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If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be?
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If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be?
You'd be fluent to the point of reading high brow literature, telling jokes successfully and understanding most local dialects of that language.
If 16 is too much, limit it to the ones you'd like most.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14604415 - 06/13/11 02:56 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Spanish,French, Japanese, Hindi, Latin, Greek, Native American/Inuit, Dutch, Italian, and then basically enough to get by in Africa. I didn't list anything specific about africa because there's like 3,000 languages. They fall into 6 families though so I figure they must have similarities with other languages in that family.
What about you Wiccan Seeker, you didn't provide a list.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: IamMatt]
#14604432 - 06/13/11 03:00 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Latin, Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Sumerian, Dutch, German, Nahuatl, Russian, Old English, Yiddish.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14604433 - 06/13/11 03:01 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Aw fuck and Tibetan! Once you get going it's hard to stop at 16
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14604443 - 06/13/11 03:03 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well i had a hard time thinking of 16 really but you just named a bunch that i would like to learn as well. I think everyone would love to be fluent in every language haha. Where are the babel fish?
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14604447 - 06/13/11 03:04 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Lets see..
Dutch (check) English (check) German (reasonable) French (only a little bit) Malay (even less) Swahili (way too little)
Spanish Portugese Italian Hindi Chinese Japanese Arabic Kikongo International Sign Language Braille
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14604493 - 06/13/11 03:19 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Old English is pretty easy once you understand structure.
Could always work backwards and try Middle English but that might just end up biting you.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Adden]
#14604509 - 06/13/11 03:27 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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German,sign language,Hidi, and any smaller tribal languages.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Distorted Vision]
#14604550 - 06/13/11 03:53 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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latin arabic german dutch Hungarian - FAV spanish the main Chinese one french and the rest made up of african and south american languages.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14604903 - 06/13/11 07:51 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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spanish(know a little for my job),Sumerian,Portuguese,french,Mandarin Chinese,dutch,german,sign language(also know a little for my job),russian,l33t speak,gilgamex, and the language of the crab people. Forgot to add Lithuanian.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: love2shpongleIRL]
#14604923 - 06/13/11 07:58 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Russian (Somewhat fluent) Croatian (Somewhat fluent) Greek Hindi Icelandic Sign Spanish (Very little) German (Very little) French (Very little) Enochian Iroquoian
Eh.. I can't think of anymore.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14605036 - 06/13/11 08:46 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Arabic Farsi Hebrew Japanese French Spanish Sanskrit Hindi Portugese Dutch Cantonese Yiddish Russian English German Latin
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14605195 - 06/13/11 09:38 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Japanese Cantonese Mandarin Korean Thai Tagalog Arabic Hindu Urdu Spanish Portuguese French Dutch German Russian Vietnamese
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Ballerium]
#14605202 - 06/13/11 09:41 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Why does everyone have a urge to learn dutch?
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Ballerium]
#14605228 - 06/13/11 09:46 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ahhh I forgot Thai.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: virus1824]
#14605280 - 06/13/11 09:57 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nou, mits goed gebruikt en met de juiste tongval gearticullerd is Nederlands een prachtige taal hoor! In het Nederlands heb je erg veel nuance, bijvoorbeeld het onderscheid tussen U en jij die beide "you" betenenen, maar dan bezien vanuit hogere en lagere rangorde. Nederlands geeft je ook een ingangetje naar het Vlaams, een prachtige gevoelsrijke taal die eenvoudiger te leren is vanuit het Nederlands dan vanuit het Engels.
Hier is een goed voorbeeld van Vlaams wat in het Nederlands perfect te verstaan is:
Het zijn prachtige talen, en innig verwant.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14605310 - 06/13/11 10:04 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I only speak english and some french, if I was going to put effort into learning another full language I would go with Japanese. And with the time it would take to learn 13 other languages I would spend doing japanese type stuff
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14605711 - 06/13/11 11:31 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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In no particular order.
German French Spanish Japanese Mandarin Chinese Russian Korean Persian Arabic Turkish Lakota Italian Latin Sanskrit Egyptian* Sumerian*
*Yup those languages used many thousands of years ago.
