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#48705
Which are the languages you know? In order from better to worse...

Russian
English
Français
Greek
Italian
Português
Spanish
Deutsch
Yiddish
Hebrew
Latin
Swedish
Punjabi/Gurumukh
Dutch
Finnish
Arabic
Bushman
Uzquera
Esperanto
Korean
Japanese
Chinese
(more ore less in that order) from 1-100%

PHP
MySQL


i have a Degree on Pure Philosophy - currently preparing for my Master studies
Last edited by Righits on 12 Jun 08, 21:44, edited 1 time in total.
#48783
Languages:
Spanish, English, French and Dutch. Also, can understand and (poorly) speak Italian and Portuguese, should the need to score some hot chick arises (past tense though) :wink::)

Got a degree in Civil Engineering (graduated in 1999). Also, got a Master of Science degree in Hydraulic engineering from Delft, The Netherlands... finished around 2003.

Carried out my MSc thesis plus some research work at WL Delft Hydraulics... in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in the River Engineering department; during, i basically worked in the introduction, implementation and simulation of flow trough hydraulic structures in rivers (such as dams, weirs, culverts, pumps, gates etc) in a 1D-2D hydrodinamic simulation software called SOBEK (developed by WL Delft Hydraulics). And yes, there was a real pro wind tunnel at WL, but i never used it :wink:

All good fun.
#48847
Italian (Adopted country/naturalised)
Spanish
Croatian (Mother's birth country)
Slovenian (My country of birth and my nationality of bith. Also Father's country of birth)
English

Currently learning
German
Swedish
Esperanto
#48849
Which are the languages you know? In order from better to worse...

Russian
English
Français
Greek
Italian
Português
Spanish
Deutsch
Yiddish
Hebrew
Latin
Swedish
Punjabi/Gurumukh
Dutch
Finnish
Arabic
Bushman
Uzquera
Esperanto
Korean
Japanese
Chinese
(more ore less in that order) from 1-100%

PHP
MySQL


i have a Degree on Pure Philosophy - currently preparing for my Master studies


Umm that is a lot of languages that you claim you can speak. How well is the queastion? I wouldn't be surprised that after say language 8th onwards that your knowledge would be very basic?

Also how much do you know of the constructed languages. You mention one, Esperanto. Do you know what Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua, Novial and Slovio are? Just curious in your opinion on these. I prefer Esperanto over all of these but only because it is the most popular not because it is the better.

Oh and one more thing. What is the language you call "Bushman"?
#48863
i give yu sample of Bushman - google it for th meaning:

Xam-i ke ʼa ǀúrún hòán tì kàóʼao káísep ʼa ǀaísa, ǀóm ̊ǁxáí, xápú kxáó, tsií ǃháése ra ǃxóés ǃʼáróma.
Tsií maátsekám ̊ǁóakas hòásàp ke ǂxam xam-à ǃárop ǃnaa ǂʼoá tsií ̊ǁʼiip tì ǀaísìpà síí kèrè ǀnoóku náú ǀúrún ǀxáa. Tsií maá tsèes hòásàp ke ̊ǁʼiipà kèrè ʼóa-ǀxií tànʼaose. Tsií nee ǂhòas ke ǀúrún ǃhúùp hòárákap ǃnaa kè ̊ǁnàúhè tsií ǂʼánhè ʼií xam-i ʼa ǀúrún tì kàóʼao ǃxáisà. Tsií maá tsèes hííʼap kèrè ʼóa-ǀxií tàn tsiís kxáóǃáa ʼoos ke ̊ǁʼiip tì ̊ǁuusà kèrè koápi "tíí ʼóátse! ǀóm ǃnórótse! xápú kxáótse! ǀóm ̊ǁxáítse! ʼáore kxòetse!" tí.
Xapes ke ǀúí tsekám ̊ǁóaka kxàí-máá tsiíp ke ǂxam xam-à kàrósn ʼoo ǃxóóǀxáapi "ǀóm ̊ǁxáítseǃ ǀóm ǃnórótse! xam ̊ǁ’oatseǃ xápú kxáótseǃ" tí, !xóóǀxáapi tóá tsií kè míí "amʼaseta ke ra ǂóm saáts maá ǀúrún hòán xaa ʼa ǀaísa ǃxáisà. Maá tsèes hòásàts ke saátsà ǂʼoá ǃárop ǃnaa tsií ʼóa-ǀxií tsií ra ̊ǁaute ʼamʼasets saátsà ʼa ǀúrún tì kàó’ao ǃxáisà. Xape, tíí ʼóátseǃ ǀúí tsèets ke nìí ǂʼoá ǃárop ǃnaa. Tsií ǂʼoá tsiíts ǃárop ǃnaa ra ǃuumaa hííʼats ke ǂxarí xuuróp ǂhanúse ra ǃúu ǃxoótì ǃnaa ǂnùa tànásepà nìí mùu. Tsií, tíí ʼóátseǃ ǀóm ̊ǁxáítseǃ ǀóm ǃnórótseǃ xápú kxáótseǃ ̊ǁnaá ǂxarí xuuróp ǀxáats kàrà ǀhaóʼú tsèes ̊ǁnaás ʼáís ke sóresà nìí ǂaa ʼóa-ǀxií tamats hàa hííʼa. ̊ǁnaá xuuróp tì ǀʼòns ke "kxòep" tí ra ǂaíhè.

do NOT underestimate mein deutsche actually i understand very well, including Kant, Hegel, Wolf, Rohde, Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Goether, Hape Kerkeling, Kar Marx and more, in deutche

dank u wel f1ea naiss and cool choices - i love the netherlands, i know Amsterdam, Noordwijk, Rotterdam and Den Hague - and i love Antwerpen too...

i'm a fan of Pythagoras and my Master thesis will be on "the irrational"

:cheers:

me likes contrscted languages, none in particular, i like them all, even pig latin
#48906
I can speak English, obviously. I also can speak French, although I've not used it for a while, so I'm not as on the ball as I used to be. My Latin is also decent, but, like my French, I've not used it in a while, so I've lost my sharpness. In school, I did some German for a while, but it's pretty basic stuff. After I get my university work out of the way, I'd like brush up on my French and Latin skills again, and learn Italian, for I love Ancient Rome and think Italy's pretty cool (which may surprise AKR given my views on Ferrari :lol: ). Sadly, in British Isles there are no proper ways to learn foreign languages. I feel embarrassed knowing what I regard as not being a lot, but I'm streets ahead of most people.
#48952
Gosh that is a lot of languages! I think Darwin speaks a lot of languages too?

I'm useless with languages although I can understand and speak a tiny bit of French.


same, lucky im english so can get away with it, languages im not good at
#48954
My Latin is also decent, but, like my French, I've not used it in a while, so I've lost my sharpness.


I forgot about that - I did latin at school. I did "well" at it at the time but would be hard pushed to remember any of it these days! TBH, not really something that interests me either - I'm brushing up on my French at the moment because I'm planning to go there for a year or so, plus I want to learn Chinese (probably Mandarin, even though my Mum speaks Cantonese). I suspect any proper learning will have to wait until I've finished my dissertation though :(

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