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Discussion: What Languages Do You Speak?
Member Since: 10/3/2009
Posts: 35,844
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Originally posted by Xx-M!ss-Marn!e-Xx
You Kidding? in Australia they have 3 story houses, they are sooo rich and the australians are sooooo poor
they are lucky  my best friend, (well used to be best friend) had the biggest house 
it was like EPIC!
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Its incredible how unfair life is
Why used to be BFF Marnie¿ 
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Member Since: 10/10/2009
Posts: 10,662
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Originally posted by MrDeeds
Español, English, Italiano(a lil bet)
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 8/11/2007
Posts: 63,796
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Originally posted by Sunderland 4ever
Its incredible how unfair life is
Why used to be BFF Marnie¿ 
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she went to uni, and i lost contact with her  left message, no reply, its weird 
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Member Since: 11/30/2007
Posts: 26,796
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English and Spanish.
I used to speak French but that died off. 
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Member Since: 2/7/2009
Posts: 2,781
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Hebrew.
English (Not perfect thogh)
Arabic,Spanish (I can understand more the actually speak)
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Member Since: 6/28/2009
Posts: 6,960
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English and Spanish. 
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Member Since: 1/13/2004
Posts: 21,655
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Portuguese and English. I used to know a (veeeery) little of Latin, but I'm losing it. And also, I was supposed to know some French, but... well... Let's just leave like that.. LOL
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Member Since: 11/7/2009
Posts: 9,863
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Back to the China X USA subject, The main key I think that will hold Chinese (Mandarin and their 848965412313874187 messed up dialects) of becoming an official way of international communication is mainly cultural.
The U.S.A. made English an international language for the simple way that the world bought and embraced their culture as it was the only growing and active economy in the world was devastated by the world wars, as they imported their culture, they marked it with images and the language that represented (their) superiority and THEY STILL DO IT... We have music, movies, books, and a hell of others things that are ALL American content, and even if they are "made in Thailand/China" as a lot of electronics, they're still branded as American products...
China has been here for thousands of years and never managed to look relevant, powerful or influential, all it has fame for is for their sweatshops and their image did not get better when they hosted the Olympic games, although it may have showed there's a potential, they left the rest of the world in the defensive, and when they had the chance to show the world they could lead instead of the U.S.A., they didn't, their economy was a hell of a mess when the U.S.A. economy collapsed...
and India is still a developing country, their major cities do not even have public transportation, do you think that country could be a leader?
Never in history there was a domination in the U.S.A. standards we've seen in the past decades, they were not only economic , military or scientifically (as usually were all kinds of domination experienced before them, but most of only in one the categories), they also dominated(and keep on dominating) culturally adding the other 3 that now a days may be seen weak as compared to before.
Not only that, as recent happenings, Euro has been growing for more than 10 years now and is much more valuable currency than the dollar now a days, YET, there's no prospective it should/could/would in any way replace the American dollar as the international currency...
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Member Since: 3/30/2009
Posts: 79,408
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Serbian, English and Russian.
I started learning German and Spanish last week! 
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Member Since: 2/22/2008
Posts: 46,108
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Spanish, English and i can understand a lil bit of Portuguese.
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Member Since: 12/24/2009
Posts: 6,297
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Either a lot of mfers here are lying about the language(s) they speak
or only the multilingual people have been commenting thus far.
which is it 
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Member Since: 9/16/2006
Posts: 5,633
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English, Spanish, French. & Bajan :P
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Member Since: 10/3/2009
Posts: 35,844
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Originally posted by Xx-M!ss-Marn!e-Xx
she went to uni, and i lost contact with her  left message, no reply, its weird 
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 Im not a woman 
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Member Since: 11/7/2009
Posts: 9,863
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Originally posted by Radio Phone
Either a lot of mfers here are lying about the language(s) they speak
or only the multilingual people have been commenting thus far.
which is it 
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Some people may have added one or two more lines to their list, but a lot of people here speak at least 2 languages, since not all the forum is from people whose first language is English 
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Member Since: 10/30/2008
Posts: 15,385
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Spanish and a bit of English 
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 5/6/2009
Posts: 14,429
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English only :-/
British people are lazy at learning new languages 
But I know a bit of french I suppose 
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 12/29/2003
Posts: 6,311
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Mostly English and some Hindi (maybe also Urdu, since it's similar?)
I tried learning French in high school so I can somewhat understand people speaking French... if they speak slowly 
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Member Since: 12/24/2009
Posts: 6,297
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Originally posted by Vini
Some people may have added one or two more lines to their list, but a lot of people here speak at least 2 languages, since not all the forum is from people whose first language is English 
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I just get the feeling a lot of folks are full of it.
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Member Since: 9/28/2009
Posts: 9,353
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Originally posted by Radio Phone
I just get the feeling a lot of folks are full of it.
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But a sizeable portion of ATRL is international, either Latin America, Philippines or Europe, so I think it's natural to expect every member from those regions to speak more than one language. Which is why I made this thread in the first place.
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Member Since: 4/23/2010
Posts: 5,226
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Originally posted by Radio Phone
I just get the feeling a lot of folks are full of it.
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Be specific sis, I want names!
And lots of people speak fluently two languages, it has to be expected since not everyone is from the US or GBAustralia etc.
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