Native Languages

Native english speaker, but I know Spanish, Ancient Greek, and Latin. Best way to say "hello" "Xaipete!" -- Rejoice (plural). It is pronouced "khai-rih-te" with an aspirated, throat clearing "H" sound at the beginning.
 
English (Australian) is native for me. I'm learning French (I'll be in year 10 as of next year) and I'm gonna go to France on exchange for 8 weeks next year :D . I used to learn German, too, but that was a while ago. I can still understand the basics of German gaming sites, at least :D .
 
my native is malay. it seems people here understand my english, so it seems my english is fluent enough :D .
 
Another monolinguistic American slob here :). As a Texan I guess I've picked up a little Spanish, but I wouldn't say I actually know the language at all. I did take German in High School, and try to keep in practice. I'd like to learn more if I ever get the chance.
 
American English for me, and I've lived in four areas of our rather large country, so can blend quickly into various dialects.

And sadly, as many Americans, I'm not fluent in any other of the wonderful international languages - though after four years of study (25 years ago :lol: ), I can still read French reasonably well.
 
Hi,

Native language is Dutch and I'm good with English and German.

I was born in Holland and lived their for a long time. Just about each Dutchman gets (a chance) to learn English nowadays.

When studying IT most of my books where actually in English. And I worked/lived for half a year in London and a quarter of a year for tourists in Egypt.

Now I have a home in Germany, for about 4 years allready. I'm getting better and better in German, allthough everybody still hears my Dutch accent.

Randall
 
Kremtok said:
I'm just an ignorant American English-speaker. I've always wanted to learn to talk with a British accent, though. That's the sure way to get all the chicks.
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Which British accent? We don't all speak the same, tha knows!

Anyroad, I'm a UK English speaker (as you can possibly tell from the above :)) with traces of a northern accent due to living up here for half my life so far...
 
Native Chinese, also speak English with mixture of various accent (let's see, Arkansas where I lived for a couple of years, Canadian picked from my buddies, Quebecois from where I live now, that's about the major ones) Some people say I have a bit of British accent, though I have no bloody idea why since I've never been there, nor been around any British person for any extended period of time.

Studied German for a year in high school, but don't remember anything. Studies French for a while, but gave up.
 
I'm a English (Australian) speaker who took French for a year in high school. After receiving a high point of 27% for the years work, my teacher told me to never step inside his classroom again, on pain of death. It's not my fault that I spoke French with an Aussie accent and that I could understand why a chair was male and a window was female. :scratch:
 
Another Filipino here! :thumbsup:
Also fluent in English.
I know how to speak a little Chinese (Mandarin and hokkien), but just a little... actually very little. I'm 75% Chinese by blood, but Filipino by nationality. :surprise:

--maxgerin
 
Seems like we could start a Chinese only SPF here.

Here is another native Chinese speaker. However, as many can see, my english is barely okay (spelling is hard). English is just not logical to me.

Well, I hope one day I will speak good American English like those of your U.S. guys, but I live in Australia ...

BTW, I very much dislike britan english, it is just ... not english.
 
Hya!

My native is Portuguese. But since almost everything in this world comes in English :surprise: , i've naturally come to know very well the language. I also know Spanish very well since they are our neigbourhs and all....

Cheers! :drink:
 
German is my native and after having lived in the us my english is pretty good. (only have problems with the accent, seem to have one all for myself)
I took french in school for four years but of that more or less nothing is left.
and if my girlfriend speaks slow i can understand most of what she says in afrikaans.

schiller
 
g'day ya drongos!
im a blooming aussie. as ya can tell by me accent hey love?
strewth that dingoes got another o' me babies* swaps beer to other hand inorder to fire randomly into the outback with an outdated rifle, hitting several kangaroos and other major aussie fauna* bloody oath, got the bugga
(add anymore bad australian stereotypes you may know)
 
schillerdc78 said:
and if my girlfriend speaks slow i can understand most of what she says in afrikaans.
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I suppose you mean the languange spoken in South Afrika (the one with great simularities to Dutch), yep I can understand it also when not spoken to fast.

Randall
 
I do mean that language. At first she didn't know and used it to talk to her friends about me, which gave me some good laughs.

schiller
 
Kremtok said:
I'm just an ignorant American English-speaker. I've always wanted to learn to talk with a British accent, though. That's the sure way to get all the chicks.
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Damn Straight.

Im English, got a proper English accent (thanks to my Grandma being a punic speaking tutor and my parents both beign English teachers). I learnt French at school, got the highest possible grade you could (even though i didn't do any work for it... :scratch: ) and now i can't speak a word of it :)

Thank god everyone else speaks our great language - English ;)

And why the hell arent the smilies workign when you click on them in a reply???
 
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