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And I don't mean the 'ES fitness' standard of multilingualism. How many languages are you actually fluent in? Would you say that the sentiment behind Esperanto is a laudable one, in that it would be desirable for us all (especially as the world becomes increasingly interconnected) to adopt an uncomplicated, universal auxiliary language without abandoning native ones? Or will English continue to remain the de facto international language, despite the fulminations of those who oppose this on idealistic and political grounds?
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I speak american and mexican.
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I speak american and mexican.
Oh, I thought you spoke English and Portugeuse? Por favor aceite minhas desculpas... my bad... ;D
And 'fluency' is the key word here - like most Brits, I can survive in France, Germany and Spain - and I can read them a helluva lot better than I can 'hear' them... but by no measure am I fluent. So based on the OP's initial premise, I'm afraid my pitiful (honest) answer is 1. (Maybe 1.5 at a push :))
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English and British Sign Language.
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I also am fluent in brazillian.
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And Mozambiquen and Angolanese
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I speak venezuelan, colombianese and argentinian also. Cubanese is also one of my specialties.
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Acholi Duala Javanese Mnong Somali
Afar Dutch Jingpho Mongolian Soninke
Afrikaans Dzongkha Jinyu Moroccan Arabic Sorani
Akan Edo Juba Arabic Mortlockese Spanish
Akateko Estonian Jula Napoletano Sudanese Arabic
Albanian Ewe Navajo Sunda
Amharic Farsi Kamba Nepali Susu
Anuak Fijian Kanjobal Ngambay Swahili
Apache Fijian Hindi Kannada Nigerian Pidgin Swedish
Arabic Finnish Karen Norwegian Sylhetti
Armenian Flemish Nuer Tagalog
Assyrian French Kayah Nupe Taiwanese
Azerbaijani French Canadian Kazakh Nyanja Tajik
Bahasa Fukienese Kham Nyoro Tamil
Bahdini Fulani Khana Ojibway Teluga
Bahnar Fuzhou Khmer Oromo Thai
Bajuni Ga K’iché Palauan Tibetan
Bambara Gaddang Kikuyu Pampangan Tigré
Bantu Gaelic-Irish Kimiiru Papiamento Tigrigna
Barese Gaelic-Scottish Koho Pashto Toishanese
Basque Garre Korean Plautdietsch Tongan
Bassa Gen Kpelle Pohnpeian Tooro
Georgian Krahn Polish
Belorussian German Krio Portuguese Turkish
Bemba Gheg Kunama Portuguese, Brazilian Turkmen
Benaadir Gokana Kurmanji Portuguese, Cape Verdean Tzotzil
Bengali Greek Kyrgyz Pugliese Ukranian
Berber Gujarati Laotian Pulaar Urdu
Bosnian Gulay Latvian Punjabi Uyghur
Bravanese Gurani Liberian Pidgin English Putian Uzbek
Bulgarian Haitian Creole Lingala Quechua Vietnamese
Burmese Hakka-China Lithuanian Quichua Visayan
Cantonese Hakka-Taiwan Luba-Kasai Rade Wodaabe
Catalan Hassaniyya Luganda Rakhine Wolof
Cebuano Hausa Luo Rohingya Wuzhou
Chaldean Hebrew Maay Romanian Yemeni Arabic
Chamorro Hiligaynon Macedonian Rundi Yiddish
Chaochow Hindi Malay Russian Yoruba
Chin Falam Hindko Malayalam Rwanda Yunnanese
Chin Hakha Hmong Maltese Samoan Zapoteco
Chin Mara Hunanese Mam Zarma
Chin Matu Hungarian Mandarin Seraiki Zyphe
Chin Senthang Ibanag Mandinka Serbian
Chin Tedim Icelandic Maninka Shanghainese
Chipewyan Igbo Manobo Shona
Chuukese Ilocano Marathi Sichuan Yi
Cree Indonesian Marka Sicilian
Croatian Inuktitut Marshallese Sinhala
Czech Italian Mbay Slovak
Danish Jakartanese Mien Slovene
Dari Jamaican Patois Mirpuri Soga
Dewoin Japanese Mixteco
Dinka Mizo
esfitness approved....
