Language Introduction thread!

[Nimphy]

Introduction thread! In foreign languages! Yuppee!

Basically:

- Introduce yourself in your native language (unless the native language is English)
- Repeat the process (it doesn't have to be the same introduction) in all the languages you know, are learning, or have learned at some point in the past.
- Native speakers are welcome to correct mistakes and laugh at the others
- Also provide an English translation for all the introductions!

I'll be slowly writing my introductions over the course of the day

Okej, të fillojmë me shqipen, ça thoni? Kam lindur në Shqipëri, dhe kam jetuar në Tiranë pak a shumë për tetë vjet. Mund të më quani Nimphy. Emri im i vërtetë është aq shqiptar sa më s'ka. Tani jetoj në Itali, kam katërmbëdhejtë vjeç, po mësoj disa gjuhë (... Pak a shumë tre a katër) dhe... Do ishte më mirë që të mbyllja prezantimin në shqip dhe të filloja me italishten. Çao!

Translation: Okay, let us begin with Albanian, what do you say? I was born in Albania, and I lived in Tirana more or less for eight years, you can call me Nimphy. My real name is as Albanian as it can be. Now I live in Italy, I'm fourteen, I'm learning several languages (More or less three or four) and... It would be best if I ended the introduction in Albanian and started with Italian. Bye! (Loanword from Italian "Ciao", which Albanians only use to say "goodbye" and not "hello")

Italiano: Ciao a tutti, potete chiamarmi Nimphy. Sono albanese, vivo in Italia, ho quattordici anni, frequento il liceo scientifico e non ho troppa voglia di riscrivere da capo quella presentazione. Parlo albanese, italiano e inglese, capisco bene lo spagnolo e lo parlo un po', capisco il francese e non lo parlerò se posso evitarlo, sto imparando il tedesco e il norvegese. Ah, e so qualche cosina di giapponese!

Translation: Hello everyone, you can call me Nimphy. I'm Albanian, I live in Italy, I'm fourteen, I study in a scientific liceo and I'm not too keen on re-writing that introduction from scratch. I speak Albanian, Italian and English, I can understand Spanish well and speak it a little, I understand French and I won't speak it if I can avoid it, I'm learning German and Norwegian. Ah, and I know a few things of Japanese!

Spanish (dun-dun-dunnnnn): ¡Hola todos! Soy Nimphy, una chica albanès que vive en Italia. Hablo un poco de espanol y parece que mi tastiera no tiene la "n" con la... La cosa sobre la n. Yahoo.

Translation: Hello everyone! I'm Nimphy, an Albanian girl who lives in Italy. I speak a little Spanish and it appears my keyboard doesn't have the "n" with the... The thing on the n. Yahoo.

Norwegian (dun-dun-dun-dunnnnnn): Hallo. Jeg heter Nimphy. Jeg bor i Italia... Hallo?

Translation: Hello. My name is Nimphy. I live in Italy... Hello?

[Lenny]

Oooh, this is fun! Not sure if I'll conform and make them all exactly the same, but I can try~

Afrikaans first~ I suppose technically both Dutch and Afrikaans are my native languages (I learnt them both simultaneously), but I speak Afrikaans far more. More than English even, actually... haha.

Hallo almal! My naam is Lenny. Ek bly in Australië.

Dutch:

Hallo allemaal! Ik heet Lenny. Ik woon in Australië.

Norwegian (seveeeerely limited, I'm a total beginner and due to overwhelming school haven't practised much lately):

Hallo alle! Jeg heter Lenny. Jeg bor i Australie.

English for eeeverything:

Hello everyone! My name is/I am called Lenny. I live in Australia.

I now feel sad because the only Norwegian spellcheck dictionaries for Firefox are outdated and don't work on the new Firefox version.

Maybe once I know more Norwegian I'll make these more complicated, but for now, they're all super simple introductions, hehe.

[Sparky Dragon]

Yay!

First, French. I really don't know very much, at all, but I can introduce myself:
Bonjour, mon nom est Sparky Dragon. Je parle un peu le français.

And Finnish:
Hei, nimeni on SparkyDragon. Minä puhu vähän suomi.

They both say, hello, my name is SparkyDragon. I speak a little bit of [language].

[Headfinder]

Allá vamos: Me hago llamar Headfinder (sugerencia de Nimphy, por cierto), Tengo dieciocho años, soy español, y aunque estudié francés durante cinco años, y viví en Cataluña durante mi infancia, ya no sé hablar ni francés ni catalán. Una pena, la verdad, pero al menos aún entiendo catalán y algo de francés.

There we go: I go by the name of Headfinder (by Nymphy's suggestion, by the way), I'm eighteen, I'm a spaniard, and even though I studied french for five years, and lived in th Catalonia as a child, I can't talk neither french nor catalonian anymore. A pity, really, but at least I still understand catalonian and some french.

