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Re: Languages you speak/read/understand
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2011, 12:03:25 AM »
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Don't worry, blessOTMA, I think we know it was supposed to be a compliment, or at least I do, because I think it is quite an accomplishment, also.

I agree with you on both... that it was a compliment and that it's an accomplishment!  :)

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« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2011, 12:30:03 AM »
I think what I said to Sunny would more  likely be seen as the compliment  I was trying to pay her in the US... But it appears in Europe it's not seen as  big deal to know a good number of languages... That makes sense, with so many diffrent places near each other..but believe me  where I come from  ,  it's an unusal skill.... and I certainly I meant  the remark as a compliment . =)

I know an hug you tight <3

A little bit of Spanish, French, German and of course Russian! And I have a mighty fine Irish (Hiberian as they called it) accent if i do say so myself!  ;D

They say i've an irish accent when i SPEAK english. i write british english - the one thei tought me - but everyone says i have an irish accent speaking. Well, i think this is way when i started learning english i spend a month in ireland for three years (a month every year).
The other class of my age had a very stupid english teacher, who used to call me "Paddy", such pig and filth he was!

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« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2011, 01:19:50 AM »
That is so funny  Sunny because one of the reasons  Margaret Eager  left her position as nanny was , I believe,  because she was giving the girls  Irish accents ! lol! But that might be a rumor

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« Reply #18 on: July 12, 2011, 12:10:38 PM »
I speak English, but I'm learning German, going into my second year!

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« Reply #19 on: July 13, 2011, 12:53:10 AM »
I speak English, but I'm learning German, going into my second year!

Mi languages specialisations at the collegere were German and Russian. But i assure you I DON'T KNOW GERMAN.
I mean, of course i can read simple things and say something, but they didn't tought me enough. I'm perfectly able to read GD and Nicky's diaries in original (well, i have problems with handwriting, but when i read them in a book in russian, i have no problems), but i really can't read ella or alicky's letters in german. I simply DON'T UNDERSTAND.
That's because my russian teachers were so BETTER than my german ones!

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« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2011, 04:34:22 AM »
I speak English (horribly with a British accent apparently) and I've had a year of French. (when school starts its French II time baby!) my native language is English, but I mix in a couple of Russian words a lot. (Alaska is so close to Russia and it makes me giddy inside! I have a couple Russian friends, and they taught me all the Russian I know.)

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« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2011, 10:26:53 AM »
English is my native language (I'm from California, USA) but I took French for three years in high school and currently finishing my second term of Italian. My French is very rusty since I haven't taken it in four years, but being in Italian has helped me recall some French words ironically. I cannot speak either very well, but writing is usually easier.

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« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2011, 11:32:50 AM »
Im from Germany and speak German and Russian. (So im german-russian) I can speak english and russian.  i understand a little bit french, but i cant really speak.  My english is not so good..i has only 4 years englisch lessons in the school.  I can read and speak russian very well.  I was often in Russia, because my Grandparents live near moskow.

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Re: Languages you speak/read/understand
« Reply #23 on: November 25, 2011, 03:03:03 PM »
I speak English, French, Spanish a little Japanese, the most basic of Russian and 'Happy Birthday' in Mandarin Chinese.
It is amazing what different languages there are on this forum.

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Re: Languages you speak/read/understand
« Reply #24 on: November 25, 2011, 09:53:12 PM »
English, Japanese, Russian fluently, and still pretty good in Swedish, but probably somewhat rusty - can still read and understand Scandinavian languages with little difficulty but haven't spoken it in a while.

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Re: Languages you speak/read/understand
« Reply #25 on: November 26, 2011, 09:17:46 PM »
I used to sing in Greek, which I learned from my Greek roommate's friends at Stanford and later working in San Francisco.  They said I could speak it without an accent, which I think was because of the shape of the teeth or mouth.  I could not pronounce German and gave up.  I learned enough French to pass the Master's Exam in reading it (learned it with two quarters in class and reading the Montreal newspaper).  but I could not
pronounce it well, so it was a strain when trying to do French in French cafes.  So the only language I learned pretty well was Greek, but that's so long ago that I could not even read it now. 

My best friend of my young years had a daughter who got a Ph.D> in Russian and ended up a translator in Washington D.C.  She was very pretty and looked a little like I see pictures of the Romanov girls, but she was Danish rather than Russian.  she married a Drama professor who was said to be of gypsy extraction.