Umbound Member Username: Umbound
Post Number: 219 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 8:27 pm: | |
If you know more than two or three languages, please do tell what are they. Me- Sourath, French, and Hebrew, and can hold a conversation in Italian and Swedish. |
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 2493 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 10:46 pm: | |
Russian, French, Spanish and Anishinaabemowin. Russian is useful in our neighborhood bakery. |
Umbound Member Username: Umbound
Post Number: 220 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 3:07 pm: | |
What neighborhood is that? |
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 1429 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 6:05 pm: | |
I guess most of us are pretty simple, huh? A bit embarrassing. |
Pistonian_revolution Member Username: Pistonian_revolution
Post Number: 109 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 - 7:17 pm: | |
spanish, french, and some arabic. i live in warrendale, so my arabic comes in handy every now and then with all my iraqi neighbors. |
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 2551 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 - 8:02 pm: | |
There is a Russian community near Greenfield and Ten Mile. Russian is spoken in the bakery and the market. |
Nainrouge Member Username: Nainrouge
Post Number: 3559 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 - 9:18 pm: | |
I can only speak two languages and a tiny bit of a third, but my wife speaks German, French, Italian, Russian and English. |
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 2044 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 - 10:43 pm: | |
I know several languages, but thats the first time I've heard the "Polyglot" term. Usually, its monolingual, bilingual and multilingual, but hey whatever. |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 1100 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 11:23 am: | |
I wish I were polyglutinous, and fortified with riboflavin and niacin for a balanced breakfast. |
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 2056 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 11:45 am: | |
Check out these glots. |
Detroitchef Member Username: Detroitchef
Post Number: 6 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 9:09 am: | |
I find a nice, firm squeeze exercise helps those glots out a lot. Mine are nice, firm and toned with: Russian, French, spanish and Affrikans |
Frankg Member Username: Frankg
Post Number: 656 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 12:26 pm: | |
I speak English fluently. Also had 2 semesters of German in college, and one year each of Latin and Spanish in high school. |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 672 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 2:02 pm: | |
English und ein bisschen Deutsch. |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 5938 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 3:40 pm: | |
English, Spanish and some Arabic here |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 7364 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 11:02 pm: | |
English, 3 dialects of German (Hoch Deutsch, Ober-Fränkisch, Donau-Schwäbish) and (un peu) French. |
Terryh Member Username: Terryh
Post Number: 1026 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 12:48 am: | |
Which regions of Germany are those dialects from Gistok? Spanish;French;Italian are romance languages. Where can I learn some Italian around here? |
Nanska Member Username: Nanska
Post Number: 139 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 10:52 am: | |
English, German, and am just finishing up my first of many months ! of studying Mandarin. Later on will have to learn French when hubby retires and we retire. |
Zulu_warrior Member Username: Zulu_warrior
Post Number: 3487 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 9:28 pm: | |
English,Swahili, Spanish, Latin, and of course, Zulu.... |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3749 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 7:09 pm: | |
I can only "Press One". Oh, not counting Ebonics, of course. |
Skylark Member Username: Skylark
Post Number: 105 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 8:26 pm: | |
English Spanish Italian & a little French |
Vivadetroit Member Username: Vivadetroit
Post Number: 75 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 6:18 pm: | |
viva habla espanol, english & portuguese, a bit of french and italian too. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 7380 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 12:27 pm: | |
Terryh, Ober-Fränkisch is my mothers dialect from Upper Franconia, the region of Bavaria north of Nuremburg. Donau-Schäbisch is my fathers dialect spoken by the (mostly former) Germans living in the lower Danube region at the confluence of the border of Hungary, Rumania and Serbia. It was once home to over 1 million ethic Germans from the time of Maria Theresia (Empress of Austria 1740-80) until WWII. |