[Fenris]

Norwegian: Hei, jeg 'heter' Fenris, er enogtyve år og er født og oppvokst på et lite småbruk på Østlandet. Jeg snakker norsk og engelsk ganske flytende, kan noe tysk og holder på å lære russisk.

Translation: Hello, my 'name' is Fenris, I am 21 years and I was born and raised on a small farm in Eastern Norway. I speak Norwegian and English fairly fluently, I know some German and I am learning Russian.

German: Hallo! Ich heiße Fenris und ich bin ein Bauer. Ich spreche Norwegisch und Englisch gut, ein bisschen Deutsch und ich lerne Russisch.
Translation: Hello! My name is Fenris and I am a farmer. I speak Norwegian and English well, a bit of German and I'm learning Russian.

Russian: ? ??????. ? ??????? ? ?????. ? ?????? ??????? ???????.
Translation: I am Fenris. I work at a farm. I speak a bit of Russian. (I probably mangled this quite badly)

[mithrysc]

Let's see what I can stumble through... Currently, though, my language-learning has been mostly sidelined in favor of other (computer) languages.

Hallo! Jeg heter Mithrysc. Jeg lærer norsk.
Hello! My name is Mithrysc. I am learning Norwegian. (I think that's right?)

Salvete! Meum praenomen est Mithrysc. Latinum iam diu studiu, sed re vera Latine loquire non possum.
Hello! My name is Mithrysc. I have studied Latin for a long time, but I'm not actually able to speak in Latin.

And for fun:
Mae govannen! Enethen na Mithrysc. Iston bîn edhellen.
Well met! My name is Mithrysc. I know a little Elvish (Sindarin).

[ThisCat]

Heisann, jeg heter ThisCat, er nitten år og studerer for øyeblikket biologi på et sted ved navn Ås. Jeg er født og oppvokst i Norge og snakker flytende norsk og engelsk. Jeg kan noen ord tysk og fransk, men ikke så mye mer. Jeg bor alene på en studenthybel sammen med edderkoppen min, Kiwi. På fritida tegner jeg og skriver dikt.

Hey there, my name's ThisCat, I'm nineteen and at the moment I'm studying biology at a place by the name Ås. I'm born and raised in Norway and speak norwegian and english fluently. I know a few words german and french, but not much more. I live alone in a student appartement together with my spider, Kiwi. In my free time I draw and write poems.

Let's try french: Je m'appelle ThisCat. J'habite a Norvege. Je ne parle pas Francais.

My name is ThisCat. I live in Norway. I don't speak french. - I honestly don't understand how I got a 5 in french.

[Nimphy]

Heisann, jeg heter ThisCat, er nitten år og studerer for øyeblikket biologi på et sted ved navn Ås. Jeg er født og oppvokst i Norge og snakker flytende norsk og engelsk. Jeg kan noen ord tysk og fransk, men ikke så mye mer. Jeg bor alene på en studenthybel sammen med edderkoppen min, Kiwi. På fritida tegner jeg og skriver dikt.

Hey there, my name's ThisCat, I'm nineteen and at the moment I'm studying biology at a place by the name Ås. I'm born and raised in Norway and speak norwegian and english fluently. I know a few words german and french, but not much more. I live alone in a student appartement together with my spider, Kiwi. In my free time I draw and write poems.

Let's try french: Je m'appelle ThisCat. J'habite a Norvege. Je ne parle pas Francais.

My name is ThisCat. I live in Norway. I don't speak french. - I honestly don't understand how I got a 5 in french.

... Is a 5 a good result in Norway? Cause over here it's non-passing...

[ThisCat]

... Is a 5 a good result in Norway? Cause over here it's non-passing...

5 out of 6. It's counted as a high grade.

[JoB]

5 out of 6. It's counted as a high grade.

Same system of grades as in Switzerland, then. (While Albert Einstein having 5's and 6's galore on his Swiss Matura certificate led us Germans to the ineradicable rumour that he has been a poor pupil - we grade from 1=best to 6=worst ...)

[ruth]

all right, here we go!

primero en español. hola todos! yo me llamo ruth! soy una chica cubana-noruega nacida en los estados unidos, y vivo ahora en canadá con mi pareja. tengo 21 años (aunque voy a cumplir 22 ahorita!) y soy ahora mismo estudiante de ciencia cognitiva en la universidad. actualmente, tengo deseo de aprender y mejorar mi sueco.

näst på svenska...hej alla! jag heter ruth, jag är en cubansk-norsk flicka, är född i förenta staterna, och bor nu i kanada med min sambo. jag är 21 år gammal (men jag fyller år nästa veckan!), och jag studerar nu kognitionsvetenskap på universitet. flytande jag har lust att lära mig och förbättra min svenska.

en français, alors... bonjour à tous! je m'appelle ruth, j'suis une fille cubaine-norvégienne née dans les états-unis. j'habite maintenant en canada avec ma copine. j'ai 21 ans (mais je vais avoir 22 bientôt!), et j'étudie maintenant des sciences cognitives dans l'université. actuellement je veux apprendre et améliorer mon suédois.

