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You know other language except English and Spanish?

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Hi! I just want to know how many language that you can say? Of course, except Spanish and English. and how to say greeting in language that you can say?

For me, I am Korean, so ?????is greeting in Korean.

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updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by JUNGJS
How can we type Hangul? Actually I don't have Hangul heyboard on my computer - Fidalgo, Dec 29, 2010
"an nyeong ha seo yo" :) Am I reading it correct? - Fidalgo, Dec 29, 2010
Oh, yes! - JUNGJS, Dec 29, 2010

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I studied French in high school and college. One of my struggles with Spanish vocab is that fairly often a French word comes to mind before the Spanish one.

updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by Leatha
moi aussi! I find I am using French as my default language and translating from French into Spanish. You get a vote from me. - Ann-Frances, Dec 29, 2010
I had the opposite problem when I was studying French in college. - KevinB, Dec 29, 2010
alemán - ich habe Deutsche gelernt auf dem universität und Ich kann nicht mit deutschen Satzbau halten - Lector_Constante, Dec 29, 2010
Hi I'm a French fan :D - AntMexico, Dec 29, 2010
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I have also studied French and Japanese, and a little German and Portuguese. I don't remember much at all about them. Here's "Good morning" in each. No, I never learned to write a single character in Japanese.

Ohayo gozaimasu
Bonjour
Guten morgen
Bom dia

updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by KevinB
O japonês é semelhante ao chinês? :) - Fidalgo, Dec 29, 2010
Japanese uses Chines characters as the backbone of its writing system but the languages are very different. - samdie, Dec 29, 2010
What samdie said. Chinese (you have to specify which one actually), is tonal, while Japanese is positional. They share a few words and a character set, but that's all. - KevinB, Dec 29, 2010
Apart from some words and the writing system, everything else is completely unrelated. The pronunciation and the grammar have nearly nothing in common. They are as close as Portuguese and Zulu. - lazarus1907, Dec 29, 2010
I was told that Japanese was also tonal, for example tori and torii. - lorenzo9, Dec 29, 2010
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I can speak French & Arabic as well wink

Bonjour (French)

Good morning

-bon-joor-


???? ????? (Arabic)

Good morning

-sabaah al khaer-

(N: the KH is pronounced like the letter J in Spanish)

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updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by 00b6f46c
Oh thanks lovely, another word from my own language hehe, in Turkish Morning is Sabah. :) - culé, Dec 29, 2010
Wait, over the coffee cup, that's reahk haabas, isn't it? :) - webdunce, Dec 29, 2010
Well, I'm assuming that Arabic is read right-to-left, anyways. :) - webdunce, Dec 29, 2010
lol ..... Arabic is read right-to-left webdunce :) - 00b6f46c, Dec 29, 2010
The J sound of Spanish comes from the خ in Arabic. Turkish borrowed a large amount of words from Arabic, even though both languages are completely unrelated. See, for example, "merhaba" - lazarus1907, Dec 29, 2010
Yeah you're right Lazarus even thought not all of the Spanish speakers can get the real sound of the J or خ even Paralee pronounce it like a hard H or a very soft J sometimes . - 00b6f46c, Dec 29, 2010
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German, French, Latin, Vietnamese and just a smackerel Japanese.

Of these, I am most familiar with German. German grammar is still mostly with me, but I have lost almost all the vocabulary.

Wie geht's? (How's it goin'?)

Guten Tag. (Good day, used much like Hello / Good-bye)

Auf wiedersehen! (literally: to the again-see, means hasta la vista)

Hallo. (Hello, with a German twist).

I only learned to read and write a little Vietnamese, but I find it to be one of the most interesting of all the languages I have studied (perhaps because it is so different from my own language).

Tôi không bi?t ti?ng Vi?t. (I don't know Vietnamese, literally: I no know tongue Viet)

The above sentence sounds somewhat like "thoy comb beak theme veek nom," but that would likely get a good chuckle from them...or maybe you just said something really vulgar...it was always hard to tell what you actually said due to the subtle differences in vowel sounds...no lie, they've got like 50 vowel sounds.

Hello / good-bye in Vietnamese is chào. (pronounced jow, more or less)

updated Dec 29, 2010
edited by webdunce
posted by webdunce
I love your use of smackerel, WD. - Leatha, Dec 29, 2010
I just stole a new word....lol - Ann-Frances, Dec 29, 2010
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I'm Turkish , therefore my mother tongue is Turkish and I used to learn Russian and German, but I couldn't keep going to the course so I forgot nearly everything. At university, I have to choose another language, and I can't decide whether I should take up French or Italian, maybe both of them... And I want to learn Catalan or Valencian (they are almost the same) since I'm going to live in Spain. And of course the more language I know the better translator I become in the future.. smile

In Turkish we say : Selam! or Merhaba! they come from Arabic. smile

updated Dec 29, 2010
edited by culé
posted by culé
Great Cule I had no idea about that ;)) do you know any more words in common ? - 00b6f46c, Dec 29, 2010
Well, how about telling you that in Turkish there are over 6000 words from Arabic? :) Mmm let me think... Kitap? Mektep? Katip? Are they familiar? :) - culé, Dec 29, 2010
Wow !! well yes they are very familiar to me : kitap - book , mektep - desk , katip - writer :) - 00b6f46c, Dec 29, 2010
yep exactly!! :) - culé, Dec 29, 2010
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I learnt some German to a point where I could understand reasonably well if they didn't speak very fast, and I could follow some movies and easy books, but I hardly ever spoke it, so I've forgotten most of it. I can understand Italian and Portuguese if they don't talk too fast, but this has nothing to do with having studied any of them -they are just too close to Spanish.

