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What languages do you speak?

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Bassil Warbone, Aug 12, 2006.

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    [​IMG] What languages can you speak, even if you only know 8 or 10 phrases?
     
    Bassil Warbone, Aug 12, 2006
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    Felinoid Who did the what now? ★ SPS Account Holder

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    English and French, though my French is a little rusty.
     
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    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    English, french but it's very crap, and Spanish which is not great but significantly better than my french.
     
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    Finnish, English (didn't guess that, huh?), French and German
     
    Trellheim, Aug 12, 2006
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    English, French (rusty), a small amount of Spanish, and enough Greek to get by at an archaeological site.
     
    Laiwethel, Aug 12, 2006
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    Finnish, english, swedish and a little french. I can understand french waaay better I can speak it.
     
    Iku-Turso, Aug 12, 2006
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    German, English, some remnants of French and Japanese
     
    Dendri, Aug 12, 2006
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    A bit of english.

    Jonkin verran suomee.

    Och min språkkunskapen också inkluderar liten sverige.

    Я также понимаю по-русский немного.
     
    Wordplay, Aug 12, 2006
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    English, some very rusty French left over from HS, and nascent Hebrew.

    I can wiggle my way around menus in most restaurants. ;)
     
    Rallymama, Aug 12, 2006
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    English, Russian, French, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Dutch, Danish and German.
     
    kuemper, Aug 12, 2006
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    German obviuosly. English and what's left of my school french.
     
    Fabius Maximus, Aug 12, 2006
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    Shell Awww, come and give me a big hug!

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    English and at some point in the future, Latin and Irish Gaelic
     
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    Currently fluent in french and english, on my way to learn german, spanish, italian and mandarin.
     
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    English, none others really. I can speak a few words in Spanish and German, but I MEAN a few.
     
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    * English, Spanish - Fluent

    * Italian, Portuguez. - I understand fine, but not so fluent speaking it.

    * German - A very small amount
     
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    I have the typical Canadian combo of English and some very rusty French.
     
    JSBB, Aug 12, 2006
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    Filipino, Mandarin (heh, not well) and Engggurish. Planning to take Spanish.
     
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    Must share in case anyone wants to figure out their D&D stats. In 2e, INT determines the maximum number of languages you can know, so if you know a certain number of languages, it precludes you from low INT scores. But knowing few languages doesn't make you an idiot; you could have 25 INT and only know one language if you simply spent the Non-Weapon Proficiency points (i.e. time learning) elsewhere. If you're feeling humble, you can count languages you only "kind of know" as a fraction.

    1 language = at least 2 INT
    2 languages = at least 9 INT
    3 languages = at least 12 INT
    4 languages = at least 14 INT
    5 languages = at least 16 INT
    6 languages = at least 17 INT
    7 languages = at least 18 INT
    8 languages = at least 19 INT (kuemper, you're a genius!)
    9 languages = at least 20 INT
    10 languages = at least 21 INT
    11 languages = at least 22 INT
    12 languages = at least 23 INT
    13-15 languages = at least 24 INT
    16-20 languages = 25 INT
    >20 languages = How do you have room for anything else in that head? :p
     
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    I owe it all to Adobe Acrobat. The current version I have (7.0) is in English. The last 2 were in Danish and Dutch respectively. :p
     
    kuemper, Aug 12, 2006
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    Finnish, Swedish and surprise: English. :E But damn, I wanna learn latin.
     
    Late, Aug 12, 2006
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