FabSwingers.com forum: Foreign Languages

By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

I’ve always been interested in learning a foreign language.

Unfortunately, I suffer an acute condition called Lazyitus however which prevents me from doing so.

Nonetheless, I am always impressed with folk who speak more than one language fluently.

My good people, I’m giving you all the chance to blow your own trumpets and impress the shit out of me by answering the following:

How many languages do you speak?

….and in relation to this:

a) What languages are they?

b) Are you fluent in them (or just enough to get by?)

For clarification purposes, whilst I’ll be admittedly mightily impressed if you can say the word ‘Shit’ in twelve languages, it’s not quite the level of fluency I’m referring to

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Only fluent in English.

Conversational in another. Can bumble around in two more.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am only fluent in English however my husband is also fluent in Spanish and I'm always in awe because I just can't pick up languages.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

I can barely speak english, let alone another language

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gaelic is my mother tongue and English is my 2nd language.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I'd love to be fluent in a language other than English.

I can speak French enough to get by.

Spanish to get a meal, ask for help and say sorry.

Portuguese to get food and say sorry

Greek to get food and say sorry.

Japanese to introduce myself and various random rubbish.

Several of my family members are fluent in various languages and I'm very envious of them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can just about get by, in a very exact environment, in Japanese. Very limited vocabulary.

Lady Astor has a much wider collection of "getting herself understood" languages.

Winston

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By *agertha73Couple
over a year ago

Cardiff

We're both trying to improve our Cymraeg. He's pretty good at French!

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By *flkfunseekerMan
over a year ago

Norwich

Fluent in gibberish

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"I'd love to be fluent in a language other than English.

I can speak French enough to get by.

Spanish to get a meal, ask for help and say sorry.

Portuguese to get food and say sorry

Greek to get food and say sorry.

Japanese to introduce myself and various random rubbish.

Several of my family members are fluent in various languages and I'm very envious of them

It is customary for we Brits to learn the word for sorry first of all

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

Cymreag is my mother tounge with English being my second language. I know enough French to get by when I'm out there and enough to read a newspaper for example.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im fluent in seduction crudeness and bullshit in equal measure

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

"I'd love to be fluent in a language other than English.

I can speak French enough to get by.

Spanish to get a meal, ask for help and say sorry.

Portuguese to get food and say sorry

Greek to get food and say sorry.

Japanese to introduce myself and various random rubbish.

Several of my family members are fluent in various languages and I'm very envious of them

It is customary for we Brits to learn the word for sorry first of all

Yep

and

"Unhand me sir!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some of the local statuses that get written might as well be foreign , because for love of money we cannot understand them

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Spanish fluently.

French I can get by.

And English.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

English is my first language, although I started life in a Welsh language village and nursery school (my dad didn't speak Welsh so it wasn't properly bilingual). My Welsh is rubbish now

I speak Spanish pretty fluently. Basic Dutch (can read more than I can speak). Conversational/basic German and I can say extremely limited things in French. I can read and understand Italian but only speak very basic phrases.

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

I (Luke) have learned some French, German and Italian to varying levels of proficiency. It's something I enjoy.

The reason I stopped is because I realised there's no practical point. I have no reason to do it as I'm very rarely going to be in a real-world situation where the effort will be worthwhile.

I only have so many days on this planet and I think I'm better off putting my efforts into something I will use like playing musical instruments. Luke

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

Fluent in Java 8.

Used to be fluent in C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, DCL, ... So many languages.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"I (Luke) have learned some French, German and Italian to varying levels of proficiency. It's something I enjoy.

The reason I stopped is because I realised there's no practical point. I have no reason to do it as I'm very rarely going to be in a real-world situation where the effort will be worthwhile.

I only have so many days on this planet and I think I'm better off putting my efforts into something I will use like playing musical instruments. Luke"

You'd be surprised sometimes. I found that Spanish was the only common language I had (at the time) to converse with a woman in a Dutch town hall and I have given directions to many a tourist in both Spanish and German (in Manchester mainly).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fluent in Java 8.

Used to be fluent in C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, DCL, ... So many languages.

Huh ?

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Fluent in Java 8.

Used to be fluent in C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, DCL, ... So many languages.

Huh ? "

Computer programming languages. I wish I'd learned some. I tried HTML and Java, I'm fine with instructions but can't profess to be able to code

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Fluent in Java 8.

Used to be fluent in C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, DCL, ... So many languages.

I remember good old 8-but Basic programming;

10. Print: ‘Hello’

20. Go To 10

Ahhh the good old days

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Fluent in Java 8.

Used to be fluent in C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, DCL, ... So many languages.

I remember good old 8-but Basic programming;

10. Print: ‘Hello’

20. Go To 10

Ahhh the good old days

8 BIT (Argh! - the spellchecker is worse today than it was back then, I swear!)

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By *uke OzadeMan
over a year ago

Ho Chi Minge City

English

Shona

Afrikaans

And enough Chilapalapa to get by

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

Mi piacerebbe parlarne correntemente ma non ci sono ancora... forse un giorno lo farò....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We live in Brazil but my Portuguese is just about good enough to get by in shops and restaurants.