I can get by in Japanese, and I can read and write about 200 characters, but it is not enough to maintain a proper conversation or to understand enough to follow the plot of a movie, unless its vocabulary is straightforward.

I can understand some basic Chinese, and even say some sentences, but nothing to be proud of.

However, I can order a beer in more than 25 languages, hehe.

updated Dec 29, 2010
edited by ian-hill
posted by lazarus1907
lol - 00b6f46c, Dec 29, 2010
Talking of beer Lazarus why is the normal word for shandy in Spain el shandy but in the region of Cataluñia I was told by waiters you would ask for una clara ? (nearest equivalent to our shandy (beer and lemonade mix) - FELIZ77, Dec 29, 2010
I was told this by waiters in Pineda de Mar near Barcelona and a native Spaniard working in his small restuarant in England - FELIZ77, Dec 29, 2010
. ..oRder ......... - ian-hill, Dec 29, 2010
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For me it is Danish

"Hvordan går det med jer" How are things going for you? (plural informal you)

"Det går fin, tak" Fine thanks.

If one has mastered Danish then Norwegian and Swedish are quite easy to understand.

3 for the price of one.

It is also very easy "verb-wise"

At væare ´to be

Jeg er = I am

Du er = You are (informal singular)

I er = You are (informal plural)

De er = You are (formal singular)

De er = You are (formal plural)

Han er = he is

Hun er = she is

Vi er = we are

De er = they are

All verbs are like this and all verbs end with the letter "e" in the infinitive.

I often wish Spanish was this easy.

updated Dec 29, 2010
edited by ian-hill
posted by ian-hill
Ian, the pronounciation looks complex despite what you say about the simplicity of the verb structure - FELIZ77, Dec 29, 2010
Yes Feliz - that can be one of the problems + the other being that nearly all Danes speak English. - ian-hill, Dec 29, 2010
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Sí, hablo Francés, Portugués de Brasil y un poco de Italiano. ¡Sé, también, algunas palabras en Japonés y Greco. Para mi, es suficiente por ahora ! tongue wink tongue rolleye smile LOL grin

=Yes, I speak French, Brazilian Portuguese and a little Italian. I also know some words in Japanaese and Greek. In my view that's enough for now! tongue wink tongue rolleye smile LOL grin

Spanish is my best (ie: favourite and strongest language) then French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese then Greek. this is. of course, in addition to English in which I am fluent..

I hope that answers your question lol tongue wink smile grin

updated Dec 29, 2010
edited by FELIZ77
posted by FELIZ77
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? ???? ??????? ????!

updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by Aptekarsha
Я тоже немного. тогда привет! Как поживаеж? - 005faa61, Dec 29, 2010
Очень хорошо! :D - culé, Dec 29, 2010
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My mother tongue is Tamil. I know to read and write in Hindi and I can understand Telugu and Malayalam.

updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by Vaanz
I think a person whose language is Tamil is probably from Tamil Nadu. How about you? :) - Fidalgo, Dec 29, 2010
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Bore da

That is Welsh for buenos dias, hello as in good day/morning.

updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by afowen
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I can speak three languages Arabic ( my native language ) , Persian and Turkish . I know that I need a long long time to speak this languages like Turkish People and Iranian but it's just the beginning ! any way my favorite language is Spanish of course, I love it

If you wanna say How are you ? in this languages you have to say :

  • ??? ???? ? ( Kayfa Halek ) in Arabic .
  • Nas?ls?n?z ? in Turkish
  • ??? ??? ???? ???? ( Hal shoma chador ast ? ) in Persian .
updated Dec 29, 2010
edited by Dua_Cairo
posted by Dua_Cairo
Kayfa halek ? or kayfa halak ? there is no haloka broksa :) - 00b6f46c, Dec 29, 2010
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Anyang haseyo, pangapsumnida Jung, JS! (Sorry I don't have a system which will make it easy for me to type in Hangul)

I speak English, Korean, a little Japanese, some German, and now a little bit of Spanish.

Hello

Anyang Hashimnika!

Konichiwa

Wie gehts es Ihnen?

Hola

updated Dec 29, 2010
edited by wansell
posted by wansell
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"Hello World!". . .I think there are enough people here that know what language this means wink

updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by lorenzo9
I'm not sure....would that be C or C++ or Python or... (or are all programming languages merely dialectic variations of one another?) - Izanoni1, Dec 29, 2010
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English, a bit of Latin, French, German and Chinese

Latin: Salv?! (Salvete! if more than one person) - literally "Good health to you"

French: Bonjour

German: Guten Morgen (spelling may be off–it's been a while since I've practiced)

Chinese: z?o shang h?o (I believe this is correct, but again, it's been a while)

updated Dec 29, 2010
posted by Izanoni1