In my school, I just have one English language teacher for teaching in my class. Oh, so boring! She is so... ugh, I can't explain it anymore! But my Indonesian language teacher is so kind to us.

I speak Indonesian languange, but I'm writing with English languange. How about you? What Languange do you speak? Where do you come from?

My school is supposed to offer a third language, but it doesn't ! That really angers me! I took a German class four years ago though.

I speak English, and quite a bit of French, some Spanish and German, and a very little Swedish, Portugese, Norwegian and Arabic.

wow. i'm impressed. i think that most americans kinda have the ethnocentric way of thinking about things, especially the government. there isn't much money put into schools learning languages (my high school didn't require any languages to graduate). I grew up overseas though.. so thankfully i know a few languages too. my mother knows so many more than i do though.
I can speak and write: english, french, hebrew, greek, spanish
I can speak: italian, norwegian, german, some arabic, portugese.
I can understand a bit of chinese, japaneese, and latin.
I can sign in American Sign Language too, but that's because a friend of mine is nearly entirely deaf.

i dont think i'll ever be about to learn that many languages, but i hope i will. I've wanted to be a translator for a long time. i'm working on french, spanish, and japanese right now. Any tips on how to learn another language?

The only bit about latin I like is the history! The grammer is evil and so is the vocabulary, but the history is very cool. The mythology is the best of all!

Each to his own I suppose.

I learned a little greek when I was in cyprus and a little hungarian when I was in Budapest. But only a few words, its a bit pathetic really, but its more than I knew before so I'm quite proud.

I have my exams in two weeks. O me miserum!

See what I did there?

Sorry.

I'll just go now.

Bi!

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I took a class in Spanish and realized that with a short tounge it's hard to roll those rrrr's... but i want to get back into it, and i know a little ASL and continuing with ASL 2 in the fall

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I'm currently in my sixth year of Latin. There is way too much remembering, probably more than any other language I have ever seen. There's so much history, as well, and they force it down your throat. And mythology. So, so, so much mythology, which they also force-feed you, simultaneously, of course, as they teach you Roman history, so you are so confused that you don't know where the history stops and mythology begins, and you start thinking that Bacchus was an actual person. And then they start talking about Clem eating clams in Miami, and Spido the Dog, and Ramon Noodles, until you want to kill yourself, and you have to be bribed by your teacher to stay in the class.

Amaris y?

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This fall I'm starting a course in Latin.

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Don't.

I know a lot of English, a little Spanish, and some ASL. This fall I'm starting a course in Latin.

the only things i know in i think it's mandarin! are chen chen - thanks and Wadamint' sh o Matija though i'm not sure if it's written that way as i only know how 2 pronouns it in slovene

Thank you
Basically yes,Chaozhouhua is the local dialect here,Contanese is spoken in Hong Kong and a province in southeaster China,Mandarin is the Chinese we usually refer to.Most people here can speak Mandarin and the dialect.They are all really different though.

CathayKid if you want i can teach you German! wow! do all these languaes belong to the chinese group?

I speak Chaozhouhua/Tiechew(weird spelling,the same thing),Cantonese,Mandarin,and English if it counts(I'm still learning),no foreign language courses in school except for English,I might take French with a friend this summer
The language that I really want to learn is German,learnt a little from my little niece last year,but I forgot it all.I wasn't sure whether she was speaking German or the language of all children though,I believe she did make up some words and teach me...

ahhh! crzyme19 thanx 4 the explanation! i didn't know that such a silly thing as pig latin exsists! heheheh as 4 ASL we here just call it "govorica za gluhe"(pron.:goworitsa za gloohe)
which means something like "language for deaf"

ICELAND: does your noisemail work?

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what is pig latin anyway?

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You take off the first letter of the word, and put it at the end + ay
for example: Pig Latin would be igpay atinlay

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and american sign language?

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It's a way for deaf people to communicate, using gestures and some facial expressions.It's not just gestures though, it's really complex. But American sign language is differnt from British Sign Language, etc...there's no universal sign language

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Does pig latin actually count?

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I didn't think so, but I guess now I have 2, + the little spanish I know. yay

I am fluent in english, spanish and ASL. I know some japanese and french also. I would love to try and learn latin. Even if it is a dead language it seems interesting.

Hm. English. I know some French and I often speak in Elvish.