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View Poll Results: How Many Languages Can You Speak?
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One
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96 |
48.00% |
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2
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65 |
32.50% |
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3-4
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28 |
14.00% |
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5-7
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1.50% |
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7 or more
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2 |
1.00% |
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Je ne comprends pas la question
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07-27-2010, 06:27 PM
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#61
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Had an idea!
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Better question would be, how many languages do you speak that you didn't learn at home growing up?
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07-27-2010, 06:34 PM
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#62
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: South of Calgary North of 'Merica
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I speak the language of love, just ask my ex wife!
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07-27-2010, 06:45 PM
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#63
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At the Gates of Hell
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Have any of you tried http://livemocha.com ? It's free and interactive. I'm going to check it out.
Oh yeah. Remnants of Czech, Dutch, Russian, French. And I speak Spanish because it's pretty necessary around here. I'd like to learn Haitian Creole too.
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07-27-2010, 06:51 PM
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#64
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
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I can speak fluent Drunkenese
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07-27-2010, 06:59 PM
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#65
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Franchise Player
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Oops, I probably should have selected two. My French is passable.
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07-27-2010, 07:33 PM
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#66
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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I would recommend www.chinesepod.com to anyone who is looking to study Mandarin. It has a vast wealth of resources that can be accessed and which are arranged by both topic and level. It also has various pricing programs and it's always changing. I used it quite a bit in the past and I found it very useful and enjoyable, particularly their Qingwen (请问) section, which focuses on useful and peculiar grammar patterns or phrases which can typically be taken and immediately put into use with whatever vocabulary you have.
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07-27-2010, 08:30 PM
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#67
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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I can speak English and Arabic fluently, I can understand some French (especially if it is written or spoken slowly) and I can understand some Hebrew here and there.
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07-27-2010, 08:36 PM
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#68
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First Line Centre
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English, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. My French is only basic so I wouldn't consider it, so 3.
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Resident beer snob
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07-27-2010, 08:41 PM
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#69
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: About 5200 Miles from the Dome
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I was really hoping that Netminder might finally enlighten us all.
I can speak two, English and Mongolian.
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Winston Churchill
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07-27-2010, 08:48 PM
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#70
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#1 Goaltender
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I tried to learn Mandarin once. I was way too overwhelmed by the first day. Had this mandarin woman try to teach me and her English was... well probably as good as my mandarin. When I got words wrong or had no idea it seemed like she was gonna slap me in the face anytime. Scared me good from learning that. Perhaps I'll give cantonese a try or something useful.
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07-27-2010, 09:37 PM
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#71
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Calgary
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English and I can pretty much understand the newfie's at work but not speak it.
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07-27-2010, 09:44 PM
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#72
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First Line Centre
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English
Bad English
Bad Spanish
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07-27-2010, 09:52 PM
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#73
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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English, and I could probably survive with my French and Spanish.
I know a few bad words/phrases in Afrikaans.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
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07-27-2010, 09:55 PM
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#74
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Lifetime In Suspension
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English and decent enough Spanish.
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07-27-2010, 10:03 PM
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#75
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First Line Centre
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English and minimal Francais. Just barely enough to get me by in francophone Quebec.
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07-28-2010, 04:14 AM
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#76
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Yokohama
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English and Japanese.
I suppose I can read basic French, but that's about it.
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07-28-2010, 09:24 AM
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#77
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sask (sorry)
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Just one. I took 3 years of French in Junior High but opted for Accounting 10 instead of French 10. Kinda wish I had taken it in high school, and that I had extra elective room now that I'm in uni, because I'd love to be bilingual.
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Thanks AC!
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07-28-2010, 11:20 AM
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#78
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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I'm fluent in English and Icelandic. My French is decent, not fantastic. I can ask where the bathroom is and order beer in German, so I didn't count that one.
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07-28-2010, 11:29 AM
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#79
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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I don't know how to answer the poll. Do you have to be fluent to claim another language? In that case, I'm only fluent in English.
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07-28-2010, 12:22 PM
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#80
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Franchise Player
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English, French, some Bisaya.
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