How many languages you can read and write?
By punmsharma
@punmsharma (700)
India
February 2, 2009 5:43am CST
In our daily life i use mostly English and Hindi language. But i have a good knowledge of Sanskrit and Punjabi also. i love to talking with some one in Punjabi language. But in my office no body knows this language. I also have knowledge of Sanskrit. And i know about many Shloks and their meaning in my language.
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11 responses
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
3 Feb 09
I am from Denmark, so Danish is my native language. I read books in Danish and in English. I am very interested in new age or alternative psychology and quite often the books that I want to read haven't been traslated into Danish, so I read them in English instead. Danish and English are the only two languages that I regularly read and write, but I am able to read German as well. I haven't written German for a long time, so I don't know if I can still do it. I can also read some French and some Italian but only on a basic level.
@zamakh (517)
• South Korea
3 Feb 09
i can read and write in english, not so good but still i can do that, my existance on mylot maybe can be the proof
second, i can read and write korean. actually you can learn to read korean only in one day. but it is hard to master it.
third, indonesian. obviously, this is the language of my country
fourth, Sundanese, maybe some of you just hear this kind of language now.
this is my ethnic language as in indonesia, there's so many ethnic language.
but i can't write it well. even when i still learning this language, i got 40 marks out of 100
@dodo19 (47336)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
2 Feb 09
I can read and write fluently in both English and French. I grew up in a house, where people spoke both languages, which how I learned both. I am also currently learning how to speak Italian and Sign Language. However, I don't know how to speak those languages very well.
@GADHISUNU (2162)
• India
2 Feb 09
I know about 8 languages including English. They are:
Read,Write,Understand,Speak(Conversation as well as Public speech)- English, Hindi,Telugu,Tamil,Kannada and Sanskrit.
Read,Write,Understand,Converse(Working knowledge): Urdu and Malayalam.
Read and somewhat write: Bengali. I can Understand Bengali if the Sanskritized version is used like in Bankim Chndra Chatterjee's writings.
I can understand any tough writing in Sanskrit, and can almost give a running translation. By this I mean I can read Sanskrit mentally and translate into any of the other languages I know well like English Hindi Tamil etc.,
My dream (Which is not from realization is ) To increase my fluency of all activities in Sanskrit to a level better than English. When I say Ican translate into Sanskrit, I mean I can write this very blog in Sanskrit. In fact I am searching badly for a Sanskrit editor on my blog-sites like www.blogger.com. I tried using the Hindi editor to write Sanskrit text and encountered problems.
If anybody knows how to link a Sanskrit editor to Blogger I would only be thankful.
@masata (408)
• Indonesia
3 Feb 09
My mother tounge is Javanese. I am not sure whether you have heard of it. It is a language spoke by a major tribe in Java Island, Indonesia. I can speak it properly but I have a problem in writing the Javanese characters which is originated from Sanskrit. I also can speak and write Indonesian, a language for my country. I am also fluent in English.
@kevsgirlalways (5883)
• Malaysia
2 Feb 09
i can read and write two languages only. planning to learn how to converse in another language soon!
@chance2691 (566)
• Philippines
2 Feb 09
I only know my native language, Filipino, and English. I'm well-versed in English, but I can't say the same when I read/write/SPEAK in Filipino.
@Lindery (853)
• Latvia
2 Feb 09
Weekdays I speak in latvian and in english languages. I live in Latvia and my 1st language is latvian. I speak in english a lot because my boyfriend is australian latvian, who lives in Latvia only last 7 years. Latvia's 2nd language is russian which I understand, am able to read in and write but I don't speak in it very well. I can read german and spanish but there are no much fun because I understand 5% from all the text.