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What nations & languages are represented here?
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From Germany,
Former resident of the Republic of Ireland, now England.
Fluent in English.
Can make myself understood in the most basic Dutch.
Learned Russian, Irish, Slovakian and Bulgarian at school and/or university but I haven’t retained it unfortunately.
Does anyone of you guys speak Klingon? We’re Trekkies, after all.
Former resident of the Republic of Ireland, now England.
Fluent in English.
Can make myself understood in the most basic Dutch.
Learned Russian, Irish, Slovakian and Bulgarian at school and/or university but I haven’t retained it unfortunately.
Does anyone of you guys speak Klingon? We’re Trekkies, after all.
Finally some Space Patrol here! (The name and avatar are from the 1966 Bavarian Sci-Fi show with interesting parallels to Star Trek, she was the security intelligence officer of the fast cruiser Orion - intro with English subtitles below)
I'm also from Germany, now in SoCal, speak German and English, some remaining high school French, and some Klingon just for fun
Jagellovsk is only my holiday name. But we have a small German community here, mostly via PM......
Raumpatrouille, Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes ORION
Yeah I remember that one really well, I also know rhubarbodendron for ages she sent me the DVD's
I started to learn German from a really young age, we had two Dutch TV channels back then and three German ones and the German Sesame street would start about when the Dutch one ended and my dad said I could watch Sesame street and then I had to go to sleep, he didn't say which Sesame street
Of course there were no subtitles so I learned German, after Sesame street " Die sendung mit der maus, Löwenzahn and of course ZDF, das ferien program which had the German dub of Captain Future through the years and then the really awesonemous German dubs of Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill movies. later on I had a Austrian gf for a while so that is how I got to learn German.
Yeah I remember that one really well, I also know rhubarbodendron for ages she sent me the DVD's
I started to learn German from a really young age, we had two Dutch TV channels back then and three German ones and the German Sesame street would start about when the Dutch one ended and my dad said I could watch Sesame street and then I had to go to sleep, he didn't say which Sesame street
Of course there were no subtitles so I learned German, after Sesame street " Die sendung mit der maus, Löwenzahn and of course ZDF, das ferien program which had the German dub of Captain Future through the years and then the really awesonemous German dubs of Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill movies. later on I had a Austrian gf for a while so that is how I got to learn German.
A few years less, but pretty much the same here. We also got about a months worth of German language study at school and I remember slightly more of that (though not enough for a conversation). I also can read some Turkish (mostly food related stuff though).
My dad on the other hand is conversational in Spanish and learnt latin in school but they'd stopped that by the time I got there.
The problem with the UK is the quality of language education.
A lot of UK schools only offer 1 or 2 options.
When I was at school Spanish got cut so we only had the option of doing French, which few people where interested in. I turned off as I had my heart set on spanish. Few people bothered or came out of school knowing any French.
On the other hand the schools that offer more options like French Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese tend intrest more students and more come up speaking a secound language.
You cant force feed a child a language they don't want to learn. You have to offer them a option and let them choose a language they want to learn.
Despite my piss poor language education I still ended up learning Spanish.
A lot of UK schools only offer 1 or 2 options.
When I was at school Spanish got cut so we only had the option of doing French, which few people where interested in. I turned off as I had my heart set on spanish. Few people bothered or came out of school knowing any French.
On the other hand the schools that offer more options like French Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese tend intrest more students and more come up speaking a secound language.
You cant force feed a child a language they don't want to learn. You have to offer them a option and let them choose a language they want to learn.
Despite my piss poor language education I still ended up learning Spanish.
At our school, you didn't have a choice at all for the first three years. Learning French was mandatory. If you wanted to carry on after that, French was still the only language taught.
The only reason we learnt any German was because our class had got to the end of the curriculam and our teacher thought she'd teach us that as well.
The only reason we learnt any German was because our class had got to the end of the curriculam and our teacher thought she'd teach us that as well.
My first school didn't have any foreign language option at all until sixth grade (which I guess isn't that old, but our sixth grade was also the first class to have the option - there was no teacher before that). That foreign language, by the way, was Latin and it wasn't optional. Then they fired the latin teacher after six months and couldn't get a replacement with the same language, so forced us all to switch to Spanish instead.
I moved to another town after a year and a half of Spanish and found that that school only offered French (though it was optional, so I ignored it at the time). It wasn't until we moved to northern Virginia in the shadow of the DC metropolis that I had a school with actual options (I believe you could choose French, Spanish, German or Russian), but I stuck with Spanish since I already knew some.
I moved to another town after a year and a half of Spanish and found that that school only offered French (though it was optional, so I ignored it at the time). It wasn't until we moved to northern Virginia in the shadow of the DC metropolis that I had a school with actual options (I believe you could choose French, Spanish, German or Russian), but I stuck with Spanish since I already knew some.
