How many here are multilingual?

I can speak ok Welsh, French and Spanish. I visit Germany a bit and should learn some despite the fact many speak good English.
 
I speak a few words of a few....but am going to make the effort to try and get to at least basic conversational Spanish, Portuguese and Croat the latter being the hardest one apparently.
 
urban genie said:
As I said not fluent and I am very rusty tbf, wouldn't be able to hold a full conversation nowadays but know what the fuck they are waffling on about, but when I was over there for a more than a year and stayed mainly in udon I could converse quite well in the end and comprehend the jist of telly shows.

The neighbours used to cal me farang lao when going to the village shop in my flip flops and pa kao ma, long time ago now and think my brain has stored away the language for more pressing needs and haven't spoke it conversationally for years but reckon I could pick it up again if I moved back.

I knew a bloke who was fluent and wrecked my head when he starteed as he talked fast and much better than I ever could
The writing I tried but gave up early doors.


Also on the tonal they used to love taking the piss put of how I pronounced some words that turned them into rude ones or made the sentance sound stupid.
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Mai khao jai !!!!!!!

;-)
 
As a South Walian, I find people speaking Welsh to each other to be odd. Groups of lads from somewhere like Caernarfon at Wales games do and I have to double take.
 
Daughter in law is from Chile, so fluent in Spanish and grandkids are fluent also. My son is virtually fluent and speaks french quite well.

It’s strange that my daughter-in-law can instantly recognise an Argentinian Colombian or Uruguayan accent as it all seems the same to my ears.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
I can speak Spanish. My level is B1 lower intermediate but I am still practising daily and listen to Spanish podcasts, watch YouTube videos in Spanish etc. I hope to be at a decent level in a couple more years.
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I'm trying to learn Spanish and have been using Duolingo App on my phone..it's ok but it's not conversational as yet ..do you have any tips on how to pick it up quickly
 
peoffrey said:
As a South Walian, I find people speaking Welsh to each other to be odd. Groups of lads from somewhere like Caernarfon at Wales games do and I have to double take.
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I always assumed the welsh only spoke welsh to each other when an english person walked into a gift shop in Conway ;-)
 
On the must see documtaries thread there is a link to a doc where the fella learnt Icelandic which is supposed to be one of the most difficult to master in a week.
The boy with the amazing brain.
 
urban genie said:
The fish sauce thread had me thinking who can speak mpre than one language on here?

I can speak enough laotion-thai to get by when there but couldn't do a full speech to an audience amd used to be able to write it really well but not needed to for 6-7 years so an rusty.

When I lived in jersey I learnt a little portuguese to get by but that was 13 years ago and cannot really remember most of it.

I can however swear in polish, fench, italian, german and thai pretty fluently.

So anyone multilingial on here?
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Was that when you were time travelling back to the 15th century and needed to trade with Vasco de Gama? Otherwise I'm stumped.
 
Able to understand and converse reasonably in Afrikaans thanks to the wife and living out there for nearly 5 years.
 
BigBluey said:
Daughter in law is from Chile, so fluent in Spanish and grandkids are fluent also. My son is virtually fluent and speaks french quite well.

It’s strange that my daughter-in-law can instantly recognise an Argentinian Colombian or Uruguayan accent as it all seems the same to my ears.
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In fairness can she tell a manc from a scouser from the accent alone?

Bet you can
 
blue by birth said:
I'm trying to learn Spanish and have been using Duolingo App on my phone..it's ok but it's not conversational as yet ..do you have any tips on how to pick it up quickly
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I went to Valencia last year and took a course there for a fortnight. I realised that I needed to listen more. So I got into listening to Coffee Break Spanish podcasts and then Showtime Spanish by the same people. I really recommend them. I follow umpteen Spanish YouTube sites such as Español Con Juan, Dreaming Spanish, Easy Spanish etc which I enjoy. My listening is now much improved than a year ago so much so that when I returned to Valencia this year I took another class for a week this time and was able to contribute much more to the Conversational Class. I love it. My tip is that you basically have to immerse yourself in Spanish and escuchar, escuchar, escuchar.
 
Danish, German and English. After over 20 years in Munich working for different US companies I speak all 3 languages more or less equally poorly. Born as a Dane I can handle Norwegian and Swedish reasonably well too but that is easy as they are close to Danish.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
I went to Valencia last year and took a course there for a fortnight. I realised that I needed to listen more. So I got into listening to Coffee Break Spanish podcasts and then Showtime Spanish by the same people. I really recommend them. I follow umpteen Spanish YouTube sites such as Español Con Juan, Dreaming Spanish, Easy Spanish etc which I enjoy. My listening is now much improved than a year ago so much so that when I returned to Valencia this year I took another class for a week this time and was able to contribute much more to the Conversational Class. I love it. My tip is that you basically have to immerse yourself in Spanish and escuchar, escuchar, escuchar.
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Cheers mate..I listen to a few things and tend to find it's easier following the gist of a conversation when it's men....women tend to end some words and begin the next words and it seems like one word.
I will try a few of the YouTube channels you mentioned..thanks again
 
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