How many languages can you speak?

EntropicLove

languages I speak: chinese, english, small amount of spanish, c++, python.

OmCheeto

Quote by lisab

Could you learn Apache, in honor of my great-grandmother

?

I don't think so.

My short term memory is so short, I already forgot what language you asked me to learn.

SW VandeCarr

Quote by OmCheeto

Ok then.

Woo Hoo! (<-- that's american...)

Yup!

http://www.google.com/images?q=woo+h...w=1366&bih=471

Julio R

English and Spanish. The two essential languages where I live.

jim mcnamara

Lisa -

Apache is in the Athapascan group of Languages: Tlingit, Navajo. I can stumble through some Navajo and understand some Jicarilla Apache. Never heard spoken Chiricahua, but I was told they call the language and themselves: "Ndeh". Navajos use "Dine", Tlingit use "Tinne" - at least that's how us Bilagaanas spell it.

Which Apache group was your grandmother? The answer is: where was she born - White River, Dulce, where?
Dayton, Ohio won't work for an answer....

This cross-liguistic feat is because these languages all apparently "broke off" from a common ancestor language recently. So there are lots of similarities between Apache dialects and Navajo. Not because I have any linguistic skills. Whatsoever. When I was failing to learn Navajo, Irvy Goosen used to help me.
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&fiel...AIrvy%20Goosen

My wife ran a sort of Trading Post/Store. Every time I went there the Navajo speakers who knew me tried to get me to speak Navajo. They usually ended up convulsed with laughter. Seems I have a career waiting: A Navlish-speaker-comedian.

Anyway, Goosen explained that South Western Athapascan speakers shared a really high number of cognates and nearly identical language structures. Told me, he went North, and could converse with Tlingit speakers fairly well, too.

A large percentage Navajo/Apache "nouns" amount to sentences. Kind of like phrases in English - an absolute literal translation of "duck" would be "it floats on the water". Snake == "it slithers"; mice == "they scrabble at night".

So when you say something in English and it takes xxxx long, if you translate to Apache it becomes xxxxxxxxx long.

lisab

Quote by jim mcnamara

Lisa -

Apache is in the Athapascan group of Languages: Tlingit, Navajo. I can stumble through some Navajo and understand some Jicarilla Apache. Never heard spoken Chiricahua, but I was told they call the language and themselves: "Ndeh". Navajos use "Dine", Tlingit use "Tinne" - at least that's how us Bilagaanas spell it.

Which Apache group was your grandmother? The answer is: where was she born - White River, Dulce, where?
Dayton, Ohio won't work for an answer....

This cross-liguistic feat is because these languages all apparently "broke off" from a common ancestor language recently. So there are lots of similarities between Apache dialects and Navajo. Not because I have any linguistic skills. Whatsoever. When I was failing to learn Navajo, Irvy Goosen used to help me.
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&fiel...AIrvy%20Goosen

My wife ran a sort of Trading Post/Store. Every time I went there the Navajo speakers who knew me tried to get me to speak Navajo. They usually ended up convulsed with laughter. Seems I have a career waiting: A Navlish-speaker-comedian.

Anyway, Goosen explained that South Western Athapascan speakers shared a really high number of cognates and nearly identical language structures. Told me, he went North, and could converse with Tlingit speakers fairly well, too.

A large percentage Navajo/Apache "nouns" amount to sentences. Kind of like phrases in English - an absolute literal translation of "duck" would be "it floats on the water". Snake == "it slithers"; mice == "they scrabble at night".

So when you say something in English and it takes xxxx long, if you translate to Apache it becomes xxxxxxxxx long.

I'm not sure but I think my great-grandma was born in or near Fort Sill. Is your wife Apache or Navajo?

I was told Apaches call themselves N'De (or something like that) which translates to something like, "Us Folk"

. Sounds very similar to Ndeh!

aquitaine

English is my native language, but I can speak Mandarin Chinese as a second language as well as read hanzi, though I'm a bit rusty.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I also learned a little bit of German in high school a long time ago, but I forgot almost all of it. Not sure if that counts.

YurtaevEngr

English and also Russian but not as well as English.

L4xord

I can only fluently speak in one language (English) but I am essentially fluent in reading French (though sometimes I require a dictionary for in depth material)and my own conlang. I also know a little bit of spanish and can also read (and communicate with some trouble) to a pretty good degree in Latin.

Gliese123

That'd be two and a half. Haha. No but
1. Swedish - Fluent
2. English - Conversational to almost advanced
3. French - Just a few sentences. I read it for a rather long time in school but eventually gave up. Most likely due to the lacking of the language's availability in my everyday life.

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EntropicLove	How many languages can you speak? languages I speak: chinese, english, small amount of spanish, c++, python.

Julio R	English and Spanish. The two essential languages where I live.

aquitaine	English is my native language, but I can speak Mandarin Chinese as a second language as well as read hanzi, though I'm a bit rusty. EDIT: Oh yeah, I also learned a little bit of German in high school a long time ago, but I forgot almost all of it. Not sure if that counts.

YurtaevEngr	English and also Russian but not as well as English.

L4xord	I can only fluently speak in one language (English) but I am essentially fluent in reading French (though sometimes I require a dictionary for in depth material)and my own conlang. I also know a little bit of spanish and can also read (and communicate with some trouble) to a pretty good degree in Latin.

Gliese123	That'd be two and a half. Haha. No but 1. Swedish - Fluent 2. English - Conversational to almost advanced 3. French - Just a few sentences. I read it for a rather long time in school but eventually gave up. Most likely due to the lacking of the language's availability in my everyday life.