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Random Topics / Re: What languages does everybody speak?
« on: September 25, 2014, 03:21:28 AM »
Using Caprice's example as a guide:
First language: Afrikaans
Languages you're fluent in: English
Languages in which you're usually understood: German (descended from immigrants), Dutch (because it's similar to Afrikaans anyway)
Languages you know a lot of random phrases in: Setswana, a little bit of Japanese (thanks, anime), a little bit of Indonesian (I was there briefly in 2012, and also Afrikaans has loaned some words from it), a little bit of Zulu.
Languages you can read and understand well: German, Dutch
Languages you can read and understand what's basically going on: Sometimes French, depending on the subject.
First language: Afrikaans
Languages you're fluent in: English
Languages in which you're usually understood: German (descended from immigrants), Dutch (because it's similar to Afrikaans anyway)
Languages you know a lot of random phrases in: Setswana, a little bit of Japanese (thanks, anime), a little bit of Indonesian (I was there briefly in 2012, and also Afrikaans has loaned some words from it), a little bit of Zulu.
Languages you can read and understand well: German, Dutch
Languages you can read and understand what's basically going on: Sometimes French, depending on the subject.