LoR Language Exchange!

[FatStupidAmerican]

For those of you who frequent LoR some of you may have witnessed AJH and I bitching about our Spanish class.

It dawned on me that LoR is pretty diverse and like has a lot of members who speak varying languages. This could be a good place for people to meet other people and practice whatever languages they are learning.

If you see someone on here you'd like to practice with, send them a PM and work something out I guess?

Shall we give this a try?

Primary language - English

Semi fluent - Cantonese

language I am studying - Spanish

 

[nasher168]

Primary language: English

Can speak a bit of but not hold a fluent conversation in: German


I took German to GCSE level (main qualification between ages 14-16) and got a grade B, but APPARENTLY real Germans don't only talk about their holidays and which direction they wish to go in, so I guess I can't use it much in practice . That said, I can understand the general gist of almost anything written in German, so it has it's uses every now and again.

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

My primary languange is Portuguese, there is only a problem, Portuguese is a dificult language and I am dislexic, so you are better of without me, but in lack of better option I can give a hand.

 

[Inferno]

Fluent: German, English, French (In order)
Speaking just enough to not die if I get lost in the country: Spanish, Italian, Swedish

 

[Anachronous Rex]

Primary: English
Secondary: None

I have studied German and Japanese with very limited success, and spent two semesters on 5th Century BC Attic Greek in College (for the record, don't ever do that.)

For my next attempt I plan to learn Farsi.

 

[Jotto999]

English and French. Though my French is undoubtedly getting rusty, I haven't used it much in a while. I found a simple way to help combat this; I set my alarm clock to play a French station on the radio, so I hear it every morning. It helps.

 

[SpaceCDT]

Primary: English
Learning: Polish

 

[televator]

My primary language is now English, but the first language I learned was Spanish. I started becoming fluent and dependent in English after 5th grade.

I have no accent in either as a result....not that it would come through on a text forum.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

Primary languages: English and Dutch.
Secondary languages: German
EDIT: Although I cannot speak these languages any more, I once took spanish french and japanese.

 

[Your Funny Uncle]

Primary language: English
Fluent second languages: French and Spanish (I have a degree in Modern Languages specialising in those two.)
I also speak/read a little German remembered from school (I got an A grade GCSE 20 years ago next August!) It's not really enough to hold a conversation, though, as I discovered on a recent trip to Hanover.

Speaking French and Spanish means I can often get the gist of other romance languages like Portuguese and Italian, especially when written down. I also know a few words of Flemish/Dutch due to my paternal grandmother being Beligian but I've no formal education beyond those languages mentioned above.

 

[sgrunterundt]

Primary language: Danish
Fluent: English
Once close to useful, now nearly forgotten: French

 

[Dustnite]

Primary: English

Fluent: Spanish, Italian, Russian, Farci, Mandarin

Conversational: Cantonese, Japanese, German, Two dialects in Russian Georgia, Arabic

I use to travel quite a bit..

 

[Gnomesmusher]

Wow, I see two people who can speak Cantonese, awesome.


Primary: English

Conversational: Cantonese

Learning: Russian and French.

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

I tought it was quite obvious that everyone here can at least speak something on english, otherwise you woldn't be here.

 

[Jotto999]

I tought it was quite obvious that everyone here can at least speak something on english, otherwise you woldn't be here.

I dunno, we're on the internet after all, lots of people seem to not even be fluent in English.

Hehehe naw I'm just kidding, I don't disagree with you. I just hate the popularity of "leet speak".

 

[Cephei]

Fluent: Norwegian, English

Learning Spanish, can understand / make myself understandable in Danish, Swedish, some German.

 

[MRaverz]

Primary language: English

Can speak a bit of but not hold a fluent conversation in: German


I took German to GCSE level (main qualification between ages 14-16) and got a grade B, but APPARENTLY real Germans don't only talk about their holidays and which direction they wish to go in, so I guess I can't use it much in practice . That said, I can understand the general gist of almost anything written in German, so it has it's uses every now and again.

This.

Plus 'fuck your mother' in Chinese. =]

 

[MRaverz]

Primary: English
Learning: Polish

Ahh Czesc, jak sie masz!

I heard that saying something which sounds a bit like 'ya, piere dollar' is a tad rude.

 

[KristoffDoe]

Primary / native speaker - Polish.
Fluent(-ish) - English.
Very basic - Russian, German.

I heard that saying something which sounds a bit like 'ya, piere dollar' is a tad rude.

It's rude but not directed at anyone, more like an rude expression of very strong emotion (eg. annoyance, resignation), so it's not that bad. In terms of strength and meaning it's something like "for fucks sake".

 

[MRaverz]

Primary / native speaker - Polish.
Fluent(-ish) - English.
Very basic - Russian, German.

I heard that saying something which sounds a bit like 'ya, piere dollar' is a tad rude.

It's rude but not directed at anyone, more like an rude expression of very strong emotion (eg. annoyance, resignation), so it's not that bad. In terms of strength and meaning it's something like "for fucks sake".

Ahh, that makes sense in the context I keep hearing it in.