Languages

[Hullu Hevonen]

I thought i should try my first pool, how many languages do one person speak.
How many Languages do you speak? how many languages can you communicate on?

[Nero]

If you count all the local languages (Croatian, Serbian, etc.) I have more then 5.

If not I can speak English, Croatian and German (although the last one not as good).

[The Khan]

Turkish,English,German,intermediate-low Russian, and basic Danish, actually Danish should count for Norwegian and Swedish I In order to be fair,I chose 4, broken down to 3 full languages and 2 halves of Russian and Danish

[Hullu Hevonen]

I meant that you can communicate whit eg. Danish speakers on danish, not whit swedes on danish. in that case i could count a lot more myself . I got 3 languages, Finnish, Swedish (Finland's Swedish), English

[TM (Ghost)]

Czech, Slovak, English and currently studying Spanish for the 2nd year.

[Hullu Hevonen]

I think that every one whit one Language speaks only english?
Btw, in USA or Canada, what spanish is tought? Is it castillean spanish or mexican, or all?

[Balthagor]

I think that every one whit one Language speaks only english?

To post on this forum, that would kind of be a requirement...

[Hullu Hevonen]

I think that every one whit one Language speaks only english?

To post on this forum, that would kind of be a requirement...

do BGForums have an official language? are you just allowed to speak english or are eg. madarin accepted?

[Balthagor]

We require in English in most places (since we have to be able to read it to moderate it) but we do allow off topic stuff in other languages. But if someone doesn't speak English how would they even know what this forum is about? Why would they come here?

[Lightbringer]

I think that every one whit one Language speaks only english?
Btw, in USA or Canada, what spanish is tought? Is it castillean spanish or mexican, or all?

They teach the more formal European Spanish, although most teachers I met would include snippets of Mexican idiom to explain the contrast between the two. The thing about "Mexican" is that it is Spanish with heavy local components, unfortunately, those local components are not the same from region to region. This is true of every language, but I have found it to be more so for American flavors of Spanish. It is embarrassing to use an idiom you learned from one friend and have another friend explain that to anyone not from Coahuila (just a random example region, a Mexican State), your idiom is gendered wrong and makes no sense. Then the idioms he teaches you make no sense to the next Spanish speaker you encounter. Cuban is radically different from Nicarauguan, which is radically different from most flavors of Mexican Spanish, and so on and so on. Not to mention every region "North of the border" develops it's own version.

-Light

[Hullu Hevonen]

I think that every one whit one Language speaks only english?
Btw, in USA or Canada, what spanish is tought? Is it castillean spanish or mexican, or all?

They teach the more formal European Spanish, although most teachers I met would include snippets of Mexican idiom to explain the contrast between the two. The thing about "Mexican" is that it is Spanish with heavy local components, unfortunately, those local components are not the same from region to region. This is true of every language, but I have found it to be more so for American flavors of Spanish. It is embarrassing to use an idiom you learned from one friend and have another friend explain that to anyone not from Coahuila (just a random example region, a Mexican State), your idiom is gendered wrong and makes no sense. Then the idioms he teaches you make no sense to the next Spanish speaker you encounter. Cuban is radically different from Nicarauguan, which is radically different from most flavors of Mexican Spanish, and so on and so on. Not to mention every region "North of the border" develops it's own version.

-Light

so a mexican, from Yucatan, Colombian from Bogotá District and Spaniard from Murcia would not understand each other?

[Lightbringer]

so a Mexican, from Yucatan, Colombian from Bogotá District and Spaniard from Murcia would not understand each other?

I am sure they would be able to figure out what each other was saying. There just seems to be more divergence between regions than anything I have noticed with English from different regions and/or countries. It might be that my native grasp of English allows me to easily overcome such divergence and basically not notice it.

-Light

[The Khan]

so a mexican, from Yucatan, Colombian from Bogotá District and Spaniard from Murcia would not understand each other?

Our Kurdish neighbors speak Kurmandji, and they insist that a Kurd who speaks Zaza wouldn't understand more than a few words, so it would be quite possible.

[Hullu Hevonen]

so a Mexican, from Yucatan, Colombian from Bogotá District and Spaniard from Murcia would not understand each other?

I am sure they would be able to figure out what each other was saying. There just seems to be more divergence between regions than anything I have noticed with English from different regions and/or countries. It might be that my native grasp of English allows me to easily overcome such divergence and basically not notice it.

-Light

But what is the Official Spanish in mexico, colombia, cuba, spain etc. do the official Spanish in these countries(that is used in, teaching, politics, by officials etc.) as different from each other as the spoken languages?

[Kreiger815]

I speak only English, with small amounts of German/Italian.