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Researcher 168814 Posted Apr 12, 2001
Well, the German´s say "Deutsche Sprake, Schweere Sprake" Sometimes I think english is just as difficult, evan though I was brought up bilingual.
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Apr 12, 2001
OOOO... you lucky little thing you!!! 
What do you call someone who can speak three languages!!???
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Sergeant Mushroom Posted Apr 12, 2001
Er...trilingual?!
I speak french to. Apparently.
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Researcher 168814 Posted Apr 12, 2001
Yes, your right. And how many dialects? I guess in this case we are polylingual. I am just trying to learn dwarfish, so I can talk to my Pony at te F4 of YK and company...
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Sergeant Mushroom Posted Apr 12, 2001
I did do 18 hours of BSL, but can barely remember many of the signs
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Researcher 168814 Posted Apr 12, 2001
What´s BSL? You sometimes have to spell things in full to me, as I am out of England for far to long (never mind the fact, that I am not very likely to return )
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Apr 17, 2001
languages i have studies: french german latin russian japanese english
languages i can speak: french english
languages i can order beer in: french german english
not to boast. 
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ÅçïÐßåth© H2G2-you can check out but you'll never leave! Posted Apr 17, 2001
all here Mrs Abomeo knows BSL, she can swear at me when were not talking
for Mrs ab
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Researcher 168814 Posted Apr 18, 2001
I would like to say something everyone can understand. Something like Amen, Haleluja and
coca-cola...
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Sergeant Mushroom Posted Apr 18, 2001
Usually, we ignorant English can just point and say, "You understand English? I want two of those!"
We also treat foreigners as deaf and cretins. It gets on my wick.
What also annoys me is when I talk to a Frenchman in French, and he replies in English. Why bother?
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Researcher 168814 Posted Apr 18, 2001
We used to have a fungame as kids: When English tried to talk german to us (oh, du kannst Deutsch sprecken?) we´d answer in english, and Germans trying their english on us would get fluent German at their heads. That was fun...
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Apr 19, 2001
cool game...
What do you call someone who speaks ONE language!???
...coca-cola
NO!!! WRONG JOKE!!!! ... you call someone who speaks just ONE LANGUAGE....
An American.
Sadly true. Our d(*** school system should start music at age eight and foreign language at about age 6... b***********DS...!!!
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Sergeant Mushroom Posted Apr 19, 2001
I started learning French at 11 (properly, that is. Dad gave me the odd sentence before)
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Researcher 168814 Posted Apr 19, 2001
I´m bilingual. My dads english, Mums german. And you have to count the local dialects as a third language. Well, at least hearing, speaking is very much more difficult...
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Apr 20, 2001
talking of languages, i have some a level oral exams to get doing. mare. and hey, dragonfly, americans dont even speak english...
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Sergeant Mushroom Posted Apr 20, 2001
Prease UH, don't remind me...I've got a French one to carry on preparing...
*goes to hide in cupboard*
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Researcher 168814 Posted Apr 20, 2001
But you only just rescued me from that...(That´s a different forum of course...)
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Apr 21, 2001
I just thank God I decided not to continue with Russian. French and German are bad enough.
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