| Gone Fishing | 21 Oct 2014 4:48 p.m. PST |
Looking at all the languages you all have, I hang my head in shame to be in such a crowd. I'll just stand at the back and give the occasional timid wave. At least I know English good! |
| Ed Mohrmann | 22 Oct 2014 5:17 a.m. PST |
What to study…I'd have to think about that A LOT. Some of the ancient languages (Koine Greek, old Hebrew,
etc.) Arabic, Sumerian Old Russian all of the above because of the impact on world history
especially considering mis-translations, etc. there's no end, is there ? |
| Clays Russians | 22 Oct 2014 1:04 p.m. PST |
german, fluentcy suffers from lack of practice for yearrrrrrrsssssssss, and of course ohio valley english Cincinnat'ah, Ohi'ah, et al….teehee |
| goragrad | 22 Oct 2014 10:01 p.m. PST |
Some Spanish and German – high school and college respectively. Particularly with Spanish I can read and pronounce correctly better than comprehend without a dictionary – limited vocabulary. Will probably never get around to it, but Mandarin would be interesting. Would like to be able to read 'The 300 Poems' in their native language. |
| Jemima Fawr | 22 Oct 2014 11:41 p.m. PST |
English. It's my native language that I have trouble with… |
| Thomas Nissvik | 23 Oct 2014 4:04 a.m. PST |
Native is Swedish. I am fluent in English and I can read German at "look up the long words and think for a while" level.
I'd really like to learn French due to the massive amounts of info about the Indo-China wars that is not available translated. |
| Great War Ace | 23 Oct 2014 11:36 a.m. PST |
I speak in "Hick Mormon Slurvian". I read English fluently, and write the same fluently. My vocabulary is extensive. I struggle with anything else, and won't even try if it isn't French, Germanic, Spanish or Latin. I try just because I live in feckless hope that one day it will start to gel, but so far, hubris is all I get…. |
| christot | 01 Nov 2014 3:04 a.m. PST |
Native English, solid French, still struggle with American, though not as much as most Americans seem to. |
| tuscaloosa | 01 Nov 2014 7:59 p.m. PST |
Language ability can be answered so many ways, that a simple question really doesn't get you much of a meaningful answer. The DoD/State Dept language scoring system is much more precise as far as providing a guide to ability. In that vein:
German 5/5
Macedonian 4/4
Albanian 3/3 |
| rjones69 | 02 Nov 2014 5:31 p.m. PST |
German, French, and some Dutch (because of German-Dutch cognates). |
find wargaming inspiration in his DNA results? Probably!