What Languages Do You Speak?

[wesh]

yeah i also didnt really know about the different dialects (?) wthin chinese..
Like Annie, i thought in China they speak Chinese and everybody understands it too. Appearantly not..

[Annie]

What is the official language of Belgium, wesh? Is it French. I remember Hercule Poirot spoke French.

[wesh]

Well Belgium is kinda bi-langual, since it's split up in to parts (well it's far more complicated then just 2 parts, but i'm not sure i understand that myself ), so 2 parts: Flanders and Wallon; first one speaks flemish (that's dutch) and the latter speaks french.

yup he spoke french indeed. I liked those books, always a good plot and the author was great. Forgother name though... darnit. was it margret or something?

[Annie]

Agatha Christie. If you haven't seen the recent TV shows with David Suchet as Poirot, they are well done. They're just called "Poirot."

[wesh]

ah yeah that's her! thx.
yup i think they run they show here too, but havent seen it yet.

[akamauu]

It's great to see so many multi-lingual people here.

Well, I speak english (mixed with some californian ebonics). I also speak Italian ... I used to be more fluent at it when I lived in southern Italy for a couple of years and I majored in it in college, but I have lost some of my skills since I don't use it much any more. I also speak many hawaiian words, not fluent conversation ... and I speak the hawaiian dialect, pidgin.

[Annie]

Wow. We have some well educated people. Italian. So you majored in Italian and ended up going to Med School? Not the ususal track.

[akamauu]

yeah, kind of an odd approach ... but it was nice to spend time in the humanities rather than in the other science classes with all the "cut-throat" pre-med students

[Annie]

Yeah, some of those people are really intense.