Author Topic: What is your native/first/best/usual language? (Read 28524 times)

NiTRoX · « **Reply #30 on:** February 26, 2008, 06:45:32 pm »

Why use it then?

khalsa · « **Reply #31 on:** February 26, 2008, 06:51:13 pm »

Last I checked, I lived in America, worked with english speakers, was on Trem.net where English is the language of choice, and have very little choice in the matter.

I tend to avoid it as much as I can when I do have the option.

Khalsa

player1 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 26, 2008, 06:51:34 pm »

It's like VHS: not necessarily better, just an accepted standard.

thirdstreettito · « **Reply #33 on:** February 26, 2008, 06:59:25 pm »

Location: North Carolina, USA, Earth, Universe

Main language: English

Secondary Languages: Some Spanish and some Hawaiian.

player1 · « **Reply #34 on:** February 26, 2008, 07:04:38 pm »

Hawaiian or Pidgin?

What, you like play da one Tremulous da kine, haole-boy?

Shadowgandor · « **Reply #35 on:** February 26, 2008, 07:43:05 pm »

Nationality: Dutch (Netherlands)
Language: Dutch (best and native language

)
English
Broken German
I can make guesses on what things in french mean

ShadowNinjaDudeMan · « **Reply #36 on:** February 26, 2008, 08:18:03 pm »

Quote from: NiTRoX on February 26, 2008, 03:32:30 pm

Born in Malta
I live in Malta.
First Language: Maltese/English (Maltese mainly used)
Second Language: English
Third: Italian
Fourth: French (I can understand what I read but not good at making conversations)

Hmmm, this guy I hate usually babysits the Preident (or whatever) of Maltas children. He keeps blabbering on about, among being an attention whore and screaming with mock pain at the top of his voice when someone puts nearly melted ice on his hand when he asks them to, all for the sake of attention...

Scottish, born in Oman
English (UK)
Latin... I was taught French and German by force, but its leaving me.

thirdstreettito · « **Reply #37 on:** February 26, 2008, 08:37:11 pm »

Quote from: player1 on February 26, 2008, 07:04:38 pm

Hawaiian or Pidgin?

What, you like play da one Tremulous da kine, haole-boy?

Hawaiian.

player1 · « **Reply #38 on:** February 26, 2008, 11:54:46 pm »

@Tito: No way. How cool. How did that happen in NC? Family? You mean Hawaiian as in only 14 letters in the alphabet Hawaiian? I'll tell you one thing: when they build a new development in Hawaii, and your friend tells you the name of his street, it pays to write it down. We spent like two hours looking for a place one of my friends thought was "something like Pele, or Pulu; c'mon, how many names like that can there be?" (we wanted to kill him, but it was his car). Every street in that subdevelopment had a four letter name starting with a "P".

@the shadow bros: gandor & ninjamandude - I thought you were both Americans. Good job.

snb · « **Reply #39 on:** February 27, 2008, 12:28:14 am »

yeah normal english is full of uneccicery words and rules that why the SNB weapons company developed the sub A version

thirdstreettito · « **Reply #40 on:** February 27, 2008, 01:39:17 am »

Yeah my aunt lived there with her computer programmer boyfriend for like 4 years. She taught me everything about the language.

gareth · « **Reply #41 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:58:34 am »

Quote from: snb on February 27, 2008, 12:28:14 am

yeah normal english is full of uneccicery words and rules that why the SNB weapons company developed the sub A version

you are one strange troll...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=NzJ&q=SNB+weapon+company&btnG=Search&meta=

+ OPTIMUS + · « **Reply #42 on:** February 27, 2008, 11:48:25 am »

native/location: Hungary

learned: English
learned secondary: latin (totally forgot)

and once i decided to learn the sentence:"i can'T drive my submarine because my tie is disturbing me" in as many language as i can, but i can'T write them down, nor pronounce well...

jackForward · « **Reply #43 on:** February 27, 2008, 02:34:35 pm »

Me: German
Language: German
Other Languages: english. Just like almost every other german i learned it at school.

Tycho · « **Reply #44 on:** February 27, 2008, 04:17:05 pm »

I am hungarian (lol big surprise after being in [HUN] for quite some time now...) but some of my friends say that I speak better english than hungarian. Truth is: My native language is hungarian but I do sound like if I was bilingual from the start... (I make gramatical errors in written english - in b4 some english-grammarnazi attacks my posts) I understand a little italian (cannot speak anymore) and I study russian in university but I'm really a beginner...

kaziorvb · « **Reply #45 on:** February 27, 2008, 05:48:45 pm »

Nationality, native language: Polish
Others: English, German (a bit), French (a bit), Italian (a bit)

Geni3 · « **Reply #46 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:33:04 pm »

Location: America
Nationality: American

Languages:
First Language: Russian
Primary Language: English
Learning: French - 3rd year
picked up by living there: some hawaiian, at least the pronunciation who would think a highway called the Likelike highway would be pronounced leekeleeke

Bajsefar · « **Reply #47 on:** February 28, 2008, 10:25:21 pm »

Location: Norway
Primary language: Norwegian
Secondary language: English
Tertiary language: German (Can not remember a thing at all.)

