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How many languages you speak?

2007-09-28 21:01:30 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel Europe (Continental) Turkey

I speak, Turkish , Arabic and English

2007-09-28 21:09:52 · update #1

29 answers

mother tongue Turkish. I speak 5 more languages...

2007-09-29 13:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 4

My mother tongue is Turkish, as I am a native Turk.
But my situation is a little particular, because I came in France when I was 2 years old, and I grew up in a french background (school,friends,etc...)...
That's why I have a liitle french accent when I'm talking in Turkish...I speak French even better than most of French people, but unfortunately I realize that my Turkish is sometimes a little weak ( vocabulary and grammar).
Other than that, I can also speak Spanish and English...
I can understand some Italian and Portuguese, especially when I read it ( many similarities with French and Spanish).
I can understand the Azeri-Turkish, as it has the same roots as Anatolian Turkish ( but it sometimes sounds weird )
I phonetically "know" some Arabic, because I am a Muslim, and because the prayers are in Arabic for all the Muslims of the world ( no matter which ethnicity they may be )...

So I can say, in reality :

- Turkish
- French
- Spanish
- English

2007-09-29 03:55:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5 0

Mother tongue - English.

I always joke that since I lived in Louisiana that Iearned English as a second language, but that's a joke you would have to live in Louisiana to really appreciate.

I also speak Arabic on like an 8-year-old level. I read it a lot better than that.
I can order food and conduct shopping in both Turkish and the Behdini dialect of Kurdish.

I have also learned that I can say "Hello, I'm a good guy" in lots of languages without saying a word. A smile and an open hand is a good greeting to know, but impossible for some people to master, for some reason.

2007-09-29 12:52:24 · answer #3 · answered by The Babe is Armed! 6 · 0 0

My mother tongue is Turkish. I speak fluent English (I think my English vocabulary is richer than my Turkish one).
I took French years ago but forgot most of it. I understand a little bit of Greek too, not much though.

2007-09-29 04:43:26 · answer #4 · answered by anlarm 5 · 3 0

Turkish and English.

2007-09-29 02:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by kulla 3 · 2 0

Turkish as native speaker. I can speak a little English and very basic German.

2007-09-29 06:54:19 · answer #6 · answered by Leprechaun 6 · 2 0

Syriac, Turkish, English, Swedish and learning Spanish

2007-09-29 03:03:21 · answer #7 · answered by Stranger in Sweden 3 · 1 0

Turkish,English,Little bit french,german,spanish.

2007-09-29 04:06:01 · answer #8 · answered by mujde 5 · 1 0

I am English

I speak a little French and a little German (we were taught these at school) and some very basic Spanish, Greek and Turkish that I have picked up from going on holiday and when I used to be an air hostess

2007-09-28 22:28:36 · answer #9 · answered by Lyns 2 · 2 1

First Language - English

Others: Chinese (Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese)
Tagalog, Spanish

So-so: French, Russian,Azerbaijani, Turkish

2007-09-29 03:13:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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