I'm American, so obviously I speak passable English. Being Southern, I speak the lingo here as well.
Sometimes, Southern lingo creeps into my speech, though I try to watch it. Many years ago, when I was in the Navy, I had some boots painting my office building. One came in and said it was almost time to go for the day. I replied "How much do you like?" Confused, she replied "I like all of it so far."
I realized I was speaking in Southern and corrected myself with "no, how much do you lack?"
Sometimes, Southern lingo creeps into my speech, though I try to watch it. Many years ago, when I was in the Navy, I had some boots painting my office building. One came in and said it was almost time to go for the day. I replied "How much do you like?" Confused, she replied "I like all of it so far."
I realized I was speaking in Southern and corrected myself with "no, how much do you lack?"
Add one more for the German count.
And I speak and write English.
And I speak and write English.
I know some words, phrases, and songs, and can read and write pIqaD. Read all the dictionaries and listened to all the CDs, and finished the Language Lab software, some phrases at 100%Does anyone of you guys speak Klingon? We’re Trekkies, after all.
I'd like to join the PM chat, if there is a common one.
I'm from Australia. Speak English. I've found over the years that I've been here there is (and has been) a good local community of Australians.
German (Bavarian, to be precise) reporting in 
My languages are German, Bavarian and English fluently, Italian (not fluent but well enough to get along), Dutch moderately (I understand everything but speak only little as I always get entangled in the grammar - same prob as @Grendelsbayne, just the other way round ).
And a few sentences each in Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Swahili, French, Welsh and Turkish. Plus a bit of tlhIngan Hol
My languages are German, Bavarian and English fluently, Italian (not fluent but well enough to get along), Dutch moderately (I understand everything but speak only little as I always get entangled in the grammar - same prob as @Grendelsbayne, just the other way round
).And a few sentences each in Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Swahili, French, Welsh and Turkish. Plus a bit of tlhIngan Hol
I know some words, phrases, and songs, and can read and write pIqaD. Read all the dictionaries and listened to all the CDs, and finished the Language Lab software, some phrases at 100%
I'd like to join the PM chat, if there is a common one.
Unfortunately our thread is limited to a small number of participants. We briefly considered opening a German thread in German, but this idea was rejected soon. This thread is more interesting for me as it includes all different nations, ladies and gentlebeings....
I'm from the USA (Omaha, Nebraska, specifically). I basically speak the same languages that Bruce Willis does in The Fifth Element: English and bad English. 
I know a small amount of German and French as well. I vacation in Canada all the time so I kind of learn French through osmosis (especially in Montréal). And I love Germany as well - I was there for the Oktoberfest last year and had a blast - so I'm trying to get back into that too.
That said, while I am indeed an American, I find that I've acquired a hint of a Canadian accent because as I said, I go to Canada all the time, and most of my favorite TV shows - Corner Gas, Night Heat, The Red Green Show, etc. - are Canadian as well.
I know a small amount of German and French as well. I vacation in Canada all the time so I kind of learn French through osmosis (especially in Montréal). And I love Germany as well - I was there for the Oktoberfest last year and had a blast - so I'm trying to get back into that too.
That said, while I am indeed an American, I find that I've acquired a hint of a Canadian accent because as I said, I go to Canada all the time, and most of my favorite TV shows - Corner Gas, Night Heat, The Red Green Show, etc. - are Canadian as well.
^and as such you automatically speak a lot of German, too You adopted tons of our words from Angst to Zeitgeist while in Germany it's currently the rage to translate everything (literally and most of the time wrongly) into American English.
(Nice avatar - the Santa to the left happened to teach me my first bar on the guitar - a C maj 7 for those who are interested -
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as for the old German thread: that's here: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/guten-morgen-guten-abend-hallo.175558/ but since it dates back to 2012 I am not sure if we may resurrect it. A PM chat allows only 5 or 6 participants. It'd propably be easiest to exchange email adresses and/or form a classical newsgroup.
You adopted tons of our words from Angst to Zeitgeist while in Germany it's currently the rage to translate everything (literally and most of the time wrongly) into American English.(Nice avatar - the Santa to the left happened to teach me my first bar on the guitar - a C maj 7 for those who are interested -
)as for the old German thread: that's here: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/guten-morgen-guten-abend-hallo.175558/ but since it dates back to 2012 I am not sure if we may resurrect it. A PM chat allows only 5 or 6 participants. It'd propably be easiest to exchange email adresses and/or form a classical newsgroup.
Same here. Although because I have family spread all over, I have less opportunity to practice my French these days, and it's become quite rusty.
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