What languages can us CCers speak?

[Ivo]

Little bit of Dutch and a little bit of Esperanto.
I can get tea, coffee and beer in French and Spanish. I have a bit of English too

Ah, bone vidi alian esperantiston cxi tie.

I grew up trilingual (Limburgic, German, Dutch), later learned English and French at school. Esperanto in a language course. I learned (and forgot) Lithuanian when I studied there and later learned basic Russian.
Besides that I can read/understand Luxemburgic and Afrikaans.

 

[Ivo]

[QUOTE 4836411, member: 21629"]Correct, my Russian is very good. I speak, read and write with no problem at all.
Lithuanian is my native language. But it's horribly difficult so don't try to learn it. Useless anyway.
Polish. Never learnt it with a purpose so speaking is basic, understanding - good, reading - mostly understand.

For people who try to tell me that Lithuanian and Russian are the same language I answer "they are, the same as English and Russian".[/QUOTE]

It's possible to learn Lithuanian, it just takes some time. But it's hard not to forget it as there are only very few ways of practicing it.
That said, learning Lithuanian is a lot easier if you already know a tonal language.

 

[arranandy]

Learning Dutch at the moment.....heel moeilijk

 

[nickyboy]

I spent the day with a Chinese family today, two of whom spoke no English

I now realise my Mandarin has gone badly downhill from "conversational" to "remedial"

 

[Saluki]

Ah, bone vidi alian esperantiston cxi tie.

I grew up trilingual (Limburgic, German, Dutch), later learned English and French at school. Esperanto in a language course. I learned (and forgot) Lithuanian when I studied there and later learned basic Russian.
Besides that I can read/understand Luxemburgic and Afrikaans.

Mi estas komencanto kaj iom riĉa ĉe la minuto. Tamen mi ŝatas paroli Esperanton.

 

[Ivo]

Mi estas komencanto kaj iom riĉa ĉe la minuto. Tamen mi ŝatas paroli Esperanton.

Por diskuti pri bicikloj kaj biciklado en Esperanto ni havas diversajn lokojn en la reto, la BEMI listo sur Yahoogroups kaj la BEMI grupo en Vizagxlibro.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I got A grades in my French and German A/S levels circa 1994. I got C in my Latin O level, 1983. I studied Italian in evening class for it might have been two or three years. I studied tape courses in Dutch, Spanish and Serbo-Croat. Most recently, I studied Japanese in evening class, as I worked for a Japanese company. I received two certificates for perfect attendance, which I can't actually read. I can just about make out my name ツ

 

[swee'pea99]

Most recently, I studied Japanese in evening class, as I worked for a Japanese company. I received two certificates for perfect attendance, which I can't actually read.

Ah so.

 

[Dave7]

English (badly) and Scouse

 

[KEEF]

gobbledygook

 

[alecstilleyedye]

'o' level french and german, enough to get by with gestures

phrasebook italian, enough to order beer, wine and coffee

currently doing an online course in welsh… nos da…

 

[StuAff]

Apart from the native tongue, French (GCSE but still passes muster), a little German, a little less Czech, a few words of Polish, and one phrase in Cantonese I couldn't use in polite conversation.