Foreign Languages

[Jamma]

Anyone on here speak a foreign language fluently? Or even just a bit?

I am fluent in Spanish as I studied that in university, and spent time in Spain as part of that.

I know a bit of Japanese as I took that in first year of Uni (struggled a lot with it to begin with, but it was enjoyable, I later went back and tried to learn some more)

Know basic Gaelic, and very little French (from school)

I quite enjoy learning languages in my spare time, would quite like to try another one some time

EDIT : I am also fluent in talking pish sometimes.

Edited 17 February 2016 by Jamma

[Colinsdarius]

Spent thirteen years in Spain, so the Spanish is ok. French very rusty because of the similarities between the languages, and have lost just about all the basic Arabic I knew from before

[JoeCovenant]

A smattering of French.

I've also been known to talk bollocks on the very odd occasion.

[Abdul Latif]

Relatively fluent in French owing to having a frog grandparent who made a point of more or less only speaking to me in French as a bairn.

Wouldn't say I'm anything like bi lingual, but I never struggle to hold a conversation with a native French speaker.

[Attilio]

I can speak fluent Klingon after a couple of bottles of red.

Also know how to order beer in a handful of languages.

[chomp my root]

As a kid living in New Zealand I learned a bit of Maori, we had a Maori teacher who was very keen to pass it on but that was a wee while ago.

I always made a point of learning the basics wherever I was in the world, "please", "thank you", "how much ?" "Which way to the red light district" "dos cerveza por favor" etc. I'm a sophisticated man of the world dontcha know. 

[Bloomogg]

Get by in French, West African pidgin, know some Igbo and fluent in Doric.

[HK Blues]

Did Spanish and French many moons ago and had a go at Cantonese when i lived in Hong Kong but gave it up as a lost cause - way too hard pronunciation with 9 tones!

It's a blessing we talk the global language but it does take away a bit of the incentive to learn another language so fair play to anybody who sticks in and does it.

Also did 10 years of teaching English language, mainly to Chinese, Korean and Japanese students.

[Riodee]

Fluent in Brasilian Portuguese and a smattering of Inupiat. Schoolboy French and RN Russian both almost exctinct.

[MainStandMenace]

Speak the basics in German, reading it on the other hand... 

mastered the art of bull sh**e years ago!

[chomp my root]

Fluent in Brasilian Portuguese and a smattering of Inupiat. Schoolboy French and RN Russian both almost exctinct.

Isn't that just putting 'ski' on the end of stuff ? 

I was forgetting Jack speak too, I'm pretty fluent in that.

[harry94]

As a kid living in New Zealand I learned a bit of Maori, we had a Maori teacher who was very keen to pass it on but that was a wee while ago.

I always made a point of learning the basics wherever I was in the world, "please", "thank you", "how much ?" "Which way to the red light district" "dos cerveza por favor" etc. I'm a sophisticated man of the world dontcha know. 

 

Spent time learning all those phrases for going to Prague last year and seemed to be going quite well with people appreciating the effort and even some moments where they thought I was a fluent speaker.

Half way through the trip, my skills seemed to have vanished and people weren't responding anymore. Turns out I didn't consider that a train to Budapest meant a change in language! It was literally four days of trying to speak Czech to Hungarians and it only clicked on the trip to the airport on the way home.