How many languages do you speak?

I am fluent in over six million forms of communication.

 

Evet, tabii, ama esim turk.

I should also have added that there are all the other forms for pronouns (and nouns) which I can't remember. I guess English, thankfully, really only has at most two.

Oh that was typo.

Now you have got me really confused. Isn't there a "past continuous" tense as well as a "simple past" tense?

 

Now I know why you know turkish so much

Well... not really. there is just one past tense. Usually its:
I went : Ben gittim.
Or:
I did go: Ben gitmistim.

and thats about it

 

I did go? :?

 

4 and a half

turkish
dutch
english
french
and half a kilo german

and I understand bits and pieces of italian also since my wife works at a Italian shop, i talk sometimes with the bos , who speaks hairy french /italian

ulle babo ! nedir bu türk komsular burada lo ?

 

ulla hirbo naapiyon len?

 

Yeh you did

 

It took me a while to locate these in a (really bad) textbook, but I found examples such as...

Simple Past:
Dün kizkardesimi sinemaya götürdüm.
Yesterday, I took my sister to the cinema

Past Continous:
Dün kizkardesimi sinemaya götürüyordum.
Yesterday, I was taking my sister to the cinema

Future past: (Which I'd not seen before...)
Dün kizkardesimi sinemaya götürecektim.
Yesterday, I was going to take my sister to the cinema


Which is all rubbish because i don't have a sister.

[EDIT fixed typo pointed out by Bahadir]

 

LoL I think this line should be more like this:
Future past:
Dün kizkardesimi sinemaya götürecektim.

 

I speak portuguese and try to speak english (count 2)

 

This is a very common misconception but actually Turkish and Arabic have almost nothing in common with the exception of some loan words (the Arabic word for "book," "kitab" became the Turkish word "kitap"). But that's pretty much where the similarity ends - even in the above case the Arabic pluralization of "book" is "kutub" while the Turkish is "kitaplar." That being said there's some sounds in both languages that are harsh to the Western ear - the Ö in Turkish in particular is really nasty sounding to an English speaker.

Arabic is probably as straightforward as Turkish, especially if the Turkish has its vowel diacritics missing, which is quite often the case. Of course the pronunciation is quite different from nation to nation; Moroccan Arabic sounds totally different than the Levantine Arabic I heard growing up.

The most annoying aspect IMO of agglutinative languages is remembering the proper order of applying the modifiers to the base word. Koylerimden? Koyimdenler? :? ("from my town" - yes my Turkish/Arabic is poor )

 

I'm native spanish speaking but after posting so much in english, when i think about writing using a computer, english comes first to my mind; and some times when thinking about computing i don't even know how to say it in spanish.

 

I was waiting for someone to say that.

 

I speak 3... Portuguese, English and some Spanish.

Spanish was my mother language because I born in Venezuela, but I came to Portugal very young... so now Portuguese is my primary language.

English, I learned in the school... and also in the Internet.

"I'm native spanish speaking but after posting so much in english, when i think about writing using a computer, english comes first to my mind; and some times when thinking about computing i don't even know how to say it in spanish"

Exactly the same with others languages... there´s many computing expressions in English that are very dificult translate to other languages. The only manner is just writting them in English.

 

Well, in that case, will Guden please translate the following moisture 'vaporator code?

0101001010110100100111110010101001010010010010000
1000001111010101010111010100100111000100100011001
1001010101010001111010100010001001000101000100101

Should be a doddle if he can talk to binary lifters

 

You just so happen to have picked the 6,000,002nd form of communication. When he said over 6 million, he meant 6,000,001. You know like those ads that say "Less than $1,000!" and you go in and find out the price is $999.99. No dice Simon.

 

I FEEL VERY STUPID, BUT I'M NOT GETTING THE 6 MILLION LANGUAGE FORMS THING..............................

 

Don't worry because, technically, Natoma got it wrong too.**


**'3PO claimed could translate the code... I was just challening Guden to prove he was protocol expert

 

STAR WARS AGAIN!!! TOLD YOU GUYS, PUT WARNINGS!!!! I'm all itchy now...