Anyone on here speak any languages?

[Cian]

Irish, if I spent a week or two reading Foinse and watching the news on TG4 I'd probably be close to fluent (and this is despite getting off doing it in school)

A phrasebook and watching ST1/2 for a few weeks may dig up the Slovak I learnt when dating one of its native speakers; but have since forgotten. Never fluent.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Catalan is stupid and annoying. Each country should only be allowed one language.

There are Catalans who would agree with you, Caudillo.

From a very different political perspective, obviously.

NI FRANÇA NI ESPANYA PAïSOS CATALANS LLIURES I SOLIDARIS

 

[Sir Norman Gull]

French and a little bit of Mr Sheen (Polish)

 

[hart's shirt]

English, French, a little Italian (she was very nice), a few words of Arabic, and the language of love.

*avoids all cunning linguist jokes*

 

[Gwylan]

Catalan is stupid and annoying. Each country should only be allowed one language.

Excellent idea

Dim Saesneg yng Nghymru.

 

[Blackadder]

Ik ook

One interesting thing we found in Holland was the translation.

If you have time, have a look at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

and enter the English phrase ' you can '.........

As a result, when someone says you can, you know what the reply is !

 

[We're the Stripes]

Bad French (my accent's good but vocab, grammar and general application are fairly rubbish)
The odd word of German (zwei bier bitte, herr ober)
The occasional bit of holiday phrasebook Spanish
Several Welsh words.

So, the real answer to your question is - No, but I'm open to heroic failure.

 

[captainmorganrum]

Excellent idea
Dim Saesneg yng Nghymru.

Syniad dda brawd!

 

[pasty]

One interesting thing we found in Holland was the translation.

If you have time, have a look at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

and enter the English phrase ' you can '.........

As a result, when someone says you can, you know what the reply is !

Tee hee. I already know that one without looking. A lot of business letters start with those 2 words as well.

 

[Trufflehound]

One interesting thing we found in Holland was the translation.

If you have time, have a look at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

and enter the English phrase ' you can '.........

As a result, when someone says you can, you know what the reply is !

And how do you think Dutch people feel when they come to Britain and see "Cut 'n' blow dry" signs in hairdressers' windows...?



or "Pick 'n' mix" in Woolworths...?

 

[Dave the OAP]

i am fluent in talking bollocks

 

[SUUUUUUUPER Kev The Ape]

I'm fluent in David Pleat.

 

[Yoda]

poco italiano

I can understand more than I can talk.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Fluent German - couldn't speak a word of it when we moved there when I was six, but soon picked it up at school etc. I seem to have caught it young enough both to avoid having an English accent when speaking it and for it to have stayed put when I moved away aged 10. Plus conversational French which gets better when I've had a drink and/or fancy a French girl, both of which I do a lot.

I've found getting a cheap, non-Sky satellite dish and pointing it at Astra 19.2E is BRILLIANT for brushing up on languages btw.

 

[Gyuribá]

Hungarian

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Fluent German - couldn't speak a word of it when we moved there when I was six, but soon picked it up at school etc. I seem to have caught it young enough both to avoid having an English accent when speaking it and for it to have stayed put when I moved away aged 10.

What about when you've "had a drink and/or fancy a German girl"?

Are you hopelessly tongue-tied by the fact that your everyday experience in German came to a stop at the age of ten?

 

[Gully]

And how do you think Dutch people feel when they come to Britain and see "Cut 'n' blow dry" signs in hairdressers' windows...?



or "Pick 'n' mix" in Woolworths...?

Kut en Pik...Kont is yer arse!!!

What I found amusing was the variety of words they had for sex, a bit like English, some polite and some less so:

Samen fiestsen - cycle together
Samen naiien - sow together

...those were the more polite, if somewhat poetic, choices!

 

[Trufflehound]

What I found amusing was the variety of words they had for sex, a bit like English, some polite and some less so:

Samen fiestsen - cycle together
Samen naiien - sow together

...those were the more polite, if somewhat poetic, choices!

Bizarrest one is vrijen - "to free"... Never have quite worked that one out.

Best to stick to "neuken" methinks.

And best never to walk into a tobacco shop and ask anyone to "pipe" you...

 

[Gully]

Vrijen is a nice one, it is probable the closest you can get to make love, maybe it is supposed to represent liberation...possibly!

I used to like the insult Eikel, which translates as acorn, it apparently means nut...but the Dutch use it to describe a bollock.

 

[Trufflehound]

Vrijen is a nice one, it is probable the closest you can get to make love, maybe it is supposed to represent liberation...possibly!

I used to like the insult Eikel, which translates as acorn, it apparently means nut...but the Dutch use it to describe a bollock.

Dutch for bollock is kloot.

Eikel is your helmet, as in bell-end.