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How Many Languages Can You Speak?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by nelum8, Apr 23, 2013.

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  1. Tathagata Mukherjee

    Tathagata Mukherjee Active Member

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    Actually it was for academic purpose and it was the 3rd language I learnt in the academy, first is Bengali and the second one is English.
     
    Tathagata Mukherjee, Sep 23, 2013 IP
  2. mytechiestuff

    mytechiestuff Well-Known Member

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    What motivated you to learn some Sanskrit? Was it for religious or academic purposes?

    Sanskrit, is the parent language for most of the Indo-European, as well as a large number of the Asian, south Asian and South East Asian languages.

    Just as over the last 3,000 years, the Greek and the Latin cultures have influenced an area far wider that the countries of their origin, almost 10,000 years ago, the influence of the Sanskrit language and of the Vedic culture had spread far and wide, from Northern Europe to as far away as the Bhasa in Indonesia.

    One of the best examples for this is the word "Sthan" which is a Sanskrit word for "the place of" so Afghanistan (originally Afghanisthan) was "the place of the Afghans" or "where the Afghans live" similarly, Kazakhstan (originally Kazakhsthan) was "the place where the Kazakhs live" and so on.

    An easy to follow example of the ancient global footprint of the Sanskrit language are the Sanskrit words Matru & Pitru, which are of course the "seed words" for Mater & Pater (old English), Mutter & Vater (German) Moder & Fader (Swedish) and so on.

    Not sure if it is still the case over there now, but long ago when I was at Heidelberg, Sanskrit was an essential component for a course in the Classic German.

    I believe that language is the DNA of Human civilization and so I find the history of languages and thus of culture around the world utterly fascinating!

    KC
     
    mytechiestuff, Sep 23, 2013 IP
  3. ay223

    ay223 Active Member

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    English japanese maori and aborigine
     
    ay223, Sep 25, 2013 IP
  4. mytechiestuff

    mytechiestuff Well-Known Member

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    ay223 Member said:
    "English japanese maori and aborigine"
    That is great!
    You could help translate lots of Manga (Hentai) and other stuff for my clients :)
     
    mytechiestuff, Sep 25, 2013 IP
  5. gyb.links

    gyb.links Banned

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    #85
    English and Vietnamese ... ha ha ha , I can
     
    gyb.links, Sep 26, 2013 IP
  6. Swarolipi

    Swarolipi Greenhorn

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    My mother tongue is bengali .Besides it, I know English and Hindi well.
     
    Swarolipi, Sep 26, 2013 IP
  7. makeit easy

    makeit easy Active Member

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    If you speak English it's enough. Forget the others. I know French but it's not important. I also have a native language Turkish it's also a garbage, no use. So English is the only true language. Because it works anytime anywhere. Who cares if you speak 100 languages if you don't speak English?
     
    makeit easy, Sep 27, 2013 IP
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    pinayus27 Well-Known Member

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    I speak Tagalog, English and a little bit of Korean and Spanish :)
     
    pinayus27, Sep 28, 2013 IP
  9. Alharthi

    Alharthi Active Member

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    Arabic and English.
     
    Alharthi, Sep 29, 2013 IP
  10. leasmom2004

    leasmom2004 Well-Known Member

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    I am based in Austria, so, naturally, German. I however grew up bilingual, my second first language is English. Other than that I have a very basic knowledge of Spanish but not anywhere near enough to use it for writing.
     
    leasmom2004, Sep 29, 2013 IP
  11. Gihan

    Gihan Member

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    English
    Sinhala (Sri Lanka)
    Hindi (India)
    Korian (just a bit)
     
    Gihan, Sep 30, 2013 IP
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    dipal76 Well-Known Member

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    As living in Gujarat and resident in India....
    I speak only three languages i.e. GUJARATI, HINDI AND ENGLISH.
     
    dipal76, Sep 30, 2013 IP
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    rajesh.ejob Well-Known Member

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    two.... interested in count them up
     
    rajesh.ejob, Oct 2, 2013 IP
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    Hi. Friend

    I can speak 2 language in the perfect way. one Hindi and second Punjabi. I think both language is very famous in India.
     
    jaybhatt, Oct 3, 2013 IP
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    #95
    I can speak three languages! English, Italian and Spanish.
     
    monkeye, Oct 3, 2013 IP
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    I can speak English and learning french now days.
     
    rozerr, Oct 3, 2013 IP
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    astalavistia Active Member

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    You are like translate.google.com :D

    There are every language in this topics. Rocks you all :)
     
    astalavistia, Oct 3, 2013 IP
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    My first language is Russian. I speak also English, Ukrainian and Czech.
     
    nickspring, Oct 3, 2013 IP
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    Love your native tongue! I speak Filipino, Mandarin, and English
     
    Holyhero, Oct 3, 2013 IP
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    rameez1 Banned

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    Urdu is my national Language. Buy i can speak English and Passion also.
     
    rameez1, Oct 7, 2013 IP
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