How many foreign languages do you speak?

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How many foreign languages do you speak?

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  1. Frigo

    Frigo Active Member

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  2. Da real Asrudin

    Da real Asrudin New Member

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    English, german, french and well actually I kinda lied about the fourth one. I am still learning that, it's Swedish. :p I can't really speak it... Yet.. Read it a bit tho, it's a start! :(

    Well, and dutch as native..

    I also know the basics of hebrew and can separate some words and phrases and I know I love you in about 50 or so languages!
     
  3. Xz

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    English and German. I also know Swedish and Danish, but those are just the same as Norwegian really, so they don't count.
     
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    None. If I speak a language, it's not foreign.
     
  5. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    Now that's sensible...
     
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    Jungle Japes Well-Known Member

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    I'm American. I don't need to learn any other languages.
     
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    That's because it didn't want you, just like your parents.

    I speak French and the language of the Boss. I'd post some of it here, but either your computers would explode, or your heads would.

    Also, a smattering of German, Italian, French, Russian, Latin, the little Swedish I've picked up here, nothing I tallied on the poll. Just enough to get laid, or hail a taxi, greet a dignitary, shit like that.
     
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    Hmm...well I can fluently write Deutsch. I'm still getting my bearings of speaking it after a long hiatus of no German interaction. I understand French, but refuse to speak it, and I detest writing it for more than a few sentences. Strangely enough, I learned enough Spanish in highschool to understand what all of the latinos are saying (when they think they're being esoteric).
     
  10. Dark Elf

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    English, obviously. I also know enough French and Spanish to get a general idea of what they are saying/writing.
     
  11. Anonymous

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    I speak the following languages: Swedish, Polish, Russian, English and French.
     
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    Grossenschwamm Well-Known Member

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    Much to my own regret, I know English and only English.
     
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    There's nothing wrong with that as long as you can speak/write it well*.
    It looks like you've got the writing all set, so I can safely assume that you know how to speak...?

    *Unless you're in a branching international company and you're stationed in Mongolia for some strange reason...
     
  15. Dark Elf

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    Actually, Philes is a chimp in front of a keyboard, hitting digits and clicking the mouse totally at random. The fact that he seems to get it right every time is simply God's way of telling us that nothing is impossible.
     
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    God does not exist, so your theory is flawed.
     
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    You can't say that God doesn't exist, the God thesis has never successfully been disproved.
     
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    Even though I am an atheist as well, there is no proof to proof either side of the story, it's not a struggle to what is right or wrong, it's about believing it or not.

    It doesn't matter if God exists or not. It's completely irrelevant. It's about what you believe to be right or wrong.

    For example, someone could follow the basic teachings and underlying motives/messages of the bible out of principle and moral without the need to believe in God and thus live his life respecting the gift of life. Would he then go to hell? If those are the laws of heaven and just. Fine, I'll go to hell, because quite franly, in that case heaven won't be much better then where we are now anyhow!

    Still, those are speculations, I still choose to believe then when we're dead we're gone. Poof!
     
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    Yes. Neither was the theory of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

    If we accept the existence of God, (for various reasons) we must also accept the existence of any other creators, invisible deities, etc. There are three problems with this: 1) we also accept any totally obscure deities (FSM, invisible pink unicorn, russel's teapot, etc...) 2) so who created the universe & everything? 3) with infinite number of deities how come NO ONE has interacted with our universe ?

    Not to mention, that even if god - as the system operator or something of the universe - exists, the gods described by christian and other religions clearly don't exist.
     
  20. Anonymous

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    Yes I do, Russian and Polish are almost the same, except from the alphabet.
     
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