What is your favourite language? How many languages can you speak?
By pumpkinjam
@pumpkinjam (8539)
United Kingdom
October 25, 2006 3:09pm CST
Do you know more than one language? Do you like your own language? I love English because it's so complicated! I like learning any language but I don't know a lot of any. I love German because it's got such long words and I like Japanese even though I can only say "hello" !
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@tmnjyk (3486)
• Canada
6 Nov 06
Ah, Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines. But we have about 86 dialects which is completely different with the Tagalog. Even "us" Filipinos, we couldn't understand each other if we go to somewhere else than our city/town. Like myself, I lived in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines, and we speak Waray-waray, and if I travel to Cebu about 4 hours from us, Cebuanos can't understand us waray waray, so we have to switch to speak Tagalog, our national language.
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@tmnjyk (3486)
• Canada
6 Nov 06
Although, we have completely different dialects in the Philippines, All filipinos know how to speak Tagalog, that's what binds us. I had a bf before whose dialect was Ilocano, everytime he visits me, and talk to my family, he needed to speak Tagalog because all of us can't understand Ilocano, Ilocano and Waray waray are completely different dialects. I remember when he was on the phone talking with someone else I couldn't even tell if it was "another woman" and what they were talking about. I didn't had the clue. All I understood was Hello, and Bye.
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@pumpkinjam (8539)
• United Kingdom
7 Nov 06
Oh, I see. In England, there are loads of different dialects and I can't understand some but most of them aren't too bad because the main stuff is basically similar apart from the accent(but some accents are almost as impossible to understand than another language even though they're using the same words!)We don't really have a dialect which everyone can or does use, I think "Queen's English" is the one most people can understand but no one actually speaks like that unless they've been taught professionally!
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@pumpkinjam (8539)
• United Kingdom
6 Nov 06
That's cool. But are the dialects actually classed as different languages? And what is Tagalog? I keep seeing it but I've never heard of it before.
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@rajeshbabu (762)
• India
21 Nov 06
i can speak hindhi english an dtelugu my mother tounge
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@jonastabuena (2307)
• Philippines
21 Nov 06
I'm a Filipino, my fav. language is my own language "tagalog".. but i can speak english to...
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@ferrett487 (204)
• United States
8 Nov 06
I'm tri-langual. I speak English, German and Spanish. Main language is English. Learned German and Spanish in school.
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@dorypanda (1601)
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30 Oct 06
I like English, I know I'm very clever because I learnt to speak English from when I was a baby, some people think it's not that clever because I am actually English. I like the Japanese and Chines languages, I just like hearing it, I have no idea what they're saying, but it sounds nice. :)
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@dorypanda (1601)
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30 Oct 06
Oh and as I'm Dory, I also speak whale. :)
And Dory/Omi language.
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@wwwShyBodyJewelrycom (916)
• United States
4 Nov 06
Well I only speak English so I'm not much help with this one. But I think it would be rather neat to speak Italian cause everything they say sounds so romantic. lol Maybe French too for the same reason. :)
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@cranehuang (682)
• China
21 Nov 06
What is your favourite language? How many languages can you speak
Do you know more than one language? Do you like your own language? I love English because it's so complicated! I like learning any language but I don't know a lot of any. I love German because it's got such long words and I like Japanese even though I can only say "hello"!
i can speak three language..
@leomar297 (619)
• France
24 Nov 06
My favourite language is my mother one, french. I like speaking english too because it's a language easier to learn than french.
@pumpkinjam (8539)
• United Kingdom
21 Nov 06
You mean you believe only South aSians can speak more than 5 languages? I know that's not true as I know several English people who can speak more than that.
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@easy888 (10405)
• Australia
7 Jun 07
Hello,pumpkinjam,i can only speak english ,I like it as i cannot communicate with other people without it.I have also tried to learn other languages before but i forgot them not long after i learned some new words,I also like German because it is even more complicated than english,especially the 'des'and 'da'stuff in german. May be i got confused with those stuffs and could not remember them.
How do you learn german and japanese?
