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Posted by: Michael AC Jan 14 2012, 04:12 AM

Aside from English, I am curious as to what language is most widely spoken by members since we are such a diverse group.

In that language is there a specific dialect or flavor?

Posted by: The Uncreator Jan 14 2012, 04:39 AM

Aside from my expert Engrish, I can vaguely understand German. Terrible at writing it, and I probably only use the proper article (der, die, das) about 1/3 of the time

Posted by: Sollesnes Jan 14 2012, 04:45 AM

I speak Norwegian and English. At school I studied French for 5 years (but I am lousy at it and I don't remember much). I've also been learning japanese for a couple of years, but I am only learning

Posted by: PosterBoy Jan 14 2012, 08:42 AM

Slowly learning Portuguese (Brazilian) I'm not good at languages though

Posted by: Gitarrero Jan 14 2012, 09:30 AM

Besides english I can speak german (my mothertongue). Since I am from the northwest (called Muensterland) I can speak with a northern dialect, which would still be very understandable even when you just learned the language. Now I live in the southwest where people speak a really weird dialect and I honestly don't always get what they say
I used to be good at french, I can still read it at a good level and also understand most of what people would say to me in french, but talking in french is pretty tough
I am learning spanish at the moment, and I gotta say I understand pretty much when I read or listen to someone, I think it's because some words are similar to the french or even english words, just pronounced differently.
I also speak a tiny bit of japanese and am cuurently working on that as well.

Posted by: snackajacks Jan 14 2012, 09:34 AM

In the netherlands we speak dutch but where I live in the south, we have an dialect called 'limburgs' it sounds like
the german language. My education is in english because its an international one. Further I have learned some words french.

Posted by: edguy Jan 14 2012, 12:48 PM

Well i'm speaking, ich spreche, je parle, English, Deutsch (German) and française (french).

But i hope no one try to speak french with me, because i learned it in school and forgot almost everything.

Where i live in Germany the people speaking two different dialects depending on the different regions in the state "Baden-Württemberg":

Badisch oder Schwäbisch (Baden or Swabian).

I try to avoid to speak one of these two dialects and speak standard german instead (high german, gitarrero called it northern dialect

Posted by: llibach Jan 14 2012, 01:07 PM

Being from Wales which is part of the U.K I speak English of course but my first language is Welsh which we speak at home and the main language in my part of the country.

Posted by: tonymiro Jan 14 2012, 03:21 PM

Irish, Castellano and English:

Irish - but I'm very rusty as no one that I know speaks any.

Castellano (or what most people think of as Spanish). I tend to use the Andaluz dialect - I drop 's' that are on the end of words and pronounce things like 'j' as harder than someone from outside of Andulicia might. I sometimes go with the very local version, which is very fast and full of local slang.

In Castellano people say, 'Buenos dias'
In Andaluz it's, 'Bueno dia'
Very local version is, 'Bue'.

English - very rusty...

My wife can speak English, Castellano and French, my daughter can speak English and Castellano and my mother can speak Cantonese, English, German, Russian and Arabic.

Posted by: Ben Higgins Jan 14 2012, 04:28 PM

Apart from my native English I can do a little bit of German.. enough to make myself understood.

Most of the French I did at school I've forgotten.

A little bit of 'dojo' Japanese

Yeah, I could never get my head around the Der, Die, Das thing either

Das Auto
Der Mann
Die Frau

Posted by: Sensible Jones Jan 14 2012, 04:37 PM

Aside from English I am quite fluent in Sarcasm!!!


Seriously though, I have a very basic level of French, German and Spanish.
Remember......
Google Translate is your friend!!!

Posted by: Gitarrero Jan 14 2012, 05:31 PM

No it's not
Todd tried it once to write me something encouraging in german...the result was hilarious

Posted by: Sensible Jones Jan 14 2012, 05:36 PM

That was me being fluent in Sarcasm then!!

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 14 2012, 05:47 PM

I speak spanish , english, and understand portuguese quite a bit like 80%, and I understand Italian probably 50%...but that's built in because those languages are pretty similar to spanish,

Posted by: Fran Jan 14 2012, 06:03 PM

Just spanish

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jan 14 2012, 06:07 PM

My main language is Spanish... and I'm still learning English!!

Posted by: Sensible Jones Jan 14 2012, 06:33 PM

Posted by: jstcrsn Jan 14 2012, 07:05 PM

can anyone give me some help speaking " Female"

Posted by: Ben Higgins Jan 14 2012, 07:40 PM

Yeah, sure..

