Which languages do you speak?

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"
 
More input:

English:

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

French:

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

Swedish:

http://www.livestation.com/content/de/language/language_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 L
 
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.
 
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.
 
How about Swedish. The spech of the vikings.... You know the "nice" guys from up north. No not realy... the closest you have today is Islandic, but it invelved in to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic. No Finnish is slavic.
 
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
 
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 ?
 
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