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  • In how many languages can you say 'thanks'?
  • vickypea
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    9 including English:
    Greek
    Swedish
    German
    Finnish
    French
    Italian
    Portugese
    Spanish
    English

    john_drummer
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    English
    French
    German
    Italian
    Portuguese
    Swedish
    Spanish
    Urdu
    Hindi

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Medieval Latin
    Ancient Greek

    Lolz

    Nec minus a te expectant.

    richmtb
    Full Member

    If we don’t allow Norwegian / Swedish / Danish as 3 then:

    English
    French
    Spanish
    Italian
    Portugese
    German
    Dutch
    Greek
    Polish
    Romanian
    Hungarian
    Russian
    Arabic
    Scandinavian
    Japanese

    15.

    Shamefully I don’t know Welsh or Gaelic and I really should

    EDIT forgot Japanese

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Diolch

    That’s 15 for you richmtb.

    johnx2
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    Loads. So what I can remember in descending order of how much I can speak (and my french is shite):

    Eng.
    French
    Turkish
    Russian
    Spanish (phrases territory now entered)
    Greek (3-4 months of my life, little remains)
    Italian
    German
    Dutch/Flemish? Something like dank you or dank ye? Having that.
    Swedish/scandi – tack
    Portuguese
    Mandarin (general knowledge init, but can’t find the Japanese word in my head, somethink like Iranu!?)
    Welsh (if everyone else is, I will)
    Kurdish (spasi I think, bit like the russian. Travelled through for a few flea bitten weeks.)
    Forgotten a few (Sinhala? Sorry gone. Czech? Slovak? Will have known them but gone)

    Tells you I’ve not travelled much outside Europe I guess, and not much eastern europe.

    egb81
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    Off the top of my head:
    English
    French
    German
    Norwegian/Swedish/Danish
    Finnish
    Mandarin
    Korean
    Spanish
    Italian

    Ones I should know but have forgotten:
    Hungarian
    Slovakian
    Czech

    4130s0ul
    Free Member

    Well I surprised myself with 8

    English
    French
    German
    Spanish
    Portuguese
    Finnish
    Arabic
    Zulu

    neilthewheel
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    English
    German
    French
    Italian
    Spanish
    Swedish
    Danish
    Norwegian
    Czech (one of my 3 words, along with “please” and “beer”!)
    Geordie

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