Polyglots

[JaiPeur]

polâ?¢yâ?¢glot

Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages.


I'm relatively young and live in America. It's uncommon here for most people my age to speak even English clearly, but I've found I have little trouble learning languages. I speak three so far and am currently deciding which to learn next (Bambara? Dutch? Haitian Creole? Any thoughts?).

None of my friends are polyglots. Whenever I smoke with others I almost always get asked to "say something in a different language" while high. They'll give me sentences to translate or just ask that I speak in a different language for awhile. Apparently it trips them out.

Are there other polyglots on the boards? Let's trip each other out.

:rasta:

[Oneironaut]

I'm currently learning French, Spanish, German, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Esperanto. I too have a knack for languages, which really helps out since I have to talk to a lot of French Canadians at work.

[nb313]

I recomend Norwegian. then u could understand this :
"Hvorfor har ikke isbiter armer og bein? De er vannskapt"

(hint: "det er en vannvittig morsom vits"

[birdgirl73]

I have a facility for languages, too, but I'm a fairly simple polyglot compared to you two, Oneironaut and JaiPeur. Spanish, French and my native tongue, American English. I'd count Latin, too, but of course I don't really speak that, only read it. My friends don't get tripped out when I use other languages, though. With Spanish esepcially, they're just grateful. I live in Texas, where I use it practically every day.

Next on my list is Italian. Sometime or other, I'd like to break out of the romance language rut and study, say, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese or Russian. Something with a different alphabet altogether.

[ksizzle]

I am bilingual. French and English, however i have perfect fluency in both due to having lived in both France and England at various points of my life. My next target is German

[bhouncy]

I find learning another language difficult for me. Give me a maths equation any day of the week. I would probably be more up for learning another language if I was going to live with that culture. Otherwise I think it's a waste of a good brain.

[DannyMan]

pol•y•glot

Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages.


I'm relatively young and live in America. It's uncommon here for most people my age to speak even English clearly, but I've found I have little trouble learning languages. I speak three so far and am currently deciding which to learn next (Bambara? Dutch? Haitian Creole? Any thoughts?).

None of my friends are polyglots. Whenever I smoke with others I almost always get asked to "say something in a different language" while high. They'll give me sentences to translate or just ask that I speak in a different language for awhile. Apparently it trips them out.

Are there other polyglots on the boards? Let's trip each other out.

:rasta:


Je sais ce que tu veux dire.. mes amis me demandent toujours de dire des mots en francais ;)

Yo hablo espanol un pequeno..pero nescessito practicar mas.


I speak a few DMT languages as well.. or wait no.. that's all in my head, isn't it.

[Oneironaut]

I recomend Norwegian. then u could understand this :
"Hvorfor har ikke isbiter armer og bein? De er vannskapt"
Why something something something arms or legs? Something is something.

(hint: "det er en vannvittig morsom vits"
That is a something something joke.

That's all I can understand with my knowledge of German and Old English. :p

[birdgirl73]

I can speak pig latin. Does that count?
Ertainly-say!

[birdgirl73]

You're familiar with Old English, Oneironaut? I'll be eager to find out where you studied! Few people indeed have any knowledge of Old or Middle English. The only ones I've ever met are linguistics grad students and professors, at least.

[Oneironaut]

I'm a linguistics undergrad. :p And I don't know a whole lot about Old English, I just know a lot about the etymologies of words. I probably couldn't even make a grammatical sentence in Old English, but I can understand bits of it.

[birdgirl73]

Cool! I knew you were smart as a wolf. Neat to know you're heading in a lingual direction. Linguistics was my concentration as an undergrad English major, too. You want to work in academia? Do diplomatic or business translation work?

My dad is a retired linguistics professor, and his academic specialities were/are Old English, Middle English, and dialectical studies. I was far more interested in dialectical studies myself than in the other two. I seem to remember that Old and Middle weren't covered in any depth at U of Texas till graduate school (other than the Middle exposure undergrads got to Chaucer).

[shoi]

im not at all good at languages... which sux becuase i always rlly rlly rlly want to learn one but i nvr can