And Portuguese got expelled, that would have been 17, dammit.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14605794 - 06/13/11 11:48 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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French, Italian, Spanish, German, Icelandic, Hindi, Afrikaans, Estonian, Russian, Mandarin, Swedish, Dutch, Latin, Greek, Portuguese, Coptic (or rather I'd like to be able to read Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics)
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: robbyberto]
#14605850 - 06/13/11 12:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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german (still know a good amount from my exchange there) french (beautiful language) dutch (awesome language) mandarin japanese russian norwegian (heard it's easy to learn) icelandic (heard the grammar is more complicated than german) spanish (spanish speakers are cool)
anddddd
the elven languages that Tolkien created (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ronald_Reuel_Tolkien#Languages_and_philology)
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: nglsnv]
#14605854 - 06/13/11 12:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i dont even think i can list 16 languages
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: P-O]
#14605891 - 06/13/11 12:09 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mandarin Cantonese Japanese Tibetan Hindi Spanish Portugese German Russian French Nahuatl Latin
I feel like 16 is almost an excess. There really aren't other languages that I'm interested in learning at the moment
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Acaterpillar]
#14605900 - 06/13/11 12:10 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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french, Spanish , Latin, and Arabic would be cool to know
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: P-O]
#14605905 - 06/13/11 12:11 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i would speak pig latin
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: hidenseek]
#14605925 - 06/13/11 12:14 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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its easy to speak pig latin

eat nay = neat
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: P-O]
#14606187 - 06/13/11 01:13 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Russian, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese, Gaelic, The Cant, Romanian, Turkish, and Icelandic.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: limestoneman]
#14606281 - 06/13/11 01:32 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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wa gwan rastafari! gee up ma modnot ganja tde chalra! heeet!
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14606452 - 06/13/11 02:01 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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16? with a number that high its not even really that fun anymore. its lost its exclusiveness.ness. brah
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: JesusGoneRogue]
#14606475 - 06/13/11 02:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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if 16 is a high number to you, its time you put down that spliff.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: druqs]
#14606550 - 06/13/11 02:15 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
druqs said: wa gwan rastafari! gee up ma modnot ganja tde chalra! heeet!
Did we go and post in the wrong thread again.
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druqs said:
if 16 is a high number to you, its time you put down that spliff.
 But I get what he means.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: 4runner]
#14606594 - 06/13/11 02:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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twas a pidgin english demonstration, albeit not a very good one.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: druqs]
#14607168 - 06/13/11 04:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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well... I'm Portuguese and speak fluent English. Spanish and French not so fluently, although I can easily understand general Spanish, French and Italian due to being Latin languages.
I'd love to know:
Latin, Sanskrit, Greek, Mandarin, Russian, Icelandic, Dutch, Creole, Afrikaans, German, Arab, oh boy... if I could I'd like to know any language that exists/has existed
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: pouihi]
#14607186 - 06/13/11 04:04 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Damn. I forgot Italian and Latin.
I can read and speak some Spanish and I can read and understand a little bit of Portuguese. But spoken Portuguese just blows my mind. I can't understand it at ALL.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: nglsnv]
#14607192 - 06/13/11 04:05 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Professor Tibbs said:
the elven languages that Tolkien created (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ronald_Reuel_Tolkien#Languages_and_philology)
 Yes this too!
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Ballerium]
#14607204 - 06/13/11 04:08 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I would love to learn the most common asian languages(to satiate my yellow fever) italian, french, finnish, dutch, indian, and the most common native american languages and i want a rastafarian-english accent
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Ballerium]
#14607219 - 06/13/11 04:12 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ballerium said: Damn. I forgot Italian and Latin.
I can read and speak some Spanish and I can read and understand a little bit of Portuguese. But spoken Portuguese just blows my mind. I can't understand it at ALL.

Hehehe Portuguese can be really tough for a Germanic language native speaker, the phonetic is very different and we have some grammatical signs most English speakers have difficulty pronouncing such as "ão" for example, sounds like aum but its very nasal.
What do you know of Portuguese?
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: tito123]
#14607407 - 06/13/11 04:51 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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tito123 said: I would love to learn the most common asian languages(to satiate my yellow fever)
me too my friend
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: pouihi]
#14608630 - 06/13/11 08:27 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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pouihi said:
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Ballerium said: Damn. I forgot Italian and Latin.
I can read and speak some Spanish and I can read and understand a little bit of Portuguese. But spoken Portuguese just blows my mind. I can't understand it at ALL.

Hehehe Portuguese can be really tough for a Germanic language native speaker, the phonetic is very different and we have some grammatical signs most English speakers have difficulty pronouncing such as "ão" for example, sounds like aum but its very nasal.
What do you know of Portuguese?
I know a few phrases and words, not much really. But I used to play an online game that had alot of players from Brazil. I made friends with some of them and would sit there for hours watching them converse in Portuguese and eventually I retained some of it. But now it has been so long since I've used it that I've forgotten most of what I did learn. I know some pronouns and random other words like "irmao, irma, sobrinho/a, obrigado/a, bom noite, beijo, etc." If you put together a simple sentence I can probably decipher most of it.
I also took Spanish in high school but I don't remember all that much of it either. But I think it helps that I have that background because it was really easy for me to pick up the Portuguese.
Also what is with Portuguese-speaking people hating on Spanish? Nearly everyone I talked to got pissed when I compared it to Spanish 
One dirty phrase that I was taught that I will never forget: "Eu quero que seu caralho me foda."
