Languages you know.. - The Orange Room

CPL

What languages do you speak besides Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, French, English, and Armenian (if it applies)?

Let's see how diverse internationally members are. For example, I would say I'm in the very very basic level of Hungarian, but I can still understand what people are talking about and can form basic sentences etc.

I know alot of lebanese study german and spanish specifically. So what do you know?

Xena

well,
i studied german for 3 years, i can understand most of a conversation but since i only practice it 2 hours a week i can't really say i speak it...i understand it plutot.
i'm currently studying japanese as well, i have an intermediate level...which reminds me that i have an exam on saturday

but that's a language i'm determined to speak fluently!!

CPL

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Originally Posted by Xena

i'm currently studying japanese as well, i have an intermediate level...which reminds me that i have an exam on saturday

but that's a language i'm determined to speak fluently!!

Ouf, you must be quite stubborn! Ana I tried to study chinese, and I couldn't make it past the Zhong Wen :$ And Japanese is even more complicated because it's based on 3 types of writings, one of which is chinese :O :O :O

Respect for that!!

Lebanese_dream

It has been one year i am studying Spanish. I understand basic conversations. Bass walla dabbaret halé bi Barcelona last time.... Una botella de agua por favor! Un bicadillo de jamon y queso! Ma hek Lopez???

I took some courses of Chinese this year. I learned how to write about 200 caracters. I stopped it due to studies but I will recontinue later on....

Seeking to speak Italian after Spanish...

And Seeking to know more languages than Lopez (I can always dream, fazi3 kif byehfaz bser3a... impressing...)

Xena

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Originally Posted by CPL

Ouf, you must be quite stubborn! Ana I tried to study chinese, and I couldn't make it past the Zhong Wen :$ And Japanese is even more complicated because it's based on 3 types of writings, one of which is chinese :O :O :O

Respect for that!!

japanese is less complicated than chinese when it comes to pronunciation!
but yes it's true there's 3 alphabets..i can write the hiragana and the katakana, and know some 100 kanji (chinese characters) still have 1900 kanji to go to be able to read japanese. :p
now gramaticaly speaking i really don't know which is more complicated japanese or chinese!!

bass you really need to love the language in order to learn it... i LOVE Japan, i listen to their music, i watch their movies, their soap oprahs, their anime!
i cook japanese :p and i would love to live there one day! (a japanese husband maybe?

)...so it's not because i'm stubborn but it's because i'm really really motivated!!

edit: maybe Lebanese_dream can tell us a little bit about the complexity of chinese
edit2: even my avatar is japanese

AlGhaliboon

Southern Lebanese.

German
Some Hebrew

UneLibanaise

I can speak Spanish.

We learn it at school from grade 10 to grade 12.

It's optional though.

basma88

I speak portuguese fluently....
I can understand italian and spanish...But I can't speak them...(it seems too much with portuguese).....

Stella

CPL what do you think as a non-Lebanese, my arabic lessons count here?:D

And also that in Hungary the education system is completely different than in Lebanon, so unfortunately the ones who speak foreign language(s) they speak English mainly.

So I am a native Hungarian speaker:p my first language was English, thats fluent, my second is German, thats not that fluent as English, then I studied Spanish, I am on an advanced level with it, and then started my classical arabic lessons, I am still at basics with it, though can speak not so complicated stuffs and can read and write. I also started french, but beside arabic I didnt have time for it + I truly hate it, if I wont need it by all means then I dont feel any motivation to learn it.
I would like to advance with spanish and arabic rather.

And later I hope I can learn aramaic. I am also interested in Turkish and Farsi.

gramsci

fluently i speak : arabic , italian , french , english
a little german ,