Which languages do you speak besides or instead of English?
 

This question is mainly for our "not" native English speaking user, because I want to know which other languages do you speak, native English speaker can vote but shouldn´t wonder that English isn´t in the list! :)

Please vote for the languages you speak "fluently". Multiple votes are possible!

Thanks,

Morgwen

For me its Chinese, German & English

Paradog did you vote for other? Why?

Read the topic... no need to vote for English, I want to know which languages the people speak besides or instead of English! :)

I think I will change the question...

Morgwen

P.S.:

You can edit your vote...

Other is Greek & Latin, Morgwen :)
BTW, The IRC channel you told me, is it normal that noone is
there?

So I changed it ... I hope its clearer now!

Morgwen

You speak greek and latin fluently? WOW!

The channel is new, its possibly that nobody is there... as I invited you there were some people! :)

But you should check it sometimes (mainly in the evening), you can visit other channels in the meantime...

Morgwen

Latin is a dead language,
So I dont think I could speak that.
Relax, ich wollte doch nur ein wenig angeben.
Da musst du nicht so nachbohren :)

Ich hab ja auch gedacht die Frage wär verwirrend, deswegen hab ich gefragt. :)

Morgwen

KathW,
How can i connect to IRC?
Could you tell me step by step?
I am not conncted to irc.p2pchat.org
and what to do now?

OK Morgwen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the second time I have corrected 'Spain' to 'SPANISH !!!!!!!!!!
(In the poll.)

Watch out !!!

A serious comment........
I do not know exactly what you have in mind for this poll, but if it is related to other discussions about 'foreign' language forums, than español must be the first choice for development.
There is little other choice. You only need to examine the true statistics about internet use and the basic facts about the dominant languages on earth. 'Spanish' is without any question the second language of this planet.

¡¡¡Español!!!
 

Bueno, yo también hablo español. También hablo un poco de francés y siempre quise aprender alemán, pero la verdad no tengo mucho tiempo.

The other day I went back to the IRC channel, and there was noone there, except somebody whose nickname started with 'n' I think. I can't remember well. Maybe we should schedule some time for us to meet.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

That's right. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world. First is Mandarin Chinese and English is 3rd, in case some wondered.

But this poll isn't about the most spoken language in the world, but about the most spoken language by members of Gnutella Forums.

This poll's purpose probably needs to be cleared up a bit. This poll will be helpful in determining if there's a need for a foreign language forum, and if so, which.

Ursula,

Cultiv8r explained it very well...

@ backmann

Hablo un poco espanol. :)

Morgwen

I hope that the intention of adding another language section to Gnutella Forums is to bring in NEW people in greater numbers.
This will not be served by accomodating the current users who are participating in the poll.
Going by the poll results only one would have to conclude that it would be necessary to start a Deutsch section. This would, I think, be a mistake.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, and which is supported by comments of facts from cultiv8r, español is the sensible choice and would have the potential of bringing in huge numbers of new participants.
It is also easily understood by Italians and to a slightly lesser degree by Português (and Brasil) and French......... That is a lot of people, right?

Is there really another choice for the intital launch of an additional language here?

In my experience more German people than Spanish people visited such sides...

Have a look on bearshare.net their Spanish forum is not very populated there... and there is a German bearshare side with several thousand of posts...

and don´t forget that not everybody own a computer, so if many people speak Spanish this doesn´t mean that many people have a comp and visit the internet - there are many poor areas in south america!

But I think "if" we add new forums... the favourites are German, Dutch, French and Spanish... perhaps Chinese ;)

The good thing is we have mods that speak these languages!

So lets see what the poll say in some days... :)

Morgwen

Then lets talk Latin! :D

Yes, I understand (written) Italian almost perfectly, and I think a Portuguese or a French could understand quite a lot also.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

FYI: One other thing that needs to be considered, is which countries are most wired. That probably accounts for some of the poll results too.

I once visited a historic site in France where the guide asked in french:
"if you don't understand french, please raise your hand"

All I wanna say is that it is logic why chinese, japanese, russian and arabic got so little votes those people don't come here at all, why should they ?

Yeah, there should be a Latin forum! ;) Although you'd have to invent the words for Gnutella, Morpheus, Vinnie, etc.

Vinnie, Gnutella, Morpheus - Veni, Gnutelli, Morpheci - I came, I Built, And it didn't go as planned.

Then call me BACKMANNIVS

(BTW, 'Ivan' is 'John' in Latin and Russian)

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

We also have to keep in mind most people who speak in german know english

The most people learn English in Germany but KNOWING? ;)

Morgwen

Although it is true that portuguese is very close to spanish you should note that there is a hostile reaction between members of the two groups in reading something in the other language. Especially so in South America (which by the way should not be called latin!).
There is no doubt that spanish is the third spoken language in the world, however german or french speaking users could be more. Do not forget that the penetration of the internet in the hispanic countries is still at infancy.
For your curiocity I speak greek, portuguese, german and spanish.
cheers.

Re: Which languages do you speak besides or instead of English?
 

Re: Re: Which languages do you speak besides or instead of English?
 

No its not a slavic language...

Swedish is nice but I have only 10 options so you have to vote for other.

Morgwen

Re: Re: Re: Which languages do you speak besides or instead of English?
 

