What Languages Do You Speak?

[the_lock_man]

I am dangerous in French, I can speak the language well enough for people to assume that I am fluent, and I end up not understanding what is said to me.
 
I can do conversational German, plus very basic Dutch but will need to improve the latter, as I'm going there for a week in April.
 
I would love to be fluent in lots of languages.

 

[Dreamer03]

My first languagr is spanish. Thn i learned english. I know some sign language, hebrew, romanian, japanese and summarian. I still want yo learn italian, greek, portuguese, and chinese.

 

[Nordk]

What's TI-basic?

A programming language of some sort?

It's the basic programming language for Texas Instrument calculators, I've made quite a few programs and games in it.
http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-BASIC  
I'd like to learn German, Dutch, and probably Klingon too just for fun.

 

[PrincessKiara]

Yay Klingon!
Dreamer03, you speak Romanian!? Wow! Can we chat? Putem să vorbim?

 

[Dreamer03]

Opps....romanian is on wrong list. I wanna learn it. My fiance knows how to speak it, he says he will teach me.

 

[PrincessKiara]

WOOOOOW!!!!! <3 Romanian! What a stunningly gorgeous language! You are soooo lucky!

 

[HAMBONE]

I speak e-bonics, canadian, and cajun

 

[fluttermoth]

I honestly think being able to learn languages is a talent you're either born with or not!
 
My late father was fluent in French, Spanish, Italian and Latin and was pretty good in German and Dutch as well.
 
I, on the other hand, have learning tried French, Spanish, Latin and Armenian and have failed miserably at them all!
 
I do speak quite good horse though 

 

[the_lock_man]

I do speak quite good horse though 

 
Is it compulsory to whisper, though?

 

[MBOU]

Everyone knows you only whisper to horses

 
I have a basic grasp on the English language

  so goodness knows what possessed me to do both German and French at GCSE (actually my parents chose my GCSEs for me so oh well) and Actually got B grade in both. Couldn't speak a word of it now but do understand/get gist of conversation much to the horror of a French speaking and very rude customer I had. I liked letting her know that I had understood what she had said to her partner perfectly well.
 
I always wanted to learn Latin though!! To me it seems a far more interesting and useful thing to know. I have no intention of ever going to France or Germany or anywhere that generally speaks those languages.

 

[fluttermoth]

Latin is surprising useful!
 
Mainly because nearly all European languages evolved from Latin, so you can often get the gist of what words mean; especially in written language; it doesn't work so well for spoken

 

[MBOU]

No but its pretty language in sound and visually! And would be useful in understanding the grammar involved in the names (masculine and feminine etc).
 
Would love to learn more about nomenclature of animals and plants in general as it is a mix of all sorts and a lot of Greek but you see a lot of names repeated or partially repeated between animal and plant names and often because the word signifies a pattern or colour.
 
I had some great pages saved but now all but two say 'page not found'
 
http/www.mchportal.com/fishkeeping-mainmenu-60/treasure-chest-mainmenu-84/46-taxonomy-etymology-fish-names-scientifi-names-of-fish.html
 
http/www.cds.hawaii.edu/kahana/downloads/curriculum/SectionII/Unit9/Unit9Appendix/9.X.vi.ButterflyFish/ID_Fish.pdf

 

[fluttermoth]

I have a list ;
 
* albus - white
* albi - white
* acanthus - thorn (Greek)
* aeneus - brass or copper coloured
* aequi - equal
* aequidens - equal teeth
* affinis - resembles or related to
* amphi - two
* amphi - all around (Greek)
* argenteus - silvery
* arthro - jointed
* astro - star
* auratus - gold or golden
* aureus - gold
* balantio - bag
* balistes - thrown/catapult
* barbus - beard
* branchia - gills of fishes (Greek)
* caeruleus - cerulean, dark blue
* cara - head
* cephalus - head
* chaeto - long hair or bristle
* cheilus - lip
* cheir - hand
* chiton - tunic (Greek)
* chromis, derived from chroma - colour (Greek)
* chromis - sea fish
* chryseus - golden yellow
* chryso - golden
* cirri - hairs
* cory - helmet
* cteno - comb
* cyaneus - dark blue
* cyrto - rounded
* deca - ten
* diplo - double
* donte - teeth
* dolicho - long
* doras - skin
* electo - chosen
* embiotica - offspring living within
* erythro - red
* fasciatus - striped
* festivus - festive, bright
* flavescens - yellowish, pale yellow
* flavidus - yellow, yellowish
* flavus - yellow
* fluviatilis - belonging to a river
* gaster - stomach
* gastro - stomach
* geo - earth
* gnathus - jaw
* grammus - mark
* guttata - speckled
* guttatus spotted, speckled
* gymno - naked (Greek)
* hemi - half
* hetero - other or different
* hex - six
* holo - whole
* hoplo - tool
* hypsypops - below the eye (Greek)
* ichthys - fish
* immaculatus - spotless, unblemished
* iso - same or alike
* labeo - large lips
* labris - lips
* laetacara - smiling cichlid
* lepto - thin
* macros - long
* maculatus - spotted
* margin - margin/borders
* mega - large (Greek)
* melano - black 
* mordax - prone to bite
* morpho - form (Greek)
* multi - many
* nano - small (Greek)
* naso - nose
* neo - new
* niger/nigra/nigrum - black
* notus - back
* ocellatus - rings
* oct - eight
* odon - tooth
* opisthen - back or behind (Greek)
* oto - ear
* paleatus - mixed with chaff
* para - near
* paralichthys - parallel fish (Greek)
* pavo - peacock/lots of colours
* pelycyo - hatchet
* phagus - eater
* pharynx - throat
* pheno - obvious
* pholis - scale
* phorus - bearer
* phyllo - leaf
* plako - tablet (Greek)
* platy - wide
* pleuro - side
* pod - foot or feet
* poecilia - many coloured
* poly - many
* prion - a saw (Greek)
* proto - first
* psuedo - false
* pterus - wing or fin
* puntius - point
* reticulata - made like a net
* rhamphos - beak
* rhizo - right
* rhynchus - snout
* rubicunda - red
* rubens/ruber - red
* rufescens - light red, almost red
* scat - dirt
* scorpaena - scorpion
* sebastes - magnificent (Greek)
* similins - similar to
* scalare - ladder
* soma - body
* spilos -dots
* splendida - glittering
* steno - narrow
* stichos - line
* stigma - spot or mark
* stoma - mouth
* sternicla - breast
* striatus - lines
* symphys - to glue together
* taeniatus - with a stripe
* tetra - four (Greek)
* thoracatum - breast-plate
* thorax - chest (Greek)
* tropheus - eater
* tri - three
* tyranus - aggressive
* viridescens - pale green
* viridis - green
* xanthinus - yellow
* xantho - yellow
* xeno - stranger
* xipho - sword
* zona - girdle
* zonus - banded
 
Having said that, a lot of Latin names are bizarre and useless for telling you anything about the fish;
Heros severum = severe hero 
Pterophyllum scalare = leaf finned ladder
 

 

[KirkyArcher]

English with but with a good understanding of geordie

 

[MBOU]

See... now 'leaf finned ladder' makes sense when you think of wild type angels... I mean... I suppose 'leaf finned' is odd description but they do have long floaty fins... and ladder like as not refers to the banded colouration
 
Labidochromis caeruleus is possibly weirder then for describing the least blue fish in the world?