Silence = You've done something wrong.

Posted by: Michael AC Jan 14 2012, 07:47 PM

That is pretty amazing. It is broader than I expected. It also seems that if you are from Europe it is more natural to learn multiple languages.

I have thought it would be good to learn another language, but honestly I think I would loose it like many have said about French.

With all of that it is amazing how music transcends it all.

Thanks for everyone's input. I suppose being in America, it will be good to learn Spanish.

Posted by: jstcrsn Jan 14 2012, 07:58 PM

it might be necessary to learn beggar or homeless
I am sorry,that was just to easy

Posted by: MonkeyDAthos Jan 14 2012, 08:06 PM

Português (Portugal) and Rusty English but enough to handle movies without subs !

Posted by: Dinaga Jan 14 2012, 08:55 PM

I know English and Bosnian. That kinda includes a big part of Serbian and Croatian as well, then.
I learned German back in school and I can talk and understand a little of it. But I think it's a waste to forget it so I might take up a German course to learn it well...

Yeah mate, learning that one as well! To add up to Ben's response, Homer has some wisdom

Posted by: El Fortinero Jan 15 2012, 08:50 PM

In fact it is because in all America the majority of the countries share the same language (Spanish)- all the countries but Brazil (Portuguese) USA (english) Canada (English and french) and some countries from the Center.

Another amazing thing is that Latin America is like a big country, there is no rivality among us, and that's really cool, for instance we consider the other countries as our Latin brothers ( there was always and idea to "unify" all Latin America in one)



I can speak Spanish and English and as Daniel said Italian and Portuguese are easy to understand to us if they are spoken slow

Posted by: PosterBoy Jan 16 2012, 07:39 AM

I thought there was quite a lot of rivalry between Brazil and Argentina or is that just in football?

Posted by: El Fortinero Jan 16 2012, 11:05 PM

Just in football, but it´s a nice rivality. It´s imposible no to like Brazilians, they are such good people.

Many Argentinean are angry with the Chileans because they betrayed us in the falkland war in 1984 ...but that's my opinon only.. we can´t blame all the people for goverment decisions...

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jan 16 2012, 11:27 PM

- Norwegian and Romanian from parents.
- English from British school and International Baccalaureate.
- French from French school (lycée, troisième to seconde).

Posted by: Ben Higgins Jan 17 2012, 09:23 AM

.. and Ben-ism !

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jan 17 2012, 09:33 AM

Forgive my ignorance, Master Ben. I did not mean to offend your Holiness.

Posted by: Ben Higgins Jan 17 2012, 09:37 AM

Not at all, disciple Alex.. you were merely being modest and protective of the religion of Benism.

Posted by: Sensible Jones Jan 17 2012, 02:30 PM

Are your Disciples 'Benists'??? How does one become a Benist???

Posted by: Michael AC Jan 17 2012, 02:38 PM

No sorry needed when you speak the truth...

Posted by: tonymiro Jan 17 2012, 03:20 PM

Not a card carrying disciple myself but I believe that the initial steps include:

First you have to put all temptation aside.
As spiritual leader Ben has very kindly taken it upon him self to save us from temptation so you may give him all of your money and guitars. He will look after them for you.

Second, you then need to learnthe correct obeisance.
You must turn to face Devon and Cornwall three times a day and headbang to Run to the Hills.

Third you must affirm your love of dogs, horses, Marmite and all things Maiden.

Those three should set you on the rigth path to Benism

Posted by: SirJamsalot Jan 18 2012, 05:55 PM

C#, C, Java, Javascript, SQL (MS, Postgres, Sybase, Oracle and MySQL dialects) HTML, Python, Visual Basic, PERL, Assembly (though a bit rusty), HTML, Action Script, c-shell, Korn, LISP... been a while, but I even remember some Pascal!

oh, and Engrish

Posted by: Gitarrero Jan 18 2012, 08:08 PM

Don't forget you have to do all these things while doing push-ups with a basket full of donuts for your master on your back.

Posted by: Todd Simpson Jan 19 2012, 12:05 AM

Hey now! Man my German is really, really, bad. I'd like to learn Gaelic oddly enough. Which I gather isn't that far from Welsh! As I posted previously I"m descended from the English/Scottish Border Reavers and many spoke "Border Tongue" with bits from Scottish Gaelic, English, and whatever else they could steal.

After that, I'd still like to learn proper German!