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Old 08-21-2007, 03:40 AM
haakee haakee is offline
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Default Re: What languages do you speak? read? write?

English: fluent

Norwegian: speak/read/write very well, can maintain a conversation, read newspaper, etc. (lived there for 5 years -- this also means I can understand Swedish and Danish to some extent)

French: speak/read/write moderately well, can converse accomplish what I need to accomplish in French-speaking countries (took 4 years of French, have spent a total of 5 weeks in French-speaking countries)

Spanish: speak/read/write a bit, understand quite a bit (one semester + several years living in highly Latino areas of California)

Vietnamese: speak/read/write very basic (one semester + playing in California casinos + 10 days vacation in Viet Nam)

Indonesian: very basic vocabulary/read/write (self-taught + Indonesian girlfriend + 3 weeks vacation in Indonesia and 10 days in Malaysia (very similar language))

Russian: I can read the Cyrillic alphabet, but only understand very basic things + things that are similar to words in English or Germanic languages
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