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Oh, I thought you spoke English and Portugeuse? Por favor aceite minhas desculpas... my bad... ;D
And 'fluency' is the key word here - like most Brits, I can survive in France, Germany and Spain - and I can read them a helluva lot better than I can 'hear' them... but by no measure am I fluent. So based on the OP's initial premise, I'm afraid my pitiful (honest) answer is 1. (Maybe 1.5 at a push :))
Yes, I'm the same. I can survive in French and Spanish speaking places but I'm not close to being fluent. German is probably my strongest but It's still a nightmare trying to have a conversation with a native speaker.
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English and British Sign Language.
Good call. I can still remember the BSL alphabet but I regret not really learning it. I love the idea of being able to communicate with someone in total silence (unless they're actually deaf and then you have to tolerate all the ape-like 'ooh' and 'aah' outbursts).
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Fluent? English
Not as fluent? Spanish
Then viet, tagalog ,& Japanese. Enough to say/ask simple thing things & watch news/tv shows and understand. Can't really read much tagalog, but can read the basics of viet (w/o the intonations, ascending/defending/flat/dip stuff) and "Roman/latin" Japanese (not kanji)... Once you learn a 2nd language you notice similarities in others. Used to know some Italian and Bulgarian but didn't use it and wasn't around it enough to have it stick.. I think about all the Bulgarian I remember is counting now lol
The people who only speak English and get angry when people speak other languages remind me of somebody who only learned algebra in high school and get angry at those who went on to calculus or trigonometry... Instead of making themselves better/smarter, they'd rather have everybody be dumbed-down. Pathetic.. If you only speak 1 language, the world is gonna pass you by. Most my kids speak 2, if not 3 or 4 languages.
The first girl I fucked out of prison was an Iraqi girl21yrs old, lived on 29Palms working for the dept. Of defense as a linguist/translator and spoke 12 languages fluently. Fucking impressive for a crazy bitch.
ESFitness, did you study Linguistics while you were in prison? Did a wise old inmate teach you the complexities of language?
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Fluent? English
Not as fluent? Spanish
Then viet, tagalog ,& Japanese. Enough to say/ask simple thing things & watch news/tv shows and understand. Can't really read much tagalog, but can read the basics of viet (w/o the intonations, ascending/defending/flat/dip stuff) and "Roman/latin" Japanese (not kanji)... Once you learn a 2nd language you notice similarities in others. Used to know some Italian and Bulgarian but didn't use it and wasn't around it enough to have it stick.. I think about all the Bulgarian I remember is counting now lol
The people who only speak English and get angry when people speak other languages remind me of somebody who only learned algebra in high school and get angry at those who went on to calculus or trigonometry... Instead of making themselves better/smarter, they'd rather have everybody be dumbed-down. Pathetic.. If you only speak 1 language, the world is gonna pass you by. Most my kids speak 2, if not 3 or 4 languages.
The first girl I fucked out of prison was an Iraqi girl21yrs old, lived on 29Palms working for the dept. Of defense as a linguist/translator and spoke 12 languages fluently. Fucking impressive for a crazy bitch.
You are either a total fuckwit or Im now convinced its not even esfitness.
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I speak jive
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And I don't mean the 'ES fitness' standard of multilingualism. How many languages are you actually fluent in? Would you say that the sentiment behind Esperanto is a laudable one, in that it would be desirable for us all (especially as the world becomes increasingly interconnected) to adopt an uncomplicated, universal auxiliary language without abandoning native ones? Or will English continue to remain the de facto international language, despite the fulminations of those who oppose this on idealistic and political grounds?
Spanish and English. And I'll probably stop there.
The most annoying and difficult thing to overcome when learning a third language is... I don't need it.
At work we receive the visit of clients from Japan, Italy, Sweden and some other European Countries. ALL OF THEM (the visitors) speak english fluently.
I see no point in investing so much time and energy into learning a third language when English is so widely spoken.
If I had interest in learning about the culture of x country, then I'll probably do it. Until then, it would be frustating to practice x or y language only to never use it.
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I'm a Yank....one......
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I speak jive
See a broad to get that booty-yak? Lack em down and smack em yack em! Cold got to be, ya know? Sheeeeeit.
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Spanish and English. And I'll probably stop there.
The most annoying and difficult thing to overcome when learning a third language is... I don't need it.
At work we receive the visit of clients from Japan, Italy, Sweden and some other European Countries. ALL OF THEM (the visitors) speak english fluently.
