Poll: What languages are you fluent in? • Hacker News Board

Spanish - Native English - Fluent (with a spanish/texan accent) Mandarin - Enough to get around in Beijing Brazilian Portuguese , yes, but heavily mangled with Spanish

Re: Poll: What languages are you fluent in?

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Post by olalonde » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 2:15 PM UTC

To those who are fluent in Mandarin: did you learn from your parents, from school/private language lessons, or all by yourself?

Re: Poll: What languages are you fluent in?

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Post by tsta » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:00 PM UTC

Esperanto

Re: Poll: What languages are you fluent in?

#47

Post by g00gle » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

notthetup wrote: post #40

English and Marathi (guess I'm the only one)

no you are not

Re: Poll: What languages are you fluent in?

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Post by spiffworks » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 4:23 PM UTC

notthetup wrote: post #40

English and Marathi (guess I'm the only one)

I speak English, Hindi, Tamil and a South-Indian dialect of Marathi. One of the advantages of growing up in a multi-lingual house.

Re: Poll: What languages are you fluent in?

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Post by wil2k » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 9:36 PM UTC

English, Dutch, and some German, Frisian, Swedish, Italian and Czech. :+

Re: Poll: What languages are you fluent in?

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Post by adharmad » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 4:28 AM UTC

g00gle wrote: post #47

notthetup wrote: post #40

English and Marathi (guess I'm the only one)

no you are not

likewise :)