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So we can understand each othe better and learn from each other more.

Please list the languages you can speaks.

people living in bangkok please don't say " I speak wall street english"..

LoL, i saw the ads around at BTS Stations ... I always thinking.. WTF? why it so cool to say that I speak Wall Street English? I always laugh everytime I saw the ads..

I speak fluent Thai, almost okay English (could be better when I drunk lolz) and minimal Swiss-Deutsche (better say I can understand a bit as I have been heard this language for 19 years)

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English (American and Aussie dialects too)

Scottish (hahahah I'm kidding, nobody can understand that)

Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia ( was fluent now out of practice)

Singlish (Not certain language or not lah)

Thai ( coloquial speach, read and write too)

Spanish ( Learnt at school in SoCal, can understand if I try)

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And Dutch (Zuid-Nederlands :lol: )

French (fairly according to my own standards)

English (idem ditto as the above)

German and Spanish (less than fairly)

My Thai and Tagalog knowledge are limited to sawasdee, kumustaka and khop khun, salamat ......

Note:

My standards r quite low!!! :wink:

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English - american born

German - Germans will disagree as to my fluency, but I seem to be able to communicate after 4-5 years studying it.

Thai - I won't starve. Always fun to play the trained dog when Thai people don't believe I can really read menus.

Them: "Farang - I don't believe you can read Thai. Farang can't read Thai."

Me: "<bark!> That says KHAO PAD MED MA MUANG HIM PAAN"

Them: "Oh, you're such a clever farang, here's a biscuit."

Me: "<BARK!>" :lol:

Mandarin Chinese - hey, I date girls that don't speak english. But there's a lot of round-about conversations. Can't read menus. The Thai menus are nice enough to say "RICE AND FRIED CHICKEN WITH CASHEW NUTS" in Thai script. The Chinese menus say something like "magical five-spiced bird with glorious berries from the heavens." And given their 10,000 character alphabet, that can be hard to read sometimes. If I'm *lucky* the character for chicken is in there, although god knowns what part of it.

Japanese - Uh... "kono densha wa, doko ni ikimasuka?" (where does this train go?) It's good enough to help pick up on girls.

:P

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spanish - badly

english (mancunian) - ok

russian - ok

french - obviously badly, because french people immediately start speaking with me in english when i speak french :oops:

Why do French people do that? Anyway, I continue in French and pretend I don't speak English. It's quite funny. Works with Thai too.

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forget to mention about myself..

English - american born

4 chinese language including cantonese and mandrain - parent are from hong kong

some thai - been in thailand for last 6 years

spanish - daddy owns 14 chinese restaurant with a lot of hispanic workers

little vietnamese - own a vietnamese web company

little japanese - japanese friends

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Finnish - Native

Swedish - Our second language (incl. Norwegian)

English - Type, write, speak(I hope...)

German - Understanding it and basic talk(near swedish)

Littlebit:

Russia

Czech (Basic and understanding of it in normal conversation)

Thai & Lao (I just understand those more than I would admit)

Also words from variety of languages:

Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) Taa popaa baubei(Translittered in finnish, sorry)

Spanish

Italian

Greek

Thats all, maybe I upgrade my status of Linguistic someday :lol:

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