What Languages Do You Know?

Post by **Yoon** » November 15th, 2007, 4:41 pm

Since we all come from different places and countries here on Y-Corner, it would be interesting to see what languages people know. Post what languages you know and how good you're at it.

Languages I Know:

English - English is my native language, as I was born and raised in the U.S.

Korean - I comprehend conversational Korean, as my parents often spoke Korean at home while growing up. I later learned how to read and write Korean when I took Korean lessons at my church. I got even better at reading and writing when I took Korean III in college.

Japanese - Not quite conversational in Japanese, but I can read and write Japanese Hiragana and Katakana characters, some Kanji (Chinese characters). In high school, I took a few years of Japanese, but since I didn't really practice it after entering college, my Japanese got really rusty. However, my trip to Japan helped me remember quite a bit of Japanese.

KillerSmo · Post by **KillerSmo** » November 15th, 2007, 5:34 pm

English and American Sign Language (two years of that in college)

krnmunky11 · Post by **krnmunky11** » November 15th, 2007, 6:33 pm

i know english and korean fluently. I can read, write, and talk in both languages easily. I can talk some spanish, but not that well.

Post by **Yahoo** » November 16th, 2007, 9:39 am

Finnish fluently (OH REALLY!?!)
English quite well

Some swedish (lol)

Hmm... Thats it

I was 2 years on frenchs lessons and now I can say Bonjour xD
I know how to speak the words but I need to read them from book

Ghost B3N · Post by **Ghost B3N** » November 16th, 2007, 3:02 pm

hmm im not good in this..
im better in math and stuff

but wel...

Dutch (im dutch so .. YA!)
English (my second best languadge)

French (3 years on school)
German (2 years on school)

Finnish (VOI PERKELE~!!!)
japanse (conichiwa...)

hehehe, the last 2, i only know some words in those.

Jaegar · Post by **Jaegar** » November 17th, 2007, 5:50 am

hmmm...

first lang= English

I took 3 years of German in high school. I don't get much practice with it so I'm probably gonna get rusty (even in Germany they speak English O.o). I do have problems with vocabulary frequently (I didn't memorize the German dictionary in 3 years of book learning) and unusual word forms throw me off. Oh yeah, the word genders kill me too. I can't keep those straight at all and it matters a lot.

I've picked up some phrases in Japanese from watching too much subbed anime, but a lot of that's just parroting. I get excessively proud of myself when I pick out a pun in Japanese (fried noodles sounds similar to fried monkey!) I'm trying to get into Japanese class in college but I'm not doing so well.

You get a mountain of cookies if you know where I found out the random thing with the noodles and the monkey. lol

Ghost B3N · Post by **Ghost B3N** » November 22nd, 2007, 1:44 pm

hmm i just realized that i had 5 years of french
...

tough it doesnt make a differnce XDDD
im stil bad as hell in t XDD

Saxire · Post by **Saxire** » December 10th, 2007, 11:01 am

i know Tamil(thats a language spoken in south india for those who dont know,thats the place me and tarq come from)

i know english (as good as tamil since thats what we speak in school)

i know decent hindi(thats my countries national language)

and sanskrit -not that good (thats an ancient language in my country LOL,took 5 years of it)

i jus know greetings in few other international languages,doesnt every1 though

i want to learn chinese though,i love their characters lol

but yeah im pretty weak on languages

Tarquin · Post by **Tarquin** » December 10th, 2007, 12:34 pm

English - Although not my "mother tongue", my unofficial mother tongue. So yeah, undoubtedly my best language.
Tamil - Learned from schol, since my parents don't speak it much (even though they know it >.>)
Hindi - From school, only know how to memorize things in hindi and repeat them

Japanese - Starting a course in japanese next month.

Demon · Post by **Demon** » December 10th, 2007, 2:43 pm

Finnish, however not perfect, it's impossible to speak perfect finnish o_o trust me.

English, I prefer this language rahter than finnish >.< Should be good at this, still my school grades suck ?_? (studied almost 8 years in school atm)

And..I know too much swedish -.- (can speak or understand it at all) kill swedish language from Finland plis x_X (Studiet 5 years, and I understand nothing, hurray!)

Jaegar · Post by **Jaegar** » December 10th, 2007, 2:55 pm

i know Tamil(thats a language spoken in south india for those who dont know,thats the place me and tarq come from)

i know english (as good as tamil since thats what we speak in school)

i know decent hindi(thats my countries national language)

and sanskrit -not that good (thats an ancient language in my country LOL,took 5 years of it)

i jus know greetings in few other international languages,doesnt every1 though

i want to learn chinese though,i love their characters lol

but yeah im pretty weak on languages

That's weak on languages!?

I feel so sad for America >.< It seems that most people here can't even master their first language ::)

Post by **Yoon** » December 10th, 2007, 3:23 pm

i know Tamil(thats a language spoken in south india for those who dont know,thats the place me and tarq come from)

i know english (as good as tamil since thats what we speak in school)

i know decent hindi(thats my countries national language)

and sanskrit -not that good (thats an ancient language in my country LOL,took 5 years of it)

i jus know greetings in few other international languages,doesnt every1 though

i want to learn chinese though,i love their characters lol

but yeah im pretty weak on languages
That's weak on languages!? I feel so sad for America >.< It seems that most people here can't even master their first language ::)

Yep, it's pretty sad case for Americans. :/

Saxire · Post by **Saxire** » December 10th, 2007, 11:58 pm

LOL
Thats coz in india we have like what a different language for almost each state,and there are like 30 states in india(not sure :-[)

and im pretty sure there are like a 100 languages in my country so its impossible to even know all of their names,in some places even each city would have its own language :-X

but then in america most people seem to know international languages,like french,spanish etc, here not many know anythin other than their mother tongue,maybe english and hindi lol

Tarquin · Post by **Tarquin** » December 11th, 2007, 5:47 am

Um, over 1000 languages+dialects to be exact, in India. Impossible to go anywhere and be perfectly understood ;D

Saxire · Post by **Saxire** » December 11th, 2007, 9:59 am

lol you see??so in comparison with the number of languages in my country im really WEAK!!
but in US there is only english and you know it,so your 100%,and since you know foreign languages your >100%