View Poll Results: What is your second language?

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  • English

    8 32.00%
  • German

    2 8.00%
  • Dutch

    0 0%
  • Spanish

    4 16.00%
  • Portuguese

    0 0%
  • French

    3 12.00%
  • Russian

    0 0%
  • Cantonese or Mandarin

    1 4.00%
  • Arabic

    0 0%
  • other (specify)

    7 28.00%
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Thread: Languages: The Poll! :D

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    Languages: The Poll! :D

    All right, why didn't one of you Betazoids out there tell me to post a poll with the other thread? Please indicate what your second language is. If the options are off enough, would anyone object to me or someone else posting a poll later with more representative ones?

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    I can't vote, since I only speak English (heck, I went for a B.S. degree instead of a B.A. degree because the B.A. had a secondary language requirement)...

    Still, I'm surprised that a Klingon option isn't on the list. Seems fitting for a Trek message board!



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    Unhappy

    Hey, only ten slots. Klingon was definately one I thought about including.

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    Well, Latin is the closest thing I have to real second language.

    German would be a distant third.

    Everything else is minimal at best -- restaurant French, survival Mexican-Spanish, about 300 mis-matched words in Japanese, the odd word here and there in a couple dozen languages

    In the words of Churchy Le Femme, "I kin make m'self misunderstood in over t'enty-seven lang'ages!"

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    I couldn't vote either. I'm not fluent enough in any other language than English to call it a second language.


    Unless, of course, the language of love counts.


    That I'm extremely fluent in, with a regional accent.

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    bad english counts... right..
    May your worlds be at peace. Never assume, that the pointy eared first officer is Vulcan.

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    Hey, I'm not fluent in any foreign language. Go ahead and vote for the language you know most of other than your native language, no matter how little you know.

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    How do you define second? I speak English, French, Italian, Arabic; can read Spanish and Portuguese...
    "War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

    John Stuart Mill

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    Talking

    Okay, how about your favorite language that is foreign to you?

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    Originally posted by Cochrane
    Hey, I'm not fluent in any foreign language. Go ahead and vote for the language you know most of other than your native language, no matter how little you know.
    Well, if that's the case, then I'll put my vote in for Elvish (Sindarin, to be accurate). I've got a set of instructional programs to really learn Sindarin and Quenya, but I haven't started yet (it's going to be a summer project, I think).



    Greg

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    Originally posted by Cochrane
    Okay, how about your favorite language that is foreign to you?
    Italian...actually like it more than English.
    "War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

    John Stuart Mill

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    Okay, so there's one book commonly available in stores now that teaches how to speak multiple Tolkien languages? I've never thought to look for that kind of thing while at a book store, but I'll have to try to remember to look.

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    American Sign Language is my second...
    “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.”

    -- Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy

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    Originally posted by Cochrane
    Okay, so there's one book commonly available in stores now that teaches how to speak multiple Tolkien languages? I've never thought to look for that kind of thing while at a book store, but I'll have to try to remember to look.
    Not a book that I know of (but it'd be worth looking into), but rather a series of language lessons that I downloaded. I'll hunt up the link for you, Cochrane, if you'd like.



    Greg

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    Originally posted by Greg Davis
    Not a book that I know of (but it'd be worth looking into), but rather a series of language lessons that I downloaded.
    Actually, there is a book. It's titled "The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth," by Ruth S. Noel. I haven't read it (got it for my wife) so I can't attest to the quality...

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