How many languages do you speak?

[Deepak]

Well, I should have opted 3 (but by mistake chose 2). Hindi, Urdu and English. Most of my thoughts are in Hindi which is my mother tongue. I can also understand a bit of Nepali and Punjabi.

 

[sytaylor]

What language do you think in?

I think a lot in English, I even prepare sentences in English in my head then say them in Danish. It must be the heavy influence from englishspeaking culture.

Thats just freaky, I can't imagine thinking in another language.

 

[Basic]

Swedish, English, and a very rusty German.
I tried to learn myself Urdu for a short while just for fun, but since languages isn't my strong side, I gave that up. (I can still count to ten, and say "hello" though. )

I think in English quite often, specially when it's about technical stuff.

 

[MuFu]

2, English and "Bollocks".

Used to know enough French to get by but now I've forgotten most of it. I'm learning Mandarin this year at uni.

 

[London Geezer]

^^ I'm pretty sure he does.

Besied, Italians and Spanish have an "unfair" advantage, since they "can get by" in either country even without ever having to study the other language. I've never studied spanish, but i can very well "get by" when i speak to spanish people...
So it's english, french, italian, spanish, some german, latin (yes, one can speak ancient latin, it's quite fun too)... And let's not forget Sardinian and bolognese!!!!!!!!

 

[Leto]

What language do you think in?

I think a lot in English, I even prepare sentences in English in my head then say them in Danish. It must be the heavy influence from englishspeaking culture.

Thats just freaky, I can't imagine thinking in another language.

Your english

 

[London Geezer]

Thats just freaky, I can't imagine thinking in another language.

It's acutally quite cool, I think in English most of the time now, And switch back to thinking in Italian after about a week of being there. Of course, with syntax-related confusion inbetween.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

You don't speak in programming languages, do you?
The poll was spoken languages.

I could speak programming languages.

Hell, I write most of my programs from the top of my head.

 

[Nick[FM]]

Finnish, Swedish and English fluently. German and French somewhat (though I understand them (read) better than my verbal skills are).

 

[tobbe]

Around 4 - it depends entirely on how you define 'get by'.

Swedish (native), English
French (decent)
German (rusty)
plus varying skills in some related languages (Germanic and Romanic).
plus a tiny bit of Russian.

Thats just freaky, I can't imagine thinking in another language.

During WW2, the Norwegian resistance used to test their recruits by giving them some arithmetic questions and asking them to do the computations aloud - to unmask German infiltrators. Allegedly, this test was most effective because you could hear the difference between a native and one who would otherwise come across as one under other circumstances.

 

[London Geezer]

During WW2, the Norwegian resistance used to test their recruits by giving them some arithmetic questions and asking them to do the computations aloud - to unmask German infiltrators. Allegedly, this test was most effective because you could hear the difference between a native and one who would otherwise come across as one under other circumstances.

Definately, it did took me a while to stop "counting in Italian".
But when you switch even the counting, then you know that you're pretty much bilingual.
The bad thing is that now when i talk to my mother (or my old Italian friends), sometimes it's hard to make myself clear. In my original language... :?

 

[sytaylor]

Definately, it did took me a while to stop "counting in Italian".
But when you switch even the counting, then you know that you're pretty much bilingual.
The bad thing is that now when i talk to my mother (or my old Italian friends), sometimes it's hard to make myself clear. In my original language... :?

See thats just insane! Excuse the country bumpkin... I got a D in french

 

[_xxx_]

C'mon, K.I.L.E.R., let's see your answer in C++!

if(person == rabidrabbit && action == 'ask')
switch(question)
{
case 'You don't speak in programming languages, do you?':
...

// I know this case wouldn't work, it's just for fun dammit!

 

[London Geezer]

See thats just insane! Excuse the country bumpkin... I got a D in french

Weird but true...
It helps a lot professionally, because, even today, it's always a ++ when u're a foreigner who has no accent and happen to spell better than most native English people. Let's just say that it helps to be a perfect bilingual with no accent either side. Gives people a certain "status".

 

[sytaylor]

See thats just insane! Excuse the country bumpkin... I got a D in french

Weird but true...
It helps a lot professionally, because, even today, it's always a ++ when u're a foreigner who has no accent and happen to spell better than most native English people. Let's just say that it helps to be a perfect bilingual with no accent either side. Gives people a certain "status".

I have a slight yorkshire accent, but it works because people like to try and figure it out but struggle.

 

[London Geezer]

I have a slight yorkshire accent, but it works because people like to try and figure it out but struggle.

At least people don't try to figure out whether you're French, South African, Australian, Spanish, Greek or German... Really, i've heard them all...

 

[Apoc]

Five: Spanish, English, Japanese, Italian, and a bit of German.

 

[sytaylor]

I have a slight yorkshire accent, but it works because people like to try and figure it out but struggle.

At least people don't try to figure out whether you're French, South African, Australian, Spanish, Greek or German... Really, i've heard them all...

Yeah, I think I look decidedly "british", especially last year when even in summer is was as white as snow... kinda got sick of that though.

 

[London Geezer]

I have a slight yorkshire accent, but it works because people like to try and figure it out but struggle.

At least people don't try to figure out whether you're French, South African, Australian, Spanish, Greek or German... Really, i've heard them all...

Yeah, I think I look decidedly "british", especially last year when even in summer is was as white as snow... kinda got sick of that though.

Sunbeds? Or r u one of the either-white-or-red kind of creatures?

 

[Zeross]

3 : french (native), english and spanish
En tout cas je ne pensais pas qu'autant de monde sur ce forum comprenait le français