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battleknight24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:19 PM Original message |
Do you know someone who is fluent in several different languages? |
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Shananigans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. As a matter of fact... |
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battleknight24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yeah, I lived in Madrid, Spain for a few months... |
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Kamika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. a woman at church knows 6 |
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battleknight24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I'm learning Portuguese right now... |
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peacebuzzard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
24. I speak Portuguese.... |
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liberalnurse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yes, my cousin Dale. |
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Kathy in Cambridge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
6. I have found that most Scandanavians and Dutch Know Many Languages |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
7. Our "Foreign Languages" librarian speaks six, fluently. |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
8. most of my friends are multi-lingual...as are their children |
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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
9. One of my best friend's grandmother was Latvian...She spoke |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
10. Back when I was in college, |
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Padraig18 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. My uncle speaks 6. |
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private_ryan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
12. speak fluently or...? |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:23 AM Response to Reply #12 |
32. Yeah, that's me! |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:07 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. "Fluent": a misused word |
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gate of the sun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
13. my brother |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 10:21 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I don't think it's right to call them dialects cause |
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kixot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 11:58 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Dialect . |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:21 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. Well, considering that the other language spoken is |
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gate of the sun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 01:14 AM Response to Reply #16 |
36. i don't have a problem with that |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:10 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Cleita is right |
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Terwilliger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
14. Yes I do |
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MaryBear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:51 AM Response to Reply #14 |
34. Me, too, Terwilliger! |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
15. Aunt speaks 6 (nt) |
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greatauntoftriplets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
17. One of my cousins in Luxembourg speaks.... |
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corporatewhore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
18. my old latin teacher |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
19. used to work with a language sponge |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. She's dead now. My friend's grandma was a German teacher, she knew 7 |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
21. Sister-in-law (5+) |
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Endangered Specie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-04 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
22. My High School French Teacher - 4 |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
25. No mono-lingual folks |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
26. there are several grads in my department from Kenya |
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Ramsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
27. My husband |
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Cheswick2.0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
28. A cousin |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
29. A Language Joke |
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scarlet_owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
30. My great uncle speaks Spanish natively, in addition to |
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Rattlesnake (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
33. I know a girl.. |
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kskiska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
35. My ex-boyfriend (of 12 yrs) spoke 7 |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
39. I speak Japanese! |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
40. My tenant speaks spanish, romanian, greek, hungarian, french, english |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-13-04 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
41. I have a Ukrainian friend who can speak 7 languages. |
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