auf deutsch. hallo alle! ich heiße ruth, bin ein cubanisches-norwegisches mädchen geboren in den vereinigte staaten. ich wohne jetzt in kanada mit meiner partnerin. ich bin 21 jahre alt (werde aber 22 bald!), und ich studiere jetzt kognitionswissenschaft bei der uni. heutzutage hab' ich lust mein schwedisch zu lernen und zu verbessern.

in english: hello everyone! i'm ruth, i'm a cuban-norwegian girl born in the united states, and i currently live in canada with my partner. i'm 21 years old (though i'm turning 22 next week) and i'm currently studying cognitive science in university. these days i'm wanting to learn and improve my swedish!

until other stuff (like japanese!) becomes available on the board, that'll have to do for now!

[Nimphy]

Same system of grades as in Switzerland, then. (While Albert Einstein having 5's and 6's galore on his Swiss Matura certificate led us Germans to the ineradicable rumour that he has been a poor pupil - we grade from 1=best to 6=worst ...)

In Italy it depends, althought technically it's 1= worst 10=best. A lot of teachers decide to restrict the field a bit, so while law and the like say that grades go from 1 to 10 some teachers may decide to go from 3 to 8. It's horrible, since you can study hours and hours and hours and never get to the top (thinking of my stupid English test right now), but also good since it's very hard to get 1 and 2 and other extremely horrible and unsalvageable results.

Now I can only think about what a shock would it be to see German students happy for a 1...

[StellersJayC]

Hi! I'm StellersJayC! A Steller's Jay is a bird that lives on the west coast of the United States - where I live. A common mistake is people identifying it as a Blue Jay when it is really a blue-colored Jay. I'm 16 and have taken German for two and a half years now. Let's see how badly I mangle my "skills!" I'll talk about pets mostly, because that's fun. I don't have the patience right now to write anything long, either, right now.

Hallo! Ich hieße StellersJayC! Ich bin 16 Jahre alt und meine Lieblingsfarbe ist purpurrot. Ich habe zwei Hunden und sie hießt Lily und Natasha. Lily ist meine Mutters Hund. Meine Hund ist Natasha. Meine Schwester hat ein Kanninchen. Meine Familie hat drei Katze gehabt. Hast du Fragen?
Hello! My name is StellersJayC! I am 16 years old and my favorite color is purple. I have two dogs and their names are Lily and Natasha. Lily is my mom's dog. My dog is Natasha. My sister has a rabbit. My family had three cats. Do you have any questions?

[ThisCat]

Hi! I'm StellersJayC! A Steller's Jay is a bird that lives on the west coast of the United States - where I live. A common mistake is people identifying it as a Blue Jay when it is really a blue-colored Jay. I'm 16 and have taken German for two and a half years now. Let's see how badly I mangle my "skills!" I'll talk about pets mostly, because that's fun. I don't have the patience right now to write anything long, either, right now.

Hallo! Ich hieße StellersJayC! Ich bin 16 Jahre alt und meine Lieblingsfarbe ist purpurrot. Ich habe zwei Hunden und sie hießt Lily und Natasha. Lily ist meine Mutters Hund. Meine Hund ist Natasha. Meine Schwester hat ein Kanninchen. Meine Familie hat drei Katze gehabt. Hast du Fragen?
Hello! My name is StellersJayC! I am 16 years old and my favorite color is purple. I have two dogs and their names are Lily and Natasha. Lily is my mom's dog. My dog is Natasha. My sister has a rabbit. My family had three cats. Do you have any questions?

Woo! I could read that! There might still be a sliver of hope for me.

[Nimphy]

Hi! I'm StellersJayC! A Steller's Jay is a bird that lives on the west coast of the United States - where I live. A common mistake is people identifying it as a Blue Jay when it is really a blue-colored Jay. I'm 16 and have taken German for two and a half years now. Let's see how badly I mangle my "skills!" I'll talk about pets mostly, because that's fun. I don't have the patience right now to write anything long, either, right now.

Hallo! Ich hieße StellersJayC! Ich bin 16 Jahre alt und meine Lieblingsfarbe ist purpurrot. Ich habe zwei Hunden und sie hießt Lily und Natasha. Lily ist meine Mutters Hund. Meine Hund ist Natasha. Meine Schwester hat ein Kanninchen. Meine Familie hat drei Katze gehabt. Hast du Fragen?
Hello! My name is StellersJayC! I am 16 years old and my favorite color is purple. I have two dogs and their names are Lily and Natasha. Lily is my mom's dog. My dog is Natasha. My sister has a rabbit. My family had three cats. Do you have any questions?

...I could read that? I could read that!! I COULD read that! I could read THAT! I read something in German and only got one word clamorously wrong (Kanninchen)... I'm making progress, finally