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- 27
Apart from Dutch, I can read/understand English, and read German (depends on the subject). A little bit of French & Saunders, but not enough to translate a whole text, so that doesn't count.
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- 5
Just German, English and a little Spanish.
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- 22
Fluent- English
Understand- Spanish
Tourist Level- German and French
Understand- Spanish
Tourist Level- German and French
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- 16
Swedish
English
Norwegian
Danish (if the danes speak slowly; reading Danish is no problem)
German (tourist level only)
I've read Spanish at school, but I can't remember much. Like, anything.
I've educated kids in French, even though I don't understand it. The trick is to be 1 chapter ahead of the pupils, and practice pronounciation.
But what annoys me is that my parents never taught me Meänkieli (a blend of Finnish/Swedish that is its own language). They speak it, but they thought bilingual children didn't learn their main language good enough. They are bilingual themselves. Now they use Meänkieli to speak to each other when they don't want me to understand.
English
Norwegian
Danish (if the danes speak slowly; reading Danish is no problem)
German (tourist level only)
I've read Spanish at school, but I can't remember much. Like, anything.
I've educated kids in French, even though I don't understand it. The trick is to be 1 chapter ahead of the pupils, and practice pronounciation.
But what annoys me is that my parents never taught me Meänkieli (a blend of Finnish/Swedish that is its own language). They speak it, but they thought bilingual children didn't learn their main language good enough. They are bilingual themselves. Now they use Meänkieli to speak to each other when they don't want me to understand.
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- 3
Fluent - English and Ulster-Scots.
Studied French and German at school but never really got much chance to practise them, apart from when I went to Switzerland in 1989, fell down a manhole in Interlaken, landed on a man's head and asked him the only full phrase I knew at that time: "Hast du Lust Durchfall zu haben?" - which means do you want to have diarrhoea?
Swami
Studied French and German at school but never really got much chance to practise them, apart from when I went to Switzerland in 1989, fell down a manhole in Interlaken, landed on a man's head and asked him the only full phrase I knew at that time: "Hast du Lust Durchfall zu haben?" - which means do you want to have diarrhoea?
Swami
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- 12
Like most Brits, just English
I can count to twenty in French lol
I can count to twenty in French lol
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- 39
English
schoolgirl french to A level and Latin to O level
Did Italian at night school for 2 years.
Forgotten most of it!!
schoolgirl french to A level and Latin to O level
Did Italian at night school for 2 years.
Forgotten most of it!!
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- 27
Latin! That was crazy stuff! And the teacher had us watch the mini-series "The Last Days Of Pompeii" - I think I was the only one who enjoyed it eventhough I had already seen it before on television.
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- 39
Latin helped with English and Italian, knock of the ending and its gives you a clue to the meaning of a word!!
Ecce Romani Books 1 - 4 as i recall
and Longmans Audio Visual french was the text book we used with Mr and Mrs Marsaud en famille
For at least a decade, which ended somewhere in the mid 1980s, all British schoolchildren were taught not just French, but Longman Audiovisual French, a cutting edge combo of green illustrated textbooks and ‘slide tape’, the technologically cumbersome combination of a strip of celluloid with pictures on, mounted onto an overhead projector and manually wound on from one picture to the next by the teacher at the sound of the ‘bing!’ on the narrative soundtrack played on a big old blocky cassette player with integrated speaker. Stars of this low-tech son et lumière were La Famille Marsaud, a rather starchy small town petit bourgeois nuclear unit, drawn in an appropriately stiff manner with lots of awkward sideways-on posing. Sadly, Les Marsaud never seemed to get up to the sort of racy activities The French were supposed to (at least, according to Tom O’Connor and BBC2 film seasons). Monsieur Marsaud was always dans le jardin, Madame Marsaud perpetually dans la cuisine. Scallywag son Jean-Paul was forever en retard pour l’ecole, and the Jane Birkinesque Marie-France spent a suspicious amount of time hanging around with Monsieur Lafayette, le facteur. Then there was Claudette, who, er… skipped a lot. Life in provincial France was, the hapless student couldn’t help but conclude during a long Thursday afternoon of ecoutez et repetez travail, rather dull.
TV
CREAM
SAYS:
NOW
OUT
OF
PRINT.
HELAS
Ecce Romani Books 1 - 4 as i recall
and Longmans Audio Visual french was the text book we used with Mr and Mrs Marsaud en famille
For at least a decade, which ended somewhere in the mid 1980s, all British schoolchildren were taught not just French, but Longman Audiovisual French, a cutting edge combo of green illustrated textbooks and ‘slide tape’, the technologically cumbersome combination of a strip of celluloid with pictures on, mounted onto an overhead projector and manually wound on from one picture to the next by the teacher at the sound of the ‘bing!’ on the narrative soundtrack played on a big old blocky cassette player with integrated speaker. Stars of this low-tech son et lumière were La Famille Marsaud, a rather starchy small town petit bourgeois nuclear unit, drawn in an appropriately stiff manner with lots of awkward sideways-on posing. Sadly, Les Marsaud never seemed to get up to the sort of racy activities The French were supposed to (at least, according to Tom O’Connor and BBC2 film seasons). Monsieur Marsaud was always dans le jardin, Madame Marsaud perpetually dans la cuisine. Scallywag son Jean-Paul was forever en retard pour l’ecole, and the Jane Birkinesque Marie-France spent a suspicious amount of time hanging around with Monsieur Lafayette, le facteur. Then there was Claudette, who, er… skipped a lot. Life in provincial France was, the hapless student couldn’t help but conclude during a long Thursday afternoon of ecoutez et repetez travail, rather dull.
TV
CREAM
SAYS:
NOW
OUT
OF
PRINT.
HELAS
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- 14
Shamefully only English. I did French for a few years at school but I hated my French teacher and so spent most of my time in her class being a sarcastic smartarse. I regret that now that I don't speak French and my favourite singer makes all of her best music in that language.
I think a second language should be taught in primary school as the younger you begin to study a language the more chance you will pick it up.
I think a second language should be taught in primary school as the younger you begin to study a language the more chance you will pick it up.
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- 25
English and Spanish. Can understand most of written French. Could get by in Swahili in my teens but I forget it all now.
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- 25
Did they teach Irish in your school Alexis?
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- 14
Shamefully no! They taught French, Spanish and German but you couldn't choose which one you took.
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- 25
Right, it only just occurred to me now that maybe it was a no no in the north, or if it depended on if your school was Catholic or Protestant? I never really though about it much before now.
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- 14
No, it was just my school's choice. I went to a Catholic school, they just didn't have Irish when I was there. I think they did when my older brother went though.
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- 14
K
Karin Schill
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My mother tongue is Swedish.
I think I am fluent in English.
Moreover I have studied German for 6 years so I understand it quite well and speak it with some difficulties.
I have also studied Italian for a half year.
Spanish for 1 year
and
French for 2 years.
I understand some things in Italian, Spanish and French, especially in writing, but I can't say I really speak any of those languages. I can only say a few words. Since unfortunately if you don't use a language regularly you'll forget it fast.
I think I am fluent in English.
Moreover I have studied German for 6 years so I understand it quite well and speak it with some difficulties.
I have also studied Italian for a half year.
Spanish for 1 year
and
French for 2 years.
I understand some things in Italian, Spanish and French, especially in writing, but I can't say I really speak any of those languages. I can only say a few words. Since unfortunately if you don't use a language regularly you'll forget it fast.