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... 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.

 

:lol: 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.

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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" :wink:

 

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! :lol: ) 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 :lol: .... I'm not! I don't even know a word of Czech!

 

EDIT: Typo :roll: Clearly I'm not even fluent in English!

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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! :D

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Sadly I don't have an aptitude for languages :oops::(

 

I did o-level French but the teacher hated my accent (thought I did it on purpose :lol: ) 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 :shock: .

 

I learnt enough Japanese to get around and order food etc :D 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 :lol:

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