussed out. :)

There has got to be more people out there who speak another language because if there isn't most of you are going to become more and more forgetful.

:confused:Too late. :D :faint: I'm doomed.

I'm trying to teach my children Spanish, Hebrew (at least to read it) and Sign Language.

I'm very jealous because my Nana grew up knowing French (her mother was from Switzerland) but unfortunately she forgot it and couldn't teach me. My other grandparents used to argue in German...for the kids' sake. (I think they knew the folks were arguing. :eyebrow: )

But you're right. It's unfortunate in America that we do not make sure our children start earlier and be insistent they learn another language. Two years is required in high school to go on to college, and your native tongue doesn't count towards that. At least those were the rules at my highschool...
15 years ago. :eek:



BTW, you don't need to bump your threads, hon, we'll see 'em. ;)

I know some American Sign Language

I also took 3 years of French . . .. and a semester each of German and Spanish. I can sing in Italian and Latin (and German, Spanish, French).

American Sign Language is the one I am best at.

I speak English and German...and sometime both together all mixed up in one sentence!
:D Too Funny Kim. I can do the same, and write in native fluent French to a French friend, and suddenly Italian and some English words are in the mix. It looks so silly:foot: :foot: !

What's new? Huh? ;)

~Viktoria

So what's the best way to learn and teach phrases and sentences. I have good books with lots of words, but like a dictionary, I just hop around trying to find the things that fit. For example, I know "My name is" and how to fingerspell, but there's the abbreviated version and I don't know how to do that.

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

So what's the best way to learn and teach phrases and sentences. I have good books with lots of words, but like a dictionary, I just hop around trying to find the things that fit. For example, I know "My name is" and how to fingerspell, but there's the abbreviated version and I don't know how to do that.

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? I don't get that either :D

the best way to learn sign depends - are you learning American Sign Language (ASL)? Because that is an actual language with it's own structure.

Most hearing people sign with Pigeon Signed English (PSE) or Signed Exact English (SEE). The signs are mostly from ASL, but the structure is English language structure.

I took an ASL class in college and just have been asking fluent signers questions or looking up signs in an ASL dictionary.

If you want to learn the short cuts/abbreviated versions/slang you should take a class, learn from a fluent signer, or someone in the deaf community.

In general, (ASL) signers omit words such as "is, are, have"

Community education classes are fun and a cheap way to learn ASL :)

Sorry :o I can only speak English, but i can do it in a few different accents does that count lol :D :p :D

LOL

Ok, I can do an english accent, (I don't know what to call the dialects but definitely different ones); spanish accent, bad hungarian/russian accent, german accent, and if I listen enough I can pick up some more pretty fast. I love giving characters different ways of speaking...especially if they sound like a famous person. My husband does Green Eggs and Ham with a bad Seinfeld impression.

Did I just go way off topic?

Did I just go way off topic?
Yea I think you did.

To all the people out there sign language does count and sign language is international that means if you learn your ASL you can talk to I deaf person from china of somewhere else.

And accents don't count but they are funny.

So what's the best way to learn and teach phrases and sentences. I have good books with lots of words, but like a dictionary, I just hop around trying to find the things that fit. For example, I know "My name is" and how to fingerspell, but there's the abbreviated version and I don't know how to do that.

The best way to teach people languages is if you can speak the language, then all you have to do is talk to them only in that language, help them out here and there and the rest just happens.

I've heard that having my children hear it is the best start. So since I home school, if they want to watch one of their favorite movies, I put it on in Spanish with English subtitles or vice-versa; we always have subtitles on when we can just because I have trouble following the dialect, but it helps with my children reading. They pick things up that way. Love DVDs.

I've heard that having my children hear it is the best start. So since I home school, if they want to watch one of their favorite movies, I put it on in Spanish with English subtitles or vice-versa; we always have subtitles on when we can just because I have trouble following the dialect, but it helps with my children reading. They pick things up that way. Love DVDs.


What you should do now is get rid of the subtitles and make sure if they ask you a question, teach em how to say it in spanish then, they slowly learn to understand and speak Spanish. :) ( if they ask the same question a day later don't listen till they say all they can in spanish then just fill in the Gaps, I sound like a DIY program.)

