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What languages can you speak?


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Class172

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Ten bate van Class172, 'Dutch' heet 'Nederlands' in de nederlandse taal ;)
Wist ik al dat, dat is waarom er geen woord tussen haakjes. Ik ging naar Nederland, toen ik 8 was.

Ik hou van pannenkoeken met slagroom. :)
 
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I think in some cases it depends what you mean by speak. I can put on a convincing accent and trot out some sentences of Spanish, but I wouldn't claim to be able to 'speak it'. :lol: I could probably tick about 5 more on that list if we're dealing with that type of 'speak'! I am interested in Languages so I tend to pick a bit up wherever I go!

Also, taking a GCSE doesn't 'certify' your fluency or even your ability to speak it. I have learned that at A-Level, in that GCSE and lower texts/speaking and listening material is to a certain degree, 'dumbed down'. It should seem obvious, but it does sometimes lull people into a false sense of confidence about a language. When you listen to authentic material (which A-Level is much closer to), you realise this. I know some people who got a C or even a low B at GCSE French/German and they could barely string a sentence together!
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Ik hou van panenkooken met slagroom. :)

Dat klinkt lekker, maar het is "pannenkoeken".
 

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Wist ik al dat, dat is waarom er geen woord tussen haakjes. Ik ging naar Nederland, toen ik 8 was.

Ik hou van panenkooken met slagroom. :)


Ah, het spijt me, ik dacht dat aangezien jij geen woord tussen haakjes gegeven had, dat je het woord niet wist :)

Pannenkoeken (vooral met slagroom) vind ik niet zo lekker: te zoet voor mij. Gerookte paling is mijn favoriet nederlands lekkerbekje, maar het is bijna onmogelijk om ze in Engeland te kunnen kopen :(
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Actually, writing in foreign langauges on an English language forum is very bad form. Sorry folks!
 
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Actually, writing in foreign langauges on an English language forum is very bad form. Sorry folks!

Well, at least you don't have any accents in Dutch ! I had problems with lack of accents on a standard keyboard when doing my previous post in Latvian.

And I could sort of understand about half of what you said - lekker is one of the few Dutch words I know !
 

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Ah, het spijt me, ik dacht dat aangezien jij geen woord tussen haakjes gegeven had, dat je het woord niet wist :)

Pannenkoeken (vooral met slagroom) vind ik niet zo lekker: te zoet voor mij. Gerookte paling is mijn favoriet nederlands lekkerbekje, maar het is bijna onmogelijk om ze in Engeland te kunnen kopen :(
Ik hou van de drankjes hebben ze daar, ik hou van Chocomel! :wub::)
 

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Well, at least you don't have any accents in Dutch ! I had problems with lack of accents on a standard keyboard when doing my previous post in Latvian.
Des accents sont très facile quand je suis sur mon iPod. :)
 

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Moechtet jemand eine deutsche Unterhaltung mit mir haben?

Wenn du wirklich willst! Ist es erlaubt? :lol:

Des accents sont très facile quand je suis sur mon iPod. :)

Je pense que cette fonction est très utile.

Actually, writing in foreign langauges on an English language forum is very bad form. Sorry folks!

I have seen multilingual forums before, this is just a bit of fun really in a well-marked corner of the forum. Plus, it's in "General Discussion", meaning that it's not as if the main content has switched to another language!
 
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I have seen multilingual forums before, this is just a bit of fun really in a well-marked corner of the forum. Plus, it's in "General Discussion", meaning that it's not as if the main content has switched to another language!


Ah, OK. Ook praat ek 'n bietjie Afrikaans daardie ek geleer het deur myn kennis van die nederlandse taal. Dit is baie maklikker als nederlands omdat dit slegs een grammatiese geslag het, soos Engels :)
 

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Ah, OK. Ook praat ek 'n bietjie Afrikaans daardie ek geleer het deur myn kennis van die nederlandse taal. Dit is baie maklikker als nederlands omdat dit slegs een grammatiese geslag het, soos Engels :)

One gender? I like the sound of that! :D
 

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Warum nicht? :D

Genau!

Wenn du wirklich willst! Ist es erlaubt? :lol:

Natuerlich! Du hast selbst die Grund gegeben, warum es erlaubt ist (oder warum es erlaubt sein sollte)

Eine interessante (vielleicht!) Tatsache. Die zwei Frage, dass meine deutsche Lehrerin im Jahre 8 immer gefragt hat, sind:
Wie ist das Wetter? und Was isst du in der Pause?
 

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Wonder what the running total is for the amount of times google translator has been used on this thread! :lol:
 

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Natuerlich! Du hast selbst die Grund gegeben, warum es erlaubt ist (oder warum es erlaubt sein sollte)

Ja, das stimmt.

Eine interessante (vielleicht!) Tatsache. Die zwei Frage, dass meine deutsche Lehrerin im Jahre 8 immer gefragt hat, sind:
Wie ist das Wetter? und Was isst du in der Pause?

Wir haben das Wetter in unseren Büchern geschrieben!! Datum - Titel - Zeit(!) - Wetter. :lol:
 

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Wonder what the running total is for the amount of times google translator has been used on this thread! :lol:

I can't remember which, but there was a thread where everyone was talking in Russia (via the translator of course). Turned quite interesting!
 

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Guys, it's not "vais", it's "fais" ;)

Sorry I meant to say 'Je vais faire de l'equitation' as in 'I am going to go horseriding' rather than 'I go horseriding' which would use fais!

'Je vais de l'equitation' would mean "I will horse riding!" haha. Damn horses!
 
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I know a few words in Mandarin, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, Irish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic and Russian; I know more than a few words and can put sentences together in Dutch and Japanese; I know a fair amount (but not enough for this thread) of Spanish and Latin; I can competently use French, German and Welsh; and of course I can speak English fluently. Also, does Lowland Scots count? :p

I've probably missed a couple as well.
 
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