Old Speckled Hen Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 English....fluently Polish understand much more than I can speak but enough to get by Russian O level Shakespeare and Chaucer Cumbrian, enough to get by I need to learn Bee so that we can read the same books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alet_chicken Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 English, Afrikaans, good enough. From school and uni, a smattering of French, Latin, Northern Sotho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Klingon with very basic Vulcan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Crikey, how brilliant you all are, with so many languages! I can only claim to be able to speak, English, and not fluent but can hold a conversation in French and Swedish, fluent in cat and hen too of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasperaliceuk Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 English, theoretically fluent in Russian and French but rusty through non-use, bit of German and Spanish and currently learning 'hen' to the amusement of my neighbours. Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 ... a smattering of French, Latin, Northern Sotho. I read that as "Northern Soho", and wondered if that was a somewhat agricultural dialect of Anglo-Saxon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Klingon with very basic Vulcan majQa, clootie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Klingon with very basic Vulcan majQa, clootie I say, how VERY dare you OSH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alet_chicken Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 ... a smattering of French, Latin, Northern Sotho. I read that as "Northern Soho", and wondered if that was a somewhat agricultural dialect of Anglo-Saxon. Or maybe London street slang specific to the south side of Oxford street? It's a language indigenous to the northern part of South Africa, where I grew up. It was compulsory in school, but I really enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Klingon with very basic Vulcan majQa, clootie I say, how VERY dare you OSH! Hey........wait a minute. According to my online dictionary it means well done or very good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 You're looking at "ancient" Klingon there OSH. It means something completely different in the modern, updated version. What you actually said was, "I can recommend a cream for that". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 ooh, I feel inadequate now! very fluent English; reasonably fluent French; smattering of Spanish; and I can count to 5 in German also Cat and Dog and working on Rabbit. given up on Hamster. no klingon, vulcan or martian.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleTree Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 English, Wenglish and a bit of Welsh although I suspect the boys know more than I do now. I did GCSE German, but can't remember much of it now. Wish I knew more 1,4 & 6 year old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 You're looking at "ancient" Klingon there OSH. It means something completely different in the modern, updated version. What you actually said was, "I can recommend a cream for that". So funny Clootie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyChickenLover- Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 (edited) Well I'm a teenager so I'm fluent in Like. And I was like, "Look at that, like, house. It's so, like, big and like, old" On a serious note, English is the only langauge I'm fluent in I've been learing French for 4 years (I'm still not very good though! ) and Spanish for almost two years, but I'm going to stop with Spanish (it's hard ) . Some people seem to think that I'm fluent in German and Czech .... I'm not! I don't even know a word of Czech! EDIT: Typo Clearly I'm not even fluent in English! Edited July 7, 2011 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percy049 Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 I am amazed at how popular this topic is, and how many languages we all know (put together!)! Learning German and Swedish is currently on hold for me, my science coursework takes priority! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I'm fluent in complete gibberish Not to be confused with normal gibberish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Fluent in: English know some: Brummie, Boro. official languages ive learned... GCSE French bit of German less Spanish quite good at: Cat, Hen, child aged 11 to 16 cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I have a degree in French and Spanish so guess that makes me fluent in those.....I was very good at 'bar speak' by the time I had spent a year abroad! I know a few words of German and a few words in other languages but not enough to get me by! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Sadly I don't have an aptitude for languages I did o-level French but the teacher hated my accent (thought I did it on purpose ) so I wasn't allowed to speak in class. It got better when I was doing a lot of work travel to France and again when had a French manager but was always very basic and is very rusty now. I found German easier to speak but need to keep using it and I haven't for ages, at my best I could follow basic meetings but by the time I worked out what to say the meeting had long since moved on . I learnt enough Japanese to get around and order food etc but that was ages ago so can remember very little. I found it had logical pronunciation compared to many languages. When I was using it i could read katakana and hiragana and simple kanji (very slowly) but can't any more. On that mythical day when I have spare time I'll take up Japanese again as I did enjoy it despite being linguistically challenged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 English, French from GCSE many moons ago, I can understand a bit of Romanian and know a few phrases, but communicate mostly by smiling!! I too am fluent in teenager - innit!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percy049 Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 I too am fluent in teenager - innit!! ah man, thats sick mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Phil knows 'where is the beer tent?' in about 4 languages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Phil knows 'where is the beer tent?' in about 4 languages but that is the most useful phrase in ANY language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
