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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:36 PM
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Poll question: What language(s) in addition to English do you speak?
Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 02:38 PM by Mayberry Machiavelli
I guess choose whichever you are most proficient in.

On review there are really not enough slots in this poll available. African dialects missing, Hebrew etc.
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corksean Donating Member (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 02:50 PM
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1. I'm brushing up my Irish, trying to keep a dying language alive
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:45 PM
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7. Agus mé, is ní bhfuil mise Éireannach!
I hope you understood that. My parents are actually from India, but I'm a huge language nerd, and I find Celtic languages fascinating.
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American Tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:54 PM
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15. Cool, my best friend studied Gaelic in Ireland last year
I'm not exactly sure what she's going to do with that from a professional standpoint, of course. :)
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 03:34 PM
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2. Greek
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lakemonster11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 09:16 PM
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19. Kai ego.
(Well, a bit. It's fading fast!)
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 03:49 PM
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3. You know, many of us speak MORE than one other language
I do fluent German and not-so-fluent Japanese and French.
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 03:56 PM
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4. Let's remember American Sign Language, also.
n/t
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 03:57 PM
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5. Does Sindarin count?
Or Drow, or Al Bhed?

God I'm such a nerd. :crazy:
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:08 PM
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6. By the way, what Africans speak are languages, not "dialects"
A dialect is simply a subvariety of a language, like American versus British English.

I know you didn't mean anything bad, but traditionally, saying "dialect" instead of "language" was the way colonizers belittled the languages of the colonized: "native dialects" instead of African or Indian languages.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:47 PM
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8. I voted Spanish, b/c that's my best foreign language.
Tho' I also speak Irish, Norwegian, Hindi and Bengali. Also reconstructed Proto-Indo-European, which makes me a minority of one and a linguistic throwback of 5000 years or so. :crazy:
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FarLeftRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:48 PM
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9. I am re-learning my basic Italian
and it's a bit easier than I thought.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:50 PM
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10. Pig Latin
or Igpay Atinlay
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cruadin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 09:18 PM
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20. Emay ootay.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 01:46 AM
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27. oolcay
et'slay alktay.
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American Tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:52 PM
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11. Deutsch
I kinda wanted to get in touch with my ancestry. To that end, I've also studied a tiny bit of Dutch & other Germanic tongues.
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flygal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:53 PM
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14. Ich Auch
I'm living over here and have picked it up conversationally.
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MissBrooks Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:53 PM
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12. I'm learning Pig Latin
early-NAY erfect-PAY!
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jdots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:53 PM
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13. wouldn't you know it,I am the only person here that speaks
Zimdarian.Now it all makes sence. alittle bit of Yiddish too,(very little)
who else took French 1 for 5 years ?
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 04:57 PM
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16. I speak Music, and also Theology (a language all its own!).
MUSIC: The one, true universal language.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:24 PM
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17. 2 years of French
in high school, 2 years of German in college, 30 something years of living in Texas to pick up quite a bit of Spanish, and I also began teaching myself Turkish a few years ago.

I'm pretty rusty in most of them, not concentrating on them the last few years, but I could get in good shape again with a little practice.

FSC
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:26 PM
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18. Spanish & AmeSLan.
:)
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 09:19 PM
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21. Spanish, but not fluently
I took three years in high school and 4 semesters in college, yet I still have the vocabulary of a two-year-old.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 09:37 PM
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22. Spanish, some Italian and a smidge of Greek (nt)
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 09:42 PM
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23. What ! No one speaks Elfin?
I don't.
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aQuArius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 10:02 PM
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24. WHERE'S ASL????!!!???!!!
Some of us use sign language!!!! Hello???
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Miami Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 10:14 PM
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25. Espanol
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Frogtutor Donating Member (739 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 10:57 PM
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26. Wow, I'm surprised by the numbers, especially
of German speakers! It seems really strange that it would be running so close to Spanish (I just sent Spanish over by 1 vote).
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the Princess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 01:51 AM
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28. Living in Pueblo
We had to learn *STUPID*
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GRLMGC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 01:59 AM
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29. Spanish because it's my native language
I can read, write, and speak it. I took four years of French but I had a useless French teacher so my French is pathetic. I suspect I know more than I think I do, however. I'm trying to learn Italian right now. I love learning languages.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:13 AM
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30. I'm working on my Canadian.
Eh?
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:17 AM
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31. In 1996, I could hold a conversation in Japanese

I wasn't fluent, but I taught myself.

I've forgotten over 90% of it now due to not getting to use it. I used to be able to read Hiragana and Katakana...I can't anymore :(
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:41 AM
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32. 22% of us speak French. No wonder the freepers hate us!
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:44 AM
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33. The Language of Love, bay-bee! Barry White taught me everything I know.
n/t
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 03:34 AM
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34. A little German
Ich spreche ein bißchen Deutsch (nicht zu viel).

Fröhliche Weinachten und ein glückliches Neujahr!
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IranianDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 03:43 AM
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35. farsi.
I can understand some dialects from that region of the world too.
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