Monday, March 02, 2009

speak to me

At last count i can speak gibberish, hindi, roughly about two dialects of kannada, ditto for konkani, tulu, nonsense, a smattering of tamil and jargon, and one foreign language, english. Now pray tell me, how does this make you insecure and inferior and feed your combative impulses?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh actually this boosts my superiority complex dude......you see i can speak enough hindi to listen to some girl going blah blah about her and her relationships..... and give some advice/gyaan/pravachan... for 30 - 40 mins a day..

Ofcourse i already know tamil and english enough to go on yapping for 24 hrs a day.. straight

A smattering of kannada......a teeny weeny bit of malayalam and telugu... I rock dude :D

Jai said...

Aright so that should make me the LingoSuperior ;)

Here's my claim (boast) :P

Fluent speak:
Tamil + 2 dialects
Malayalam
Hindi + 2 dialects
Kannada
English

Decent Speak:
Telugu

Smattering speak:
Japanese
Deutsch

I've tried my hand at learning :
Quenya - with very less success
Bengali- didn't get very far but I will someday
Mathematics - Got a bit of vedic mathetics, but still far to go
Sign language - got this a bit too, cuz of a friend
ShortHand - yep good fun this one.
Java - Am okay with this one


So there you go. ;-)

Jai said...

Heck! I forgot to add -

Smattering speak:
Urdu!

Shenoy said...

JAI ho! we have a winner! Some CunningLinguist you are :)

Jai said...

Right, no need to diss a decent fellow by callin him a ho :P

And it ain't no cunning either!

But in good spirits I shall accept the accolades and applause. hehehe