foreign languages

[Greavseywolf]

do any of you f#ckers speak a diffo language.
i don't mean being able to count to ten in french or owt like that, but maybe string a few sentences together , or maybe understand what is being said in an foreign tongue ?
i did french at school but wassnae much cop at it , tbh.

the online translator is good for a laugh should this create some interest.

[Robus]

My work requires reading French. Don't think I'll ever be perfectly fluent speaking it but I get by. I'm self-conscious about making mistakes.

I studied Arabic for years way back when but it has atrophied from lack of use.

[TundraWolf]

My work requires reading French. Don't think I'll ever be perfectly fluent speaking it but I get by. I'm self-conscious about making mistakes.

I studied Arabic for years way back when but it has atrophied from lack of use.

French here too, my reading is better than my speaking, but in either case I can make myself understood. Unfortunately, though my home city of Montreal has a large French speaking population, it is the French of 17th century France and as such differs somewhat from the French of contemporary France that I learned in school.

Having marked many students' high school essays over the years I am quite conversant in gibberish!

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

I do French and Italian, a little rusty now but it comes back to me pretty quickly. Spent two years working in Italy when I was a kid and also worked there a couple of times. Did French at school and also worked there many time during the seventies and eighties. Can read both pretty well along with Portuguese [again time spent working in Brazil.

Like Italian the best, very beautiful language but also very ordered and logical.

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

I do French and Italian, a little rusty now but it comes back to me pretty quickly. Spent two years working in Italy when I was a kid and also worked there a couple of times. Did French at school and also worked there many time during the seventies and eighties. Can read both pretty well along with Portuguese [again time spent working in Brazil.

Like Italian the best, very beautiful language but also very ordered and logical.

"Spent two years working in Italy". Should read travelling not working. Sorry!!!

[TundraWolf]

So far only the North American contingent checking in, be interesting to see what our Island cousins have to report back on...does Yam Yam count?

[Mr.D]

I can speak a bit of Fula and Wolof which are West African languages and some French.

[Robus]

I can tell we've been to some of the same places, mate.

[Mr.D]

I can tell we've been to some of the same places, mate.

looks that way and also some swahili.

[abbobrom]

Generally as a nation we British are poor at speaking other languages. French was optional when I was at school and as I was struggling with English at the time, I chose not to partake. A great regret, as I am now a frequent visitor to the Country along with Spain.

I have learned enough French to ask for directions and order a beer, through frequent visits in the lorry. The problem is that you make an attempt to speak the language , which is appreciated, but they talk back that fast that I can not understand them.