DUers, what non-english languages do you speak?

[SIU_Blue]

Me, I'm what they'd call "conversational" in spanish, I don't know every word, but I can hold a good conversation.

What about you?

I want to know who speaks the most unique language!!!! Any Tagalog speakers out there?

[Momgonepostal]

1. Some Italian

At one time I was fairly fluent, though ultra deep subjects eluded me, but I'm very out of practice these days.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear SIU!

I majored in, and got a BA in French with a minor in Spanish....

But I got my degree in 1965...so my Spanish is non-existent, and my French is pretty rusty these days.....

But one time my husband and I were in Paris for a week on our own before our tour started, and after 3 days of exposure to the Parisians, I found that my French was pretty good!

And they were friendly, too.....most of them!

:hug:

[NV Whino]

3. Spanglish

combined with a lot of body language. Works pretty well.

[ZombieNixon]

4. Spanish (Spanglish, Bad Spanish), some Norwegian, a bit of Irish Gaelic,

about twelve languages I made up. }(

[RetroLounge]

5. Pascal

Does that count?

RL

[DanCa]

6. I speak Klingon does that count

Quaplaugh.

[LeftyMom]

7. I know a little bit of German

but I'm badly out of practice.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

8. Very bad French

and the only time I've had an opportunity to test it out - in Montreal - nobody could understand my accent.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Mandarin Chinese.

[Metta]

10. meditation.

It gets non-verbal after awhile.

[sakabatou]

11. Nihon-go

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Intermediate French for the moment

with occasional flashes of bilingual brilliance :D i just love me some verb tenses!

and wicked franglais, oh yes. :bounce:

[Left Is Write]

13. I studied Spanish for seven years - a long time ago!

I retained a fair amount, but I would not be able to hold up my end of the conversation. I can understand more than I can call upon to actually speak.

I can also understand a good deal of Italian and French.

It would be great to immerse myself one of the languages and become fluent.

[LynzM]

14. German, some French

And a smattering of Spanish and ASL. I like languages :)

[datasuspect]

15. the "international language"

and no, i don't mean esperanto

[alarcojon]

16. Native fluency in English, Spanish, and Spanglish

a wee bit of French, Hindi, and Quechua

[southlandshari]

17. Arabic

Fluent Arabic and some German, Spanish and Schona (native language of a large part of the population of Zimbabwe).

:D

[SIU_Blue]

23. WOW

that's cool. I bet the job market is good for those Arabic Skills!!!!

[southlandshari]

24. LOL!

It would be - if I could read and write it well. I'm a long way from that, though I speak it well enough to pass as a native speaker - for about ten or 15 minutes of conversation, anyway!

:-)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. bengali and some hindi

[devilgrrl]

19. Really bad Italian.

:blush:

[Canadian Socialist]

20. Canajan, eh?

Lard tunderin' jaysus, bay...

[Pithlet]

21. I know a little French.

I used to be able to speak it passingly, but it's been years and I've lost a lot of it. I can still read it and get the gist of what is being said, though. I'd probably do okay on a trip to a French speaking country and pick it back up quickly.

ETA a tiny little bit of German. I took it in middle school and again in high school.

[Elidor]

22. I speek ze language of luuuuuuuv

And I've been told I speak Esperanto like a native.