How many languages have you mangled?

[Eriku]

Hrm... I've mangled Danish, Faroese, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Russian... I have a good phonetic ear, so I can manage pronounciation quite well, but I prefer learning grammar through absorbing it, like a child... hence being taught formally just makes me lazy and uninspired.

[Dries van Tonder]

English. My most notorious moment was when I phoned the local hospital to get hold of a surgeon, as he had to give evidence in court. The Afrikaans for surgical is "chirurgies". So I phoned and asked to be put through / transferred to the "chirurgical" department.

[Rob]

Only English, Irish and French. And the last two are rusty, to say the least.

Now, as for computer languages ...

And here I was thinking Irish was just estranged English.

[Eriku]

In some parts of South America they just say "l".

In Argentina the double-l becomes a sh-sound...

Ich heiße Millefleur und ich bin vierundzwanzig jahre alt. Ich habe eine groß kaninchen und sie konnen spiele tennis. Ich liebe meine kaninchen. In dem sommerferian ich spiele fußball. Ich mochte der autobus.

Voulez vous petis pois? lapin, chemise, oui oui.

You have a large little bunny?

[maiforpeace]

Would like to refresh my skills in German and French, I have been there and managed just fine but am not sure I could do it now. I forget things easily

So would I. We should Skype sometime.

EDIT:

Have a three way.

I mangle Norwegian, and these days both my French and my German are rather mangled, too. I would like to one day learn enough Dutch pronunciation to be able to at least mangle it, and I'm working on Spanish right now, but have not reached the mangling stage yet.

[Sælir]

Would like to refresh my skills in German and French, I have been there and managed just fine but am not sure I could do it now. I forget things easily

So would I. We should Skype sometime.

EDIT:

Have a three way.

I mangle Norwegian, and these days both my French and my German are rather mangled, too. I would like to one day learn enough Dutch pronunciation to be able to at least mangle it, and I'm working on Spanish right now, but have not reached the mangling stage yet.

[Svartalf]

Only English, Irish and French. And the last two are rusty, to say the least.

Now, as for computer languages ...

And here I was thinking Irish was just estranged English.

Dhonais agus Dholas ort, agus leat sa !

Oops, that was Scottish, not proper Irish

[Eriku]

Would like to refresh my skills in German and French, I have been there and managed just fine but am not sure I could do it now. I forget things easily

So would I. We should Skype sometime.

EDIT:

Have a three way.

I mangle Norwegian, and these days both my French and my German are rather mangled, too. I would like to one day learn enough Dutch pronunciation to be able to at least mangle it, and I'm working on Spanish right now, but have not reached the mangling stage yet.

Oop, I'm well up for a Germanophonic three-way.

[Ronja]

Would like to refresh my skills in German and French, I have been there and managed just fine but am not sure I could do it now. I forget things easily

So would I. We should Skype sometime.

EDIT:

Have a three way.

I mangle Norwegian, and these days both my French and my German are rather mangled, too. I would like to one day learn enough Dutch pronunciation to be able to at least mangle it, and I'm working on Spanish right now, but have not reached the mangling stage yet.

Oop, I'm well up for a Germanophonic three-way.

By all means let's arrange a Skype conference call - the only challenge is how to time it. But now worries - there's an app a website for that: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

I need to be at home to be able to participate, so that limits my possible time slots quite a bit, I'm afraid.

[Eriku]

Mine's mostly wide open, so you two sort it out amongst yourselves

[Ronja]

Mine's mostly wide open, so you two sort it out amongst yourselves

We three, you mean (Mai, Sælir and me)

[Ironclad]

I deliberately mangle my tourist talky. I am equally crap at German, Spanish and French - for kicks I use all three in the same sentences as I chat to waiters or people I meet.
What a tosser eh. Fun though.

[normal]

Sami, German, Japanese, Swedish

[JimC]

Schoolboy french and latin, now jumbled memes in what passes for my mind...