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Originally Posted By: Para_Bellum
Italian good enough to embarrass myself.
You reminded me of that hilarious scene in "Inglorious Basterds" when Brad Pitt's character was trying to speak Italian and failing miserably.
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Hopefully fluent in English & French, you tell me. Highly conversant in Mandarin, with a light Taiwanese ring to it. Rude, and always misunderstood, in Cantonese.
My Spanish and German were both pretty good during my high school yrs, all gone now.
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English Klingon Huttese My Elvish is pretty poor, my Wookiee is barely at a conversational level, but my beeps can be understood by astromechs and protocol droids.
Oh, I'm thoroughly fluent in science AND technobabble, so whatever they talk about on TV I always know if they've got it right or the actors and writers fumbled badly.
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Most dialects of English and many of American, though I do have trouble with some of the Appalachian variants I was conversant in French in my younger days but lack of parctice has made my vocabulary pretty limited.
English, not quite fluent in Spanish, but am pretty good. I'd like to get sent to Panama for a month or two to perfect it, but the Army is getting cheap with TDY.
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#3799507 - 06/20/1305:44 PMRe: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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Originally Posted By: SkateZilla
English, Java and Klingon
Are you white & nerdy?
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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I was conversant in French in my younger days but lack of parctice has made my vocabulary pretty limited.
