How many languages can you speak?

[xtrasyn]

Just wondering... It seems the Brits are at a serious drawback. Is this true?

[KoeN]

i can manage pretty well in dutch, english and german. french i understand but i can't speak it well.

[Phil^]

English
(some) German
Mirc Script ( if that counts )
C++ (ish)
Java (ish)
some BASIC
a tiny amount of COBOL
and thats about it i think

[Phalon]

Yes, because everyone else speaks our language so well (often better than most of us).

I speak basic German and v.basic French,

I have a feeling Leshy will win this.

[Stew]

I speak English and basic French.

[onetwothree]

Originally Posted by Phil^

English
(some) German
Mirc Script ( if that counts )
C++ (ish)
Java (ish)
some BASIC
a tiny amount of COBOL
and thats about it i think

People who reply listing computer programming languages need to seek help, I recommend the church of euthanasia.

[Kumnaa]

Everybody speaks English so we don't need to learn anybody elses.

[lokken]

English
A-Level German
Basic French

[ceres]

English.
French(Basque).
Afrikaans - so i have a decent understanding of dutch too.
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[pablissimo]

English, pretty basic French and my Spanish isn't too bad, at least for reading. I've not spoken it in quite a while.

[xtrasyn]

Originally Posted by Kumnaa

Everybody speaks English so we don't need to learn anybody elses.

THAT my man is a REAL misconception.

[SilverSmoke]

Dutch, English and a tiny little bit French. French is easier to understand then to speak for me though.

[onetwothree]

Originally Posted by xtrasyn

THAT my man is a REAL misconception.

Everyone that matters then.

[KoeN]

atm i am practicing my norwegian rapskills

digger rull
digger tull
vi digger det!

[JonnyBGood]

English and decent French. I also speak good Irish but that's about as much use as learning sanskrit (actually probably of less use).

[XeeThot]

Brazilian Portuguese, English, some Spanish, some Italian and some French.

[Phil^]

Originally Posted by onetwothree

People who reply listing computer programming languages need to seek help, I recommend the church of euthanasia.

but they`re still languages

[xtrasyn]

Originally Posted by Phil^

but they`re still languages

So is sign language and semaphore but as soon as someone waves two flags at me I´ll rather think of killing it than responding in the right color combination.

[lokken]

Originally Posted by Phil^

but they`re still languages

Do have discussions with your computer about how the 6 apples are in the basket?

[Structural Integrity]

Dutch and English are the languages I can speak rather well and intuitively. English is my primary native language and when I speak/write it I also think in English. That's probably why my posts are usually a bit weird because I often don't bother getting a dictionary.
My German is poor considering I live near the German border. I can understand it rather well, but not speak it well. But they say the Swiss also speak German, but when I hear those people's accent on the phone I can't make anything of it. Thereby they call us Limburgers the spare Germans because our dialect sounds like German.
I can understand a bit of French. Two years ago when I was in France on holiday with my schoolmates, I had to order everything because they were all too affraid to try their French. I guess I was a French-master compared to them because I managed to ask people "ou est le ragout et le riz" in those supermarkets. I'm sure that without me they hadn't eaten that well.
And at the moment I'm learning Japanese. Very challenging language, but I'm finding little motivation to dive in the books at the moment because my work is draining me from my motivation. But I better have learned it before July because I'll be in Japan for a few weeks then .

[djbass]

English
Aussie English (occa)

and sometime many years ago I used to speak french

Originally Posted by Phil^

English
(some) German
Mirc Script ( if that counts )
C++ (ish)
Java (ish)
some BASIC
a tiny amount of COBOL
and thats about it i think

if(strcmp(languages, "C++")==0)
printf("Hello, Programmer!\n");

[Phil^]

   bool Isin(std::string Token,std::string Subtoken)
   {
   	if ( Token.find(Subtoken) <= Token.length() ) { return 1; }
   	else { return 0; }
   }
   
   if (Isin(languages,"C++") == 1 ) 
   {
   std::cout << " Hello programmer!\n";
   }

[Structural Integrity]

Originally Posted by djbass

English
Aussie English (occa)

and sometime many years ago I used to speak french




if(strcmp(languages, "C++")==0)
printf("Hello, Programmer!\n");

I'd recommend to use strstr because also people who know other programming languages are programmers. So the string "Java, Basic, C++, PHP, ASP" should also result in the person being a programmer.

[Structural Integrity]

Originally Posted by Phil^

  bool Isin(std::string Token,std::string Subtoken)
  {
  	if ( Token.find(Subtoken) <= Token.length() ) { return 1; }
  	else { return 0; }
  }
  
  if (Isin("C++",languages") == 1 ) 
  {
  std::cout << " Hello programmer!\n";
  }

Error on line 7, unexpected "

God I'm bored.

[djbass]

Originally Posted by Structural Integrity

I'd recommend to use strstr because also people who know other programming languages are programmers. So the string "Java, Basic, C++, PHP, ASP" should also result in the person being a programmer.

That's making an assumption on the what my expected input was (though the s on the end of language was unintentional and misleading). It is expecting a null terminated string consisting of a single language selection, it was my intention that my chosen protocol would be strictly C++ (despite not even using C++ for the routine anyway)

[Phil^]

yes you are, see the fixed one i did :P its been at least half a year since ive done any c++

[Leshy]

Originally Posted by Phalon

I have a feeling Leshy will win this.

