I speak that American English with a northeastern dialect natively
Secondly is Mandarin Chinese
Then French
Then Korean
Then German
then spanish
akudood;
I know enough Mandarin to chat with people. Though spoken is hard so it's usually limited to text. French I forgot a lot of but I can generally read wtf is going on and if I think I can remember.
Korean and German probably enough to get around if I were abandoned in that nation.
Spanish I knew more but if i rely on what I remember from french I'm somewhat knowing.
ok hbu
American English with a southern accent
Some spanish
I can understand French well enough to get by, mostly the written language. In a pinch, I might be able to speak it enough too but I doubt it.
Je ne parle que suédois
no speak english
English
Then a mishmash of French, German, Polish, and Czech. I know enough to order food and be polite and that's about it
i solely speak english...
but
i took spanish for about six years (took it in 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th.) but my last spanish class was like four years ago and I haven't refreshed ever since. i remember some conjuges, verbs, and phrases still. or at least i learned rather than remembered
let's see if can do the present tense of ir w/out using the internet
voy- i go
vas- you go
ve? he/she go
vamos? we go
ustedes is...ven? they go?
then there's past, and then umm "doing" verbs like not present but something else? where you add iba or aba at the end of a verb, right? (if anyone knows)
once in a while when i'd get a call from a spanish speaker out of nowhere, i'd try to talk in spanish and they'd respond in spanish. but then i'd lose confidence in spanish and i'd say "joking i don't know spanish haha" casually and the other line is speechless
and then we'd hang up
Quote from: The Last MIB on January 10, 2014, 11:22:00 AM
i solely speak english...
but
i took spanish for about four years but that was like five years ago and I haven't refreshed ever since. i remember some conjuges, verbs, and phrases still. or at least i learned rather than remembered
let's see if can do the present tense of ir w/out using the internet
voy- i go
vas- you go
ve? he/she go
vamos? we go
ustedes is...ven? they go?
then there's past, and then umm "doing" verbs like not present but something else? where you add iba or aba at the end of a verb, right? (if anyone knows)
once in a while when i'd get a call from a spanish speaker out of nowhere, i'd try to talk in spanish and they'd respond in spanish. but then i'd lose confidence in spanish and i'd say "joking i don't know spanish haha" casually and the other line is speechless
and then we'd hang up
he/she is va and ustedes/they is van i think
the iba/aba thing is for continuing actions in the past or something idk
whatever spanish and german i learned in high school i've completely forgotten now
when japanese is written entirely in hiragana i can understand most of what i read. it's the kanji that get me because i only know about 100. it's the only non-english language i can speak well enough to easily get by with.
bulgarian i can read and write a bit of but there are so many tenses and conjugations that it's a problem for me lol. i encounter russian more than bulgarian and i can read it just as well, but spoken russian is almost entirely incomprehensible to me while i can understand about 1/4 of spoken bulgarian
i only took high school french and while i can't write it, speak it, or understand spoken french, i can get the general idea of what written french is saying because it's so similar to english
English and Spanish.
i speak garbage.
Quote from: Pancake Persona on January 10, 2014, 12:30:37 PM
i only took high school french and while i can't write it, speak it, or understand spoken french, i can get the general idea of what written french is saying because it's so similar to english
this exactly. and that's really about all i can do for foreign languages.
being the weeb i am (and just because i think it's a nice language tbh), i'd like to learn japanese to some extent.