Yes Finnish is a slavic from the beginning. The orginal ppl came from to days Rumainia/Hungaria. We was studie that in school...
Oh.. I did that already.

Hungarian -magiar- is a very complicated language. Does it have anything to do with Swedish?? I'd like to know, honestly, I may be studying it in the future.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

español is in fact now very close to English in terms of usage on the internet and site numbers.....There are numerous studies which all agree that within the next 2-3 years Spanish will overtake English as the majority user language on the internet.
Spanish is also, if you exclude Chinese from the tables, almost equal to English in usage and dominance worldwide and, again, is expected to surpass English in this decade. The USA government declares that over 46% of the US population speak Spanish. This number is considered to be very conservative.

The Spanish language internet facilities are anything but in early development..... Please have a browse around and you will discover that the 'red español' is enormous with many very high quality sites.

p.s. On planet Earth, the majority of registered motor vehicles and state supported roads and highways are for Right Hand Drive vehicles being driven on the LEFT side of the road!!!!
Not everything is what it appears to be!!!! ;)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Which languages do you speak besides or instead of English?
 

Ok when the people come from Rumainia (its a Roman language like French and Spain) and Hungaria (don´t know yet but sure not slavic) but this are also NO slavic languages...

I live in Europe and my parents are from Croatia (a slavic language)...

You should ask your teacher again, and if he thinks its a slavic language he should quit his job...

Morgwen

No, this people came from Asia, the only languages you can compare with are some other Asian languages... but you will not find an other similar language in Europe.

Morgwen

FYI...

Both the Finnish and Hungarian languages belong to the Finno-Ugric group, the main branch of the Urgic group. So they're neither Slavic, Latin, Germanic or Asian based. But that's why they are so closely related.

The people in the Finno-Urgic group started moving apart much longer ago than say the Germanic people. That's why the similarities betwen Finnish and Hungarian is less common than the similarities between Germainc languages.

Thanks for the info.

You learn something new every day here :)

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

NOOOOO!!!

Finnish is neither a slavic nor a scandinavian laguage, cultiv8r explained it well... the slavic languages don´t use doubles letters like "kk", "oo", or "uu" - you can believe me because I SPEAK A SLAVIC LANGUAGE! Also I am able to understand at least some parts of other slavic languages but not Finnish because its not slavic...

Morgwen

Some input:

http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnish2.html

Morgwen

More input:

English:

http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm

French:

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0858274.html

Swedish:

http://www.livestation.com/content/d...ge_history.htm

So Swedish is a Germanic language, English and French are also influenced by some Germanic languages but, English and French didn`t influence Swedish...

Morgwen

As in many other countries too... Ok some French, but what have the Hansa to do with the French laguage?

I know the history about the Hansa very well, I live in Bremen its still called "hansa" town..., 140 kilometres away from Hamburg, but the main city was Lübeck not Hamburg!

Morgwen

Nothing only that Doing the 1600th Sweden and French was very close and it become "fashon" to talk French and many of our words in our language is French words still today.

Sorry about the small misstake about Hamburg here. it should have read Lübeck and Hamburg, (and other city was (if I remember right) Bremen, Travemünde, Rostock later Visby on Gotland in Sweden and at it's hight it was over 200 city's in Germany, Sweden, Polen, Denmark, Russia, Holland, England, Norway, and other battic countrys.) That is why the swedish laungue have so many "loan" words as we call them in Sweden, that incudes French and German words.

Yes, Sorry about that misstake, Morgwen. :o It was Lübeck.
I should have seen that. I have been very much in Germany (I was in the merchent marine for 15 years) I was even living there for 3.5 years. In Wiebaden.

Sorry, I wanted to ask about Finnish, not Swedish. It happens for posting after 1 AM.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

Its OK! :)

I know many foreign people who live in Germany which make more mistakes...

Morgwen

I speak a little Japanese even though I am American. I've been studing for about 8 months.

My native language is englich but I also can speak Spanish.

Korean?
 

> > > Learn Korean in 5 minutes (Must Read Out Loud)
> > >
> > > 1) That's not right..............................Sum Ting Wong
> > > 2) Are you harboring a fugitive..................Hu Yu Hai Ding
> > > 3) See me ASAP...................................Kum Hia
> > > 4) Stupid Man....................................Dum Gai
> > > 5) Small Horse...................................Tai Ni Po Ni
> > > 6) Did you go to the beach.......................Wai Yu So Tan
> > > 7) I bumped into the coffee table................Ai Bang Mai Ni
> > > 8) I think you need a face lift..................Chin Tu Fat
> > > 9) It's Very dark in here........................Wao So Dim
> > > 10) I Thought you were on a diet..................Wai Yu Mun Ching
> > > 11) This is a two away zone.......................No Pah King
> > > 12) Our meeting is scheduled for next week........Wai Yu Kum Nao
> > > 13) Staying out of sight..........................Lei Ying Lo
> > > 14) He's cleaning his automobile .................Wa Shing Ka
> > > 15) Your body odor is offensive...................Yu Stin Ki Pu
> > > 16) Great.........................................Fa Kin Su Pah
> > > 17) Give it to me baby............................Suk Mai Dong
> > > 18) England will win the World Cup.................No Fu Kin Wai
> > > 19) Whos been eating all the pies?.................Yo Fat Wan Ka

LOL :D

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

I can speak Nepali language. Does any other can speak Nepali language?