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What language do ya all speak?
Moe
09/04/00 at 19:54:52
Salaam alaykum Sisters & Brothers What language do u all speak other then english of course me i speak gujarati thats an east indian language .

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Arsalan
09/04/00 at 19:59:22
Urdu (Hindi), English, French and a teeny, tiny bit of Arabic :) Sometimes my friends tell me that I also speak gibbrish and garbage, but that's besides the point I think ;) Wassalam.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
bhaloo
09/04/00 at 22:58:09
slm Urdu, Spanish (I was fluent but have forgotten a lot of it), German (forgot most of it), French and Italian (heheheh, I took only 1 or 2 terms of it in college).  And I took some Japanese classes during lunch at work. :)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Safiya
09/04/00 at 23:33:34
bsm slm me i speak english fluently, somali is my mother tongue but can only speak a sufficient amount of that, i did german back in school forgot most of it, did spanish in college an evening course last year which was only once a week, i can speak a little(the basics)...and i can understand some arabic words as the somali i speak has quite lot of arabic words... i would love to learn arabic...i've started on my own but not getting far...

Re: What language do ya all speak?
GoodLife85
09/05/00 at 03:58:29
Well-- I suppose arabic is my mother language, but I speak arabic and english just as fluently. (I live in Egypt.) I also know a little of French, and a teeny tiny bit of Spanish.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
proudtobemuslim
09/05/00 at 05:23:50
Assalam-u-Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh You know, I'm starting to get this feeling that people are starting to find out more about us than we ought to tell... conspiracy theories anyone? Oh well, i guess i'll just go with the flow!  I speak urdu and english fluently, i can speak arabic but not as fluently as I would like to, and a teeny, tiny bit of Pushto. Wassalam-u-Alaikum

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Saleema
09/05/00 at 14:18:32
Assalamoalykum, Hey, we got a pakhtun on board? So am I. I understand phusto here and there and speak a couple of sentences. Speak English fluently. Currently taking Arabic classes. From French, I remember Bonjur and cio. In spanish I know estupido and Kiata laboka. I can speak and write urdu very well. I can understand Hindko and Punjabi but when I speak them people fall to the ground laughin because they say my accent is so bad. And i guess that's about it. wassalam

Re: What language do ya all speak?
maryam
09/05/00 at 15:02:20
Asslam Alaikum, I am on the same boat as you Saleema when it comes to French. In secondary school, I was forced to take two years of it, but I cannot remember anything other that "je m'apelle maryam"(or however it is spelt). I speak Hausa fluently. I understand most "angry" words in Kanuri, my Mum's language (she doesn't seem to remember any other language when she is angry), and like to believe that I know some Arabic (three sentences to be precise) Overall, I think someone needs to take pity upon my soul and teach me any language. Wassalam, Maryam

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Arsalan
09/05/00 at 15:35:29
Assalamu alaikum, [quote]From French, I remember Bonjur and cio.[/quote] "cio"??  Hmm...haven't heard of that word before!  U sure that's a french word?

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Mona
09/05/00 at 19:17:19
Assalamu alaikum, I speak Arabic al-hamdolellah. That's it besides English. BTW, 'cio' (pronounced 'chow') is Italian for bye, kappich? Wassalam, Mona

Re: What language do ya all speak?
widad
09/05/00 at 23:15:14
Asslam alykum Moe.is that the same moe in SV?? I speak Arabic(mother tongue)and English and some French,when I visite Turkey I tried to learn a few phrases in Turkish(oh I loved that country,it had such rich islamic history,it kills to see what happened to it now!!). I tried to teach myself spanish(it so easy,if you know english and french)and I really did learn some grammar and some sentences,but then I realised that at this age(of mine) I should put more time in Quran and in doing something more fruitful for islam,so I ended up leaving the spanish and enrolling in tajweed and alhamdulillah that was the best decision i've made.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Arsalan
09/05/00 at 23:40:58
Assalamu alaikum, [quote] BTW, 'cio' (pronounced 'chow') is Italian for bye, kappich? [/quote] Oooh!  I thought it was spelled ciao!

