jbuck Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 Yea Robb I was wondering what languages you can speak/understand?
Meteornotes Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 Robb speaks well enough to order at the drive-thru. That's all he needs... P dt
coaster_type_of_person Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I was wondering, does Robb every get offended at any of these. Cuz sometimes they are kind of harsh. Not talking about anybody in this topic, but sometimes some comments are harsh.
SharkTums Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I think we all just joke a lot, and we all secretly love Robb and he knows that!
coaster_type_of_person Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 ^yeah he tole me on im just a minute ago. I was just wonderin. But thanks for letting me know.
robbalvey Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 Well, I can barely speak English, so that counts. And while I don't "speak" any languages, I know enough "words or phrases" to get by in most of mainland Europe, England, Japan, and I guess Mexico! --Robb
blackcurrent Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 la Themepark.... la Mcdonads la Elissa...... Merci........
ncf Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I speak fluent Finnish and Norwegian, and pretty good English and Swedish...
turbolaaf Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 That you can help your self in Europe is because almost every european does speak english Thats the luxery that American and English people do have over here..... I can speak Dutch German and English but thats because we have to since they are our neighbours. Isn't it so that you American also learn Spanish at school ?
larrygator Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I think most people choose Spanish as a langauae to study in High School because they hear it is the easiest. Personally, my Junior High School and High School afforded French, Spanish and Italian. I opted for French to be different.
BDG Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I think most people choose Spanish as a langauae to study in High School because they hear it is the easiest. Personally, my Junior High School and High School afforded French, Spanish and Italian. I opted for French to be different. I think French is easier than Spanish for Americans. But the pronunciation is probably a pain in the ass.
dandaman Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 Doesn't Robb speak Jive? Cut him some slack, Jack!
J man Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I took two years of spanish. I'm not even sure how I passed because I couldn't remember what any of the words meant.
nissanskyline1235 Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 blackcurrent Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:34 am la Themepark.... la Mcdonads la Elissa...... Merci........ ...if only that could get you through 9th grade french.. --Cody W
USRoadTripper Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 I took three years of Spanish in high school, then it was a minor in college, so I ended up studying it for 7 years I've been told that I speak about as well as a 5 year old native speaker. My last semester in college, I took French 100 as the gimme A class, and I nearly failed it! It was insanely difficult for me since I had studied Spanish for so long! It all just sounded like sounds mushed together, where languages like German and Portuguese actually sound like individual words. -Julie
ParkTrips Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 ... It all just sounded like sounds mushed together, where languages like German and Portuguese actually sound like individual words. Probably because French is 'designed' to be sang From what I understood, lower level French is tougher than lower level Spanish, but once you get into the advanced stuff (especially in the usage of verbs), the trend is reversed. Don't take my word for it, I took spanish for one year and French for six so I can't make such a judgement fairly, but I can repeat what I had been told over the years by various French and Spanish instructors of mine. - Joe, who even after so many French courses, is ashamed to admit he can't formulate sentances well enough to communicate anymore
Erik Johnson Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 I speak fluent Finnish and Norwegian, and pretty good English and Swedish... I believe I read somewhere that Finnish is rated as the most difficult language to learn in the world for non-natives.
coasters 4 me Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 I study and speak Spanish and French. Spanish for 2 years and French for 3 years. I studied Latin for 2 years but I quit it for this year. I have to do French or Spanish for another 2 years because for my GCSE's in 2 years, you have to do atleast 1 modern language.
Louise Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 ^^ Yes Erik, I believe that's true. Most likely because it has around 17 (?) cases, which means for somebody who speaks, for example, English, which doesn't have a case system, to learn and remember them all is near impossible. I got confused just studying the structure of languages such as Finnish and Hungarian for a couple of weeks, never mind trying to actually learn to speak them!
ncf Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 I speak fluent Finnish and Norwegian, and pretty good English and Swedish... I believe I read somewhere that Finnish is rated as the most difficult language to learn in the world for non-natives. The pronunciation and reading shouldn't be that hard for non-natives who knows finnish a bit, but the grammar stuff is extremely complicated! I was born is Finland and lived there 8 years, so I learned enough to for example go back living there with no language problems at all... We also speak finnish at home. Norwegian is no problem, very easy grammar and I spoke it half a year after we moved here I'm the best one in my class in it too!
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