Are you bilingual ? if so which ones do you know ?

by 2789847 Posted 2012/06/02 18:52:14

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	Portuguese and English	9 votes	5%
	Spanish only	45 votes	24%
	Ebonics	25 votes	14%
	English and French	105 votes	57%

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LilC 2012/06/02 18:53:43

Portuguese and English

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I'm Portuguese, so I speak Portuguese, I also speak perfect English, almost perfect Spanish, a little bit of French, Italian, Slovenian, Japanese (speak, not write), and I'm trying to learn German, Arabic and Chinese :)
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Merry☆ 2012/06/02 21:19:20

English and French

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Ah... no, my French is pitiful. I know English and Japanese.

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Brother Bo 2012/06/02 21:11:22

English and French

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you need an "Other" choice. English is my dominant language followed by Korean Sign Language, German and a bit of Romanian. My French is negligible.

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Reichstolz 2012/06/02 20:48:40

Portuguese and English

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Multilingual actually, add to the list spanish, french, german, and working on russian.

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a_little_in_love529 2012/06/02 20:48:31

English and French

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and Spanish and Tagolog. And double dutch if you count that, but it isn't an official language, kinda like pig latin

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Rich Matarese 2012/06/02 20:41:03
2789847 to Rich Ma... 2012/06/03 02:43:12
Tim Upham to 2789847 2012/06/03 05:28:37
2789847 to Tim Upham 2012/06/03 09:53:13
Samie;P 2012/06/02 20:40:00

English and French

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well actually English and Arabic I'm trying to learn Latin though

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Duane Drummond 2012/06/02 20:36:36

English and French

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As well as Hebrew and Spanish and a bit of Swahili

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Tim Upham to Duane D... 2012/06/03 01:58:28

Just combine the Hebrew and Spanish together, to know Ladino.

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Duane D... to Tim Upham 2012/06/25 21:11:36

really?

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Tim Upham to Duane D... 2012/06/28 18:25:13

Ladino is Medieval Castilian Spanish written in the Hebrew alphabet. It has admixtures of Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian in it. It is for the Sephardic Jews, what Yiddish is for the Ashkenazic Jews.

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Tim Upham 2012/06/02 20:22:02

Ebonics

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Of course I am bilingual, I will do it with anybody. I have lived overseas a lot, and into preserving endangered languages. When you lose a language, you lose a culture. The way you understand a culture is through its language. I think the most difficult language I had to learn was Hungarian. beszel magyarul? That "sz" is pronounced as "su" as in French, and that "gy" is pronounced as in "d." I do not know how the Gabors and Bela Lugosi did it, for them to do English language dialogue. Ready to learn Pitjantjatjara? I heard "Advance Australia Fair" sung in that language.

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bennett... to Tim Upham 2012/06/02 22:06:54

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'I will do it with anybody'

That's called satyriasis - not being bilingual :p

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Tim Upham to bennett... 2012/06/03 02:03:04

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I am not into hypersexuality. That was the Zodiac Killer who was into that. That is the reason why he killed, because he got a sexual high off of it.

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bennett... to Tim Upham 2012/06/03 03:37:54

You know more than I :s

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Christopher Brady 2012/06/02 20:09:59

English and French

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I am Canadian, and I was born in Que. kind of hard not to be.

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AliasOther 2012/06/02 19:59:50

Ebonics

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English / Chinese / Korean

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elizabeth 2012/06/02 19:56:07

English and French

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Im British so I speak English we learn French and German at my school for 3 years and when I was younger I learnt Turkish as I lived there for 6 years :D

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Tim Upham to elizabeth 2012/06/02 20:27:00

You can also learn Cornish, Manx, Welsh, and Gaelic. They spoke those languages, long before English arrived.

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Ayesha Chaudhry 2012/06/02 19:44:03

Ebonics

I speak english and urdu, and can read arabic :P

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Tim Upham to Ayesha ... 2012/06/02 20:33:22

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I am so grateful that Farsi and Urdu have the letter "peh," beacause I have a "p" in my last name. I was in Egypt during the Iran-Iraq war, and they told me not to use the Farsi "peh," but to use the Arabic "bah."

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RJS 2012/06/02 19:42:17

English and French

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Yet again, no "other" option. Fail! (I'm not joking, I'm really irritated) And no "just English" option? WTF? This post is IN English! Few people who answer this will genuinely know "just Spanish."

I don't truly consider myself bilingual because I'm not fluent in French, but I did take 4 years of it in high school, so I think if I brushed up on it a little, I could get around just fine in a French-speaking country.

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Mike56 2012/06/02 19:41:13 (edited)

Ebonics

There supposed to be the "Other" choice.

My native language is Russian. I also can understand Ukrainian and could read (not now) Armenian. Well, just learned their 39-letter alphabet, while reading the street signs. Every city in the USSR had the same street names - starting from Lenin streets ...

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Tim Upham to Mike56 2012/06/03 17:12:13

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Ukrainian has an extra letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, then Russian does.

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Mike56 to Tim Upham 2012/06/03 17:43:46

There are more than one letter different (there are two Russian letters Ukrainian alphabet lacks). Reading is an easy part.

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Luke Pittman 2012/06/02 19:35:43

Ebonics

I know english and a little mandarin Chinese

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TimothyBrianFoley 2012/06/02 19:35:02

English and French

i can also speak russian too hope youy understand this

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Mike56 to Timothy... 2012/06/03 17:39:53 (edited)

it is just alphabet - what are we supposed to understand?

Got it - you don't speak Russian :)

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Lydecho Rain (Лидия) 2012/06/02 19:34:06

English and French

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My first language is Russian, and my second is Czech, and I speak some Slovak too. I also fluently speak English and French, as well as Japanese. I'm very good with languages!

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Tim Upham to Lydecho... 2012/06/02 20:35:47

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If you know Slovak, then you can communicate with the Poles. Because both the Poles and Slovaks can understand each other.

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Lydecho... to Tim Upham 2012/06/02 20:38:14

I guess so.

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fyggs 2012/06/02 19:28:01

English and French

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Barely French. I could not hold a conversation, but I could catch the gist of them mostly. It probably wouldnt take too much effort for me to become fluent, and Im thinking about it; it is one of our two official languages, and I do feel a bit guilty never having learned French properly.

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PumpkinMuncher 2012/06/02 19:24:06

English and French

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wtf where is english only????

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midnigh... to Pumpkin... 2012/06/03 15:53:39

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it says " are you bilingual?." if your not then ......

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Pumpkin... to midnigh... 2012/06/03 15:56:51

Im bilingual in english and sign language, but idk if that counts

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Magniloquence 2012/06/02 19:15:14

English and French

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Once again, NONE APPLY!
I am tri-lingual - English Afrikaans and Zulu.
The last one I can speak, but not write.
I can't speak French.

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Tim Upham to Magnilo... 2012/06/02 20:02:37

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When you say rhinoceros in Zulu it is banda. Banda in Swahili, means hut. Praat jy Afrikaans?

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Magnilo... to Tim Upham 2012/06/02 20:32:50

Banda in Zulu means 'cold'
Banda is 'to be cold'
Makhaza is cold as something out of the fridge
and khuhlane is cold as 'I have a cold'
En ja, ek kan Afrikaans praat, maar ek is meer gewoond om Engels te praat. My tuislikke taal was Engels.

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