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Asim
09/06/00 at 02:12:02
Assalaamu alaikum, Well, I'm really bad at languages. Let's see...besides English I know: - Urdu (speak, read, and little write) - Punjabi (understand and maybe speak a little) What else... - Hausa (used to understand very well, but have no contact for 14 years now) - French (studied in school, but don't remember much) - Spanish (If Sesame Street's Spanish counts :) OK I am pushing it :) ) I would like to learn Arabic though, formally and thoroughly, InshaAllah. Wasalaam.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
fari
09/06/00 at 02:54:57
Assalaam alaikum mashallah this board has pple from all over the place, with so many different languages being spoken.   OK i speak some urdu, some punjabi and i am learning arabic, any volunteers to help me out now and then ie sister Mona:) ??

Re: What language do ya all speak?
proudtobemuslim
09/06/00 at 05:06:15
Assalam-u-Alaikum, Saleema, yes i am pukhtoon!  I didn't know there was a fellow pukhtoon around.  My dad is from Miran Shah, near Bannu, which in turn is near Peshawar.  My mother is Punjabi and speaks Hinku.  She's from Attock city near the border with NWFP.  What about u? Latest news from there is that Attock juts got ISPs for the first time about a month ago... And it seem like we had Internet access since the beginning of time?

Re: What language do ya all speak?
proudtobemuslim
09/06/00 at 05:07:41
Assalam-u-Alaikum, Saleema, yes i am pukhtoon!  I didn't know there was a fellow pukhtoon around.  My dad is from Miran Shah, near Bannu, which in turn is near Peshawar.  My mother is Punjabi and speaks Hinku  so i can understand the language quite a bit, but when it comes to speaking it... my experience is quite similar to yours!  She's from Attock city near the border with NWFP.  What about u? Latest news from there is that Attock juts got ISPs for the first time about a month ago... And it seem like we had Internet access since the beginning of time?

Re: What language do ya all speak?
ki
09/06/00 at 05:49:49
Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu Seems like I am the only South Indian around here!!! I speak and understand Tamil, Hindi and English. I would definitely love to learn Arabic. Where does Hausa belong to??? Didnt know that such a language existed. Wassalam

Re: What language do ya all speak?
abc
09/06/00 at 09:50:48
Assalamalaikum I'm comfortable wiht English, Hindi and Urdu. I can also understand Arabic to a great extent and can also somewhat speak (in the local dialect). I've always wondered how people pick up languages like French and Spanish so easily. Are they really that easy to learn? I've got quite a few south Indian colleagues and from listening to them speak I think Malayalam is a very difficult language. abc

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Arsalan
09/06/00 at 09:55:32
Assalamu alaikum, Spending four years of high school learning French (or Spanish) - which is the way most people in the US do it I think - is not exactly easy :)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
nuralaain
09/06/00 at 14:38:07
Assalamualakum!! welllll i speak english primarily -- then urdu and a lil bit of arabic, and a lil bit of spanish..... how are you? aap kaise hain? Kafal haal? como estas? hehe

Re: What language do ya all speak?
chachi
09/06/00 at 18:51:20
english urdu a little pukhto spanish a little arabic but generally i'm good at knowing the roots of words...

Re: What language do ya all speak?
HS786
09/06/00 at 19:06:33
Assalamu alaikum, Since some of u have mentioned about learning Arabic, www.arabacademy.com is giving free scholarship to the first 1000 students for their online course. Classes are starting sept.11,2000. HS

Re: What language do ya all speak?
chachi
09/06/00 at 19:20:31
hmm not sure if that worked ok english   urdu   spanish   a little pukhto   a little arabic   also i have some knowledge of the origins   of languages so i find them easier to learn

Re: What language do ya all speak?
maryam
09/06/00 at 21:04:48
Assalam Alaikum, I hope everyone is well. Sr. Ki, Hausa is a language that is spoken accross a few countries in sub-saharan West Africa. In  Nigeria, it is spoken in the predominantly muslim north, and it is considered one of the three major languages in the country, along side Igbo and Yoruba. Sorry for not clearing that up..... Wassalam, maryam

Re: What language do ya all speak?
chachi
09/07/00 at 18:38:33
hey proudtobemuslim nice to see a fellow chachi! what khel are you?..i'm musa-khel from the Lodhi dynasty

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Saleema
09/08/00 at 13:44:20
Assalamoalykum, Hello, Chahi, what's a khel? I'm not sure what tribe I am from, but I think my tribe's name is the Mushwani clan. Got some relatives we haven't seen in centuries in Afghanitstan too. So I only remember one word from french then? I thought chaow, cio, or however it is spelled is an informal word for saying Hi. We are from aptabad, proudtobemuslim. well, actually not really. but most people have heard of aptabad and so I usually tell them that I'm from there. I am from shinkiari, near mansehara, which is near aptabad. My mommy is from Lahore but she is pakhtun too but doesn't know any pushto, she just understands some of it. Both my parents speak Hinku and two of my siblings who are younger than me. The rest of us mainly speak English and urdu. Wassalam, Saleema

