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crackedpleasures
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19 Oct 2007, 3:58 pm

I always found learning new languages very pleasant. I hated school but learning languages is something I love, my ONLY form of education I actually enjoy. From my experience in meeting other aspies I have the idea many of them are quite good with words.

What languages do you speak somewhat fluently? And what languages do you plan to learn someday?



I speak 4 languages myself. Dutch (native language), English (native speaker level), French (advanced level) and German (advanced level). I also worked in all of those languages.

Although Dutch is my native tongue, I write poetry exclusively in English. I tend to think in Dutch (but switch to English very easily when speaking to a foreigner) but when it comes to my artistic creativity I use English all the time.

I would love to learn Hebrew and Norwegian to improve my chances of finding a job in Norway or Israel (countries of my dreams). I would also love to learn some Arabic at some point but learning Norsk or Ivrit (Hebrew) would be priority for me because of my emigration desires.

So far I speak 4 languages. I used to speak some Spanish but I forgot most of it due to a lack of people to speak it with.


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19 Oct 2007, 4:03 pm

My native language is English, and I know quite a bit of Spanish and French.

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19 Oct 2007, 4:50 pm

I know English and backwards. Pig latin too.



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19 Oct 2007, 5:35 pm

2, Spanish and English.



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19 Oct 2007, 5:42 pm

german (native), english, latin and im supposed to know french. but that didnt really stick with me. i quite developed an aversion against this language.
im going to start learning arabic this term.



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19 Oct 2007, 5:57 pm

One. I'm ignorant and proud, me. ;)



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19 Oct 2007, 5:59 pm

Tequila wrote:
One. I'm ignorant and proud, me. ;)


Same here. Can anyone guess what it is? :lol:


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19 Oct 2007, 6:01 pm

My native language is spanish, and I can speak english too.

I would like to learn more languages, for example german, japanese and latin. But my parents don't supportme :(



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19 Oct 2007, 6:07 pm

I only speak chinese



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19 Oct 2007, 6:50 pm

I speak my native Swedish, and English at what I'd presume to be native level.


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19 Oct 2007, 11:01 pm

I speak spanish (mi native language) and english, so that would make two.



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20 Oct 2007, 1:38 am

English
Passable Spanish for working in a hospital lab
I took two Japanese classes with my daughter (her favorite subject), but promptly forgot it all
I self-studied Vietnamese way back in the 80's but didn't get too far
I took a class in Athabaskan while going to UAF (university of alaska at fairbanks)
German in high school (we did plays, sang songs, talked about school and travel... in german), but I can't remember much anymore

I would like to learn: French, fluent Spanish, Farsi, and Tuvan


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20 Oct 2007, 1:45 am

I speak English and I know a few words in German.



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20 Oct 2007, 2:43 am

1

English was hard enough, I'm not going through that again.



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20 Oct 2007, 5:33 am

2,English and workable French.
One of my interests is the study of words and names so I know the meanings of a lot of them
in various languages,although I can't necessarily string sentences together.


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20 Oct 2007, 5:42 am

2 english and the language of love :wink:


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