How many languages does Eldritch speak?

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Now i just feel curious about that, I have heard he speaks a lot of languages, including some chinese :notworthy: .
By the way... how many languages are you able to speak?, which one you would like to learn?.
I speak Spanish (with a strong Catalan accent), Catalan, English (with a weird accent that English speakers say is a mix of Skandinavian and American accent :| ) and some German (I am just able to speak German when i am drunk).
I would like to learn Russian... or Polish... or Lithuanian... or...
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Although we are fluent in Dodgy HTML (Andrew), German (Adam & Andrew), French (Adam & Andrew), Italian (Andrew on a good day), Pillowtalk and Serbo-Croat (Mike)...


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catalan? hmmm, have you met wishville's pedro? :D :D
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Quiff Boy wrote:catalan? hmmm, have you met wishville's pedro? :D :D
Who is Pedro :eek: ?
Catalan is a language spoken in some parts of Spain (Catalonia, Valencia and Balearic islands) for those who don´t know :innocent: .
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pedro is a catalonian from barcalona, and is a member of the chameleons' forum, wishville:

http://forums.wishville.co.uk/member.ph ... userid=382

sorry, i was just doing that thing where you meet someone from country 'A' and because you also know someone from country 'A' you assume they know each other! :D :D :D

sorry ;)
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i speak english on a good day and rubbish the rest of the time.
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i used to be fluent in french,but ive forgoten it all now....
other than that,i just speak Tori....



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after 31 years i can almost speak Estonian, i guess ;D
my Russian was OK in the school but i finished the school in '89... you know ;D
have not to tell how rubbish is my English... :innocent:
my German is even worse :innocent:
and my French is even worse than my German :innocent:
have learned also Latin but can't speak...
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Alongside French,German,Italian and his native English Andrew also speaks Chinese fluently.

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Sorry to correct you but Serbo-Croat as a language doesn't exist.It is either Serbian or Croatian.Yes,they are very similar but at the same time very different to each other.

As for me,I speak following languages:my native Croatian,English,German,a little French and have also learned Latin but just like pikkrong can't speak it.
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moi? just engleez. badly. :urff: ;D
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Quiff Boy wrote:pedro is a catalonian from barcalona, and is a member of the chameleons' forum, wishville:

http://forums.wishville.co.uk/member.ph ... userid=382

sorry, i was just doing that thing where you meet someone from country 'A' and because you also know someone from country 'A' you assume they know each other! :D :D :D

sorry ;)
You don´t have to say you are sorry :D !. No, I don´t know him. I never have been in that Chameleons forum until a few hours ago.
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french and flemish what they call "perfectly" (I don't make a difference between the two...)
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I didn't knew that Andrew speak chinese... i'm all time learning...
Well.. i speak portuguese (my official language), spanish, french, italian, english and a little, very little of german. I would love to learn Basco (i dunno the name in english, but it's one of the languages in Spain).
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moonchild wrote:I didn't knew that Andrew speak chinese... i'm all time learning...
Well.. i speak portuguese (my official language), spanish, french, italian, english and a little, very little of german. I would love to learn Basco (i dunno the name in english, but it's one of the languages in Spain).
I think in english is called Basquian/Euskera (Basque Country) and is a very difficult but amazing language!, it has nothing in common with the other latin tongues, actually the origin of Basquian is still quite unknown (some say it comes from Russian, some say blah). I would like to learn it too.
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I'm not sure Von can speak Chinese, he went to Leeds to learn the language, but got put off by the compulsory stay in China as part of the course. I also remember reading/hearing somewhere that he hadn't practiced and had forgot what he learnt.

My friend's girlfriend is currently in China doing the practical there, apparently it took her about 3 weeks just to learn to say "Hi, how are you?"

As for me, I speak English and if you get me drunk enough I might speak Afrikaans, I can also understand a Dutch conversation.

Unfortunately I have no idea what my Serbian friends are saying most of the time :?
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Nick_O_Tine wrote:
I think in english is called Basquian/Euskera (Basque Country) and is a very difficult but amazing language!, it has nothing in common with the other latin tongues, actually the origin of Basquian is still quite unknown (some say it comes from Russian, some say blah). I would like to learn it too.
I found this...

El Euskera, or the Basque language, is spoken in the northern central area of Spain (where the Pyrennes meet the Cantabrian Sea) and it is nowadays written with Latin alphabet. There are about 600,000 speakers in the north of Spain, the entire province of Guipúzcoa, in addition to the provinces of Vizcaya and Navarra and some areas in Alava. However, Basque is not only spoken in Spain, you will also find Basque people in the French Atlantic Pyrenees (approx. 100,000 speakers).
The origin of the Basque is not really traceable and there have been a number of hypotheses. It has been suggested that the ancestors of the Basques' language was introduced into this part of Europe by immigrants from Asia Minor at the beginning of the Bronze Age (circa 2000 BC). Basque and Castillian entered History together, since the first text preserved in Castillian, the Código Emilianense, c.977, is also written in Basque.
Since 1982, Euskera is the official language of the Basque provinces together with Castillian. The orographic features of the region have contributed to maintaining its linguistic diversity, which cause some linguists, based on the intercommunicative difficulties, to claim the existence of seven different Basque languages. To overcome this fragmentation the Royal Academy of the Basque Language was created in 1919, and in 1968, a standardized Basque grammar called batúa was adopted for official purposes.
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moonchild wrote:
Nick_O_Tine wrote:
I think in english is called Basquian/Euskera (Basque Country) and is a very difficult but amazing language!, it has nothing in common with the other latin tongues, actually the origin of Basquian is still quite unknown (some say it comes from Russian, some say blah). I would like to learn it too.
I found this...