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Arsalan
09/08/00 at 15:09:49
It's spelled Abottabad. Sheeeesh!!!! ABCD's!!!! :D Wassalamu alaikum.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
chachi
09/08/00 at 20:02:52
*lol* bro that was a major blunder! Your Both WRONG! the names been changed because the governments getting rid of all the old english colonial names heh heh heh

Re: What language do ya all speak?
chachi
09/08/00 at 20:08:46
A khel incidentally is a TRIBE! sheesh ...with one stroke you've dismissed 6,000 years of history..lol...man the ancestors must really be thinking what did we do wrong ...*s* you can find the family tree of all the pathans online though it's more a tribal tree because the family tree would be too large hey did you know the yusufzai were originally called the ysws? and that they used to fought against the hindu's in the time of the baghawad geeta? (circa 2,500 bc) ...!  apparently the pathans became muslims after the chief married somebody who was related to the sahabi khalid bin walid..so warriors on both sides of the family!

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Asim
09/10/00 at 11:58:48
Assalaamu alaikum, Chachi, do you know what the new name for Abbottabad is? I know officially it is called something else but it is never used in practice. BTW, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Shikiari, Kaghan, Naran, etc are beautiful places. I have spent a fair amount of holiday time in Abbottabad and Mansehra. Really nice. Wasalaam.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Arsalan
09/10/00 at 22:31:04
Assalamu alaikum, [quote]BTW, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Shikiari, Kaghan, Naran, etc are beautiful places. I have spent a fair amount of holiday time in Abbottabad and Mansehra. Really nice.[/quote] Ditto Asim!  Although I must say that there is nothing in the world like Naran ... IMHO ... it's simply "Paradise" on Earth. Wassalamu alaikum.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Zara
10/04/00 at 07:24:03
As Salamu Alaikum, Let's see now, what other languages do I know? Punjabi (mother tongue)- I speak it. Urdu - I can speak, read and write it. French - I can speak, read and write a little...I'm slightly out of practice with the writing, but my understanding of the language is good. Arabic - I can read it and I am learning to speak it... Spanish - hmmm I only know a few words adios/gracius - senyoras/senyorita/amigo... Italian - well mici ama... - my friend said it means my name is..also arriverderci....Does that count? I love learning languages and find it easy to pick up new phrases... Wasalaam Zara

Re: What language do ya all speak?
MuSLiMa
10/05/00 at 08:40:38
well i speak english and arabic, more fluent in the former ... but if i attempt to speak arabic i will slip in english words here and there to make it easier on myself :) or i'll speak english in public with a friend or relative and use arabic for the key words so as not to be understood ... hey that was a good trick in highschool during classes with my mates!
NS

Re: What language do ya all speak?
nadeem
10/06/00 at 07:29:58
i can only speak just ENGLISH! not fair............!

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Amatullah
10/07/00 at 03:11:12
Asalamuaykum, i just know english and arabic alhamdurillah, but my arabic is not fluent in reading and writing, but i can understand ex. more than people expect me to;)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Anonymous
09/04/01 at 23:21:33
Assalamualaikum, I guess this another one of those questions :) I speak English,Urdu, and Arabic. Assalamualaium :)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Merimda
09/05/01 at 00:24:49
salam, English is my primary language.."Araglish" is my second. ^_^

Re: What language do ya all speak?
eleanor
09/05/01 at 05:25:28
slm hey! where did this thread come from? Interesting though..okay, I'll join in. I speak: english (mother language) irish french german punjabi/urdu (little) croatian, greek, turkish (very little) and Insha Allah, I'm starting to learn Arabic very soon What about the rest of you who joined up this year? wasalaam eleanor

Re: What language do ya all speak?
shadow493
09/05/01 at 08:02:16
Assalamulaikum I speak English, Japanese (three years of this class in High School, i can still write most of it and but i can understand more than i can speak), a little Arabic and some Urdu (but dont ask me to say anything ;)) Wsalaam Alaikum Adami

