Lingusitics What Are the Native Languages Spoken by PF Members?

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The forum discussion centers around members sharing their native languages and language skills. Many participants are multilingual, with a variety of languages mentioned, including Russian, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and several others. Some users express their experiences with language learning, discussing methods such as formal courses and immersion techniques. There are mentions of specific language courses, like Barron's Mastering Italian and Pimsleur, highlighting the importance of pronunciation and grammar in language acquisition. Additionally, some participants share humorous takes on language, including playful references to "coded" languages like Pig Latin. The conversation also touches on the cultural aspects of language learning, with users noting the connection between language and cultural understanding. Overall, the thread showcases a diverse range of linguistic backgrounds and the challenges and joys of learning new languages.
  • #51
cronxeh said:
Native languages: Russian, Tatar
Fluent in English

trying to pick Portuguese at the moment, after that Latin

In that case, then try out the Russian @ PF:

Меня зoвут Миша.

[size=+1]Как вас зoвут ??[/size]

(your real name, that is :cool:)
 
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  • #52
Ke Aleman nnaboiro, and I'm the only one. Aside from that, though, English is native. I'm not conversationally fluent in anything else, but I know enough to read some Spanish and Classical Greek. I'm trying to learn Irish, but I just began. I'll probably try to at least learn some Welsh after that, maybe a couple other Celtic languages, mostly for scholarly reasons, as almost nobody still speaks them. Woni Tsalagi (Cherokee) awaduli, but there aren't many resources for it.
 
  • #53
loseyourname said:
Ke Aleman nnaboiro, and I'm the only one.
:cool: You finished your language?
 
  • #54
honestrosewater said:
:cool: You finished your language?

No, but I could hold a conversation as long as it didn't require any vocabulary I haven't invented yet (theoretically, anyway; as the only speaker I'd need to hold a conversation with myself). The grammatical and syntactical structures are decided and all. One proto-language and one sister-language and I'll be done. I've even begun with the mythology and the history to support it. You never realize how much a language reveals about a culture until you start doing this stuff. It's quite exciting.
 
  • #55
Dutch, French, English, some German, Italian and Latin
 
  • #56
loseyourname said:
No, but I could hold a conversation as long as it didn't require any vocabulary I haven't invented yet (theoretically, anyway; as the only speaker I'd need to hold a conversation with myself).
Well hopefully you won't use any vocabulary that you haven't invented yet. :smile:
The grammatical and syntactical structures are decided and all. One proto-language and one sister-language and I'll be done. I've even begun with the mythology and the history to support it. You never realize how much a language reveals about a culture until you start doing this stuff. It's quite exciting.
Yeah, it sounds like fun.
 
  • #57
French and English
 
  • #58
english, learning spanish and latin (but i won't take enough years of latin to speak it very well)

Fibonacci
 
  • #59
Native arabic. A part of my family speak french as their mother tongue, we r a francophonic city, and this type of people who speaks francoarabic is familiar...

Add to those 2 languages, english and a bit of italian( enough to get me where i want and for a nice conversation ), i used to speak coptic( i can't say a complete phrase by now, it's rarely used) too which is an old egyptian language written with letters extracted from greek alphabet...
 
  • #60
So...I am at least 3rd Russian here?
technically my "native" language is Belarusian ... and Russian.
Only меня зовут Оля.

@bomba923: i think it's an "o" instead of "a", check it with "зов" :wink:
 
  • #61
EvLer said:
So...I am at least 3rd Russian here?
technically my "native" language is Belarusian ... and Russian.
Only меня зовут Оля.

@bomba923: i think it's an "o" instead of "a", check it with "зов" :wink:
Извините :redface:,
глупая ошибка| Just fixed it
 
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  • #62
know nepali, hindi, sanskrit, english, maithili, bhojpuri, newari,
learning spanish.
 
  • #63
Dutch (native), fluent: French and English, slightly less fluent but still ok: German. Some notions of Italian, Japanese and Norwegian (I followed courses in these languages and at a certain point I could have a simple conversation, but that's long ago and I don't think much is left now).
 
  • #64
urdu is my native language (national language of pakistan and the 99.99% same as spoken hindi). but I've also been speaking english since i was a kid so i know it just as well. i also know arabic, but not as much as english or urdu
 
  • #65
vanesch said:
Dutch (native), fluent: French and English, slightly less fluent but still ok: German. Some notions of Italian, Japanese and Norwegian (I followed courses in these languages and at a certain point I could have a simple conversation, but that's long ago and I don't think much is left now).
Hurra! Han snakker norsk; så gøy!
Sayonara.
 
  • #66
lets add something more.
as cefarix said, i know urdu too because i know hindi.
hehe
 
  • #67
r the knowledge of some sentences and few words counted too?
then chinese, japanese, spanish, french
 

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