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Old 1st Sep 2008, 02:29 AM   #1
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Which foreign language(s) would be your top choice to learn if you could?

I've taken a little of several languages (French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish) but wish I were fluent in a language other than English.
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Old 1st Sep 2008, 02:29 AM   #2
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Spanish... I have a thing for boys who speak Spanish
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I know quite a bit of german, a bit of french, i can sing in glaelic and itlalian and russian
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Old 1st Sep 2008, 02:51 AM   #4
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ok i know 6 total languages URDU ENGLISH PANJABI HINDI FARSI AND very little ITALIAN. When it goes for ;learning then i would love to learn French, Spanish, Arabic and LAtin also Greek i am very much looking forward to learn them
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Old 1st Sep 2008, 02:52 AM   #5
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oh i forgot i also like chinese japanese and koren so include them in
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Old 1st Sep 2008, 03:12 AM   #6
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ibsian - If you want to add stuff to what you have just posted, you can click on the edit button to do that.

umm German, French and Italian. It would help me with the classical music studies.
But I should improve my English and Japanese first.. lol
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German would be at the top of my list to become fluent in. I understand a bit of it now, but barely enough to hold a proper conversation. Slowly learning more as time goes by.

A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to actually speak with someone in German, that was a very cool experience, and showed that I had actually learned something so far!!
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Old 1st Sep 2008, 04:34 AM   #8
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Well, I'm fluent in English and French
taking Spanish and hope to be fluent in Japanese one
day, and possibly Portuguese.

ibsian, is this the "i" land you talk about?


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URDU ENGLISH PANJABI HINDI FARSI
It just kind of makes sense, Urdu, Pundjabi, Hindi are all
Indian languages, then English an important language for
communication there, and Farsi is spoken in Iran, Afghanistan
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (so, neighbor countries to India)
and it had a lot of influence on the Hindustani languages
and other languages of the Indian subcontinent.
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Well consdier that Je Parle Francais et Anglais (Not sure on spelling always better talking) already Spainish would be my choice
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ibsian - If you want to add stuff to what you have just posted, you can click on the edit button to do that.

umm German, French and Italian. It would help me with the classical music studies.
But I should improve my English and Japanese first.. lol
Thanks for the advice anyways, but i knew it already. but i just made a mistake i guess

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i'm fluent in arabic,hebrew and english..i used to know a bit french but now i can't remember a single word....so i'd love to learn french and italian
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Well, I'm fluent in English and French
taking Spanish and hope to be fluent in Japanese one
day, and possibly Portuguese.

ibsian, is this the "i" land you talk about?


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URDU ENGLISH PANJABI HINDI FARSI
It just kind of makes sense, Urdu, Pundjabi, Hindi are all
Indian languages, then English an important language for
communication there, and Farsi is spoken in Iran, Afghanistan
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (so, neighbor countries to India)
and it had a lot of influence on the Hindustani languages
and other languages of the Indian subcontinent.
Wow you really did a research regarding 'i'land, but i am sorry i dont reside in India, Iran or any neighbours. One of my parents is a Pakistani so i know urdu and panjabi, i know farsi and hindi because they are my favourite languages and italian is, well lets not explain this one

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je parle francais un peu( i speak a little french), i wanna get 2 were i can speak it fluently, im n classes!!!
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I'm fluent in Japanese and English only.

I would love to learn how to speak German or Czech.
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I can speak English, German, and some Spanish (forgetting it slowly...).
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I am "fluent" in English, Spanish, and Danish but I know Italian, a little French and a drop of German, and intend to learn Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, and Chinese.

I'm thinking I'm going to be a translator.
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Old 1st Sep 2008, 08:30 AM   #17
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German, French, Italian, and Japanese.

I'm taking French right now (3rd year), but seriously, I feel like I'm only 1st year level. The only French teacher in my school is TERRIBLE. She engages in off-topic conversation, making it so hard to concentrate in speaking and thinking in French. I sometimes wonder how she got her teaching degree for French...
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I speak English (duh ), Spanish, and Italian, and a bit of Russian (can read and write it )

I want to learn French and German though
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Wow you really did your research regarding 'i'land, but i am sorry i dont reside in India, Iran or any of it's neighbours. One of my parents is a Pakistani so i know urdu and panjabi, i know farsi and hindi because they are my favourite languages and italian is, well lets not explain this one

'i' land?
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I speak fluently english and dutch! I also speak a little spanish! I want to learn Manderin...
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