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By elfinitty
#214341
English and that is pretty much it.

An inmate in prison who was in for 35 years learnt 50+ languages to pass the time!!!



Wow,he must be very intelligent.It would be better if he had used his intelligence for business.
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By The Immortal Dragon
#214347
Dialects of Italian do not count as seperate languages.

I was joking :D

Sicilian and its associated dialects and Furlan are not dialects of Italian. From the top of my head neither are Venetian, Neopolitan and Sardinian. Countrary of what you were taught in school or by parents this is fact and it is told incorrectly due to lack of knowledge.

It is very difficult to tell which of all the Italian dialects are in fact proper languages or simply dialects.
It all goes back to *at least* the 14th century, when Italy as such didn't exist and the regions that now make up Italy used all slightly languages from each other.
At this time, poets and writers started writing in those "dialects" instead of Latin, and pretty much all those dialects are still alive.
Successfully the Florentin dialect was chosen to be the official Italian language following the political unification.

But really, since all dialects formed a long time ago (long before "Italian") and still exist, you could argue that actually all Italian dialects are actually proper languages.
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By AKR
#214365
of all the Italian dialects are in fact proper languages or simply dialects.
It all goes back to *at least* the 14th century, when Italy as such didn't exist and the regions that now make up Italy used all slightly languages from each other.
At this time, poets and writers started writing in those "dialects" instead of Latin, and pretty much all those dialects are still alive.
Successfully the Florentin dialect was chosen to be the official Italian language following the political unification.

But really, since all dialects formed a long time ago (long before "Italian") and still exist, you could argue that actually all Italian dialects are actually proper languages.


That is very much spot on. You know your stuff well friend. :D
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By SennaVille
#215174
I can speak in every language in the world. It is easy.

SPEAK LOUDLY AND SLLOOWWLLYY plus hand signals


Over-the-top facial expressions help too. I'm fresh from a two week family holiday in france, the oldies did all of the above *cringe*.

Besides English, I can also speak Afrikaans. Very, very useful language to have up your sleeve!
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By myownalias
#215185
Not quite in the context of this thread but; when I was working as a tech for a tax software company recently; during my training on the software; one of my fellow trainees asked me "where are you originally from?" of course I replied the UK, then he said "how long have you been speaking English? it's really easy to understand you!" - Of course I am thinking; is he being serious? After about 30 seconds of silence I said "all my life" then went onto explain that England was party of the UK! Then he felt like a prize fool! :hehe:
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By darwin dali
#215186
Not quite in the context of this thread but; when I was working as a tech for a tax software company recently; during my training on the software; one of my fellow trainees asked me "where are you originally from?" of course I replied the UK, then he said "how long have you been speaking English? it's really easy to understand you!" - Of course I am thinking; is he being serious? After about 30 seconds of silence I said "all my life" then went onto explain that England was party of the UK! Then he felt like a prize fool! :hehe:


Too many dimwits almost EVERYwhere :rolleyes::hehe:
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By f1ea
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Not quite in the context of this thread but; when I was working as a tech for a tax software company recently; during my training on the software; one of my fellow trainees asked me "where are you originally from?" of course I replied the UK, then he said "how long have you been speaking English? it's really easy to understand you!" - Of course I am thinking; is he being serious? After about 30 seconds of silence I said "all my life" then went onto explain that England was party of the UK! Then he felt like a prize fool! :hehe:


You write it quite good as well.
:rofl:
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By The Immortal Dragon
#215188
Not quite in the context of this thread but; when I was working as a tech for a tax software company recently; during my training on the software; one of my fellow trainees asked me "where are you originally from?" of course I replied the UK, then he said "how long have you been speaking English? it's really easy to understand you!" - Of course I am thinking; is he being serious? After about 30 seconds of silence I said "all my life" then went onto explain that England was party of the UK! Then he felt like a prize fool! :hehe:

haha :D
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By myownalias
#215199
Not quite in the context of this thread but; when I was working as a tech for a tax software company recently; during my training on the software; one of my fellow trainees asked me "where are you originally from?" of course I replied the UK, then he said "how long have you been speaking English? it's really easy to understand you!" - Of course I am thinking; is he being serious? After about 30 seconds of silence I said "all my life" then went onto explain that England was party of the UK! Then he felt like a prize fool! :hehe:

Too many dimwits almost EVERYwhere :rolleyes::hehe:

Trust me it gets worse; the agency person that hired me thought that "UK" stood for Ukraine. Of course I corrected her saying its "United Kingdom", then she asked the question; "so what language do you speak in the United Kingdom?", being sarcastic I said "French!", and the reply came back "really?"... welcome to life in Kansas!

You write it quite good as well.

Well, thank you! :blush: you could say I have a life time of experience!
By Juliet P
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Right, can't compete with AKR or DD, but I speak english and spanish fluently (lived in Spain for quite a few years) and understand lots of french and italian (speaking them is a bit more dodgy!).

Juliet
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By scotty
#215244
English and French fluently. I know a decent bit of German, or at least i did! It's quite rusty now. :scratchchin: Studied Latin for a bit at school, but that was only written, and i hated it so have made no effort to remember it all since. Taught myself a bit of conversational Portugese for when we went on holiday earlier this year, i'd like to learn more of that because it's a nice language. :) I'd like to learn Italian too.
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By The Immortal Dragon
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Studied Latin for a bit at school, but that was only written, and i hated it so have made no effort to remember it all since.

Haha, same! :P
By Gaz
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Italian is my first language;
I am fluent in English and I can speak a bit of French, too.


Italian is my first language as well. Which part of Italy are you from?

I speak Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Slovenian and English. Will learn German and Japanese. I can effecively speak Serbian as it is almost the same as Croatian and I can write in the Cyrillic alphbet as well. I can to a small extent understand Friulian (A language spoken in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia alongside Italian). I also have a good understanding Of Sicilian and dialects related to the Sicilian language. I also have knowledge in Esperanto and although I have forgotten a lot because unlike all the othe langauges I know or want to kearn do not practice it, I would vote for it over English or any other language as the world language for all.


yeah? well i can speak Internets.

so :P

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