Registered: Jul 2001
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This is not "what languages can you speak" but rather what languages do you speak.

In day to day life I speak English with one roommate, Mandarin with another, but outside is almost always Spanish. All my reading (newspapers, magazines) is in English. I just had sushi delivered for lunch; the delivery guy was Southern Chinese, but we spoke Spanish. I could never remember the numbers in Chinese ["four, six, ten, to die, to kill, and to be" are all homophones: "shi"]
At the Halal supermarket it's all in English except for the "Shukrân, Selam aleykün." (That's the Turkish version; I don't know how it's spelled in Urdu or Bangla.)

Although what the fuck are they doing selling pernil in the helal meat section?

{helal means Muslim kosher, and pernil is pork - strictly verboten}

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When in Rome.......

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So in summary, I primarily speak Spanish, but read and write English.

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I speakey da engrish. I also speakea da espanol pero I make it up,caron,as I go along. I also speakea da tangalog but I only know bad words,yet I comprende when I hear it but not everything.

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Heh, your insistence on calling your native language tangalog has put you at no. 1 in the Google search.

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EEEE!!!! I'm gonna be famous,man! It's gonna so RULE!

I will now save that page for prosterity!

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tangalog.com Vrij* € 15,- per 1 jaar

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*means available

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I thought vrij meant free?
I guess it's a false cognate.
I spent all morning studying Scots Gaelic and Thai.
I can't decide which is more difficult.

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Not free, € 15,- per 1 jaar.

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free as in "not taken"

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*as in available

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I got that.
Kunt U mij helpen?

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Who are you calling a Kunt?

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So what do you speak on a daily basis? Kiwi or Clogger?

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Clog

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Dzien dobry pan, milo mi.

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They have screened-door submarines in Ísland too?

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no, but we do have quite a lot of polish immigrants

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Dzienkuje pani.

(I have no idea how to spell that)

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English for my daily interaction with people here in Deliverance, PA.
Danish with my family, girlfriend and friends from back home. (daily)
German with the guys at the local austrian restaurant (once every, or every other week)

cheers
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Ta da TA ta TA de DA de DA.....

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Bitch, I know where your mama bought you milk back in the day.

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chernobyl?

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