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Redway
14-05-2015, 05:35 PM
Can you speak two or more languages or not? If you can, which ones?

Ninastar
14-05-2015, 05:52 PM
im fluent in Cunnilingus

Samuel.
14-05-2015, 05:56 PM
On and off attempts at learning German but I'm a long way away

Crimson Dynamo
14-05-2015, 05:58 PM
speak foreign?

you must be joking

Jessica.
14-05-2015, 06:01 PM
I know some German and Irish. I'm learning Portuguese.

Crimson Dynamo
14-05-2015, 06:04 PM
i might add that i do, ahem, speak the language of Lurve

:creep:

MTVN
14-05-2015, 06:08 PM
GCSE B in Spanish and French :dazzler:

Z
16-05-2015, 11:46 AM
I have a degree in German and spent some time in Russia on a language course

Crimson Dynamo
16-05-2015, 12:14 PM
I have a degree in German and spent some time in Russia on a language course

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HR Director
Lidl

Kizzy
16-05-2015, 01:15 PM
None but think that they should be on the syllabus from primary.

Crimson Dynamo
16-05-2015, 01:17 PM
None but think that they should be on the syllabus from primary.

why?

we speak a language that everyone speaks (or wants to) so we could concentrate on other things of more importance

Kizzy
16-05-2015, 01:51 PM
It broadens peoples horizons giving our yoof the chance to look beyond this godforsaken island.

T*
16-05-2015, 01:51 PM
I can read french and some spanish but not speak it

Daniel-X
16-05-2015, 03:21 PM
I got an A in my GCSE French.

I clicked Spanish also by accident

jennyjuniper
16-05-2015, 03:26 PM
I can speak Danish, read Swedish and understand Norwegian. I used to speak quite a lot of Greek when I worked on a Greek cruise ship, but I've forgotten most of it. However as the lifeboat drills were always spoken in Greek first, I've never forgotten the phrases 'All crew to lifeboats' and 'All crew abandon ship'.
I would like to learn Spanish as it's a beautiful sounding language and also latin, because one day I might find myself in the Vatican archives!! Well I can dream can't I?

AYLA
18-05-2015, 10:40 PM
i speak/read/write fluently in english & turkish & i know enough german to get by :)

RichardG
18-05-2015, 10:51 PM
English, and like 10 korean words :joker:

Josy
18-05-2015, 10:52 PM
Spanish

andybigbro
18-05-2015, 11:26 PM
None just english.

I did German at school but I don't know anything near enough to class as me knowing the language :laugh:

bots
18-05-2015, 11:53 PM
Passable Russian, pigeon Spanish and Allo Allo level French

Z
20-05-2015, 04:34 PM
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Yolanda Squatpump
HR Director
Lidl

I'll have you know I have a job at a well known energy company that rhymes with Snottish Shower

Z
20-05-2015, 04:42 PM
I'm of the opinion that we should be taught grammar classes from a young age so that 1) we don't have a nation full of morons who can't spell and 2) that if, when you're a little older (teens, early 20s) you fancy learning a foreign language, it isn't a total wasteland of grammar rules that are totally alien. It would make language learning so much easier and it would mean that kids aren't forced into studying French and/or German (which is clearly based on 1900s logic of what's important in the world) at the age of 12 with little to no understanding of what they're supposed to be learning - most language teaching is basically just repetition exercises so that kids learn how to pass exams, not actually think about the construction of the sentences they're trying to form.

Ninastar
20-05-2015, 05:04 PM
I'm of the opinion that we should be taught grammar classes from a young age so that 1) we don't have a nation full of morons who can't spell and 2) that if, when you're a little older (teens, early 20s) you fancy learning a foreign language, it isn't a total wasteland of grammar rules that are totally alien. It would make language learning so much easier and it would mean that kids aren't forced into studying French and/or German (which is clearly based on 1900s logic of what's important in the world) at the age of 12 with little to no understanding of what they're supposed to be learning - most language teaching is basically just repetition exercises so that kids learn how to pass exams, not actually think about the construction of the sentences they're trying to form.

Agreed!