Language Poll

If you have some randomness to share that you can't post elsewhere, this is the place to do it.

How many language do You Speak/Read/Write?

American English/British English
111
33%
German
29
9%
Japanese
36
11%
Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc)
22
6%
Spanish
27
8%
Hindi
0
No votes
Arabic
11
3%
Turkish
1
0%
Portuguese
4
1%
Russian
6
2%
French
30
9%
Korean
4
1%
Vietnamese
4
1%
Italian
9
3%
Other (reply)
36
11%
Fillipino (5 votes already)
9
3%
 
Total votes: 339
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Re: Language Poll

Postby kei » February 14th, 2012, 10:03 pm

I speak Spanish, (British) English and Portuguese.
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Re: Language Poll

Postby Raiden » February 15th, 2012, 1:02 pm

Hmm. English, Danish, and Norwegian, I speak/read fluently.
I understand a handful of other languages, as in, I can read/understand it (somewhat anyway ^^;) but not speak it very well, or at all: Dutch, German, bit of french and Italian, oh and Swedish. :P
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Re: Language Poll

Postby KainTheVampire » February 15th, 2012, 1:20 pm

Raiden-sama wrote:Hmm. English, Danish, and Norwegian, I speak/read fluently.
I understand a handful of other languages, as in, I can read/understand it (somewhat anyway ^^;) but not speak it very well, or at all: Dutch, German, bit of french and Italian, oh and Swedish. :P

*now wondering where you are from* :o
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Re: Language Poll

Postby Callid » February 15th, 2012, 1:34 pm

KainTheVampire wrote:
Raiden-sama wrote:Hmm. English, Danish, and Norwegian, I speak/read fluently.
I understand a handful of other languages, as in, I can read/understand it (somewhat anyway ^^;) but not speak it very well, or at all: Dutch, German, bit of french and Italian, oh and Swedish. :P

*now wondering where you are from* :o
My guess is Denmark :P
Could also be Great Britain or another English-speaking country, but Denmark seems most likely.
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Re: Language Poll

Postby mangaluva » February 15th, 2012, 1:39 pm

Callid wrote:
KainTheVampire wrote:
Raiden-sama wrote:Hmm. English, Danish, and Norwegian, I speak/read fluently.
I understand a handful of other languages, as in, I can read/understand it (somewhat anyway ^^;) but not speak it very well, or at all: Dutch, German, bit of french and Italian, oh and Swedish. :P

*now wondering where you are from* :o
My guess is Denmark :P
Could also be Great Britain or another English-speaking country, but Denmark seems most likely.


I wouldn't say the UK, but probably somewhere in Northern Europe. Because the UK doesn't have any physical borders with other countries, we're rather embarrassingly heterolingual by European standards. Quite surprised when we went to Belgium and found out that people there speak an average of three or four languages due to all the different countries around them.
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Re: Language Poll

Postby nomemory » February 15th, 2012, 1:42 pm

I can speak and read Swedish and English, I can also somewhat understand German, Danish and Norwegian. But I'm not gonna count those last three as it would be stupid to claim full understanding of them.

Also: Raiden is from butterderper-land, so there, mystery solved :D
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Re: Language Poll

Postby Stopwatch » February 15th, 2012, 1:45 pm

mangaluva wrote:
Callid wrote:
KainTheVampire wrote:
Raiden-sama wrote:Hmm. English, Danish, and Norwegian, I speak/read fluently.
I understand a handful of other languages, as in, I can read/understand it (somewhat anyway ^^;) but not speak it very well, or at all: Dutch, German, bit of french and Italian, oh and Swedish. :P

*now wondering where you are from* :o
My guess is Denmark :P
Could also be Great Britain or another English-speaking country, but Denmark seems most likely.


I wouldn't say the UK, but probably somewhere in Northern Europe. Because the UK doesn't have any physical borders with other countries, we're rather embarrassingly heterolingual by European standards. Quite surprised when we went to Belgium and found out that people there speak an average of three or four languages due to all the different countries around them.

^I mean, quite a few of schools are now making taking another language compulsory, but it's not all, plus it's not like we have the chance to really go out and use them properly most of the time... :-\. Also, Raiden's timezone is GMT+1 iirc, and Britain is GMT so :-X

EDIT: RMed by nom, XD @ butterderper *looks for the link again*
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Re: Language Poll

Postby Aokochan » February 15th, 2012, 1:47 pm

nomemory wrote:Also: Raiden is from butterderper-land, so there, mystery solved :D

??? What does butterderper mean?
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Re: Language Poll

Postby Raiden » February 15th, 2012, 1:57 pm

@Kain: Denmark, just like Callid guessed at. ^^;

@Callid: Correct. =)
...not sure why your second guess would be Britain though, my English grammar flat out sucks.  So I wouldn't be able to see how that could be considered an option. :-[ XD

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Re: Language Poll

Postby Aokochan » February 15th, 2012, 2:02 pm

@Raiden: LOL xD Thanks for the explanation!
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Re: Language Poll

Postby nomemory » February 15th, 2012, 2:06 pm

@Raiden: Nah, it is pretty good, though you do make mistakes that make my inner grammar Roman itch D: But then again, if I just look at how bad some Sweds are at Swedish that mistake would be easy to make as I guess there are native English speakers that have way worse English than you do :)
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Re: Language Poll

Postby Callid » February 15th, 2012, 2:09 pm

Raiden-sama wrote:@Kain: Denmark, just like Callid guessed at. ^^;

@Callid: Correct. =)
...not sure why your second guess would be Britain though, my English grammar flat out sucks.  So I wouldn't be able to see how that could be considered an option. :-[ XD

I had made a similar deduction before, according to which it would have been an English-speaking country, but I considered that unlikely, as you speak many languages. Furthermore, most of these were Scandinavian ones, i.e. rather (sorry :P) unimportant ones, which, I figured, an American would never learn and anyone from the UK would be (very) unlikely to. So, ignoring English, Danish was the most logical choice for your native tongue, as I explained in that link.

So, basically, my entire deduction was solely from that post, which didn't have any grammar errors as far as I could tell XD
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Re: Language Poll

Postby Raiden » February 15th, 2012, 2:15 pm

Callid wrote:...most of these were Scandinavian ones, i.e. rather (sorry :P) unimportant ones...


>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

Germans are so mean, too! D:


Oh, and I listed English first on purpose to make it a little harder on the stalkers to narrow down my country. :p
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Re: Language Poll

Postby nomemory » February 15th, 2012, 2:18 pm

Raiden-sama wrote:
Callid wrote:...most of these were Scandinavian ones, i.e. rather (sorry :P) unimportant ones...


>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

Germans are so mean, too! D:




I know D: *clings to Raiden* :'(
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Re: Language Poll

Postby Dwalin » February 15th, 2012, 2:49 pm

English, Russian, Italian, also a little German.

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