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How many languages do you speak?

English - 10/10
German - 4/10 (still learning)
Irish - 1/10 (never have to suffer it again)
 
Moh@n said:
What?
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Our education systems approach to what is technically our national language (even though only 2-3 percent speak it daily) is embarrassing and stuck in the stone ages, to the extent that in primary school you learn some verbs and thats about it, and in secondary school you go straight into advanced literature which is only learned by learning essays off by heart.

I got a B2 in Honours Irish for my Leaving Cert, and did very well in the oral exam (because I learned a tonne of stuff off by heart) but in reality I can barely speak and pretty much hate my own language, as do the vast majority of us sadly. Until its taught the way German/French is it'll always be desperately clinging to relevance outside of the small rural areas that still use it
 
I assume how many languages you can communicate in?

Pashto
Urdu
English
Danish
Persian 2/10
German 0.1/10
 
yeh cheez said:
I think Dari and Persian are different languages. An Afghan can confirm.
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Very few people of KPK can understand persian. I am an exception. Mind you I understand like 30-40%...

Dari is just a dialect of persian. Pretty much same language.

Most people living in big cities in Afghanistan can understand both, but those in tribal areas don't understand both. Like people in tribal areas don't understand Urdu.
 
JamalAfridi said:
Very few people of KPK can understand persian. I am an exception. Mind you I understand like 30-40%...

Dari is just a dialect of persian. Pretty much same language.

Most people living in big cities in Afghanistan can understand both, but those in tribal areas don't understand both. Like people in tribal areas don't understand Urdu.
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There is a significant population of Hindkowan/hazaras in KPK. Are they only in the hazara region or in other regions as peshawar as well?
 
JamalAfridi said:
Very few people of KPK can understand persian. I am an exception. Mind you I understand like 30-40%...

Dari is just a dialect of persian. Pretty much same language.

Most people living in big cities in Afghanistan can understand both, but those in tribal areas don't understand both. Like people in tribal areas don't understand Urdu.
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Nice. I think anyone that can speak pure Urdu can pick up Persian fairly quickly.
 
JamalAfridi said:
Haha you are really good.

I can understand when people speak, but difficult speaking.

Rast megi. Farsi Zaboon e sherin hast.

Chetor hasti khoob asti??
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Bale khoob hastam merci agha joon.

I learnt some Farsi by myself after moving to US, was always intrigued by it. I wish they would teach us Persian in school in Pakistan. Apparently they will start teaching Chinese in school soon.

Whatever elements that make Urdu sweeter than Hindi - are Persian.
 
English - Fluent

Punjabi and Urdu but I'm not sure how well, very broken I say
 
JamalAfridi said:
Yes it's not that difficult. If you watch persian tv, news and study a bit. Put some effort you can learn it pretty quickly.
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If this is true that I'm going to put a lot of effort into learning Urdu and Farsi, I love farsi songs lol
 
Hindko
Pushto
Urdu
Punjabi
Farsi/Darri
English
Russian
^^
Reading, writing and speaking - Fluent in all.

A little bit of Malyalam, mostly cuss words.
 
FreeBird said:
Hindko
Pushto
Urdu
Punjabi
Farsi/Darri
English
Russian
^^
Reading, writing and speaking - Fluent in all.

A little bit of Malyalam, mostly cuss words.
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Nice, how the hell did you learn them all?
 
Englis/Urdu - Native
Pushto - can understand but cant speak(parents and relatives speak it but my sibligs and I dont)
Punjabi/Hindko/Seraiki . Can understand bits and pieces, some dialects better than others.
 
