How many languages do you speak?

Including your mother tongue, how many languages do you speak?

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ardianto said:
Asalamuallaikum, brother, sister.
I am an Indonesian who living in Pasundan, that's means 'land of Sundanese'. So, everyday I speak in two languages, Indonesia and Sundanese. Now I am on learn English. Unfortunately I have no friend to speak in English imsad. But, at least I can make a communication in writen and read with you. :)
(Guess, what language is it ?)
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Your written English is very understandable. Many of us daily speakers do not write it that well.
 
I see some brother/sister wrote : I speak Urdu and Hindi.

In exactly, what is different between Urdu and Hindi ?
I have read in my magazine, Pakistani Urdu and Indian Hindi are same language.
But Urdu is writen in Arabic and Hindi is writen in Indian alphabet.
 
romani and english fluently

i can have a basic conversation in french and in spanish. but not enough to be able to get around well. though i can read a newspaper in french because there are so many cognates that using context clues it is easy to see what it is about.

example:
La fin du casting

Entre tractations de dernière minute et arbitrage de Sarkozy, l'UMP a enfin annoncé ses listes pour les européennes
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then i know that "fin" means "end" and "et" means and, "de" of, etc.

it is basically saying that the UMP(whatever that is) has made a list for something. i still dont know what it is about but i know a little more than i would if it was written in spanish or some other language.
 
Salam All

I can speak Arabic (Mother tongue) , English , Indonesian or Malaysian

its nice to have a mix race in ur family ..

thx
 
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I speak Urdu, English, pushto fluently, then I can read/speak french though not very fluently, having said that I d converse in it with people.and arabic reading n understanding
 
^ Oh cool, you speak pashto? That definitely in my additional languages to learn, along with Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Spanish :rollseyes.
 
YUp!! Alhamdolillah I love to learn languagdes, Ive taught them to my kids too except for urdu.. InshaAllah ill teach them that one too

I think one should either learna language properly or not at all:P

just joking, but serisouly, my husband sspeaks french in his british accent and lots of times people dont understand it, having pushto as my first labguage I can pronounce all the kh n gh n jh sounds, hurray :P

same way in arabic, Haa and 'ain are much easier fo me.. Alhamdolillah
 
HopeFul said:
YUp!! Alhamdolillah I love to learn languagdes, Ive taught them to my kids too except for urdu.. InshaAllah ill teach them that one too

I think one should either learna language properly or not at all:P

just joking, but serisouly, my husband sspeaks french in his british accent and lots of times people dont understand it, having pushto as my first labguage I can pronounce all the kh n gh n jh sounds, hurray :P

same way in arabic, Haa and 'ain are much easier fo me.. Alhamdolillah
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Lol, kinda like me speaking in urdu with my british accent...

Is Pashto similar to Dari ?
 
I'm completely ruined language wise. can't speak (or write) a single one properly.

so you could say I've become like Yiddish speakers, my new language is "Arab-urd-lish" (its not Arabic, not Urdu, Not English) all 3 blended pidgin style.
 
Banu_Hashim said:
Lol, kinda like me speaking in urdu with my british accent...

Is Pashto similar to Dari ?
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Unfortunately I dont know anything about dari language so i don't know if it's similar or not.

Alhamdolillah i can manage birmingham accent ( yeah gradma style) with perfect urdu n pushto and french n specifically Arabic, Alhamdolillah, subhanAllah. I am blessed. Although when I am angry or emotional, I can only manage pushto, that's when the kids know things are getting serious and they MUSt listen now:p:p
 
I speak 1 and a half, I speak english and abit of mirpuri.

I can only understand mirpuri cos I stopped speaking it as I was growing up so now I jus understand it and at our relatives houses when they ask me questions I just nodd my head to their questions lol
 
squiggle said:
I speak 1 and a half, I speak english and abit of mirpuri.

I can only understand mirpuri cos I stopped speaking it as I was growing up so now I jus understand it and at our relatives houses when they ask me questions I just nodd my head to their questions lol
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salaam

same here - although i can ask questions and reply with yes/no/I dont know lol

peace
 
lol that's what I do too the only questions I can ask are "how are u" jus general stuff if the conversation went deep I'd have no clue lol
 
Just my native language (English) but I am planning on learning, if I go to Pakistan Punjabi, if I go to Iraq Arabic. Also, in the Army, they teach you a lot of Farci.
 
HopeFul said:
Unfortunately I dont know anything about dari language so i don't know if it's similar or not.

Alhamdolillah i can manage birmingham accent ( yeah gradma style) with perfect urdu n pushto and french n specifically Arabic, Alhamdolillah, subhanAllah. I am blessed. Although when I am angry or emotional, I can only manage pushto, that's when the kids know things are getting serious and they MUSt listen now:p:p
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I can sympathise with your kids asI know the feeling :p
 
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I speak Bosnian and English, and read Arabic :D

Can someone please explain what does Urdu mean? I know I could google it, but I would like some simple one-sentence explanation :D
 

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