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Хahar 🤔
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« on: January 19, 2008, 04:53:26 PM »

I can speak English (duh) and Bengali, though I can't read it. I can understand Sylheti fairly well, and Hindi and Urdu to a lesser extent. I'm learning Spanish, but haven't got very far yet, and I can get the general gist of the untranslated chunks of German and French that always seem to be floating around in the footnotes of the books I read, though Latin is beyond me. I can also read Koranic Arabic (which has vowel markers), but I can't understand it, and I can't read modern Arabic, which does not use vowels.

In a word, I can speak English and Bengali. Smiley
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2008, 02:05:37 PM »

I was at one point fully fluent in Spanish, though my skill has degenerated substantially even in the few years since leaving college. I also speak a bit of Arabic (also from college), as well as whatever Latin I can recall from high school. And English, of course.

And, since Xahar mentioned it, I know the Greek alphabet (modern as well as some of the archaic letters) and therefore can read Greek but cannot understand it.

In that case, I know the Cyrillic alphabet.
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 06:19:04 PM »

I was at one point fully fluent in Spanish, though my skill has degenerated substantially even in the few years since leaving college. I also speak a bit of Arabic (also from college), as well as whatever Latin I can recall from high school. And English, of course.

And, since Xahar mentioned it, I know the Greek alphabet (modern as well as some of the archaic letters) and therefore can read Greek but cannot understand it.

In that case, I know the Cyrillic alphabet.

Same for me with regards to Hebrew.

And over 20 Latin-based alphabets, though that's easy; I learned Slovak today. Smiley
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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Posts: 41,707
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E: -6.77, S: 0.61

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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 06:27:13 PM »

I was at one point fully fluent in Spanish, though my skill has degenerated substantially even in the few years since leaving college. I also speak a bit of Arabic (also from college), as well as whatever Latin I can recall from high school. And English, of course.

And, since Xahar mentioned it, I know the Greek alphabet (modern as well as some of the archaic letters) and therefore can read Greek but cannot understand it.

In that case, I know the Cyrillic alphabet.

Same for me with regards to Hebrew.

And over 20 Latin-based alphabets, though that's easy; I learned Slovak today. Smiley

Is there any difference between that and other romanizations for Slavic languages, such as Czech or Croatian? I know for a fact that the Polish alphabet has many irregularities when compared against other non-Cyrillic Slavic alphabets.

I don't get Polish, but Slovak is very much a romanized Russian script, with influences from Czech.
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