My first language is English ... but I also understand Tagalog and Spanish (speak more spanish than tagalog).

Hopeful soon I will be fluent in both. :D

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Cory (native language)
English (second language)

German, Thai and Japanese (only fluent when I am living in the countries)

I could pick up spanish. I had three years of it in college. I also learned some Turkish, Sahaptian (Warm springs) and Latin... I gave up on Italian because the teacher at the university taught it in German with a thick schwaebish-Italian accent that I just could not get.

I am a language geek :)

I hate to inform everyone that sign language is considered a language. It counts as a language in college now. American Sign Language exsisted in the United states as far back as the early 1700 hundreds.

ASL has no roots. Nor is it derived from the English Language. The way a person signs in ASL format compared to English format is completely different just as in the spoken language of Italian or French for example. Therefore,it t is considered a forgein language.

I hate to inform everyone that sign language is considered a language. It counts as a language in college now. American Sign Language exsisted in the United states as far back as the early 1700 hundreds.

I thought I said that?

I am a language geek

I am too I want to learn more then just two.

In what country do they speak Cory? :confused:

Hold on I get it.

Is your name Cory?

I can speak more than 12 languages - in order of fluency attained: English (I have a verbal IQ of 175 on the Stanford Binet scale mind you), Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, French, Korean, Japanese, Malay, Latin etc ... lots more. Note that I have learnt an entire language overnight before!

Whao!!! How did you learn an entire language overnight? I have learnt more languages now thanks to a speacial learning program.

Fluent German, Russian, Belarus, Lithuanian, Latvian, Latin, some French, and of course, English

French and english mothertongue + German and spanish... languages are really fun! I learned my spanish in 6 weeks in Barcelona.

I would like to learn arab.
in switzerland we are thought english and german as of 4th grade. we can add the 3rd in 7th grade...
and off course, we get to learn from food packages which are in 3 languages! (German, French, Italian)

:rolleyes:

I do a good country redneck boy. I'm sure ya'll think it's a different language.

I've always been intrigued by learning languages. I can remember being about 4 and meeting a little boy who was the son of my mother's friend. He was bilingual in Spanish and English and I thougt that was the neatest thing ever! In 3rd grad they gave us an after-school opportunity to take French or Spanish lessons. I wanted to take both! But alas I already had some commitment on Spanish day and so took some French lessons (and I couldn't understand why every other kid in the class wasn't as eager to sign up as I was:) )

I returned to studying French in high school (as it wasn't offered until then...so just a little hiatus) and then in college seriously overslept the day of the French placement test and so signed up for elementary German (oh, the ways we make our decisions:D ). I was just as happy to do that since I'd planned to take another language anyway. So I squeezed in a year of German and then switched back to the French again. Several more courses, a semester in France, and a couple of French boyfriends later I ended up speaking quite well, really. Though it gets rusty when I get out of practice.

I recently took some Japanese at an Adult Ed school and it definitely rekindled that love I have for learning languages. In addition to enjoying it, I seem to have a knack for picking them up and a pretty good ear for them. My psychiatrist thought this was interesting, as she said that ADD/ADHD often has an impact on the language learning area of the brain. So I'm finding this post really interesting too...that so many other ADD-ers have this same love and skill.

And I'm a little jealous of those of you who've already got a strong foundation in and knowledge of many languages. And reading about those who've studied sign language it reminds me that it's something I have always wanted to delve into as well.

One other thing I'll mention is that I think it's such a shame that in the U.S. we often aren't offered foreign language instruction until around high school. It seems we miss the boat that way on catching the moment in kids' lives when language acquisition is most natural. I think there may be a trend in certain places to start this younger and younger (anyone else notice this?) and I hope that that is the case.

One other thing I'll mention is that I think it's such a shame that in the U.S. we often aren't offered foreign language instruction until around high school. It seems we miss the boat that way on catching the moment in kids' lives when language acquisition is most natural. I think there may be a trend in certain places to start this younger and younger (anyone else notice this?) and I hope that that is the case.

I wanna learn more languages as well I wanna learn Spanish next. I got the option in Grade one over here to learn German, well not the option I was made to do it. I think it is because Aussie land is made up of so many different people, almost half are born over seas I think.