Funny enough though the more I drink the better I can speak it.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

"Fluent in Java 8.

Used to be fluent in C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, DCL, ... So many languages.

Huh ?

Computer programming languages. I wish I'd learned some. I tried HTML and Java, I'm fine with instructions but can't profess to be able to code

Stick with it. There's loads of good tutorials out there.

Java is a popular language still but you could look at something like Python. Not used it myself but lots of job vacancies looking for it.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Fluent in Java 8.

Used to be fluent in C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, DCL, ... So many languages.

Huh ?

Computer programming languages. I wish I'd learned some. I tried HTML and Java, I'm fine with instructions but can't profess to be able to code

Stick with it. There's loads of good tutorials out there.

Java is a popular language still but you could look at something like Python. Not used it myself but lots of job vacancies looking for it."

One of our teachers started an online Python club during the lockdowns but I was too busy and now he's left. I should look into it really....

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

I can ask for beer and order food in Greek and Spanish.

Some may say I have difficulties with English but everyone agrees that I am fluent in pish.

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By *ed wineMan
over a year ago

Where the streets have no name

Fluent in English, Spanish and Italian. A little bit of German but I need to refresh it

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By *nikingMan
over a year ago

Hull

Bulgarian

English

Spanish among others.

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By *heekshaMan
over a year ago

Scotland, All Over sometimes .

South Indian languages , sanskrit and Hindi bit English too

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

I was learning some Portuguese words at the weekend...I can't roll my R's which makes correct pronunciation rather difficult

I can get by with basic pleasantries, ordering food/drink, asking for directions etc in French. I have a GCSE in German, but haven't spoken it since I left school many years ago.

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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago

Near Wells

I'm like the Op, I would love to speak or learn another language but never have.

When I'm abroad, I generally speak louder, slower and do hand gestures. I usually get by

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

Fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Spanish is my first language.

Intermediate level in French but my pronunciation is atrocious. My very helpful French teacher made fun of it when I was reading once at Uni and I’ve never got over that mental block.

I wish there were a chip you could pop in to make you speak any language, like in The Matrix

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By *ooking4othersMan
over a year ago

Here ...

"Fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Spanish is my first language.

Intermediate level in French but my pronunciation is atrocious. My very helpful French teacher made fun of it when I was reading once at Uni and I’ve never got over that mental block.

I wish there were a chip you could pop in to make you speak any language, like in The Matrix

There is ... Google Translate app

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I get by in French. Enough to get laid with those French ladies with hairy minges

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

English and Spanish to a very decent level.

Intermediate in Italian and enough to get by in French.

Learning Japanese currently

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m fluent in gibberish, I blame on the menopause

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By *heekshaMan
over a year ago

Scotland, All Over sometimes .

Hi like a language swap and cuddles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fluent in 2 languages..

English and Black Country.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

English is my first language.

I also have spanish and french.

Holiday level of german and italian.

Sometimes have dipped in to learning small bits of irish and sign language. Just need to find the time.

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By *rotic_lokiMan
over a year ago

Swindon

"We're both trying to improve our Cymraeg. He's pretty good at French!"

Soh. all that muff diving/French kissing ?? pays off as zay say.

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By *rotic_lokiMan
over a year ago

Swindon

a) What languages are they?

b) Are you fluent in them ("

Does cunnilingus count? ??

Fluency depends on position, horniness of pussy and can vary.. Depending on who's face sitting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My wife is Brazilian so Portuguese is her native however fluent in spanish, japanese and English, pretty cool to watch hert communicate in Japanese through

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By *londebiguyMan
over a year ago

Southport

"I’ve always been interested in learning a foreign language.

Unfortunately, I suffer an acute condition called Lazyitus however which prevents me from doing so.

Nonetheless, I am always impressed with folk who speak more than one language fluently.

My good people, I’m giving you all the chance to blow your own trumpets and impress the shit out of me by answering the following:

How many languages do you speak?

….and in relation to this:

a) What languages are they?

b) Are you fluent in them (or just enough to get by?)

For clarification purposes, whilst I’ll be admittedly mightily impressed if you can say the word ‘Shit’ in twelve languages, it’s not quite the level of fluency I’m referring to

Try Duolingo.

It's not so hard using that...free version to use too.

I speak Dutch and French as well as English

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My ex had a life for language fluent to degree standard at to teach French, German and Italian but could also get by with Spanish and Greek.

Me! I struggle with English at times. But I could speak Arabic enough to get by… and my Bosnian is pretty much useless now.

I’d love ti learn though

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

Fully bilingual in Spanish (native speaker) and English… I was educated in an American/International school from ages 3-16, so grew up speaking English too but not deemed native there haha.

I can get by in French, but I am not fluent anymore… I was in my Uni days.

I really really wish I spoke more languages. Being bilingual isn’t impressive anymore.

I worked with a guy my age a few months and I saw him going from Portuguese to German to speaking to me in Spanish, then French and obviously perfect English… I was so turned on lol.

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