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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak
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 Posted - 2010-12-30 : 12:19:14
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How many languages do you folks know? I mean spoken/written languages, not computer languages.I think webfred knows a bunch.I know only English  |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-30 : 13:37:25
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| French at school for donkey's years. I can order a beer and say "I love you" with some conviction though.I lived in Japan for a couple of years, was fluent in that but now a bit rusty.Latin? Does that count? Complete waste of time IMHO. How often do you feel the need to say "On the way to the forum I ..." ?Did German at night school - didn't stick it though. I have bought self-teach books on Arabic and all sorts ... I should have listened to my school teachers who always reported that I was hopeless at languages (they were wrong about Basic, C, C++, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, AWK and others ... :) ) |
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Sachin.Nand
2937 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-30 : 23:57:24
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| I can read and write 3(English,Marathi,Hindi) and can speak Farsi and can understand Turkish.Thinking of learning Chinese also.PBUH |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
3385 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 00:57:10
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| English just aboutPassable Australian and American.Lived in a number of countries and learnt how to speak english to the natives - and order beer.==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.SSIS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator
22864 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 04:32:39
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| Tamil,English (Speak,read and write) and Telugu (Speak). I can understand little bit of Malayalam too.MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail |
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Sachin.Nand
2937 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 04:34:51
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Originally posted by madhivanan
Tamil,English (Speak,read and write) and Telugu (Speak). I can understand little bit of Malayalam too.MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail
No Hindi ???  PBUH |
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GilaMonster
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
4507 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 04:54:06
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| English, Afrikaans (poorly), couple words of Zulu (I can greet someone politely) and about the same amount of French.--Gail ShawSQL Server MVP |
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Sachin.Nand
2937 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 05:06:17
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| I thought Zulu and Afrikaans are one and the same.PBUH |
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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator
22864 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 05:11:38
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Originally posted by Sachin.Nand
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Originally posted by madhivanan
Tamil,English (Speak,read and write) and Telugu (Speak). I can understand little bit of Malayalam too.MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail
No Hindi ??? PBUH
Not yet  MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail |
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GilaMonster
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
4507 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 08:09:38
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Originally posted by Sachin.Nand
I thought Zulu and Afrikaans are one and the same.
They're probably about as similar as French and Hindi.Afrikaans is a mix of dutch, french and touches of other European languages spoken by the White settlers to South Africa. Zulu (or more correctly isiZulu) is the language spoken by the original inhabitants of the Kwazulu-Natal region--Gail ShawSQL Server MVP |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
11752 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 09:40:04
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Slovenian (of course  ), Croatian, Serbian, English, passable German...although Croatian and Serbian are very similar so if you know one you most likely know the other.___________________________________________________________________________Causing trouble since 1980Blog: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenpSpeed up SSMS development: www.ssmstoolspack.com <- version 1.9 out!SQL Server MVP |
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
30421 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 09:51:04
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Danish, English, French, German, Norwegian and Swedish.Does Morse and Braille count?
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webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
8781 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 10:26:39
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German, English, French (never used though so it is very rusty)Italian, Greek and so on only what I need in a restaurant  English takes you everywhere
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Jim Beam
Posting Yak Master
137 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 13:11:17
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Originally posted by webfred
German, English, French (never used though so it is very rusty)Italian, Greek and so on only what I need in a restaurant English takes you everywhere
It pretty much does, also I'm fairly good at German and nearly fluent in French. Also know a few words of Afrikaans, partly due to the volume of Saffer's here and partly the similarity between Dutch, it's root language, and German. |
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nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
3385 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 15:03:51
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Originally posted by PesoDoes Morse and Braille count?
Think they're joining Latin.Talking books are wiping out Braille.Did you get a pilots/radio license long ago?==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.SSIS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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GilaMonster
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
4507 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 15:25:33
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Originally posted by webfred
English takes you everywhere
Try in Bangkok. When I was there a few years back virtually no one outside the tourist industry (hotel staff, tourist police) spoke a word of English.--Gail ShawSQL Server MVP |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
15732 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 16:23:58
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| English natively. 3 years of Spanish in high school, 3 semesters of German in college. I can read both and usually figure out about 30-50% of it, but can't listen at conversational speed or speak them very well.I tried to learn a little Icelandic for my trip back in 2009, but it's IMPOSSIBLE, and all but 4 people in Iceland speak English (so far as I met) and about 50% of the population speak English better than I do. |
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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak
5072 Posts |
Posted - 2010-12-31 : 18:53:59
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Very impressive.I always wanted to learn many languages, and because of laziness I suppose, never did really. At one time I could understand most of what I heard in Greek, but speak very little.Also could understand a little Spanish, but not much. One year of college Spanish -- which by the way, was probably the most fun class I had, which surprised me very much.Seems to me that (in very general terms) Americans tend to speak only English while Europeans, Africans and Asians speak several.When I was in the Marines stationed overseas, most guys (Americans) fell into one of 3 groups: (1) drinkers (2) gym rats (3) guys that immersed themselves in learning the local cultures and languages. I was #1 for a couple of months before that got old, then I fell into the 2nd group lol.  |
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nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
3385 Posts |
Posted - 2011-01-01 : 04:34:32
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| >> Seems to me that (in very general terms) Americans tend to speak only English while Europeans, Africans and Asians speak several.Glad you realise that Europe isn't really part of England (and vice-versa).==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.SSIS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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