English.
Urdu/Hindi
Punjabi
Spanglish (Yo hablo espanol pero e poco poco)
Hindko

Java
C
C#
Ruby
Perl

and a bit of gibberish. :yk
 
Red Devil said:
I can speak 4 different languages :shaq

1. Urdu
2. Pothwari
3. Punjabi
4. English
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1. Urdu
2. Pothwari or pahari as we call it
3. Punjabi
4. English
5. Norwegian

6. I can speak a little bit of german (aber sehr langweilig)
7. Have started learning arabic and have almost finishid book 1 of 3 books (Madina book series by Dr. Abdur Rahim)

8. When you can speak norwegian you almost automatically understand swedish and danish.
 
IAJ said:
1. Urdu
2. Pothwari or pahari as we call it
3. Punjabi
4. English
5. Norwegian

6. I can speak a little bit of german (aber sehr langweilig)
7. Have started learning arabic and have almost finishid book 1 of 3 books (Madina book series by Dr. Abdur Rahim)

8. When you can speak norwegian you almost automatically understand swedish and danish.
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Dayyum. That's pretty impressive. :14:
 
English - Fluent
Tamil - Fluent (can read, writing is an issue, it will take me twice the time to form a sentence)
French - Can read and understand about 70% (je suis une petite francaise)
 
Thivagar said:
English - Fluent
Tamil - Fluent (can read, writing is an issue, it will take me twice the time to form a sentence)
French - Can read and understand about 70% (je suis une petite francaise)
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'tu parle' ou 'tu es' une petit francais?
 
I speak English and Urdu. That's it.

Used to be fluent in Spanish but fell out of practice and can barely get my point across now. :(
 
96NotOut said:
Maybe. :afaq

But [MENTION=101412]SwingNSeam[/MENTION] has convinced me you don't know Urdu. And didn't you speak Memoni or something too? :P
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Loool no way man I was just messing with SD and Ritzy. Don't know a word of Memoni. :)))

Aur mujhe Urdu aati hai mA. Balke meri Urdu bohat achi hai. :fawad
 
English :Fluent Pothwari 80% fluent can understand perfectly. Urdu same. Punjabi a lil bit i have an Uncle in Pak who was in army and based in Lahore picked up a really funny Punjabi accent
 
Also i have a friend who's family is from Haryana. Is Haryanvi different to Punjabi
 
Red Devil said:
Loool no way man I was just messing with SD and Ritzy. Don't know a word of Memoni. :)))

Aur mujhe Urdu aati hai mA. Balke meri Urdu bohat achi hai. :fawad
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I know you don't know Memoni. :P Does [MENTION=101412]SwingNSeam[/MENTION]?

Okay, okay, I believe you. :))
 
[MENTION=47617]Red Devil[/MENTION] owned after I laid the memoni smackdown on his #$# and I aint even a memon :))) note [MENTION=134963]96NotOut[/MENTION]
 
SwingNSeam said:
[MENTION=47617]Red Devil[/MENTION] owned after I laid the memoni smackdown on his #$# and I aint even a memon :))) note [MENTION=134963]96NotOut[/MENTION]
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How do I know what you wrote actually means something? Maybe you just wrote random words like I did :))) :)))
 
English, Urdu, and Telugu. I used to know some Latin from school, but I'm quite rusty. And I know bits and pieces of Spanish.
 
SwingNSeam said:
[MENTION=47617]Red Devil[/MENTION] owned after I laid the memoni smackdown on his #$# and I aint even a memon :))) note [MENTION=134963]96NotOut[/MENTION]
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Red Devil said:
How do I know what you wrote actually means something? Maybe you just wrote random words like I did :))) :)))
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I still have trouble believing Memoni is an actual language. You guys aren't helping. :sanga :))

Demonstrate, please, [MENTION=53948]ritzy_123[/MENTION]. :D
 
Very fluent in English, Urdu and Pashto. I can speak Hindko too because of my Mother, but I have rarely conversed in it so can't seem myself as fluent.

Since I understand Hindko, I can handle Punjabi as well.
 
English, Urdu fluent. (Ill throw in Hindi aswell)

Understand:
Sindhi
Punjabi
Arabic

to varying degrees. Listed in order
 
Mamoon said:
Very fluent in English, Urdu and Pashto. I can speak Hindko too because of my Mother, but I have rarely conversed in it so can't seem myself as fluent.

Since I understand Hindko, I can handle Punjabi as well.
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I thought it was a thing of the past. Interesting that people still speak it.

Does anyone know the history of Punjabi? And when did it have 2 different scriptures? Gurumukhi and Shahmukhi?
 
Can someone recommend a good app/website for learning pashto ?
 
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