What languages can us CCers speak?

[raleighnut]

I can swear in Finnish quite well.

 

[robjh]

Good French and German, followed by fair Italian. Spanish and Portuguese.
With a bit of a refresher I could get by in basic fashion in Romanian, Greek, Polish and mandarin Chinese.
Other ones that I've learnt for travel in the past and managed to use a bit would include Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Russian, a sort of mishmash resemblimg Serbo-Croat, v simple Hungarian, Swedish and Turkish, but I wouldn't claim to 'know' these any more. I tried Arabic but was abysmal.

 

[John the Monkey]

Passable French (school, plus top ups via Duolingo, which reckons I'm 56% fluent and daily reading of Liberation)
Beginners Dutch
Beginners Welsh
Beginners Italian
Very, very early stages of learning Polish, which I'm finding very challenging.

 

[Blue]

English.
Modern Greek.
A few, very basic, words and phrases in French and Russian.

I like to sing karaoke and sing many songs in Greek when in Cyprus. I have found learning and personally translating the Greek songs useful in relation to learning the language.

 

[Salad Dodger]

French, enough to get basic shopping and ask directions, and such like.

I also did O level German, but I have only had to use that once, trying to help a German couple at a motorbike meeting at Brands Hatch.

 

[steveindenmark]

I wonder if we can at least cover all the European languages between us?

My French is pathetic and I can say "I Love You" in half a dozen languages which was useful on foreign holidays in my earlier years

I speak OKish Mandarin Chinese as I used to live there and I go there a lot for business. Not brilliant but enough to get by on a day to day basis

So how much of the World can we cover?

And here's the list of what we've got at a "passable" level

Irish Gaelic
Italian
French
German
Tongan (!!!)
Mandarin Chinese
Spanish
Portugese

Danish

 

[Tin Pot]

Brazilian Portuguese
French

 

[jhawk]

South-West Englander here -- coastal too, take that for what you will.

Speak fluent English, surprisingly.

Other than that, am currently learning Arabic. Very complicated language and I'm struggling.

 

[smutchin]

Apart from Engish...

French - reasonably fluent but not as fluent as I should be considering I have a degree in French
German - studied it up to A-level but couldn't hold a conversation in German these days
Italian - did an intensive one-year course at uni, supposedly up to A-level standard, but not really

Beyond that, nothing more than a few words and phrases in other languages

 

[gavroche]

Fluent in French and English.

 

[raleighnut]

My swearing is not advanced. Nothing beyond "perkele!"

Most textbooks lack a section on swearing. Back when I was studying French I had a book on idiomatic and sweary french

Just start the expletive with 'haiska' then add any one of several words

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj-gPfhi7HUAhXMLFAKHVvKB6wQFggoMAA&url=http://eudict.com/?lang=fineng&word=haiska%20paska%20kusip%C3%A4%C3%A4&usg=AFQjCNGpB81BoRHAvZuuGxFDFslC-VZxKA

Paska is a good un but 'Vittu' works well also

 

[raleighnut]

Just start the expletive with 'haiska' then add any one of several words

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj-gPfhi7HUAhXMLFAKHVvKB6wQFggoMAA&url=http://eudict.com/?lang=fineng&word=haiska%20paska%20kusip%C3%A4%C3%A4&usg=AFQjCNGpB81BoRHAvZuuGxFDFslC-VZxKA

Paska is a good un but 'Vittu' works well also

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...fwISDk&usg=AFQjCNHb8bZMVTgF3l_Jdy_74nocytxkIg

 

[raleighnut]

I dated a Finn for a while... the words I picked up were rude but not swearing as such....

Yeah, the women tend to swear more, apparently Finnish men are vittu's.

 

[nickyboy]

So we've got all the major Western European languages covered except Dutch (but I know there are some crazy Dutchies who post on CC) but a distinct paucity of Eastern European....no Polish, Russian

Tongan was a bit of a curve ball

 

[stephec]

"Deux Bacardis n coke por favor" is all you'll ever need.

Bacardi and coke, is one for your friend?