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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Manta on March 17, 2005, 08:17:38 PM

Title: Languages
Post by: Manta on March 17, 2005, 08:17:38 PM: What languages do you speak? Knowing a few words doesn't count as "speaking" it, so those of you who just like to pick up the swear words don't count :p .

English
Spanish
Title: Languages
Post by: Malevolent on March 17, 2005, 08:21:04 PM: I can speak some French (basic stuff). If I had to have a French person know what I want by just speaking French, I could do it.

I wonder what that other language I know is...
Title: Languages
Post by: DruBo on March 17, 2005, 08:54:41 PM: In order of proficiency:

English
Spanish
Italian
Esperanto
Dutch
Title: Languages
Post by: Loke The Sleek Peruvian on March 17, 2005, 08:59:45 PM: Spanish
English
Have some basic French I had to do because I failed french last year :p

I'm thinking of either starting Italian lessons or German lessons, to kinda make up for sucking at french.
Title: Languages
Post by: Iconoclast on March 17, 2005, 09:37:46 PM: English.
Spanish.
German (For 4 years of highschool classes, I still suck amazingly bad at this).
Title: Languages
Post by: 2_of_8 on March 17, 2005, 09:54:55 PM: In order of proficiency:
English
Russian
French (not that well)
Japanese doesn't count, took it for 2 years in school - only know the alphabets now :(
Title: Languages
Post by: Asal on March 17, 2005, 10:09:45 PM: English
Japanese (fluency increasing, hoping to go there soon)
German (hardly)
Spanish, French (numbers, anyone? >_<)
Title: Languages
Post by: duherman on March 17, 2005, 10:28:07 PM: English
Chinese
Mandarin(A little bit)
Vietnamese(A little bit)

I'm sad, I'm asian and I don't even know how to talk it that well nor read it or write.
Title: Languages
Post by: 2_of_8 on March 17, 2005, 11:22:03 PM: Quote
English
Chinese
Mandarin(A little bit)
Vietnamese(A little bit)

I'm sad, I'm asian and I don't even know how to talk it that well nor read it or write.
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Asian's a language?

:blink:
Title: Languages
Post by: Nuketheplace on March 17, 2005, 11:30:27 PM: English
Japanese (I can kind of speek it)
Title: Languages
Post by: Torgo on March 18, 2005, 07:25:59 AM: English
Bad English (to quote The 5th Element...)
Spanish
Title: Languages
Post by: spinviper on March 18, 2005, 08:00:33 AM: In order of proficiency:

English
Mandarin
Title: Languages
Post by: holy_devil on March 18, 2005, 08:05:16 AM: english
visual basic
spanish
HTML
spanish

.. you knew that joke was coming some time.
Title: Languages
Post by: rad4Christ on March 18, 2005, 08:30:01 AM: English
Spanish (still learning)

That's it. I want to learn Japanese, but I haven't given it a go yet.
Title: Languages
Post by: holy_devil on March 18, 2005, 09:22:54 AM: seems everyone knows spanish =P so:

iPONE SU MANO SOBRE MI PINGUINO!
Title: Languages
Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on March 18, 2005, 10:05:02 AM: Danish
English
And....some nubby German.
Title: Languages
Post by: Doobie Dan on March 18, 2005, 10:13:18 AM: English
German (shaky)
Swedish (beyond shaky)

Going to have to brush up on those soon, visiting Germany/Netherlands/Denmark/Sweden in 6 weeks. :)
Title: Languages
Post by: DruBo on March 18, 2005, 10:48:07 AM: Quote
iPONE SU MANO SOBRE MI PINGUINO!
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No.

Also, it's 'ponga'. Nobody really uses present tense imperative.
Title: Languages
Post by: LowCrawler on March 18, 2005, 10:55:15 AM: 1.Texas
2.English
Title: Languages
Post by: CorvusX on March 18, 2005, 02:02:00 PM: 1. Acadian (keke^^)
2. English
3. French

Basically can speak English as a first language, though it's actually French.
Title: Languages
Post by: Niteowl on March 18, 2005, 02:12:33 PM: English
CommRage
Java
SQL
HTML
JavaScript
VB (oh so very long ago)
PL-SQL (not as haxing as GD though)
Title: Languages
Post by: holy_devil on March 18, 2005, 03:10:28 PM: Quote
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iPONE SU MANO SOBRE MI PINGUINO!
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No.

Also, it's 'ponga'. Nobody really uses present tense imperative.
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i do :| but i guess i'm weird.
Title: Languages
Post by: SlickWill on March 18, 2005, 03:59:32 PM: 1. English
2. Hungarian (fluently read and write and speak) (reason [HUN] in tag) I love my Hungarians <3.
3. Spanish (shaky)
4. Polish (very very very little and badly, my gf is Polish, so I have picked a bit up between her and her parents.) And I <3 Poles the most. (Well, one.)

one excess post taken care of - DHP.
Title: Languages
Post by: lolfighter on March 18, 2005, 05:25:58 PM: Oh what the hell, I'll bite. In order of proficiency:

danish/german
english

And of course, danish equips me with a decent ability to understand norwegian and swedish, being very closely related languages.
Title: Languages
Post by: duherman on March 18, 2005, 07:48:02 PM: Quote
Quote
English
Chinese
Mandarin(A little bit)
Vietnamese(A little bit)

I'm sad, I'm asian and I don't even know how to talk it that well nor read it or write.
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Asian's a language?

