How many languages? (4 Viewers)

How many languages do you speak?

  • barely one :D

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Zé Tahir

JhoolayLaaaal!
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Dec 10, 2004
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na dude hindi and urdu are very similar. i only learned urdu by hanging out with some of my paki friends who spoke it and i picked it up cuz i already knew hindi.
I never said it wasn't similar, but that doesn't mean you speak Urdu, just like I don't speak Hindi. I understand it because of it's similarities but I don't speak it.
 

JCK

Biased
JCK
May 11, 2004
125,381
I registered on the coming Italian course.

But I am still eager on acquiring German, probably after I master Italian.
 

.zero

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Aug 8, 2006
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I never said it wasn't similar, but that doesn't mean you speak Urdu, just like I don't speak Hindi. I understand it because of it's similarities but I don't speak it.
but thats what i'm saying, i do speak urdu because of the similarities with hindi it allowed me to pick it up faster. when i talk to any of my ismaili friends its always in urdu or english not hindi. like most dialects the main differences are in conjugations of verbs, etc..

the same goes for punjabi, sindhi, marathi, etc...
 

GoldenH

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Jul 28, 2006
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3 , i speak Swedish, Finnish and English fluently, never really learned to write in any language. and i understand and usually i can communicate in Danish, Norweigan and Deutsche, i can read and understand about 70% of Italian and Spanish but the conversation often quickly switches to English,
i should perhaps take some lessons and try to learn the languages the "right" way by sitting down on a school bench, but time is so limited, I feel it's easier and more enjoyable to learn a language thru face-to-face conversation,
it's remarkable how fast one can get a hang of a language after just a limited amount of time spent with someone who "forces" you to learn a new language.
Just gotta say that even though i really don't understand anything about French or Russian i still think they are among the top 3 most beautiful languages, with Italiano among them,
English as a languages is just horrible, no offence to anyone, so far i've just come across one descent "accent" of the english language, that is Scottish, witch is almost not understandable, but it sounds great.
The Saame language, which is spoken in the northern hemispehre of the scandic regions, is also nice, and it's sad that it is facing extinction.

Languages should not be compared as the opinion you personally get of a language, often depends on the person whom you are speaking with...

but who am i to talk about language i barely know my own language i live in Finland speak Finnish every day, and my mother tongue is swedish...
 

FK Zeljo

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Mar 19, 2006
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Fluent in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian (like some of the previous guys said these three languages are similar), English, and i'm in my last year of studying German. So 4 and a bit for me lol.
 

Bisco

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Nov 21, 2005
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just 2. english and arabic. learning italian would be superb but unfortunetly i cant cos of my packed uni schedule not to mention getting graduated is my main priority at the moment, but would def love to learn italian one day.
 

Zé Tahir

JhoolayLaaaal!
Moderator
Dec 10, 2004
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but thats what i'm saying, i do speak urdu because of the similarities with hindi it allowed me to pick it up faster. when i talk to any of my ismaili friends its always in urdu or english not hindi. like most dialects the main differences are in conjugations of verbs, etc..

the same goes for punjabi, sindhi, marathi, etc...
Dude, I'm not getting through to you. Let's have fun with this though. Translate the first 32 seconds of this vid. Don't cheat, do it on your own:


 

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