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Do you speak a second language?
Started by Tadeo
3: pig latin, gibberish, and english.
Fluent in 2.
Fluent in Spanish. Can understand Italian, Portuguese, and French to an extent. It came in handy working and living down south.
Hablo un poco espanol, pero my vocabulario es muy pequeno. Yo assistia tres clases de espanol en mi escuela secondaria, y uno en universidad. Necessito mas practica, debo ir a una pais hispanico a apprender mas. Me gusta pantalones de queso.
Translation: I speak a little spanish, but my vocabulary is very small. I attended three spanish classes in highschool and one in college. I need more practice, I should go to a hispanic country to learn more. I like cheese pants. (direct translation of last sentence: Pants of cheese are appealing to me)
Translation: I speak a little spanish, but my vocabulary is very small. I attended three spanish classes in highschool and one in college. I need more practice, I should go to a hispanic country to learn more. I like cheese pants. (direct translation of last sentence: Pants of cheese are appealing to me)
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Someone after my own heart. 😉
I know some Spanish and some Italian, from high school and college courses, respectively. I know a few words in Russian (mostly hello, goodbye, yes and no). I wish I knew more Russian, since we have a handful of Russian speaking doctors at my hospital and we get a LOT of Russian patients from the area that don't speak a lick of English.
I'd like to try to become at least conversational in another language, since it would help in practice down the line. Italian is what I'd really like to learn, but it is far less useful than Spanish, Russian or an Asian language like Chinese (any variation) or Japanese. I know you can effectively speak Italian to a Spanish-speaking person and they will speak Spanish back to you and you can understand each other (more or less anyway) but it's not quite the same as actually being fluent.
English and Greek fluently. Spanish conversationally and I can understand what people are saying in Italian, but I can barely speak it.
Fluent in Russian and English.. and spanish sorta.. its on my resume but im out of practice 🙁
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fluent in gujarti (dialect of hindi)/english. I know Spanish pretty well.
I'll put, "Speako Spanisho bueno" on it, right next to "Captain of Industry"
Nice! Telugu is sweet. I know a few words, a couple of songs in Telugu and used to be able to write my name, but it was very difficult for me to pick up on.
Other than that, I am studying Ancient Greek (not really something you become "fluent" in - the goal is most often to understand what's written), and I know a bit of Kiswahili but haven't been to Kenya in awhile so it's way out of practice.
Fluent in: English, Kannada
Decent Skill in: Hindi, Sanskrit, Spanish, Latin
Decent Skill in: Hindi, Sanskrit, Spanish, Latin
You speak Latin and Sanskrit do you?
First language: French
Fluent in English, very comfortable with German and Spanish.
Fluent in English, very comfortable with German and Spanish.
Does no one else speak Japanese? :O (This should turn out hilariously awkward if anyone asks about it for an interview seeing as my Asian half isn't Japanese....)
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Tamil. Anyone else from the dirty souff? Also know a bunch of song lyrics in Hindi.
Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu/Hindi, sign language
Gujrati to some extent.
Gujrati to some extent.
I speak Japanese. I grew up in Japan and my family still live there. 🙂
I can speak latin, but it's not done very much. I know some german as well. I took it for a year an der uni.
Classical, medieval or church latin? I would love to hear you speak something that comes near the complexity of a cicero composition. Where did you practice conversing in Latin that oyu can actually speak it. I find this very dubious.
I speak Japanese, but not fluently. I majored in it in college, so I took 4 years of classes and then went on study abroad in Japan.
It takes forever to learn Japanese, tho - I think the US dept of foreign service classifies it together with Chinese and Arabic as languages that take 12 years of college-level coursework to become fluent in. In the meantime, something like Spanish only requires 3. I took German for 1.5 years, and I speak it at the same level as Japanese, and read better.
I am fluent in Portuguese.
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Entendo um poco de portugues mas nao fallo o escrevo muito bem. Todas as linguas latinas sao muito similares.
Your Portuguese is not bad, and yes all latin languages are VERY similar. I can read spanish and I can understand it a little as well (as long as they are talking slowly)
Yes I'm dirty south too!
I think if you have a good foundation in any romance language then all the rest are fairly accessible to you with little effort. The one exception might be french because if its seemingly irregular phonetic and spelling system, though I can't say this with certainty because I haven't made a serious attempt to learn it. Are you brazilian, portuguese or maybe angolan :]?
I'm a native spanish speaker, so I've got that down, (yay for my parents who refused to speak to me in english while I was growing up 🙂) and after some more formal grammar/lit. classes, i've become a great academic-spanish speaker/writer/reader.
pretty good at french, italian and um poco de portuguese
pretty good at french, italian and um poco de portuguese
Pretty good Italian, would need 6 more months or so in Italy to be fluent. Working on Mandarin, but that will probably take a while to get up to par.
Fluent in Mandarin, semifluent Spanish....
I imagine it's pretty common for med school applicants to know a second language....
I imagine it's pretty common for med school applicants to know a second language....
Fluent in English and conversational in Vietnamese. I hope to be fluent when I move back. Used to be pretty good at German in high school, but now I only know if enough to make a rough point.
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