Writer's Block: Multilingual

[theoldwolf]

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Aha. Finally a question that actually has meaning for me.

Native Language: English
Approaching native fluency: German, French, Italian
Can communicate easily: Spanish
Can communicate well enough to get thrown in jail: Gaeilge, Croatian, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic
Can understand most basic conversation, read without a dictionary, and communicate at a basic level: Portuguese, Dutch, Romanian, Norwegian, Catalan, Esperanto
Can read with a dictionary: Danish, Swedish, Greek, Albanian, Bulgarian, Serbian
Currently studying: Hebrew
Have worked with and have very basic ability in: Turkish, Lingala
Would like to learn: Hindi/Urdu, Maltese, Russian

Comments

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

Damn...could I borrow the French and German literacy? I promise I'll give them back! Who did you work for as a linguist, the LDS or the government?

I wouldn't mind learning Afrikaans some day.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Sure, here you go... handwavium

In industry developing translation software and then for the Church.