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Post by fabbi on Oct 15, 2017 22:14:02 GMT 1
Alphabets I can read but don't speak that language - Farsi How on earth?
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Post by MaRtIn on Oct 16, 2017 6:04:40 GMT 1
FLUENT: Filipino - My mother tongue and lingua franca of the Philipines; I also know a very minor dialect called Rinconada, which is prevalent in my hometown. English - I learned it in both Philippines and USA starting from pre-school. PARTIALLY: Spanish (I learned Latin American Spanish; I'm sure Spanish from Spain has differences.) - I can basically read it, but communicating and listening is still something I need practice with. Italian - I went to Italy last summer and learned a few phrases. Flemish - I picked up a few Flemish phrases from my visit in Belgium. Mandarin Chinese - I only took a year's worth of classes, but I still remember certain greetings and symbols.
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Post by MaRtIn on Oct 16, 2017 6:06:19 GMT 1
(someone could do an Ancient Rome flag ^^)Latin - 8 years in school and now studying it in university Why not use Vatican City's flag? It's the only country today which has Latin as an official language.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 11:26:10 GMT 1
Alphabets I can read but don't speak that language - Farsi How on earth? When I was in hospital during a video telemetry test for my epilpesy, which is where you're connected to 30 or so wires measuring your brain activity and have to watched from someone outside your door for 24 hours across 5 days as they force away your medication, they realised that my brain was calming every time a health assistant from Poland and I were speaking in Polish to each other. So they got a PhD student from Iran to come to me to test how quickly it would take me to learn the Farsi alphabet and I learnt it in under 40 minutes. The next day they tested my memory because my epilepsy is in the temporal lobe which is where the human memory is and they gave me a random list of 15 words and said I had five chances to say them back in any order. I said them back in the exact same order first attempt. So for some unknown reason, I have a memory that I shouldn't be able to. Even a psychologist of 40 years experience was baffled and couldn't explain it.
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Post by Kenajabam on Oct 16, 2017 12:08:11 GMT 1
(someone could do an Ancient Rome flag ^^)Latin - 8 years in school and now studying it in university Why not use Vatican City's flag? It's the only country today which has Latin as an official language. Because classic Latin and church Latin have some differences. @thesirenscalling, how many characters does the Farsi alphabet have?
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Post by Matilda on Oct 16, 2017 12:16:01 GMT 1
Some languages I've dabbled in but know barely anything LuxembourgishThat awful moment when even foreigners speak more Luxembourgish than you
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 15:00:31 GMT 1
Kenajabam There's 32 in the Farsi alphabet. Four more than the Arabic alphabet, which the 28 originate. پ چ ژ گFrom top to bottom, peh, cheh, j(z)eh, ghaf. Their letter equivalents in the Latin script being p, ch, zh, g. MatildaI had a friend at university from Luxembourg, so instead of French or German, she used to teach me Luxembourgish phrases so we could communicate natively. Just basics like moien, bonjour, wéi geet et?, mir geet et gutt, merci, ganz gutt, gudde moien, gudde mëtteg, kann ech hëllefen?, schwätz du Lëtzebuergesch?, bis muer, ciao, awar! pardon, ech sinn hongereg ... etc
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Post by Queen of Mean (Inactive) on Oct 16, 2017 16:47:07 GMT 1
Mother tongue: German Fluent: English French (Fluent-ish) Alemannic German (local dialect of my hometown, can speak it pretty fluently) Understand: Swiss German (Can't speak it, but can understand and read it) Know a bit: Spanish (One year of courses, only a few phrases left)
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Post by fabbi on Oct 16, 2017 16:50:33 GMT 1
Understand: Swiss German (Can't speak it, but can understand and read it) Tbh. that's already a lot actually.
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Post by Queen of Mean (Inactive) on Oct 16, 2017 17:02:12 GMT 1
Understand: Swiss German (Can't speak it, but can understand and read it) Tbh. that's already a lot actually. It helps that I live in a village were basically everyone speaks a version of Alemannic German that is quite similar to Swiss German.
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