I've been learing Italian and I was wondering what languages other SOers can speak?

I learnt French and German at school, I can still speak a bit of French but I've forgotten most of the German I learnt.

I went to night school to learn Spanish for a while when I had a Spanish boyfriend, but that fizzled out at the same time the relationship did, so I only know the odd phrase in Spanish.

I used to know quite a bit of Turkish too (some of my in-laws were Turkish), but again - I've forgotten a lot of that.

I am determined to stick with the Italian!!

So tell me - what languages do you know?

I can speak a bit of german, more for my own amusement than anything else. I love the language, the sound the make up of the words and most of all German men.

When on holiday last year the hotel was about 70% Germans...in the evening after a beer or two for courage I was away. The number of them who said to me that I was the first English person to even attempt to speak German was quite suprising.

Guten Tag :)

I can speak Chinese and am re-learning French at the moment. And hopefully soon I'll be living in Japan and learning Japanese.

I also have a very basic knowledge in Finnish.

Italian seems like an interesting language to learn....so does Greek...I've always wanted to learn Greek for some reason.

I done German at school and did start to do an Italian course but then Mr B had a big project on and he had to work late, so bang went my evening classes! I really enjoyed it, it is such a sexy language, maybe one day I will return to it. Katie has been learning French since she started school and goes to an after-school class on a Wednesday for additional lessons, so she is teaching me & Mr B some French! :)

I wouldn't say I "speak" any language other than English, but I did French and German at 'O' Level and am sometimes surprised by how much comes back when I am forced to remember (this is especially true with French - Germans seem happy to speak English, whereas the French absolutely insist that you communicate in their language whilst in their country. Which is fair enough! So, when needs must....) I actually started German at 'A' Level.......only I dropped it when it got to the stage that I had to work really hard at it.

Which is exactly what I did with my degree actually!

Lazy? Moi! (Hey, did you notice that I managed to get some French into my post. As if to prove that I have some ability.....)

I love the language, and most of all German men.



Guten Tag :)
Mr F only has to count to 10 in German and I become weak at the knees ... and ahem....:blush:

I am absolutely useless at languages - and it is one of my biggest mishaps of life. I edit a Church newsletter with a German bloke [we have such a laugh at his theological knowledge in German and my lack of it in English] and one of my best friends is married to a German bloke, their 2 year old has a better hold of the language than I. I so wish I could and maybe one day I will learn. But it costs so much to do - I don't qualify for free courses.

Well I did the usual French at school, but it has dissolved from my brain, so all I speak is Andreanism (and sometimes I can't understand that)

Well I did the usual French at school, but it has dissolved from my brain, so all I speak is Andreanism (and sometimes I can't understand that)
I tried to learn to speak Andreanism myself once - very complex language/syntax - I stick with what I know best.....Woodstockola

Islandman, I'm impreseed - Chinese must be a difficuly language to get to grips with. Good luck with the Japanese too!

Bella - It's good that Katie is starting so young, my primary school didn't teach language, so I didn't get to start learning French until I was 11 and German when I was 13. I think the earler they start the easier they'll pick it up.

I'm enjoying learning the Italian - I've got a linguaphone course that I do in the car at the moment which I'm about halfway though. If I keep this up I'll try to find a Saturday morning college course to continue it.

I'm embarrassed to say, I don't speak any other language than English :blush:


I think I need to remedy that!

I don't either ILS but I'd like to have another go at French. I enjoyed it at school but I was doing German at the same time & I think my exam paper was a mixture of the 2!

I always manage to pick up some of the local lingo when we go away but not much of it sticks when we come back

I managed a French O level back in the Dark Ages......OMG it was 24 years ago!!!!! which meant that I managed to get by in France when I was there in October - better than the MIL and she has been living there for 6 blummin years!!!!

I have picked up some basic Spanish from the little jaunts to the Costa del Sol darlings.......but I would LOVE to be able to speak and understand it properly, trouble is, I just cant be assed to go to college! I think that Spanish is a very sexy language - especially when spoken by an Antonio Banderas lookie likey :devil: mmmmmmmmmmmmm :laugh:

I'm embarrassed to say, I don't speak any other language than English :blush:


I think I need to remedy that!
....at 44, you shouldn't have to worry too much about that....should you...?

....at 44, you shouldn't have to worry too much about that....should you...?

Excuse me........ I am 43 - thank you very much :angry:

Excuse me........ I am 43 - thank you very much :angry:
...oh well in that case, get the linguaphones out then....

O Levle french has completely diersted me, by my A level german is stilling knocking around in a dark recess of my brain - I can read it okay, but don't ever ask me to speak it :)

Apart from the odd German phrase (and some of them are very odd), I can't speak any other language. I have enough trouble with English.

Islandman, you seem to be the one most able to master languages, you should start a language classes thread. Although it might be a bit difficult to explain the pronunciation, it would give us some idea of what the written words mean.

You could start with wine labels which is about the only thing I ever attempt to read in a foreign language. It would be a useful skill when browsing the shelves!

How about it Islandman, or anyone else that feels that have a good knowledge of a language? I'd certainly be up for it.

Apart from the odd German phrase (and some of them are very odd), I can't speak any other language. I have enough trouble with English.

Islandman, you seem to be the one most able to master languages, you should start a language classes thread. Although it might be a bit difficult to explain the pronunciation, it would give us some idea of what the written words mean.

You could start with wine labels which is about the only thing I ever attempt to read in a foreign language. It would be a useful skill when browsing the shelves!

How about it Islandman, or anyone else that feels that have a good knowledge of a language? I'd certainly be up for it.
GREAT IDEA...I would be first in the queue (thats an odd word for starters).

Come on Island Man...Teach us Large. Have it. :boxing:

O Levle french has completely diersted me, by my A level german is stilling knocking around in a dark recess of my brain - I can read it okay, but don't ever ask me to speak it :)
Friggin German A level!!

I only managed a C o'level but I can converse in my own understandable stylee..oh yess siree..almost incoherantley fluent...with other drunk people.

:excl:

yeah well, it seemed like a good idea at the time