View Full Version : Linguists?


malkavpunk
10-07-05, 11:37 AM
Anyone in Sci-forums multi-lingual? I'm sure some of you are. I personally speak english, Conversational spanish, as well as an infant's bulgarian. anyone else?

Dreamwalker
10-08-05, 06:08 PM
Me, I am german, speak English and French, with a small amount of Spanish.

vslayer
10-09-05, 02:56 AM
engish and japanese, plus enough to get around the city, but not too much in german, arabic, russian, sanish

ReighnStorm
10-09-05, 09:53 AM
I speak ebonics, white american, black american, country american..... :D

Venom
10-20-05, 12:50 PM
English, French, in the process of teaching myself Polish, gonna teach myself German...

and of course there are programing languages....

utopian knight
10-21-05, 02:59 AM
I speak the universal speak easy of love.

Oli
10-21-05, 06:31 AM
French, some German, some Russian and smatterings of about 14-15 others.

Facial
10-24-05, 12:47 AM
English, and horrible Spanish.

And perhaps nearly nonexistent Mandarin (I didn't even select it in my choices)

That with 'smatterings' of Japanese, Russian, and a few other Romance languages.

vslayer
10-24-05, 02:27 AM
i wolud call italian, spanish and french the romance languages, maybe arabic too. but russian, japanese and german share a charm of sorts aswell.

DarkThorn
11-22-05, 10:06 AM
Irish and Scots Gaelic, a bit of French, Italian and Swedish.

allisone417
11-28-05, 07:53 PM
French, and a course in the linguistics of sign language, pretty interesting.

perfectblue
11-29-05, 05:09 AM
i can't check any of those boxes but other...i speak a smattering of spanish, french, italian, german, romanian and japanese. i can read some greek, but ask me to converse and i'm lost. i know enough in the first 6 languages to get some food, find a place to stay, and have my ass kicked. :D

Fraggle Rocker
12-03-05, 04:28 PM
I'm a native English speaker. I speak passable Spanish and Esperanto but could probably not hold a job that required it. I can give a three-year-old a run for the money in Mandarin and German. I get along on the internet in Portuguese and French.

I use my own power-of-three scale to rate fluency. Zero means you know one word, 1 means 3 words, 2 means 10 words, etc. Interpolate what seems to reflect the same level of learning for grammar and syntax.

That makes people like Shakespeare and Winston Churchill 9.5 in their native language. Average university graduate 8.5, high school 8, etc.

So I'm 9 in English, 7.75 in Esperanto, 7.5 in Spanish, 6.5 in German, 6 in Mandarin, 5 in Portuguese and French, 4.5 in several Slavic languages, 4 in Latin.