Polyglots?

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How Many Extra (ie Not Including Your First Language) Languages Can You Speak?

One.
10
23%
Two.
14
33%
Three.
12
28%
Four.
1
2%
Five.
2
5%
More than five.
4
9%
 
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Polyglots?

Post by Wiðercora » Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:43 pm

Am I alone in my quest to become at least tri-lingual?

Does anybody else here speak/is learning to speak any languages other than their first?
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by Babel » Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:46 pm

I speak dutch, as my first language, english, french and german. My work here is done. :levi:
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by maiforpeace » Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:53 pm

We had a thread around here somewhere about this. There are quite a few polyglots in this bunch of folks actually. I believe Xamonas holds the record for most languages.

I speak French and German, and am learning Spanish.
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Post by Sisifo » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:16 pm

maiforpeace wrote:We had a thread around here somewhere about this. There are quite a few polyglots in this bunch of folks actually. I believe Xamonas holds the record for most languages.

I speak French and German, and am learning Spanish.
I can help on that! Next postcard will be en la bella lengua castellana. :biggrin:
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Post by Feck » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:18 pm

Pappa 2 Knows quite a few and is busy learning more .
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by Beelzebub2 » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:25 pm

Feck wrote:Pappa 2 Knows quite a few and is busy learning more .
Yes, I'm native Croatian, fluent in English (C2), studying Spanish, Italian (A2), and have started to re-learn Latin, which will study at college alongside Romanian (A1). :tup:
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by Sisifo » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:43 pm

Pappa2 wrote:
Feck wrote:Pappa 2 Knows quite a few and is busy learning more .
Yes, I'm native Croatian, fluent in English (C2), studying Spanish, Italian (A2), and have started to re-learn Latin, which will study at college alongside Romanian (A1). :tup:
And that doesn't account for your programming languages :tup:
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by Beelzebub2 » Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:26 pm

I'm sorry, it's not Pappa, but member formerly known as ryokan and in order to avoid any further confusion, I switched back to my former user-name. :tup: :flowers:
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Post by natselrox » Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:33 pm

First language: Bengali. I can speak English and Hindi.
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Post by Agrippina » Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:01 pm

Boring, only English. I can understand Afrikaans, some German, and knowing a little Latin helps to understand simple things like road signs etc.
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by Azathoth » Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:19 pm

English and very basic Icelandic. Give me 10 years and I might be somewhere approaching fluent
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:02 am

I've elements (more or less depending on which language) of about ten languages, but honestly, English is the only one beside my native French with which I can claim any fluence, as measured by ability to read simple texts and express myself.
(and excluding stupid mistake and gallicisms)
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by maiforpeace » Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:03 am

Sisifo wrote:
maiforpeace wrote:We had a thread around here somewhere about this. There are quite a few polyglots in this bunch of folks actually. I believe Xamonas holds the record for most languages.

I speak French and German, and am learning Spanish.
I can help on that! Next postcard will be en la bella lengua castellana. :biggrin:
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by Dr. Kwaltz » Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:32 pm

Wiðercora wrote:Am I alone in my quest to become at least tri-lingual?

Does anybody else here speak/is learning to speak any languages other than their first?
I speak the language I was raised in, Norwegian.
In addition:
- New Norwegian (different grammar and words)
- Old Norwegian/futark/Icelandic
- Swedish
- Danish
- English
- German
- French
- Dutch

Some Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Turkish, but only on a tourist level.
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by Azathoth » Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:35 pm

Isn't Old Norwegian pretty much the same as Icelandic?

I see you edited as I was posting
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