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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Malamissah(m): 9:32pm On Nov 10, 2013

Fulaman198: Fulfulde, Hausa, English, French fluently and some Zarma and some Tamashaq

Are u sure u undastand zarma,cos am a zarma boy and i will test u

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Malamissah(m): 9:36pm On Nov 10, 2013

English.hausa,yoruba,zarma,pidgin

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Shyeikulislam1(m): 9:56pm On Nov 10, 2013

English, yoruba, hausa and pidgin

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 10:19pm On Nov 10, 2013

Malam issah: Are u sure u undastand zarma,cos am a zarma boy and i will test u

Albarka ma nu alberkendi Malam Issah

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by ignis: 7:20am On Nov 11, 2013

Fulaman198: Albarka ma nu alberkendi Malam Issah

Which language come be dis one?

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 8:39am On Nov 11, 2013

ignis: Which language come be dis one?

Zarma

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Nobody: 9:46am On Nov 11, 2013

I SPEAK IGBO IGALA IDOMA TIV AND WRONG ENGLISH

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by nifty247(m): 10:30am On Nov 11, 2013

Hausa, Yoruba, English and Arabic.

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by marvelU(f): 9:26am On Nov 12, 2013

English and pigeon

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 4:16pm On Nov 12, 2013

marvelU: English and pigeon

So one, because Pidgin is not a language, but a dialect

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by TONYE001(m): 12:31pm On Dec 12, 2013

Moi c'est Le Francais, l'Anglais, et Kalabari...

J'aimerais apprendre l'Espagnol quand je suis libre

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 6:08pm On Dec 12, 2013

TONYE001: Moi c'est Le Francais, l'Anglais, et Kalabari...

J'aimerais apprendre l'Espagnol quand je suis libre

Good to know that you speak more European languages over African languages

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Nobody: 9:56pm On Dec 12, 2013

i can speak igbo language fluently and can also speak hausa and tiv to a near fluency level.

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Nobody: 8:59am On Sep 24, 2014

OreofeeOluwa: English,Pidgin

what's up

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 3:18pm On Sep 24, 2014

I find it quite funny that many people in this thread consider Pidgin English a language when it's not.

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by pansophist(m): 3:24pm On Sep 24, 2014

Fulaman198: I find it quite funny that many people in this thread consider Pidgin English a language when it's not.

Nigerian pidgin is a language.

@OP
I speak Nigerian Pidgin, English, Igbo, Yoruba and a bit of Polish

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 4:00pm On Sep 24, 2014

pansophist: Nigerian pidgin is a language.

@OP
I speak Nigerian Pidgin, English, Igbo, Yoruba and a bit of Polish

Pidgin is not a language, it's a dialect of English.

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by pansophist(m): 4:07pm On Sep 24, 2014

Fulaman198: Pidgin is not a language, it's a dialect of English.

Saying Pidgin is a dialect of Enlgish is like saying Slovak is a dialect of Polish. Although it is comes with many words borrowed from English, doesnt make it an English dialect.

English dialect lol grin

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 5:15pm On Sep 24, 2014

pansophist: Saying Pidgin is a dialect of Enlgish is like saying Slovak is a dialect of Polish. Although it is comes with many words borrowed from English, doesnt make it an English dialect.

English dialect lol

That's absolutely incorrect. Slovak and Polish belong to the Slavic language family alongside Serbo-Croat.

Without English, pidgin English wouldn't exist. It's a dialect of English. Same thing with the English that Irish speak, it's a dialect.

Your analogy was way off.

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by pansophist(m): 5:25pm On Sep 24, 2014

Fulaman198: That's absolutely incorrect. Slovak and Polish belong to the Slavic language family alongside Serbo-Croat.

Without English, pidgin English wouldn't exist. It's a dialect of English. Same thing with the English that Irish speak, it's a dialect.

Your analogy was way off.

You are right, I made a research about it now.

But I Wont say it is a dialect, Nigerian English can be a dialect but Pidgin is not.

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 5:30pm On Sep 24, 2014

pansophist: You are right, I made a research about it now.

But I Wont say it is a dialect, Nigerian English can be a dialect but Pidgin is not.

Without English what would be the language basis for pidgin? For Pidgin to be considered an actual language, it means that it can survive on its own without a root language.

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by momentarylapse: 9:33pm On Feb 20, 2017*

nifty247:
Hausa, Yoruba, English and Arabic.

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by urahara(m): 8:58am On Sep 19, 2017

Fulaman198:
Fulfulde, Hausa, English, French fluently and some Zarma and some Tamashaq

How did u learn French ?

Did u live in a francophone country or you went to an institute.

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Fulaman198(mod): 6:32pm On Sep 19, 2017

urahara:
How did u learn French ?

Did u live in a francophone country or you went to an institute.

Learned it in school and have visited some Francophone African countries.

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Nobody: 7:45pm On Sep 19, 2017

yoruba,hausa,arabic,english kontinue.

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by urahara(m): 2:58pm On Sep 20, 2017

Fulaman198:
Good to know that you speak more European languages over African languages

I know I may sound ignorant by saying this , but at times I ask myself what is to gain by learning foreign languages when you are most likely not gonna use it to communicate with anyone , unless you travel abroad

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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by Nobody: 3:44pm On Sep 20, 2017

Amharic (Ethiopia) and English

Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by nlPoster: 4:05am On Jan 20, 2020

mosho2good:
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What does this post of yours mean?

mosho2good:
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Re: How Many Languages Can You Speak Fluently? by AlphaSoul: 4:24am On Feb 05, 2021

English, Yoruba, Hausa, French.
Merci grin

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