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Jan 25, 2019 14:32:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 14:32:05 GMT
Just wondering if we might have some people who can speak unusual languages.
I speak English (mother tongue), French pretty well (get away with it) and a little bit of Spanish.
And bullshit, fluently.
Any more interesting ones?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 25, 2019 14:41:05 GMT
Speak Russian fairly well because of spending a lot of time there in the 1990s and making the effort to learn it. Not fluently but well enough to converse on everyday matters with the average peasant.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jan 25, 2019 15:01:07 GMT
I was fluent in French when I was younger, lived in Belgium between the age of 5 and 10. I've forgotten most of it now but would probably get most of it back if I spent a few months there. Apart from that reasonable Spanish and Indonesian, a little Polish and Welsh.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 25, 2019 15:07:29 GMT
I can order a beer in many common languages  |
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Post by JohnV on Jan 25, 2019 15:08:59 GMT
or rum and coke in Spanglish "Dos Cuba Libres por favor and a nover one for me mate"
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Jan 25, 2019 15:23:50 GMT
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Post by Jim on Jan 25, 2019 15:23:50 GMT
A bit of French, Spanish less so.
Living on the right side of the border, I have learnt a little Yorkshire to converse with the locals over the border. Owarte? Amawreet!
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jan 25, 2019 15:30:54 GMT
Polish is a bastard of a language, 2 different plurals. One beer is Yeden pivo, 2 is dva piva then it's piva until you get to 5 when it changes to piff. WTF?
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Jan 25, 2019 15:38:09 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Jan 25, 2019 15:38:09 GMT
French quite well. not that I use it enough.
I can speak American too.
when I was young my sisters scout group sponsored some children from pripyat, Two came and stayed with us, Mishka and Andre. they taught me alot of Russian I those two weeks and I was quite good. however 25 years of not speaking it, I can only remember basics.
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Jan 25, 2019 15:38:56 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Jan 25, 2019 15:38:56 GMT
i forgot to say, for me its one thing speaking a language but its another thing to try and understand someone who is fluent.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 15:51:10 GMT
I speak fluid international language for 'I've got a gun and it's a rather large one, hand over some money' - Nepal and Russia (borders of Chechnya)...
Edit to add - at least the Nepalis were polite enough to give a receipt so you didn't get hassled again.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 16:00:24 GMT
Shabalopa tinga longa bonga wonga
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Post by patty on Jan 25, 2019 16:02:32 GMT
nope.. just English...well few odd words in French ..managed 'il et mort?' when confronted by a dead body in a lift supported by 2 french police men...their answer "oui madam, il et mort" before lift doors closed on them and off they went...
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jan 25, 2019 16:11:16 GMT
Me gusta las chicas mas guapas, no las chicas mas gordas.
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Post by Jim on Jan 25, 2019 16:36:51 GMT
Si senor der dego, forte lorez inaro. Demint lorez demis trux, fulla cousan ensan dux.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jan 25, 2019 16:44:28 GMT
Mau makasan Indonesia gado gado, nasi campur, soto ayam dan ole ole...bagus!
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