• Question: How many languages can you speak?

    Asked by anon-187797 to Miriam, Marton, Stewart on 13 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-186935, anon-187761.
    • Photo: Miriam Hogg

      Miriam Hogg answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Just English unfortunately, I was never very good at languages. I know a small amount of Japanese and French.

      In terms of computer coding languages I know Python, and Fortran mainly. 🙂

    • Photo: Marton Olbei

      Marton Olbei answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      I speak Hungarian (this is what I grew up with), German, English and a bit of Portuguese. I used to study French as well but I don’t remember a lot of it 🙁

    • Photo: Stewart Martin-Haugh

      Stewart Martin-Haugh answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      3 and a bit.

      English, of course!

      I learnt French and German at school and kept them up afterward. I’m not completely fluent but I can do OK in both of those. French is particularly useful if you work at CERN and live in Geneva, as I did for a while.

      Most recently I’ve been learning Mandarin Chinese – this is really fun! Very different grammar to English. I find it fascinating that it can communicate the same things in such a different way.

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