Doubtful. I've had a good few languages in school, but there's not that many I speak well. The only two languages I'm fluent in are Dutch and English, and I can manage reasonably well in German. My French is a tad poor, although I find that upon being in France, I do pick it up reasonably quick. I have a basic working knowledge of Italian, and could probably have a pretty simple conversation in it, something which I hope to be improving upon over the coming period, as I'm still taking classes.

[Structural Integrity]

Originally Posted by djbass

That's making an assumption on the what my expected input was (though the s on the end of language was unintentional and misleading). It is expecting a null terminated string consisting of a single language selection, it was my intention that my chosen protocol would be strictly C++ (despite not even using C++ for the routine anyway)

Your omission of pre and post descriptions of your code is not within the acceptable parameters.

[Stew]

Wow this thread has got geeky, I don't understand anything that's going on

[roadrunner_0]

i used to be able to swear in 9 languages if that helps?

i know some basic french and german, but i cant follow it if people are speaking, im not fluent enough (curiously, i can also work out a lot of things in latin now due to this damn game)

[Marilyn Manson]

A smattering of French and German, some Latin, and enough Geordie to be able to trade with the natives.

[Embroglio]

Originally Posted by Phil^

English
(some) German
Mirc Script ( if that counts )
C++ (ish)
Java (ish)
some BASIC
a tiny amount of COBOL
and thats about it i think

dear ****ing god

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by Phil^

Mirc Script ( if that counts )
C++ (ish)
Java (ish)
some BASIC
a tiny amount of COBOL
and thats about it i think

Can you talk to robots, though, and make them do your bidding? If not, then all of the above is totally wasted.

[furball]

English, GCSE French (not fluent, not totally crap), German pronouns (ja, richtig!) and some Latin.

[JetLinus]

English & German (& could translate written Latin, given enough time, + can read ancient greek).
I will NOT become more geeky and list the computer-stuff.


Being German, I found most of the A-Level-German-Stuff rather disappointing, as people at school couldn't really make up one "advanced" sentence apart from the usual "Hello how are you, my name is" stuff, neither could they understand the simple questions I tried to ask them in German.

But to be fair, learning foreign languages is quite difficult for English people it seems.

[djbass]

Originally Posted by Structural Integrity

Your omission of pre and post descriptions of your code is not within the acceptable parameters.

real programmers don't use comments

[Structural Integrity]

Originally Posted by djbass

real programmers don't use comments

Then you deserve to be shot.
I'm working on a program here that my boss and a previous "programmer" made that has about 0 lines of comment (give or take a few). Some days my brain hurts from reading the cryptic variable names, incomprehensible algorithms and redundant constructions.
The previous programmer left, and now I work here, my boss decided he doesn't want to program anything anymore, so I'm stuck with his... stuff...
When I ask my boss how some of his "stuff" works he usually can't answer my question because he simply doesn't know anymore.

So as you can imagine, I now thoroughly hate programmers who don't comment their code.

[Snurx]

I can speak Norwegian and English. I've had French at school, but I was never there
I understand and can talk to Danish and Swedish people, but those languages are so close to the Norwegian one that it's really not hard at all.
I also understand a litte dutch, and a little vietnamese. I can have basic conversations in some sort of bad phillipinian, but only to ask for food, what the clock is and so on. I'm going to learn it good one day, thought.

[Nodrog]

English

[hook]

Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian

[djbass]

Originally Posted by Structural Integrity

Then you deserve to be shot.
I'm working on a program here that my boss and a previous "programmer" made that has about 0 lines of comment (give or take a few). Some days my brain hurts from reading the cryptic variable names, incomprehensible algorithms and redundant constructions.
The previous programmer left, and now I work here, my boss decided he doesn't want to program anything anymore, so I'm stuck with his... stuff...
When I ask my boss how some of his "stuff" works he usually can't answer my question because he simply doesn't know anymore.

So as you can imagine, I now thoroughly hate programmers who don't comment their code.

I'm Turse

[Proteus]

Either "English" or "English, Latin and Greek", depending on your definition of "speak".

[Cannon_Fodder]

i can count to ten in four languages

english
french
german
japanese

[hook]

Originally Posted by Proteus

Either "English" or "English, Latin and Greek", depending on your definition of "speak".

That would be more a case of understanding Latin and Greek, would it not? I personally had six years of Latin / Greek lectures aswell, and can translate it fairly decently... however, writing down decent sentences myself, other than reading what other people have written, is still a pain for me.

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by hook

That would be more a case of understanding Latin and Greek, would it not? I personally had six years of Latin / Greek lectures aswell, and can translate it fairly decently... however, writing down decent sentences myself, other than reading what other people have written, is still a pain for me.

No, I can write in Latin and Greek as well.

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by Proteus

No, I can write in Latin and Greek as well.

What about Farsi?

[Boogster]

English, and uh... French (with a poor accent and a liberal dose of basic errors).

[MeridianStar]

English
German
Dutch - I understand quite a lot and speak a little.
Basic French (counting, ordering food, greetings, shopping etc)
Basic Spanish (just a lil less than above)

[Sarina_Joy]

English
I can say my name and where I'm from in Gaelic.
That is all.

[Structural Integrity]

Originally Posted by djbass

I'm Turse

Can't find a Turse there.