The Lingustic forum-poll

[Kuno of Gersenau]

I speak English and French, have to learn both at school.

I didn't consider German as a foregin language eventhough it differs quiet a lot from Swiss-German...:wink:

[Mircoslavux]

Hm,..so ma native is Slovak
But I disagree with Elvain, that Slovak and Czech are so so similar,
I just read one study, where was shown, that especially, the children in Czech rep. have quit a big problem to understand Slovak and they understand Polish better...but it's a matter of habit

my other languages are:
Czech,
English
German,
I can understand well Russian, and Polish, and some Serbo-Croatish,

the Slovak language gave us the advantage to understand other Slavian languages well, but it does not valid vice-versa...

[Elvain]

it's not matter of agreement or disagreement I am or am not a native speaker.

When my mother speaks Slovak, I can't count this language as foreign, that's why I didn't mention Slovak as foreign language, not because it's simmilar to Czech (and I know that Czech young generation hardly understands Slovak)
I know there IS a difference. I just can't count Slovak because it's my mothertongue

[Doux]

[...]
(By the way I can't understand spoken dutch. I start laughing when I hear dutch and can't concentrate on what is being said. :wink: )

AngryminerWhy is that? That is ridiculous! :scratch:
I can understand it a bit though - I think German sounds rather.. sharp? compared to Dutch, so Dutch should sound really weird to native German speakers.

I chose 3: English, German, French. I can read Latin and understand some Swedish, Spanish, but that's about it. Oh, I forgot the language Frisian. I'd like to master Russian, Spanish and Hebrew/Arabic/Japanese in order of preference, but I doubt there'll be much room for that in my study..
English, German, French, Latin - those are all standard languages I studied at highschool.
~Edit: Of course my native language is Dutch.

[Angryminer]

@Doux:
If a german imagins how someone with a severe speaking disorder would speak, the result would be dutch.
Just so you get an idea how dutch sounds to german native speakers. :wink:

Angryminer

[Flo]

I voted for 3

-english
-french
-spanish (a bit. But a bit is a bit :biggrin:)


and i can imagine some swedish words and their meaning, if i read a swedish post here in the forum.
But i didn't count this to my 3 vots :wink:

By the way:
it's not only dutch which sounds funny. Swedish sounds really funny to me, when i hear it on TV :biggrin:
i don't know why :huh: but theire words are really funny :cheers:

[NaVatar]

it's not only dutch which sounds funny. Swedish sounds really funny to me, when i hear it on TV :biggrin:
i don't know why :huh: but theire words are really funny :cheers:

Haha. Very true Flo, especially when translated to English :biggrin:
Have you seen the "Mastering Swedish" videos?

(I posted the links in Funstuff if you haven't seen them)

[Largefry07]

I'm just learning German. I don't know it very well, but I'm kind of getting the hang of it. So I guess I'll can count that. I would be better if they didn't have word gender like English.:bash: Oh well it's fun. I'd like to learn Russian and I think Latin would be cool, but I can't really see that happening.

[FrankishHero]

*slaps Angryminer which a stick drenched in manure*

Als je nou niet ophoudt met mijn taal te beledigen dan zal ik je eens laten zien wat ik tegen Duitsers heb!


I speak

- English (fluently)
- French (decently)
- German (decently)

- I can read Swedish, but didn't include it in the poll.

[LadyH]

1. English
learned 20 years ago in shool and here I can fresh it up

Didn't count that I can understand most of dutch, because I can't read it.
That's just because i was living about 30 years in the north sea region of germany called Ostfriesland (no translation available).
The language is translated as "Low German" (Plattdeutsch) and that is near to dutch, but not similar!

[FrankishHero]

More similar to German than to Dutch.

[karima]

I speak English, French and a bit of Spanish. Although not very well.

[Flo]

Hola karima :halloha:

:biggrin:

[RoadRunner]

English and Russian - though I did not speak Russian for a long time, and I suppose I forgot a lot, but I still can understand a Russian conversation... :biggrin:

[Dschi-Rex]

English (quite good)
French (basic, but quite good)

[Angryminer]

I didn't know german was a foreign language to you!
(Yes, this poll is only about foreign languages.)

Angryminer

[Dschi-Rex]

Oops.

No, german is my first language. I'll edit this.

[karima]

Hola, Flo, qué tal? :lol:

[Dschi-Rex]

Ostfriesland (no translation available)
LEO.org says it's translated like "East Friesland" :scratch:

[Doux]

LEO.org says it's translated like "East Friesland" :scratch:And that's a good translation. In Dutch it is Oost-Friesland; in the Netherlands lies (West-)Friesland.