:blink:
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What I was trying to say is I'm asian and I can't speak any of the languages I listed well.
Title: Languages
Post by: DruBo on March 19, 2005, 11:12:31 AM: Quote
What I was trying to say is I'm asian and I can't speak any of the languages I listed well.
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Least of all english!

Ba-dump bump.
Title: Languages
Post by: Condizzle on March 19, 2005, 02:08:52 PM: I can speak:

1.English
2.Some French

And I can say a 4 letter word starting with 'f' in German.
Title: Languages
Post by: Isamil on March 19, 2005, 08:11:26 PM: 1.English
2.A little bit of German(I'm in first year German)
Title: Languages
Post by: Dark on March 20, 2005, 12:12:39 AM: i speak english and spanish though i do know a words in russian :p
Title: Languages
Post by: SwiftSpear on March 20, 2005, 02:09:03 AM: I speak english, although I can swear in french, korean, german, and cantoneese...

Oh, and basic, and C++
Title: Languages
Post by: Mac on March 20, 2005, 07:47:33 PM: English
Spanish (very little)
Title: Languages
Post by: Slink on March 20, 2005, 10:14:20 PM: American English.

yeah, i went to public school in US. technically i took german classes, but that doesn't mean anything.
Title: Languages
Post by: Doobie Dan on March 21, 2005, 11:06:22 AM: Quote
English
CommRage
Java
SQL
HTML
JavaScript
VB (oh so very long ago)
PL-SQL (not as haxing as GD though)
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Oh, so that's how we play now, eh J2EE boy? :p
In order of proficiency:
C++, VB.net, C#, Perl, Java, C.
also HTML, SQL, JavaScript.
Title: Languages
Post by: Mac on March 21, 2005, 11:36:13 AM: I know only Basic and C++, and very little of both.
Title: Languages
Post by: confused! on March 21, 2005, 01:00:05 PM: english
german
french
Spanish for food service®

because of my primary use of french and german being online in gaming stuff i tend to really just use them to swear under my breath.

i took a semester fo russian but i still suck at it enough not for it to count.
Title: Languages
Post by: Black Mage on March 22, 2005, 09:42:16 AM: Fluent:
English
American English
King's English

Passable:
HTML (4.0 transitional / strict)
C++
BASIC (q, visual)
C
PHP
Perl
SQL (basic)
Java (ick)
JavaScript
AOLSpeak

Not too good:
French (some)
Japanese (learning, i r teh sux)

I can swear in:
English (canadian, american and british)
French (not so much because it's schoolboy french)
German (a little)
Russian (not very well)
Japanese (watashi wa baka gaijin)
Title: Languages
Post by: Clashen on March 22, 2005, 10:42:18 AM: Swedish
I know good english also pretty good knowledges of the frenche

edit: spelled the frenche wrong
Title: Languages
Post by: Niteowl on March 22, 2005, 11:07:20 AM: Quote
Oh, so that's how we play now, eh J2EE boy? :p
In order of proficiency:
C++, VB.net, C#, Perl, Java, C.
also HTML, SQL, JavaScript.
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OH YOU WANNA START SOMETHING MEMORY MANAGEMENT BOY EH!?!? EH!??!?!
Title: Languages
Post by: Doobie Dan on March 22, 2005, 01:04:03 PM: Quote
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Oh, so that's how we play now, eh J2EE boy? :p
In order of proficiency:
C++, VB.net, C#, Perl, Java, C.
also HTML, SQL, JavaScript.
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OH YOU WANNA START SOMETHING MEMORY MANAGEMENT BOY EH!?!? EH!??!?!
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Well, considering at my current job I'm doing about 98% .NET and 2% Perl, I wouldn't really have room to say anything, now would I? ^_^
Title: Languages
Post by: Rath on March 22, 2005, 01:11:18 PM: FORTRAN :D Aerospace ftw!
Title: Languages
Post by: Niteowl on March 22, 2005, 01:22:06 PM: Quote
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OH YOU WANNA START SOMETHING MEMORY MANAGEMENT BOY EH!?!? EH!??!?!
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Well, considering at my current job I'm doing about 98% .NET and 2% Perl, I wouldn't really have room to say anything, now would I? ^_^
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Derailment FTW!! I hear the Visual Studio .Net thingamahoochie is pure hotness. You liking the C#? What are you doing with it? I thought you were coding printer drivers?
Title: Languages
Post by: Doobie Dan on March 22, 2005, 04:28:28 PM: Quote
Derailment FTW!! I hear the Visual Studio .Net thingamahoochie is pure hotness. You liking the C#? What are you doing with it? I thought you were coding printer drivers?
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I'd reply in PM but the super admin started the derailment in the first place. ^_^

Naw, I don't code drivers, I work on tools and apps. Visual Studio .net is nothing short of pure, pure hotness. It's ridiculous how fast I can get stuff done. It shines most when you want, say, a quick webpage for a survey that stores the results in a SQL Server database and has another webpage which charts and graphs the results. I did something like that in just under three days. For larger projects that have a more complex architecture or websites where you're authoring your own custom controls, it's still useful - a very well designed IDE that helps scale well. But throwing something together quickly becomes extremely easy.

The autocompletion actually makes VB's syntax bearable. ;) Plus anything you can do in one language you can do in another, which is useful. I switch back and forth between VB.net and C# constantly because there's a good deal of older code to support written in VB.net.

C# is great. As far as I'm concerned it's Java. :)