Languages?

[MikeL]

Can hold a conversation in half a dozen languages, but not sure I can say anything really intelligent in any of them...

[idb]

Listen pal, I only speak two languages. English, and bad fucken English.

Clever bastard.
I can only speak one of those.

[Firefight]

Ich verstehe nicht Deutsch

Herr Feuer-Kampf

[Joni]

Ich verstehe nicht Deutsch

Herr Feuer-Kampf

Hehe - so between you and Sudeep who taught who how to say the things the two of you do in German

[thehollowmen]

I speak english
My wife speaks Norwegian and English, and a smattering of other european languages.

My sisters speak Thai and English
My dad speaks English and Chinese
My mum speaks English, Spanish and French
My lil brother speaks english and redneck

I feel left out.

[enigma51]

I speak english very deliciously!!

[ManDownUnder]

I can speak english and my wife cn spk txt!

I hate that bloody mangle of letters texting turns into...

[crashe]

I can speak english and my wife cn spk txt!

I hate that bloody mangle of letters texting turns into...

Awwwww ya poor wee thing... hehehe.
Actually we can all speak txt if we own a cell ph... hehehehe

[erik]

My mum's from croatia, so she speaks croatian and english. Dad's parents are from holland, even though dad was born here, he can speak some dutch.

My sister learned german pretty well in school.

I was supposed to learn japanese, but the classes in school kinda turned into a bit of a joke and most people didn't take it seriously.

I've kinda tried to learn a bit of croatian, but haven't stuck with it long enough.

So I just speak english.

If you're wanting to learn a foreign language, check to see if your local library has the any Pimsleur tapes/cds for it. Or you might have luck searching for pimsleur mp3's on DC++ or other peer to peer networks. They seem like a good way to learn how to speak a new language.

[Gremlin]

I speak English. In South Africa I was forced to learn Afrikaans and Xhosa as well, but I have neatly forgotten them. Also learnt a couple of different sign languages as well.

Came to NZ, learnt Japanese and Chinese, and have obviously picked up a few Maori words. Done some programming courses, so know a bit of Java, .Net etc.

Always seem to pick up a bit of a language, know it for a while, then forget. I have found that if you don't use a language, you tend to forget it, so now I am back to English and a bit of programming. Not too fussed...

[Biff]

I speak English. In South Africa I was forced to learn Afrikaans and Xhosa ...

Xhosa? That's a new one for me. (Dumb question alert) I take it that it's an African language?

[Artifice]

I would like to learn Maori cos I know they're talking about me on telly (and it would be cool to speak the indigenous language).(abreviated quote)

sure its not so you can speak it in front of the natives and piss em off cos most of em dont understand it themselves.

[enigma51]

Xhosa? That's a new one for me. (Dumb question alert) I take it that it's an African language?

Hmmm yes one of the 11 offical languages in SA

[Gremlin]

Hmmm yes one of the 11 offical languages in SA

yep, when I left at the end of 96, 11 languages on the box. Couldn't even schedule one day of english TV. Now that's PC.

The other one that people had to learn - usually instead of Xhosa - was Zulu, I think.

[Big Dave]

Rudimentary english and even ruder German.

means I can sing 'two world wars and one world cup - doo dah - doo dah'
to recalcitrant BMW riders in their native tounge.