What languages can us CCers speak?

[Ratchet Cat]

I can speak French, German, English and a bit of Polish.

 

[SteveF]

Can swear in Maltese...

 

[John the Monkey]

[QUOTE 4836459, member: 259"]Not so much slipping as slupped.[/QUOTE]
Yu dudn't say yu spoke New Zealand, Mort.

 

[John the Monkey]

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

I'm learning Dutch (and did say so, old thing) and Polish at the moment.

 

[nickyboy]

By the look of things we're missing Welsh and a load of E European stuff like Ukranian, Czech, Slovak, Finnish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian

Gotta be a Welsh speaker on here?

 

[John the Monkey]

Gotta be a Welsh speaker on here?

I'm pretty sure there is at least one - I'm learning, but I remember someone chiding me for using the Northern form of one word in a post.

 

[NorthernDave]

Yorkshire
English
Conversational Cockney

I can just about scrape by in French or Spanish (book a hotel room, order food and drink, buy a train ticket and ask the way to the library - very useful that...) Un plato de huevos fritos might get a bit samey after a while though but at least I wouldn't starve...

And for some reason I know various swear words in German, Russian and Italian as well

 

[DRM]

Trying to improve my holiday French, fluent in Yorkshire & according to Mrs DRM gibberish, can translate a bit of Geordie too.

 

[nickyboy]

[QUOTE 4836681, member: 21629"]People who speak Russian can understand Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Belorussian. I had a friend from Ukraine and understood her very well.
I also understand Latvian - it's sister language of Lithuanian and very very similar.[/QUOTE]

Sounds like we're only missing the weird ones like Finnish and Hungarian then.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

The only language one ever needs is the Queen's English.

 

[sight-pin]

A little Spanish.....It's when they answer me back the trouble starts

 

[Donger]

I am comfortable with French and can speak broken German to get by. I was once flushed with pride at being able to stop a passing Italian and ask where the Roman arena was in very decent Italian (just about the only whole sentence I could muster). The pride immediately faded when he grabbed me by both shoulders and turned me round 180 degrees and jabbered something to the effect of "there it is mate" back at me.

Dutch is a weird one. Can't understand a word of it when spoken to me, but hand me a menu or show me a notice board and it just falls into place when reading it if you speak English and some German. Managed the basic tourist stuff in Holland last year but that's it..

 

[stephec]

Here's the only translation book you need.

 

[Welsh wheels]

English, A little Welsh and French. But only a little.

 

[Reynard]

French, German, Polish, plus a smattering of Flemish / Dutch, a few phrases of Finnish and likewise Russian.

Oh, and some Klingonese and Minbari.