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fluent: udu & german & english
broken french
@ ALL who knows german: how comes that? IF u r not lving in germany / austria / switzerland
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koi jawaab hi nahin...
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Is standard Bengali the same as Dhaka Bengali or do u mean the 'posh' Bengali they speak on the news?
On a sliding scale I'm fluent in speaking English, French, German, Bengali.. ok-ish in Urdu.. and can get by (ie hold a conversation but not discuss current affairs lol) in Arabic and Swedish.. If people speak Punjabi, Hindi or any Latin language I can usually get the gist of what they're saying (did Latin at school for 7 yrs so that comes in handy)..
Some of those languages I can't read or write in tho :( and being honest if a family member speaks to me in another language I tend to be lazy and just answer in English..
the dialect of Bengali that has been deemed the 'Standard' status. i think the Haldia dialect.
yep, the very same one. news channels, books, magazines.
I love how Dhakai Bengali sounds. almost musical!
its quite rare to find someone else who can speak fluent Bengali in GS!
Kemne shiklaye? :D
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Fluent in English, Urdu and Ebonics
Broken in Punjabi, French and Potwari
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Fluency : English, Urdu, German,,, (Ish Sprechen Deutsch fon ish bin Arbieten mit Flege aus Swiss)
Reasonable Arabic read/write/speak, Punjabi
Oh,, and I love to learn Sindhi as my favourite regional Language.
Next on stove is French,,very basic at the moment,,, :D
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very good to almost perfect in four languages (studied each for at least three years).
good in three.
and just recently started learning a new one.
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the dialect of Bengali that has been deemed the 'Standard' status. i think the Haldia dialect. yep, the very same one. news channels, books, magazines.
I love how Dhakai Bengali sounds. almost musical!
its quite rare to find someone else who can speak fluent Bengali in GS!
Kemne shiklaye? :D
From my mum! She's mixed.. Yeah, Dhaka Bengali sounds lovely but my favourite is Kolkata Bengali.. so perfect :) 90% of the Bangladeshis in the UK speak the Sylheti dialect tho so u don't hear much 'real' Bengali.. To me their language sounds a lot harsher..
When I was little my mum did try and teach me the Bengali alphabet but I never got beyond the first couple of lines, it's really bad but the only word I can read and write is my first name..
Are u from India or Bangladesh?
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fluent in urdu and english
can understand and speak arabic a little
also know bits of french
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Fluency : English, Urdu, German,,, (Ish Sprechen Deutsch fon ish bin Arbieten mit Flege aus Swiss)
this isn`t fluent, sorry...
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^ Not my problem if you don't speak swiss dialect fluently !
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Fluent: English, Dutch, Urdu and Punjabi
Broken: German, French.
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Fluent: English, Urdu, some Spanish.
Bits of Arabic, Farsi, Ukrainian/Russian, Punjabi.
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usually in cantonese , the rest same as an average pakistani ..... haven't read or write urdu for a long time ....
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From my mum! She's mixed.. Yeah, Dhaka Bengali sounds lovely but my favourite is Kolkata Bengali.. so perfect :) 90% of the Bangladeshis in the UK speak the Sylheti dialect tho so u don't hear much 'real' Bengali.. To me their language sounds a lot harsher..
When I was little my mum did try and teach me the Bengali alphabet but I never got beyond the first couple of lines, it's really bad but the only word I can read and write is my first name..
Are u from India or Bangladesh?
sorry for the late replies, i dont come online so regularly anymore. :)
yeah, the Kolkata one is the standard Bengali.
AND, i am a Sylheti Bengali myself! :D
yes, i agree, Sylheti is the most harshest dialect among all Bangali dialects. and Sylhetis are considered the Punjabis among the Bengalis. :P they always jump around.
i studied Bengali for 5 years and Hindi for another 5 when i changed school, and i still suck at them both. ;) i mean i am okay orally and can read and write both okay-ish, but the fact that i've never read ANY Bangali or Hindi book speaks for it self!
i am an Indian Sylheti Bengali. grandparents came from East Pakistan in 47. :)
my mom's dad still talks about the 'old country' and all.
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Fluent: Urdu, Punjabi, Siryaiki, English, Persian
Tooti Photi: Arabic, Sindhi
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Fluent; English, Dutch, Pustho, Urdu
Broken; Spanish, French, German, Farsi and last but certainly not the least... Arabic.. Picked up from my friend..