Can understand Danish, and swedish.
Icelandic is strangely familiar to me, as it is almost like norse, which is the ancestor of modern Norwegian. :p
Can also understand Dutch, as it sounds like a strange mix between English, german and scandinavian languages.

player1 · « **Reply #48 on:** February 29, 2008, 06:17:16 am »

I've worked with Dutch crews a few times, and since I took some German a long time ago, I always almost feel like I can sort of understand Dutch, like it's (as you said) a combination of English and German and some other stuff. It sounds like people talking in dreams. It almost means something, but you just can't quite make it out.

+ OPTIMUS + · « **Reply #49 on:** February 29, 2008, 09:04:07 am »

well, if you are hungarian and you hear the "ambient.wav" in a pub in FINLAND, you can definitely beleive that you're at home, or you understood an estimated 1-2 words.
we have like 4-5 words similar, but by the sound our language still looks like similar by hearing :-)

FoXx · « **Reply #50 on:** February 29, 2008, 10:50:56 am »

Quote from: player1 on February 29, 2008, 06:17:16 am

I've worked with Dutch crews a few times, and since I took some German a long time ago, I always almost feel like I can sort of understand Dutch,

Yeah, Dutch is quite similar to the German language, only German is harder (I think)

Shadowgandor · « **Reply #51 on:** February 29, 2008, 02:12:46 pm »

Quote from: FoXx on February 29, 2008, 10:50:56 am

Quote from: player1 on February 29, 2008, 06:17:16 am
I've worked with Dutch crews a few times, and since I took some German a long time ago, I always almost feel like I can sort of understand Dutch,

Yeah, Dutch is quite similar to the German language, only German is harder (I think)

Lol, no, the other way around

Dutch has a lot of exceptions in terms of spelling and all. Ofcourse, I too think that German is more difficult, because it is not my native language, but if I heard it right, dutch is one of the more difficult languages

+ OPTIMUS + · « **Reply #52 on:** February 29, 2008, 03:08:16 pm »

:-) i have a friend who is in hungary for like twelve (!) years, and his mother is hungarian, and he still has accent and doesn't know many words and exceptions....

as much as i heard, hungarian and japaneese are the hardest languages. idn, i see many of you started to learn japaneese, but noone told that he/she speaks it well :-)

player1 · « **Reply #53 on:** March 01, 2008, 04:58:50 am »

Quote from: + OPTIMUS + on February 29, 2008, 09:04:07 am

well, if you are hungarian and you hear the "ambient.wav" in a pub in FINLAND, you can definitely beleive that you're at home, or you understood an estimated 1-2 words.
we have like 4-5 words similar, but by the sound our language still looks like similar by hearing :-)

I believe that Finno-Ugric is a division of the Ural-Altaic languages, according to philologists, who find similarities in languages as seemingly diverse as Finnish, Hungarian and Korean. Which is a long-winded way of saying scientists agree with you.

player1 · « **Reply #54 on:** July 01, 2008, 06:29:21 am »

How do you say double-post necro bump in your native/first/best/usual language?

But seriously, it would be nice to know if some of the newer members are not used to expressing themselves in English; perhaps people would be a bit more grammar tolerant than some have as of late.

Capice?

Ellohir · « **Reply #55 on:** July 01, 2008, 12:22:57 pm »

Me: Spain, Europe
Language: Spanish
Other languages: Almost perfect English and French

Lava Croft · « **Reply #56 on:** July 01, 2008, 01:27:02 pm »

I speak the language of wisdom, it is not confined to a country or group of people. My words are omnipotent and can be understood by anyone.

In case people are too stupid to understand that language, I speak either Dutch, which is my native language, or English, which I use more than Dutch. A bit of German, French and old Latin are mine too, but only the basics.

Kaleo · « **Reply #57 on:** July 01, 2008, 01:50:43 pm »

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The # is where Lava is.

Snake · « **Reply #58 on:** July 01, 2008, 03:41:47 pm »

Well, this is the first time that i check this topic, so lets give some info <>.<>

I'm from Colombia, South america.
My native language is spanish
I speak english too (We dont talk it here but Tremulous and the players are good teachers of english

)
I speak a little bit of Papiamentu and Dutch
Um, and i can understand a little bit of portuguese (i dont like that language is kinda gay <,<)

Oh i forgot, i know C, PHP, Perl, and i'm learning Pyton :>

ACKMAN · « **Reply #59 on:** July 01, 2008, 10:04:08 pm »

-From Spain
-Speak spanish
-Also know: english, french and.. (nah... only a bit) japanese

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Author Topic: What is your native/first/best/usual language? (Read 28524 times)

FoXx

Lava Croft