second language

[pam1]

HOW Meany of us can speak a second language? i my self can speak 2 English and Greek.

[derekgas]

Oh that does conjure up some comments, lol.

[Retlaw]

Does Lanky dialect and Double Dutch count as languages.

Retlaw.

[pam1]

Originally Posted by derekgas

Oh that does conjure up some comments, lol.

just remove the mistake lol my self wen so it

[Margaret Pilkington]

I speak English and gibberish, which is a dailect of Rubbish.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I speak English and gibberish, which is a dailect of Rubbish.

Couldn't agree more Margaret your language skills are just like mine except I sometimes add a little French as well

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh I can do just a soupcon of French,(sorry I can't do the little accent that should go over the c) poco Spanish.......eine kleine german...that's it

[WillowTheWhisp]

A little French, a pinch of German, a smattering of Spanish and a teensy weensy bit of Gaelige. Then there, rubbish, gibberish and double dutch.

[Eric]

I speak French well enough to get by in Quebec without having sales clerks roll their eyes and ask if I would rather speak English.

[emamum]

I have Gcse's (b's) in French and Spanish
and also basic punjabi, just stuff ive needed at work....

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Eric

I speak French well enough to get by in Quebec without having sales clerks roll their eyes and ask if I would rather speak English.

Actually when I mentioned it earlier it wasn't the French spoken in France I was on about, it was more the French talked in the Tap Room

[garinda]

French fairly fluently, and enough German and Japanese to hold a conversation.

Oh, and I'm not bad at American English too.

[emamum]

I also speak child..... thats a language in its self

[West Ender]

I speak fairly good French though I don't get much practise these days, enough German to just about get by when shopping, a little bit of Spanish, ditto Italian, a few words of Greek (kalimera, kalispera etc.) and the same of Maltese.

Last time I was in Cyprus I went to a little baker's shop where the owner spoke good English. When he gave my my change I said "Efharisto" and after the obligatory "parakalo" he looked at me with a big smile and said, "Oh, you speak Greek". I said well, no, not really I just know how to be polite - but he wasn't listening. "Did you learn it at school?" he said. I kept trying to tell him I don't speak Greek but it was no use.

I went in the shop nearly every day while I was there (his cakes were scrummy) and he greeted me like a relative every time. I just kept saying Yassou, Kalimera and Efharisto - what more (literally) could I say?

[Eric]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Actually when I mentioned it earlier it wasn't the French spoken in France I was on about, it was more the French talked in the Tap Room

I'm not talking about the French spoken in France either ... Quebec French is as much like the French spoken in France as Lancashire dialect is like English