What languages can us CCers speak?

[Fnaar]

Spanish (very good)
Portuguese (good)
Catalan: good
Gallego: good
Italian: good
French: good
German: good
Dutch: beginner
Irish Gaelic: beginner

 

[alicat]

All the same as last time this thread was around, except that my French is beaucoup mieux, especially my use of gros mots.

 

[alicat]

Spanish (very good)
Portuguese (good)
Catalan: good
Gallego: good
Italian: good
French: good
German: good
Dutch: beginner
Irish Gaelic: beginner

Don't forget to add Double Entendre: excellent

 

[woodbutcher]

Je suis désolé mais je ne comprends pas la question Normal response l get when speaking French

 

[Tim Hall]

I used to travel to Norway a lot for work. I was in a meeting with a Big Cheese of the Norwegian lighthouse authority.
"Can you speak Norwegian, Tim?" he asked. Shamefacedly I had to admit I couldn't.
"It's very easy. Even our children can learn it."

 

[Globalti]

Fluent French, idiomatic Spanish, a few words of Italian. And Geordie.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I can swear in Chechewa.

Balance it out with this which is polite, (the only Chichewa I know). Love Malawians. How do you know this? Fascinated.

You: Muri banje? (How are you?)

Other: Ndiri bwino! (I am fine!)

Oh I also know: U chita chicane? (What are you doing?)

Paribe (Nothing)

EDIT: Actually I lie. The above is all Nyanja from Malawi, not Chichewa from Malawi and Zambia. Confucius reigns.

 

[alicat]

Je suis désolé mais je ne comprends pas la question Normal response l get when speaking French

That happens to me too!

I was in Romania the other week on a conservation working holiday. The Franco-Romanian landscape architect couldn't understand when I spoke English and claimed I had a strong accent. I switched to French and he could understand me even though my pronunciation is the worst part of my language skills. A mimic I am not. I didn't whether to be affronted at the aspersions he was casting on my ability to speak English clearly or be flattered that my French was good!

 

[accountantpete]

Yorkshire - which is a bit more than this guy


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMs5pLOT7J4

 

[swee'pea99]

O level French, but I've looked after it reasonably well. One of the very few times in my life I've seen stunned admiration in another person's eyes was on holiday when I ordered lunch for us all, then looked round to find my daughter, then maybe six, open-mouthed in awe: "How do you do that?" she said.

I can also sort of get by at a very basic level in Spanish and Italian - the main problem being I often get muddled and introduce words from the one into a stumbling conversation in t'other. Oh, and I know a few handy phrases in German, like achtung, donner und blitzen and for you, Tommy ze var is over.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Did French at school , I get by abroad aas most do..I think it's only polite to learn a few basic manners ..

Wife speaks a bit of German.
I'm fluent in Pigeon

 

[s7ephanie]

Bulls##t,
English
French basic
Greek basic

 

[stephec]

Spanish (very good)
Portuguese (good)
Catalan: good
Gallego: good
Italian: good
French: good
German: good
Dutch: beginner
Irish Gaelic: beginner

I expect that somebody already knows that you're a cunning linguist?

 

[User10119]

English and American, and bad at both of them.

They really aren't the same, are they? A few years back we went to visit some friends who were lving and working in New Jersey. I had a conversation with my kids while we were there about the fact that I could much more easily take them to Paris than to New York because at least in Paris I would speak the language.

So a few months later we went to France, stayed on a campsite in Versailles, to go and cheer some of our audaxing friends off on BPB. I discovered I was right - Paris and the Metro were miles easier than New York and the Subway. I also had a few experiences like this one:

One of the very few times in my life I've seen stunned admiration in another person's eyes was on holiday when I ordered lunch for us all, then looked round to find my daughter, then maybe six, open-mouthed in awe: "How do you do that?" she said.

My eldest finally saw that French wasn't just something they make you do at school when I was sorting out getting into out wooden cabin at 2am in the rain after massive Eurotunnnel delays and the journey from hell. And one of the tour guides on our Blue Bikes trip round the tourist hotspots of Paris nearly fell off his bike when I started chatting to his colleague in French. "But... but, you're ENGLISH?!?!?"

My degree was a joint major in French, and I lived over there on and off for a few years so got pretty handy at it. Well out of practice these days though; it takes a few days (or a couple of glasses of wine) for me to get any fluency back. I also have somewhat dusty GCSE level German.

 

[mickle]

Balance it out with this which is polite, (the only Chichewa I know). Love Malawians. How do you know this? Fascinated.

You: Muri banje? (How are you?)

Other: Ndiri bwino! (I am fine!)

Oh I also know: U chita chicane? (What are you doing?)

Paribe (Nothing)

EDIT: Actually I lie. The above is all Nyanja from Malawi, not Chichewa from Malawi and Zambia. Confucius reigns.

Zikomo kwambini Bambo!