I see no point in investing so much time and energy into learning a third language when English is so widely spoken.
If I had interest in learning about the culture of x country, then I'll probably do it. Until then, it would be frustating to practice x or y language only to never use it.
It is a lot of time and investment. I think you're right that you need to envelop yourself in the culture to really master another language.
I'm a Yank....one......
That's all you need, Sync. G-d bless!
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Fluent? English
Not as fluent? Spanish
Then viet, tagalog ,& Japanese. Enough to say/ask simple thing things & watch news/tv shows and understand. Can't really read much tagalog, but can read the basics of viet (w/o the intonations, ascending/defending/flat/dip stuff) and "Roman/latin" Japanese (not kanji)... Once you learn a 2nd language you notice similarities in others. Used to know some Italian and Bulgarian but didn't use it and wasn't around it enough to have it stick.. I think about all the Bulgarian I remember is counting now lol
The people who only speak English and get angry when people speak other languages remind me of somebody who only learned algebra in high school and get angry at those who went on to calculus or trigonometry... Instead of making themselves better/smarter, they'd rather have everybody be dumbed-down. Pathetic.. If you only speak 1 language, the world is gonna pass you by. Most my kids speak 2, if not 3 or 4 languages.
The first girl I fucked out of prison was an Iraqi girl21yrs old, lived on 29Palms working for the dept. Of defense as a linguist/translator and spoke 12 languages fluently. Fucking impressive for a crazy bitch.
You nearly made it a full post without mentioning prison...
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Dos
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Sign Language.
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Two.
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Would you say that the sentiment behind Esperanto is a laudable one
No, wrongheaded as hell.
Imperfections and peculiarities only seem so if you don't understand their historical basis. It's fun to discover the reason behind odd phrases or bizarre conjugations. Marble with no veins is boring.
Efficiency is not paramount in communication. Name a written work or speech that's celebrated for its efficient conveyance of ideas. Who's gonna write poetry in Esperanto?
Languages evolve with their culture. Within your language, your accent, speech patterns, and cadence comment on your regional influences. The linguists who tried to fob off an invented language on the world had their heads so far up the theoretical ass that they missed what we all know. No one decides to learn French but hates France and French culture.
But I wish it had taken hold, just to see their conniptions when local influences began to have their way with their perfect little creation. Faakin preceding every third noun in Boston. The Yall plural informal verb tense across the South. They'd be shitting perfectly dimensioned little bricks.
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One the only one that matters,English.
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english and body language
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No, wrongheaded as hell.
Imperfections and peculiarities only seem so if you don't understand their historical basis. It's fun to discover the reason behind odd phrases or bizarre conjugations. Marble with no veins is boring.
Efficiency is not paramount in communication. Name a written work or speech that's celebrated for its efficient conveyance of ideas. Who's gonna write poetry in Esperanto?
Languages evolve with their culture. Within your language, your accent, speech patterns, and cadence comment on your regional influences. The linguists who tried to fob off an invented language on the world had their heads so far up the theoretical ass that they missed what we all know. No one decides to learn French but hates France and French culture.
But I wish it had taken hold, just to see their conniptions when local influences began to have their way with their perfect little creation. Faakin preceding every third noun in Boston. The Yall plural informal verb tense across the South. They'd be shitting perfectly dimensioned little bricks.
I agree with you on the beauty of language and the way in which it is viewed by most as a verbal expression of culture, but remember, we are talking about Esperanto as an auxiliary language to be used internationally - without sacrificing all that is great and unique about our own native/ethnic ones. I'm simply playing devil's advocate and have no plans to learn it, but I can certainly see why it would be valued as an ideal. I doubt it will ever be embraced on a significant scale, though. To have a language that's easy to learn, as a means of communication internationally between different speakers would be a great benefit - and I don't think you need to be a utopian 'world peace' advocate to appreciate its utility. English is widely spoken, but not as much as we tend to think. Still, I'm not really interested in the argument that English has imperialist connotations and isn't politically neutral - I'd just like to not come across as a bumbling fool when I travel around. If a large portion of Europe spoke it as a second language then I would learn it.
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I'd just like to not come across as a bumbling fool when I travel around.
somehow I think that will be an impossibility for u.... no matter what u shit out of ur mouth.
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oh and the language of love.
so thats three.
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