Speak English?

I do too. Welcome to the club.

Too, funny MacAddikt! I spoken english on school in day back. Has this truth, no?

I do too...even though it is a foreign language here. :mac:

Avalon said:

I do too...even though it is a foreign language here. :mac:

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During my time working for an international banking firm, I was a bit surprised to learn that there's actually a language called Luxembourgish. We were discussing Luxembourg and the languages spoken there, and I half-jokingly guessed that one of them was Luxembourgish. I then researched it and discovered that I was correct. Do you happen to speak it? Also, your English is excellent (much better than many here in the US for whom it's their only language).

his english is much better than my Luxembourgish

Padawan said:

During my time working for an international banking firm, I was a bit surprised to learn that there's actually a language called Luxembourgish. We were discussing Luxembourg and the languages spoken there, and I half-jokingly guessed that one of them was Luxembourgish. I then researched it and discovered that I was correct. Do you happen to speak it? Also, your English is excellent (much better than many here in the US for whom it's their only language).

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Yes, actually that language exists, believe it or not. It is like a German dialect, but it is a language on it's own, lots of German people have difficulties to understand it.

I do speak it fluently, as I do with German, French and English too. One of the big advantages here is, because of the multilingual neighbourhood and the small country, it is mandatory at school to learn French, German and English. And due to lots of immigration in the last 40 years, it's a very mixed community, where lots of people understand at least 5 languages: German, French, English, Luxemburgish and their own language, depending were they're from. For my part, I am half German and half Portugese, which means that, in addition to the languages I told you above, I can communicate in Portugese, though not very fluently anymore. It is nothing uncommon.
English knowledge usually doesn't exceed what you learn at school, but the fact that I work for an automotive company with international clients and employees of very different nations, my English skills got really a lot better, as it is the company's main communication language.
And also movies at the cinema are rarely translated, they are in the original language, with subtitles.
That you heard of "Luxemburgish" in an international banking firm isn't much surprisng either...Luxemburg is very popular in the financial industry...and not much known internationally outside of it.

MacAddikt, you speak Luxemburgish?!? Maybe we should open a new thread for that then would be a very small one I suppose...

And thanks for your compliments about my English skills...I really appreciate. :dive:

I speak English fluently, and Italiano rather rustily. It almost a second language though cause I can understand a large amount of what my grandfather says but have trouble responding. ^^ I want to be fluent in Italian and Japanese one day. ^^ Better get to work I guess. XD

Speak Russian

There's a cool song by S.O.D. (Stormtroopers of Death) called, "Speak English or Die!!!"

Suffice to say, it completely rocks.

245_Trioxin said:

There's a cool song by S.O.D. (Stormtroopers of Death) called, "Speak English or Die!!!"

Suffice to say, it completely rocks.

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Pretty Narrow-minded though...

Hey, Avalon.

I would like to see some of this Luxemburgish. Could you type out a couple of sentences?

And urbandryad.

Where are you from?

I speak a language that nobody else speaks here. Georgian. Yea. It's not from the US State, Georgia, haha. It's from the country which is located east of the Black Sea. I've also been learning Spanish in the last few years, so, I also speak that upto an extent. Haha. I also plan to be a fluent speaker in Japanese, one day, and Spanish as well. They are two very important languages in the growing industry.

I speak British

I'm fluent in potty mouthing.

Avalon said:

Pretty Narrow-minded though...

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Agreed.

Padawan said:

Agreed.

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I agree also the lyrics are offensive. :blind:

iWhat said:

Hey, Avalon.

I would like to see some of this Luxemburgish. Could you type out a couple of sentences?

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Majo, Lëtzeburgesch a s s schon eng ganz komesch Sprooch, zemols fir Äuslänner.

Translated: Well, Luxemburgish is quite a strange language, especially for foreign people.

In this sentence you can already see some similarities to German:
a s s = ist = is (I wrote it with spaces because it will be censored otherwise, as in English it means something very different )
komesch = komisch = strange
Sprooch = Sprache = language
Äuslänner = Ausländer = foreign people

I can't write phonetics, to show you how to pronounce it, but the prononciation is like German a lot.

That's pretty cool. I could make out all of it except for Majo, Sprooch, and a s s. But I'm sure, if I heard it, I would be very confused, if I thought the person was speaking Hoch Deutsch to me. That would be horrible, if I met someone off the plane in Europe, who said that sentence to me, I would have thought all of those years of German down the drain, but not knowing that it was a different dialect at the time.

i speak Navy (anograms as words)

iWhat said:

That's pretty cool. I could make out all of it except for Majo, Sprooch, and a s s. But I'm sure, if I heard it, I would be very confused, if I thought the person was speaking Hoch Deutsch to me. That would be horrible, if I met someone off the plane in Europe, who said that sentence to me, I would have thought all of those years of German down the drain, but not knowing that it was a different dialect at the time.

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"Majo" is an addition that's not really necessary, like when you say "well" at the beginning of a sentence in English, or "Na ja" in German.
It is a language apart, as I said, even Germans have lots of difficulties to understand it. I have German colleagues at work that work here in Lux since years, and still don't understand more then "Moien" (good morning, used a lot as "hello") and "Äddi" (bye).
But don't worry, if you ever happen to arrive at Findel Airport (the only one here in Lux), your German will be just perfect to not get lost.