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Ziggy
09/05/01 at 11:12:08
salaamz. BLIMEY! and i thought i was the *only* pathan on da board! lol.. ok..lemme see.. i speak..english (duh!), pushto, urdu, punjabi (very weak), hindko (well..a couple of words..i understand most of it tho..),arabic (still learning at skool), turkish (well, a couple of words..nisilsin? :) ) yeah..i got agree with sum1 who said abbotabad..mansehra..shinkyari..kaghan are beautiful places...i should know..my relatives live there and i go to visit 'em at least once every 3 yrs! :) wow! i guess its a small country huh? me iz a proud pukhtoon...hehehe! y'all take care wassalaam zakira :-)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Sonny
09/05/01 at 13:50:31
:)  I speak english, and spanish, as a child I spoke hausa, telugu, fulanii-bush, some chinese--forgot it all! But if a person surprises me then! I am in for a surprise and so are they! Funny what comes out of your mouth when you are surprised! Oh, yes, and about ten years ago I learned the Queens Royal English (Jamaican!)-- :)--Sonny

Re: What language do ya all speak?
meraj
09/05/01 at 14:25:33
slm, whoa! i never saw this thread before :) i speak fluent gibberish ;-D ive pretty much spoken english all my life... my parents speak urdu/english so i can understand urdu well.. i just cant speak it well.. people laugh at me when i try to because the urdu i know is the 'Mysore' dialect (its the urdu equivalent of hick english ;) ). [quote]and some Urdu (but dont ask me to say anything ;))[/quote] HAHAHAHAHAH!!! thats a good one adami ;)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Adi28
09/05/01 at 22:20:14
Asalaamu Alakum  wow look at all the languages people know....or claim to know :) come on people knowing three words or three sentences in a language does not mean you know the language hehe :) As for me the languages i know...well thats of two english and spanish..all though i am a very slow speaker..i plan to do that as my minor in college.   salaams       Adi

Re: What language do ya all speak?
zanfaz
09/06/01 at 00:02:41
[slm] I speak.... urdu (mother language) hindi english and tamil wassalam

Re: What language do ya all speak?
jannah
09/06/01 at 00:08:01
[slm] I speak fringlishurduhindirabslang (ebonics version).

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Barr
09/06/01 at 05:01:20
Assalamu'alaikum :) Ok, Ok.. I'll join the band wagon :) I can speak Malay - my mother toungue (and alhamdulillah, it's improving a lot better coz, most of my clients speak it)... I can understand proper Indonesian, coz, it's pretty much the same language... it's just some conotations of some words and expressions are different. But if one is to speak with a thick Indonesian accent, the only thing that's written on my face is "confusion". Plus... A cup of Mandarin, a dash of Arabic, a sprinkle of French and a few drops of Japanese, Cambodian, Tamil, Urdu and Javanese(my ancestral tongue)... oh yes, and an quark of Swedish. All in all... my tip is... learn how to say, "I don't understand" in all languages, and you'll be fine ;) oh yes... plus, "I love you" ;) hmmm... maybe, "we come in peace" would be a better one. Wassalam :-)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
nawaz
09/06/01 at 04:08:23
Assalam Alaikum hmmm seems like im the only person from Mauritius on this board. Well I speak fluent English and French and a little Arabic Salut

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Lisha
09/06/01 at 14:12:59
slm, u lot know too many languages, mash'allah:) i understand english, Bangali:), hindi(quite well), spanish(a lil)n french (a lil):) i think dats it:( take care, w'salaam

Re: What language do ya all speak?
zaynab
09/06/01 at 16:29:10
Assalamu Alaikum, I can only speak urdu and english and just little bit of Brushiski (dont know if its the right spelling)which is the language of Hunza. Arsalan and others who think Kaghan and Naran are beautiful. Go and see Hunza. One English writer wrote abt Hunza as "Paradise on Earth"

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Muslima-Aktiv
09/06/01 at 16:50:51
Salam I speak German fluently, Turkish, English, French (forgot the most of it).....and shwayya shwayya arabic :-)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Anik
09/06/01 at 20:48:49
asalaamu alaikum, I speak English, French (although it's text-book quebec-french) hindi, and urdu... what is hinko and hindko btw? asalaamu alaikum. abdullah,.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Merimda
09/06/01 at 22:46:05
[quote] I speak fringlishurduhindirabslang.[/quote] Hmm... sounds like German :b.. j/k..

