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[Debs.]

I can swear in Polish so that makes me E. European cunni-lingual............maybe!!!

 .......but I bet Loo Knee is bi-lingual  

[Gaffers]

.....you still aint told us debs,and i am curious now,so how many is it :question :question

 
Fluently: English, Icelandic, Faeroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Get-by: German, Latin.
Need to try-harder: French, Italian, Welsh
An embarassment but still willing to try: Hungarian, Spanish

U can help you with this one  

[Mr Skrunts]

Allthough born in Yorkshire and lived here all my life, I sadly have to admit to being a failure in the one foreign language I tried at school which was french.

Proud that  my Mother was Aberdonian and my Father was a Geordie and totally embarressed to admit that I couldn understand a word of either when they used to visit home.

I think the Briitsih Isles has it's own Multi Lingual Clan.

Lol, Each City has a language all of its own.

Cockney's

Brummies

Liverpudlians.

and then of course there's the Barnsley Folk.

[FRE07962128]

After mooching around on here as many of us do i'm left wondering how many languages Debs speaks?
   C'mon girl 'fess up!!!!!!!

She is a clever girl; I can only speak a smuttering of French, a tiny bit of Maltese (born and lived on the Island for a total of 5 years), and yes reasonable academic English (require it at university!), along with good old fashioned 'street' English including all the delighfully unsavoury words that no lady should utter....usually when encountering that nut or bolt that must be undone but is in a most unaccessable location or/and won't fxxxxxx budge!

Lizzie Zoom

[shyboy]

.....you still aint told us debs,and i am curious now,so how many is it :question :question

 
Fluently: English, Icelandic, Faeroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Get-by: German, Latin.
Need to try-harder: French, Italian, Welsh
An embarassment but still willing to try: Hungarian, Spanish

That's most impressive Debs.
Just out of interest, what's your native language, and did you acquire the other fluent ones through study, or exposure during periods of residence etc.?
How similar are the Nordic/ Icelandic/ Faroese tongues?
My father had a very disrupted education in the 1920's, with no exposure to foreign languages,(except Belfast  ), but simply through a lifelong passion for acquiring knowledge, speaks four languages very well, all acquired chiefly from books and radio. He is fanatical about correct pronunciation, and hates imperfect accents. I do envy the ability.
No Esperanto, I notice. Not too difficult, surely?
Bill

[albitz]

fluent in bulls**t,get by with english. ...........debs,its nice to see someone so scarily clever and still a normal down to earth person

forgot to mention,BELFAST is my native tongue  

[Martin_1962]

After mooching around on here as many of us do i'm left wondering how many languages Debs speaks?
   C'mon girl 'fess up!!!!!!!

She is a clever girl; I can only speak a smuttering of French, a tiny bit of Maltese (born and lived on the Island for a total of 5 years), and yes reasonable academic English (require it at university!), along with good old fashioned 'street' English including all the delighfully unsavoury words that no lady should utter....usually when encountering that nut or bolt that must be undone but is in a most unaccessable location or/and won't fxxxxxx budge!

Lizzie Zoom

English and a little French computer languages however.....

Malta - they speak English don't they?

I don't remember, haven't been back since a baby - one of those huge unseen group of immigrants (yes I am classed as such) of BFPO children, so born on crown property in Malta.

[Debs.]

Malta - they speak English don't they?

Maltese has it`s basis in Arabic and was brought to the island by Moslem conquerors in the 9th. century....
The Arabs, were later driven out by Normans from Sicily, whom introduced a large number of 'romance' language words into the Maltese vocabulary.
Today Maltese is spoken by >400,000 citizens.

I`m just-aching to call them Maltesers!  

[Kevin Wood]

and then of course there's the Barnsley Folk.

Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?... you had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends....  

Kevin

[Debs.]

Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?... you had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends....   Kevin

    Hahahaha!

[Bo Bo]

fluent in bulls**t

[Mr Skrunts]

Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?... you had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends....   Kevin

    Hahahaha!

PMSL

Haha, there's nowt wrong wi Barnsley folk.  

[CaptainZok]

fluent in bulls**t,get by with english. ...........debs,its nice to see someone so scarily clever and still a normal down to earth person

forgot to mention,BELFAST is my native tongue  

That's like english but you say f**k every fourth word isn't it?

[Jay w]

.....you still aint told us debs,and i am curious now,so how many is it :question :question

 
Fluently: English, Icelandic, Faeroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Get-by: German, Latin.
Need to try-harder: French, Italian, Welsh
An embarassment but still willing to try: Hungarian, Spanish

Now there's a language i haven't touched in about 20 years  

We were taughted it in school, i used to really hate it, i couldn't understand the reason for learning it once i found out it wasn't really used much in modern life......

Really wish i had spent more time learning French rather than dossing @ the back of the class

[Debs.]

Really wish i had spent more time learning French rather than dossing @ the back of the class

Reposez-vous vers le haut !...Prêtez l'attention à moi, vous sont un jeune homme très paresseux !  

[size=8]Sit up! pay attention to me, you are a very lazy young man![/size]