What Languages do You Speak?

[philobeddoe]

I live in a rural part of a rural state and my wife insists there is some "hillbilly" dialect spoken here, in which I have become fluent, do to on the job exposure. My wife is from the Los Angeles area, and speaks Spanish fluently, but was all but unable to understand most locals here for the first few years we lived here. The closest thing I can approximate it to would be Boomhauer on King of the Hill.

 

[ahpui]

English, somewhat.
Mandarin, sounds like.
Some Chinese dialect like Fujian, Chaozhou and Cantonese.

 

[hunter185]

English, little French, and getting quite fluent in 'horse' which is by far the most rewarding.

 

[colcolt]

Mostly Southern English but a bit of German/French. I can mimic a Bronx dialect if backed in a corner.

 

[drwatson]

English, German, Klingon

 

[neverknowsbest]

Hey guys! I know a good tool to supplement language learning that is free! I'm having a lot of fun with memrise.com. Also, I have heard people have a lot of fun with www.duolingo.com. On memrise, I am learning some Japanese and Chinese.

 

[uberam3rica]

I speak a few words of Spanish, not enough for a conversation though. I know a word or two in German, and I know several curse words in Russian

 

[pitchfork]

English and Irish (An Béarla agus an Ghaeilge).

 

[koscak]

Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, English and a little German

 

[uberam3rica]

and Ebonics

I forgot about that one. I am fluent in this as well.

 

[plank46]

I speak English, Afrikaans (being a South African Dutch) a small bit of German and a little Zulu

 

[pitchfork]

"This is a darn'd clever bunch"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TYxlbFSTD3w&t=122
(Ezra Pound reading his poem "Moeurs Contemporaines")

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I'm only fluent in English. I know a few phrases in German. I can introduce myself, order a beer, and tell a woman she's beautiful. Guess that's all one needs to know how to say right?

 

[lovethebriar]

English,Farsi,Arabic

 

[pipestud]

I'm fluent in Texanese and speak limited English.
Pipestud

 

[pitchfork]

Love the Briar, are you Persian? Probably not many Farsi speakers in the pipe world, I would imagine.

 

[lovethebriar]

No I am born and raised Mississippi, full 100% true blooded Irish American, I work for the government. So it would be who off me to have learned the language with all the travel that I have done threw overseas deployments.

 

[lovethebriar]

In my job the ones that can learn to read write and speak another foreign language get an extra 400 a month on there paycheck, I'm currently working on my linguistic degree. But I type terrible and misspell everything

 

[pitchfork]

Very interesting, Love the Briar. Thanks for the update.

 

[rmason]

I can't speak it fluently, but I can read Latin pretty well and speak a few phrases here and there. I had gotten some really old books from my grandparents and they were in Latin, so I learned how to read most of it.

~Ron