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What languages do you know? If you only know a little bit of one, specify which ones you're less fluent or more fluent in. Also tell which you want to learn, if any. :)

Here are mine:

English (Midwest U.S. dialect) - native speaker
Spanish - almost fluent
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) - what web pages are written in. This is not a spoken language, of course. :P

I can understand a bit of written French and some spoken or written Portuguese.

I want to learn Finnish, Thai, Greek, and maybe German.
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flouant in enlish

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enlish eh?
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i can:

speak:
Spanish ~ i'm pretty fluent in conversation, but i'm taking a grammar course in school.

the tiniest bit of Portugese ~ only if i ever need to find the bathroom, :lol:

understand:
formal Polish ~ my mother's polish, and i use to take a class in it too, but my mom took me out of it since i didn't speak a word of it, :lol: i can't really keep up a casual conversation anymore, though. :uh:

italian ~ if you know spanish, you can understand italian. :nod:

squamish (native american language near the vancouver area) ~ when i was in the 4-7th grades, and a substitute came by, i was always skippin out on math to go to the squamish classes (no one cared, because others came with me. and the squamish teacher was the coolest dude ever. :mrgreen: )

quechua (incan language, argentinian variety, though) ~ my daddy's side of the family are technically incan descendants. :D
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...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
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Redneck/Southern US English - Fully fluent
French - I can barely remember any of it, but sometimes I can read a little bit of it.
Spanish - I can speak a very minimal amount, and read very little.
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cool, you know squamish!

i know:
english (just .. standard english. ehh)
french (i am pretty good at reading + writing)
spanish (the teeniest bit)
korean (i was born there. i can understand it + read it + write it perfectly but my vocab and speaking skills are steadily declining :uhh:)
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Post by closeyoureyes »

I know...
Fluently:
English
Russian
Gaelic
Learning/Mostly fluent:
French
Learning/Basic understanding:
German.
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English - I can get by with what I know.
HTML
Pascal
C
PHP
MySQL

French - Just a little . . . c'est nul means you're welcome, right?
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English - native
French - un peu

If we are including programming languages:

Very well:
C/C++
C#
Java / Javascript
Tcl/Tk
HTML
XML
IDL
UML

Moderate:
VB
Python
ASP
SQL
ToolBook scripting
Batch

Some:
FORTRAN
Perl
MATLAB

Dabbled with:
Ruby
PHP

Used to know well but it has been a while:
BASIC / QBASIC / GWBASIC
Eiffel
LISP
Assembly

..whew... I think thats it.
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holy shit, this board is full of so. many. geeks. who knows TWENTY-THREE programming languages, seriously? :freak:

oh, i speak english and french. well, my french isn't nearly as good as it should be. I have trouble understanding movies, but that's because our classes are taught to us by french-speaking english people, so that's the only accent we know. if i were to spend some time in a frenchish place, i'd be perfectly fluent.
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I speak English. I spoke Italian in first grade, what with the living there and all, but I've since lost it. I'm going to start learning it again next year.

I took four years of Spanish, but they were elementary school, so, you know... I didn't learn anything.
I just wanna get out,
Stuck inside of this.
Waiting for something else,
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thirdhour wrote:holy shit, this board is full of so. many. geeks. who knows TWENTY-THREE programming languages, seriously? :freak:
A lot are very similar, once you know one it's very easy to pick up a bunch of others. For instance, I didn't list javascript, and I'm not particularly experienced at making stuff with it, but if I look at javascript code I can pretty much understand it and tweak with it if there's something I want to change.
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Dutch - native speaker.
English - fluent.
German - basic understanding, both written and spoken, I can speak it a little.
French - very basic understanding, written only.
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Woohoo we get to include computer languages!! :lol:

US English (I think... sometimes I'm not quite sure, though)
HTML
JavaScript

Used to know, probably still would if I just studied a little bit for reminders:
Pascal (:lol:)
Basic
some others that I don't feel like thinking of the names of... a bunch of ones used on the web

Pretended to know:
I took French for 2 years, but never really learned anything. :*)**
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<font color="#89CDCC">Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or <font color="#FFFFFF">hunger</font>,
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faninor wrote:
thirdhour wrote:holy shit, this board is full of so. many. geeks. who knows TWENTY-THREE programming languages, seriously? :freak:
A lot are very similar, once you know one it's very easy to pick up a bunch of others. For instance, I didn't list javascript, and I'm not particularly experienced at making stuff with it, but if I look at javascript code I can pretty much understand it and tweak with it if there's something I want to change.
I was just going to say that. :D
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Proper English english - fluent
German - a bit rusty, but I can get by and read books and watch movies and stuff.
French - I studied it at school for 5 years, but that was a long time ago now.
Russian - I know a few words and phrases
Dutch - I can sometimes read/understand because it looks like German lots of the time.
COBOL - pretty much fluent
SQL - I use quite a lot too
CICS - I can write with a little help from manuals/copying other bits of code!
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I'm fluent in english, and not too bad in french. I've been taking weekly spanish (mostly latin american) lessons for 2 months or so now, and know some basic conversation stuff and important vocabulary I'll need for my trip there in august.
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spanish
english
HARDCORE!!!

OMG. I can't believe I din't think fo you
until now because when I think on
a scale of one to ten you're like YWELVE.
No, seriously?

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oh yeah and some sign language that i learned when i was working with autistic kids
-yes
-no
-sit down
-stand up
-all done
-play
-more
-toilet
-drink

that's all you need really in life :P
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:lol:
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<center><img src="../phpBB2/files/squiggle.gif">

<font color="#3C8C8B">Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us,
above us only sky, imagine all the people, <font color="#FFFFFF">living</font> for today...</font>

<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>

<font color="#89CDCC">Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or <font color="#FFFFFF">hunger</font>,
a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the <font color="#FFFFFF">world</font>...</font>

<font color="#B1DFDE">You may say I'm a <font color="#FFFFFF">dreamer</font>, but I'm not the only one, I hope
some day you'll join us, and the world will <font color="#FFFFFF">live</font> as one.</font></center></font>
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