I don't know how grammatically accurate it is but hey
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Ballerium]
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that's brazilian portuguese for literally "I want your cock to fuck me" lol
I like Spanish people, the thing is, our country is really small and there are a lot of uninformed foreigners who think that Portugal is a province from Spain, apart from that I don't really understand what's up with that.
Yeah, if you studied Spanish it should be easier for you to learn Portuguese because grammatically they're similar.
Same with Italian and French
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14617911 - 06/15/11 02:49 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wiccan_Seeker said: Nou, mits goed gebruikt en met de juiste tongval gearticullerd is Nederlands een prachtige taal hoor! In het Nederlands heb je erg veel nuance, bijvoorbeeld het onderscheid tussen U en jij die beide "you" betenenen, maar dan bezien vanuit hogere en lagere rangorde. Nederlands geeft je ook een ingangetje naar het Vlaams, een prachtige gevoelsrijke taal die eenvoudiger te leren is vanuit het Nederlands dan vanuit het Engels.
Hier is een goed voorbeeld van Vlaams wat in het Nederlands perfect te verstaan is:
Het zijn prachtige talen, en innig verwant.
Encore! En Francais pour les Francophones:
Ja dat kan inderdaad. Maar wat hebben die Amerikanen daaraan. De meesten kunnen Nederland of vlaanderen niet eens op de kaart aanwijzen. en ik zie ze ook niet zo snel naar Zuid Afrika gaan helaas.
^^ No this is not German. We got liberated so it's still considered Dutch.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: virus1824]
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Ook al kunnen ze het niet lezen, het is voor velen interessant een vreemde taal te zien die ze niet begrijpen. Het kan prikkelen om proberen uit te vogelen wat het betekent, ofwel door associatie, ofwel middels vertalingssoftware.
En het is leuk uit te vinden wie het wél verstaat
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14618223 - 06/15/11 03:45 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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16 languages? Shit I'd be happy to be fluent in 2 languages.
I'm hardly fluent in english as is
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Anthony917]
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seriously, 16? why 16? dude, really? 16? a dozen (bakers)?
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: funegi]
#14618250 - 06/15/11 03:50 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i jes wanna be flatulent n da werdz a LUV!! so i can navigate my way like a ace pussy pilot
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: funegi]
#14618261 - 06/15/11 03:52 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I want to be able to speak:
Spanish Italian French English
and that's it
edit: japanese would be cool too
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: funegi]
#14618262 - 06/15/11 03:52 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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16 may sound like a lot but it isn't really. Once you get going it gets easier to learn more languages. The second one is often the hardest. Then once you learn the third and the fourth the fifth is a piece of cake. Once you start learning number 6 its like you don't really have to make an effort anymore. And it just keeps on getting easier after that... Of course there are some difference depending on different alphabets or characters you might need to learn or new types of pronunciation you might need to master that require more time.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Anthony917]
#14618283 - 06/15/11 03:56 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well, as you learn a second language you will automatically become more proficient in your native language.
It takes a little bit of discipline but above all a willingness to learn:
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14618291 - 06/15/11 03:58 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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yea I know I was JK about not being fluent in english 
I took 4 years of spanish in high school, but I cheated my way through spanish 3, so by the time I got to my 4th year I was so lost.
I wanted to get rosetta stone, or something similar because I still remember quite a bit of spanish...
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14618539 - 06/15/11 04:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Latin, Spanish, German, and Hebrew. Then I'd make my own insane language.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: MLDSMDA]
#14618550 - 06/15/11 04:58 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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lol.. 16?
German would be nice.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: pfxtc]
#14619612 - 06/15/11 08:56 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I can't even name sixteen languages man. Haha.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: pfxtc]
#14620360 - 06/16/11 12:07 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I chose 16 languages because I came across the vid in the OP and it had 16 languages. Theres actually people fluent in 16 languages though, imagine that!
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14621182 - 06/16/11 06:30 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Wiccan_Seeker said: Well, as you learn a second language you will automatically become more proficient in your native language.
this didn't happen to me. I actually find myself sometimes thinking about things I'd like to express in Portuguese and mentally the first that comes to my mind is in English. I've had English since I was 10 and always understood it easily sometimes it bugs me that I haven't got the oportunity to speak it more often and am afraid of forgeting somethings, the shroomery is a great way to train my writing though
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: pouihi]
#14622233 - 06/16/11 11:39 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have a friend that is fluent in 7 languages. And when I say fluent I really mean fluent. I'm going to put in some work and get there sometime as well. 7 sounds like a good number to end up at.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Kamek]
#14623232 - 06/16/11 03:06 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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my father was fluent at 7languages. Never got to make that language exchange with you, sorry, started working and things have been crazy, did a 16 hours shift yesterday, gotta get me a new job.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: pouihi]
#14625016 - 06/16/11 08:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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