How many languages do you know?
@smilingurvashi (1151)
India
41 responses
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
9 Mar 07
I'm afraid I'm quite an illiterate fellow. I only know English and Mandarin. And yes, my local dialect too. :P
@Rexy_leigh (1189)
• Philippines
9 Mar 07
I am not really a linguist... I should say am only fluent on my local dialect (Cebuano), or national language (Filipino or Tagalog), and English.... I tried learning a little Korean and Spanish though..but haven't really mastered them.
@4skaisthelimit (412)
• Niger
15 Mar 07
I'm from a French speaking country in west Africa.
I can write and speak French the official language of my country,English my second language in school. Then I can only speak too "Germa" and "Haoussa" the popular languages of my country Niger. Then I can speak too another west African language (Mina from Togo).In my childhood I was able to speak "Bambara" another language from Mali in west Africa (but now I've forget a lot in "Bambara").
@kaplya (1578)
• India
11 Mar 07
i love languages but i have fluency only in 2 languages that r hindi and english.i try to learn language by myself as a hobby so far i have learnt urdu, a little bit of french. i can understand both in written but speaking french is very difficult for me!:( right now i m trying hands on russian!:)
@smilingurvashi (1151)
• India
11 Mar 07
hey thanks for your response. i liked your avatar a lot. its really cute!! o went through your profile and got to know you hail from the plave where my parents hail from. so you might be knowing magahi too, right?
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@kaplya (1578)
• India
11 Mar 07
magahi is my father's mother tongue and he can speak it pretty well!:) i can understand it but i don't know it well enough to speak. i think it comes into the category of dialects so maybe i shouldn't include in those languages i know..
i m happy that u liked my avatar^^ and also to know that ur parents hail from my state!:)
looking forward to ur discussions!^^
@decimus785 (1419)
• Aruba
9 Mar 07
Yo puedo hablar esepañol ,i can speak english en ik kan nederlands spreken.
@smilingurvashi (1151)
• India
9 Mar 07
hey frn, i think its spanish, english and netherlands? i'm sorry but my topic was not to make you violate mylot rules of writing everything in english, if not then explain it for mylot staff are atleast not bilingual! dn't mind, just a reminder.thanks.
@shineylibra (107)
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17 Mar 07
oh that great urvashi that you know french apart from knowing hindi. Did you learn french out of interest or do you have any french connection.
@smilingurvashi (1151)
• India
17 Mar 07
no, i don't have any french connection. french was a mandatory language to be learned that was a part of my technical course.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
9 Mar 07
Sadly I only know one language my native tongue of English, I did have a little schoolboy French, but that's about it, English people tend to be lazy when it comes to learning language as English is so widely spoken around the world it doesn't give us much incentive to learn another! I would love to be bilingual but I don't have the aptitude for learning another language sadly.
@smilingurvashi (1151)
• India
11 Mar 07
oh! i never thought from the point of view of an englishman who need not learn any other language. hope my mother tongue was this popular then i wouldn't have made my school bag heavier by keeping notebooks and text books of english!!! what i know is that english became popular worldwide because one can express oneself in different ways using different words to explain the same thing.
@kyran_12 (643)
• India
20 Mar 07
i know, hindi as i am an indian , then i stay in mumbai so i know, marathi,gujrati,marwari,english,german,....then very littel but atleast i speak somehow in kannada.......then i understand bangla as my roommate is bangali, then i know two sentences from manipuri, some words from assames and lil bit of nepali tooooo..................cheersssssssssssss
@3r7sweetie (937)
• Philippines
19 Mar 07
I speak three languages. My mother tongue, the national language of our country, and English.
@ccatherine (416)
• Portugal
9 Mar 07
I know portuguese, english, french and a little bit of spanish. I would love to learn other languages =)
@saifweb (114)
• Ukraine
10 Mar 07
My name is Saif, I'm from Iraq, I know Arabic, English, and just a litter Russian,
now I'm studying course of Russian language,however, I just would like to ask you what is the Star that beside your picture (with number6)and there are some other members as 7 or 10 etc.
I wonder if you could tell me about that as soon as possible
regards
@smilingurvashi (1151)
• India
11 Mar 07
the star given to me has the number 9. it was 8 a few days back. all these numbers denote star-rating. mylot has a special way to rate a mylot user after he completes 100 posts and the rating is done based on the quality of discussions that you've posted. it may increase or decrease. it starts from 1 and goes upto 10.
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@kalli1in2002 (19)
• India
20 Mar 07
i know telugu-my mothertongue,tamil,hindi, and english
thou telugu is m mothertongue i can only speak nd not write.
@ashish_answer (784)
• India
17 Mar 07
Languages I know are
1. English
2. Hindi
3. Marathi
4. Marwari
@VKXY62 (1605)
• Australia
17 Mar 07
Hi there, I'm about as sad as they come being mono-lingual.
Please let me be silly first, and then I'll be truthfull.
Well mate, I'm an Australian that's never been anywhere, but I know how to speak Victorian, Tasmanian, New South Welsh (haha), South Australian and the Northern languages, Queenslandish and Territorian.
I've never been to the West of the country, but I have heard them on my radio, and they sound like they are far away, so I'd probably have to yell at them to be heard. I have been to Canberra but just couldn't understand anything that happened there, let alone understand the language of Canberran Speak.
I do have an understanding of German with poor conversational skills.
A little Russian too.
I think that because a lot of languages have Latin as a mother language, and I have a bit of knowledge about it and history, I have been saved from complete ignorance.
I wish I'd learnt more when I was younger. Ohh, I know a little Thai as well, I forgot. Ha ha.
But to be very fluent in many languages would be a wonderful thing.
Sawatdee Krup.
@bicklelady (1404)
• United States
17 Mar 07
My mothertoung is English. I also know American sign language. alot of people dont consider sign language, but to alot of people, that is the only way they can communicate.
@modernindia (498)
• India
17 Mar 07
hi friend ,
i m also a india so that i m aslo know hindi very well because it was also my mother tongue,and also i can speak fluently english ,and i have some knowledge of speaking sanskrit beacause i m belonging to a brahamin"s family so i have daily read "ramayan" in sanskrit.
bye