Re: What language do ya all speak?
zanfaz
09/06/01 at 23:14:06
[slm] [quote]I speak fringlishurduhindirabslang.[/quote] ok..let me interpret it.... fringlishurduhindirabslang = french + english + urdu + hindi + arabic + slang :)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Madinat
09/07/01 at 21:02:30
[slm] i speak english, some french and a little yoruba (a shame considering some people in my family only speak yoruba) i can read the qur'an but as far as the meaning goes......i've picked up a few words but i would love to learn more [wlm]

Re: What language do ya all speak?
kenefida
09/09/01 at 00:14:01
Salaam Alaikum, I speak English, German (fluently), some Arabic (still learning--insha'allah someday I'll be able to read the Qu'ran...), some Japanese (conversational, can read a little bit)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Lisha
09/09/01 at 07:24:24
[quote] and a little yoruba (a shame considering some people in my family only speak Yoruba)[/quote] slm, r u Nigerian?:)   a friend of mine from Nigeria taught me a few words in Yoruba:) take care, w'salaam

Re: What language do ya all speak?
alzinjibar
09/10/01 at 05:58:40
Bismillah wa salatu wa salam ala'a Rasul Karim, Salam alaykum, hope you are all  well insh'Allah, if any one needs help with Swahili,Kirundi,Ki NyaRwanda dont hesitate, plus English,fluent in French, and basic Arabic , a couple of words in Balushi'.. PS: the Bro from Maurice, c'est jolie a Flic en Flac pres de Beau Valon bay..

Re: What language do ya all speak?
blissfull
09/10/01 at 07:13:46
slm urdu, english, a bit of this and a bit of that

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Haniff
09/10/01 at 08:14:29
Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Late entry :) Better late than never :) I speak Tamil (mother tongue), Sinhala and Queen's English. Haniff (with double 'f')

Re: What language do ya all speak?
NewJehad
09/10/01 at 11:43:24
I can sware in almost all langauges. **** ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ********* ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ***** ********* ******** ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ********* ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ***** ********* ******** ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ********* ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ********* ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ***** ********* ******** ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ********* ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ***** ********* ******** ****** ****** ****** ******* ***** ********* *********** ******* ***** ***** ********* **** ....that was all the languages i can think of........ i will update my list when new languages are discovered or formulated.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
solehah
09/21/01 at 21:37:58
Salaam I can say "Huh ?" in 23 languages he he. Seriously, I am fluent in English, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese. I am picking up Swedish (its a Godforsaken language grrr) and a smattering of Dutch.   The question is, how many of us can NOT speak ? Heh heh..... Cheers

Re: What language do ya all speak?
slime
09/22/01 at 14:37:48
i speak urdu, hindi, english. i know how to read arabic, and french. i can speak a little french too. :D

Re: What language do ya all speak?
ahmer
09/22/01 at 17:11:41
What a multilingual environment we have here!!!! :) I talk very little (rem i said.. talk not type..;)) but when i do, i can bless the world in eng urdu minglish & arabic (a lil too much).. can understand nearly everything in arabic thou but hard when it comes to talk...10%.. alhumdolillah learning arabic right now. Shaykh Hamza said, "We speak the language of Queen better than the Queen, we should speak the language of King, the Malik-ul-Alam" true ture!! and abt how many can't speak?.. they are the silent majority Wa'Ilal Liqa Fil Halqatil Qadima,:) Wassalamu Alaikum ahmer

Re: What language do ya all speak?
kiwi25
09/24/01 at 14:41:34
salam, i havent posted in a loong time so im back now, the languages i speak are alhamdulilah arabic, its kinda weird because the arabic i speak is the algerien kind, (which is a belnd of arabic and french) i can also understand other dialects of arabic such as phalestinaian, egyptian etc but i cant speak it, hmm i also speak french and a bit of spanish. and oh yea english :) wasalam nouha:)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
amal
12/21/01 at 13:08:13
slm, Lets see..i speak somali,arabic,english,italian, some french and a little spanish..working on the last two. I also picked up some hindi words like matlab,beti,mohabat,ajnabe etc..actually they're orginally arabic so they don't really count :) I just discovered something interesting though...the word 'gari' in hindi appears in somali vocabulary with the same meaning (car).As far as i know it doesn't have any arabic roots that i'm aware of..Now how in the world did it get there??? An even stranger occurance in somali is the word 'labis',for pencil,which is pronounced as 'labith' in spanish. hmm...

