Languages

[Faanvolla]

I actually do better in English than in Afrikaans at school.
Mom not pleased with that at all but I don't care.

Me too!
Up top for angering Mothers.

[Asbjorn-phoenix]

Home language is English, but having been raised and studied in Bloemfontein I'm also large part boerseun and am fluent in Afrikaans.

[Aeowyn]

Eloquent and profuse in English, fluent in Afrikaans, learning japanese from watching too much anime (I'm just about at the stage of building on my vocabulary. other than that I can muddle my way through reading a lot of European languages by looking for similar-looking words to english. I mostly do this with multi-lingual instruction booklets, so I would NOT call myself well-versed...

[Dragonwolf]

My home language is English and I can partly speak and understand Afrikaans, though that is very limited. I blame the educational system xD.

I can also read Hebrew, but when you don't practice one's skills do become blunt ^^

[Aeowyn]

OOH! OOH! I know a Hebrew swearword! I'll try and put it down as phonetically accurately as I can!:
"Legh tegh sharshel haterrasim"
"gaan kak in die mielies"

[Wolfie-DMX]

OOH! OOH! I know a Hebrew swearword! I'll try and put it down as phonetically accurately as I can!:
"Legh tegh sharshel haterrasim"
"gaan kak in die mielies"

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Ag nee sies man

I can now insult someone quite badly in German, correctly All thanks to my German friend

Recently my Afrikaans standard got rated very high, so I am considered a freak

[Helios_phi]

Im fluent in English, Afrikaans and Japanese, my reading and writing in Japanese is terrible but I get by if need be.

[Fluke]

Master race language only.

[Flaxney]

I didn't know you spoke German fluke! D: trololol

[Zee_Etanutrofnu]

I grew up speaking Hungarian because of my parents being Hungarian and all, but I went to an English school, I also prefer the language. I read/write in Afrikaans, although my pronunciations can be a bit shocking at times :3 but i do understand it quite well. Uhm i had to do Tswana from grade 1-7 as well, i think i remember like 2 words though XD i can speak a tiny bit of French as well.
My reading/writing in Hungarian is not that great, but i speak it at home with the parents :p

[Glitch MadDragon]

omg i feel so undereducated only being able to read and speek two languges


ok maby i cant right in english but i can read and speek it

omg why cant i spell

[Ryall]

You shouldn't worry about that Ashley, I would say the majority of this forum can only speak English or Afrikaans. As for me, I only put down English because my Afrikaans hardly qualifies as 'speaking.'

A lot of the 'other' language selections come from people like Zee and Acynnonyx who have different home languages, or Desertyote, who Speaks Spanish, Italian and French (quite exceptional really).

[Glitch MadDragon]

i know i just wish i was able to learn mor languages , i learnt german and isixhosa but only for two years and thats about it

[Fluke]

I̢ ̢t̸h͏͟͜i̧̡nk͠ ̷I͟͡ ̨͞k̶̷̴n̕͝o͏͟͢w̷ ̶̧͜m̡̕͠o͝͏r̨̨̀ę́ ͜҉̶M̨S̶̡C̵͝/̛͜M̸a̵nd̕̕a͏r̷̀i̶͢͡n̷ ̷̨t̕h̨an ̴͢͟A̶҉f́͝͝r͞i̛k͟a̛a͜͜ǹ̶s͡ at̷͜ ̶t̷͟͞h̷̕is̶͜ ̨p͝͏͜o҉́i̛̕͡n҉̸͡t ̡I̢ ͞th̀i͠ǹ͘͞k̛̕ ̨̛̛.̵̨̧_͡.̛

[Flaxney]

I can read basic Spanish phrases

[jacojerb]

I had german for a year at school. In that year, the teacher showed up about 5 times...

[Leeward]

I hope it's not poor taste to revive a thread that has been dead for 5 months... but here goes

I'm a native French and English speaker, and I understand Afrikaans well enough to hold a conversation, but I sound like an absolute idiot speaking it. I know bit and pieces of German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Réunion Creole. I took two years of Latin classes (learned some scraps of Greek in there too, including the alphabet) and I'm currently busy self-learning Russian (Мне хотелось водки, пожалуйста. ). I also know about a half-dozen programming languages, do those count?

Okay I admit it, I was wanting to show off a little.

[Indecipherable]

Fluent in Russian ( because first language ), English, can communicate in Afrikaans to a certain extent; currently studying Deutsch))

[Fluke]

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