Languages! What languages

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Languages! What languages

Languages! What languages (other than English, obviously!) do people here speak? I speak some French, and I'm fluent in Turkish. Just interested...

submitted by Wolfgang, age 13,
(March 29, 2009 - 10:03 am)

Cool! I've only flown to Texas by myself. It was fun; Germany sounds much cooler though!!

submitted by Wolfgang, age 13
(April 1, 2009 - 9:18 am)

LUCKY! I've NEVER been across the ocean! What's Germany like? Is it pretty? I would really want to know! Also, is German hard? My grandma is German, and I'm trying to get her to teach me!

submitted by Maggie S.`, age 13, St. Paul, MN :D
(April 1, 2009 - 9:30 am)

No, it's not really that hard. Me and Martia are studying German because we want to go to Vienna and learn from all the great musicians there!!!! But, Japanese is a lot harder. When my mom thinks I'm old enough, she says that I can go and stay with my aunt in Japan for a while!!!!

submitted by Jenni T, age 12, Nowhere
(April 1, 2009 - 1:30 pm)

What instrument do you play?

submitted by Aliza, age 13, Vermont
(April 12, 2009 - 1:07 pm)

I know a good chunk of Spanish, a large amount of sign language, a small amount of Dutch, a very small amount of French, an even smaller amount of German (I can count to ten and say "I want a big sausage and a beer" among a few other phrases) and an extremely tiny amount of Italian.

 

Wow, that was all one sentence!

submitted by Brynne, age 13, A magic carpet
(April 1, 2009 - 2:06 pm)

I'm on at the same time as Brynne!!! Well, actually, that was four minutes ago, but still! :D

submitted by Paige
(April 1, 2009 - 2:14 pm)

Cool! Now I'm on with you!

submitted by Brynne, age 13, A magic carpet
(April 2, 2009 - 11:12 am)

I know some phrases in Español, and my mom used to be fluent in German, and I can speak double pig Latin! (humelumlumo dumudume) But other than than, nothing else besides English. 

submitted by Willa
(April 3, 2009 - 8:24 pm)

COOOOOOL! :):):) Just never heard of it... hehe :):P Anyways, I remember most of the sign language from what my teacher taught me two years ago, but GUESS WHAT! I'm going to be tutored starting next Thursday! yay!  

submitted by Maggie S. ∞ , age 13, St. Paul, MN :D
(April 4, 2009 - 5:23 pm)

I know some spanish (I'm learning it).  Some latin, the only word I know though is what earth means.  Some french.  My aunt speaks rushian or something (She lived in Kanzakastan for a little bit).  And I am still learning a little english.

submitted by Meadow, age 11, IL
(April 6, 2009 - 11:06 am)

You're learning A LITTLE English? Your English is pretty fluent from what I've seen...

submitted by Lena G, age 11
(April 7, 2009 - 10:58 am)

Spanish. And I also like to study the Elvish languages, which JRR Tolkien made up to go with his mythos. Actually, they say he made the languages first and then made up Middle-earth to have somewhere where people spoke them. And yes, there's more than one kind of Elvish. I speak Sindarin, as much as it can be spoken (the pronunciation is easy, but there's lots of words that just don't exist - very frustrating). And yes, "Falmiriel" is Elvish. It means "foam-jewel."

submitted by Falmiriel
(April 7, 2009 - 6:03 pm)

I can speak a lot of French. (My grandma was a French teacher.) You can speak Turkish? Wow!!! Smile

submitted by Ema , age 11, NY
(April 12, 2009 - 7:33 am)

I'm learning French right now. Au revoir!

submitted by Aliza, age 13, Vermont
(April 12, 2009 - 1:12 pm)