El Euskera, or the Basque language, is spoken in the northern central area of Spain (where the Pyrennes meet the Cantabrian Sea) and it is nowadays written with Latin alphabet. There are about 600,000 speakers in the north of Spain, the entire province of Guipúzcoa, in addition to the provinces of Vizcaya and Navarra and some areas in Alava. However, Basque is not only spoken in Spain, you will also find Basque people in the French Atlantic Pyrenees (approx. 100,000 speakers).
The origin of the Basque is not really traceable and there have been a number of hypotheses. It has been suggested that the ancestors of the Basques' language was introduced into this part of Europe by immigrants from Asia Minor at the beginning of the Bronze Age (circa 2000 BC). Basque and Castillian entered History together, since the first text preserved in Castillian, the Código Emilianense, c.977, is also written in Basque.
Since 1982, Euskera is the official language of the Basque provinces together with Castillian. The orographic features of the region have contributed to maintaining its linguistic diversity, which cause some linguists, based on the intercommunicative difficulties, to claim the existence of seven different Basque languages. To overcome this fragmentation the Royal Academy of the Basque Language was created in 1919, and in 1968, a standardized Basque grammar called batúa was adopted for official purposes.
I have to find a Euskera-Spanish/English/whatever online translator. Euskera is cool!.
I guess you understand pretty well Gallego language. It has much more in common with Portuguese than with Spanish.
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Nancy_78 wrote:Alongside French,German,Italian and his native English Andrew also speaks Chinese fluently.

Jim:
Sorry to correct you but Serbo-Croat as a language doesn't exist.It is either Serbian or Croatian.Yes,they are very similar but at the same time very different to each other.

As for me,I speak following languages:my native Croatian,English,German,a little French and have also learned Latin but just like pikkrong can't speak it.
Hey - nothing to do with me - that quote is directly from the sisters web site. Maybe you could reach Von at devnull and correct him ;-)
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I also read not long ago that Andrew no longer speaks Chinese in any sense of the word. He remembers a few words, but only from books, and he never got to speak it anyway, because he learned Mandarin, whereas most Chinese people in Europe speak Cantonese, right? So we can cross that one off.

So in terms of foreign languages, he can speak German fluently, and French close to fluently. As he remarked himself, this means that he is not very unusual. Pretty close to your average educated European, excepting us largely philistine monoglot British.

He can also speak some Italian, and (no-one seems to have picked up on this so far), some Dutch. Whether this really makes him a polyglot, or a linguistic prodigy, I doubt very much. But for someone like me who only uses one language fluently, it's still impressive.
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Nick_O_Tine wrote: I have to find a Euskera-Spanish/English/whatever online translator. Euskera is cool!.
I guess you understand pretty well Gallego language. It has much more in common with Portuguese than with Spanish.
Yes, i understand pretty well Gallego language. Catallan is difficult for me to understand and also Euskera.
From wich city are you from?
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Nick_O_Tine wrote: I have to find a Euskera-Spanish/English/whatever online translator. Euskera is cool!.
I found this... is not a translator but it's great to learn many words.

http://www.travlang.com/languages/cgi-b ... ng2=basque
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I speak,write,read English very bad.
sometimes I speak, write ,read Japanese very very bad.
rarely I read German very very very bad.
I can recognized some chinese character on good day.

As a result of that I only fluent in that languange is now using where i living now.

Sadly,sometimes i suffered the dysfunction to speak my language on bad day.

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moonchild wrote:
Nick_O_Tine wrote: I have to find a Euskera-Spanish/English/whatever online translator. Euskera is cool!.
I guess you understand pretty well Gallego language. It has much more in common with Portuguese than with Spanish.
Yes, i understand pretty well Gallego language. Catallan is difficult for me to understand and also Euskera.
From wich city are you from?
Catalan is much more similar to French, for example. I live in Mallorca, Baleares. What about you?.
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whitesatin wrote:
As a result of that I only fluent in that languange is now using where i living now.
and what is this language?
we are friends here :wink:
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Nick_O_Tine wrote: Catalan is much more similar to French, for example. I live in Mallorca, Baleares. What about you?.
i know that it's a mix between French and Spanish. I live in Portugal, in Gaia (near Oporto).
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