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Yasin
12/21/01 at 13:58:39
Assalamu alaikum bro and sis, I speak following languages. Somali [my mother tongue] English French Arabic Hindi/urdu [not that much] telugu [lil bit] ThE-YaSkA

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Mystic
12/21/01 at 14:23:23
[slm] Wow!!! The diversity on this board is awesome Mashaallah:):):) I speak Swahili, English, Arabic (can read, understand, but I can't write poetry in Arabic :(:(:( ) i used to watch indian movies growing up:):):) so i picked up a couple catch phrases there:) i love the egyptian dialect when it comes to arabic cuz i used to looove egyptian songs too:) on a serious note my next project is taking my arabic to the "next level" Inshaallah :):):) Maliha :-) [wlm]

Re: What language do ya all speak?
ABD
12/21/01 at 15:54:20
Assalamu Alaikum, Mystic-may Allah-u SubHana Wata'ala help you in learning arabic and may He help all of us Insha'Allah. My native tongue is Turkish. I speak Turkish, English and French fluently. I cannot speak much arabic but I can understand some. Insha'Allah I would like to learn more arabic and keep up with my French.   Wassalamu Alaikum, Betul

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Hajreee
12/22/01 at 12:05:25
Salaams hmm, i thought i answered this q before, when i had my other user name LONG ago, hehe but anywho, umm i speak english, *obviously* and Arabic- been learning arabic since i was in 3rd grade and had been taught the way they teach in saudi, used their books, been taught grammar, reading, writing, poems, etc etc etc! alhamdulillah, at first i hated learning it because i'm not originally arab, but now i'm very thankful i learned it, makes understanding islam SOOO much easier, i recommend anyone who doesn't know arabic to learn it, most colleges/universities and even some high schools here teach it, so just do it! and...errr, i can speak urdu (really badly though) and VERY little of punjabi, i used to know urdu and punjabi when i was much younger when i had to talk to my khalas and cousins and phu phu's and cha cha's who didn't know english in urdu/punjabi..my parents speak to me in punjabi and urdu and i just respond in english, inshaAllah i'm going to go learn it all over again :) but i'm not THAT bad ;) really, i'm not! hehehehe okee dokee, and oh, i really want to learn German, i think i should, since i waived out of my three yr requirment for my language (arabic) :) that should be nice! all rightey, take care all and mashaAllah, it's really nice to see the different langauges spoken here from the Jannah Citizens... and betul- i actually know some turkish, actually my turkish friend is over right now! but yeah, i know Abla, Taiza, Abbi, Amja (?) and i know that REALLY good food called barek...hehehe!! okee, enough babbling! Salaams

Re: What language do ya all speak?
veilsofbeauty
12/21/01 at 23:57:18
PUNJABI BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hajree honey, i know EXACTLY what it's like to speak Urdu badly. You can see your cousins' barely supressed smirks as you struggle to figure out how many "hay"s to put after each sentence.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Hajreee
12/22/01 at 17:56:53
Hehehe! yeh, those faces man, gosh!!! :( Brings back memories of when i went to Pakistan, *sniff sniff* i want to go visit again, my urdu improved a little since then, so i can show my cousins, hehehe! and heck ya Punjabi Baby!!!! ;)

Re: What language do ya all speak?
Anik
12/23/01 at 00:20:58
asalamu alaikum, [quote] I also picked up some hindi words like matlab,beti,mohabat,ajnabe etc..actually they're orginally arabic so they don't really count :) [/quote] Some of those words are urdu as far as I know.  The hindi spoken today is a mix of urdu words mostly and hindi language structure.  So really, people don't speak true hindi if they speak modern hindi, which is called shudh hindi.  Islam's influence on hindi actually formed urdu as we know it, and even modern hindi as we know it. And as well, yes there are many words that are the same in a very scary way... its odd how language travels, like "ananas" being pineapple in French and hindi, chemise and kameez in French and urdu... Actually, hindi itself came from Sanskrit, and I believe, anthropologically, that arabic as well came from Sanskrit.  They say Sanskrit is the "mother of all tongues" and that MOST languages have derived from it (save aboriginal dialects in some countries). aslaamu alaikum. abdullah,.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
abdul_Mutali
12/25/01 at 13:17:17
As salamu alaykum Well none here seems to speak bangla.Well i do.I also understand Hindi and urdu(not so good).And thats abt all that i know. there are brothers who know so many language,I wonder how they do it.It seems very hard to learn another language if one doesnt have the cultural background.

Re: What language do ya all speak?
julie
12/27/01 at 10:30:52
I speak English and French.  A typical Canadian, eh? I can also speak a little Spanish, and a few Korean words/phrases. Julie
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