| Author | Message | ||
| Kendall Kim (Kenny)
Junior Member Username: Kenny Post Number: 59 Registered: 9-2001 |
I am born and bred in NYC.. My parents are 100% korean... I speak passable Korean and took 5 yrs of Russian but barely speak 12 words of it.. (don't ask, it was one of the languages offered at my prep school) | ||
| Keith (Kds)
New member Username: Kds Post Number: 7 Registered: 5-2003 |
I'm Canadian by birth and 100% Russian by descent. Being raised on vodka and perogies was a good thing. I speak English, French and Brasilian Portuguese. | ||
| Ron Vallejo (Ron328)
Junior Member Username: Ron328 Post Number: 170 Registered: 3-2003 |
Filipino (Filipino-Spanish(Spain)-Chinese mix) by nationality. American by heart and ideology. I speak Tagalog and English. | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 404 Registered: 5-2002 |
Ahhh....yes, Jay, right. Sometimes, it's not easy to figure out exactly through Romanization of the words. | ||
| Jack (Gilles27)
Member Username: Gilles27 Post Number: 982 Registered: 3-2002 |
American. My ancestry is 50% Russian, 50% English. Grandparents were Russian immigrants. Besides English, I speak a steadily declining amount of German. | ||
| Amir H. (355spiderman)
Junior Member Username: 355spiderman Post Number: 117 Registered: 5-2002 |
100% Pakistani Born in North Carolina I speak English and Urdu | ||
| Hubert Otlik (Hugh)
Member Username: Hugh Post Number: 854 Registered: 1-2002 |
I'm from germany, and I can: speak polish, german (not so fluently), some italian, french (also w/out great fluency), and moonlight w/ english. I want to learn Italian, though. | ||
| Fayyaz Vellani (Fvellani)
Junior Member Username: Fvellani Post Number: 75 Registered: 8-2002 |
I am Canadian  I suppose I am 100% indian... My great grandparents lived in E. India, went over to Africa, grandparents born in Tanzania, my parents were born in Tanzania, in Dar-Es-Salaam my mom moved to England alone at 12. my dad moved to England at 17, studied at University of Manchester, did some studying in Iran, back to England, met my mom, they got engaged, moved to Canada, got married, moved to Winnipeg, and then to Vancouver, then to Richmond. As for me, I was born in Richmond, and still live here. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Advanced Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 3150 Registered: 6-2001 |
50% Italian 25% Irish 25% Polish I sorta speak English, at one time i spoke spanish, but havent studied it or been to any spanish speaking counrties in 2 years, so its pretty rusty. I'm still pissed at my Dad ad grandfather for not teaching me italian when i was growing up. I figure i'll take some of that to satisfy my language requirement. It should be easy becasue its alot like spanish, simialr rules for conjugating verbs. | ||
| Michael Basic (Sensational1)
New member Username: Sensational1 Post Number: 10 Registered: 2-2003 |
100% Croatian Speak English, Croatian, and some Spanish! | ||
| Jay Grande (Jay)
Intermediate Member Username: Jay Post Number: 1375 Registered: 10-2001 |
Peter, literally translated it means "Have you eaten rice yet?" but is often used to ask if you've eaten for the day. One of the only things I can say fluently! | ||
| Lawrence Coppari (Lawrence)
Member Username: Lawrence Post Number: 650 Registered: 4-2002 |
50% Sicily 50% Naples Second generation American. A little Spanish, could read French well at one time. Did not stay with the French as it was only a requirement for a degree. | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Advanced Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 2604 Registered: 2-2001 |
50% anglo-american 40% spanish-Argentine 10% S American Indian small mix of French & other stuff in my past I was a Tibetan in a past life I speak spanish fluently & can hack my way through french, german, portuguese, & Italian | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 906 Registered: 11-2002 |
100% Korean. Born in the Canary Islands, Spain. Raised in Spain, and throughout Europe. Came to the U.S to study starting from 8th grade. Kimchi power baby! Pickled cabbage all the way! Oh and since we're being anal with the languages... I speak Spanish and Korean fluently. I can read and understand French. I actually like French movies. I can read Portuguese and Italian. And I passed ESL the first time around! So my ingrrish is not bad. Otherwise...English, Korean, and Spanish. Cheers | ||
| Kenny Herman (Kennyh)
Member Username: Kennyh Post Number: 962 Registered: 8-2001 |
50% South African (Jo-berg) 50% American (Scarsdale, NY) 100% American Speak: English Broken Spanish | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 401 Registered: 5-2002 |
Jordan, I would have never guessed! Amazing stuff. | ||
| Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Intermediate Member Username: Jordan747_400 Post Number: 1184 Registered: 12-2002 |
(sp?) ni mun how? woah hway jiang kwang dong hwa My cantonese is a bit rusty! Im just jk, I speak English, and a bit of Spanish. Im gonig to take German and Italian in college Well I was born in California, moved to Canada, then to Houston Texas, and now Im back in California. I consider myself Texan because I lived their the longest and well...I liked it the best My ancestry is Scottish/Polish though...mostly Scottish. My great great grandfather John Witherspoon came over from Scotland and helped found Princeton Univ. and signed the Declaration of Independence! Cool eh? | ||
| Ron Thomas (Ronsupercar)
Member Username: Ronsupercar Post Number: 862 Registered: 5-2002 |
My Parents are from Haiti. Met in the U.S. I was born and raised here in the U. S. of A. I speak English, French, Creole and Spanish. Quite fluently. My Wife is chinese. American born, so that makes her a "juk-sing" . Chinese will pass if we get lost or need to eat.. She only speaks it with family. They speak toy-san. Our two little girls have the opportunity to speak five langauges and all they speak is english  . That's our fault. Hey Pete, gong he fa choy.. I know I'm a bit late but you get the messege | ||
| Patrick Denonville (Arizonaguy)
Junior Member Username: Arizonaguy Post Number: 178 Registered: 4-2003 |
Dad's side is from France(1700's) lots of history...Mom's side from England/Whales. Dad born in Quebec, Mom born in Quebec and I was too. 100% Canadian and loving it. Oh yea...I speak english and french. | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 398 Registered: 5-2002 |
Hmmmm....Jay, are you trying to say "do you know how to cook?" This is fun! | ||
| Jay Grande (Jay)
Intermediate Member Username: Jay Post Number: 1372 Registered: 10-2001 |
100% Italian but born in Canada! I speak English, Italian, Spanish and French, with limited Cantonese. If you speak slow enough I can also understand about 90% of Portuguese. Hey Peter and Bruce, see if this makes any sense...Neih sik jo fahn mai-ah? | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 5193 Registered: 12-2000 |
Oh, I forgot, am 1/8th Choctaw. Didn't get the beautiful dark skin like my dad though. I'm white with blue eyes and burn if I see a picture of the sun. | ||
| Rikky Alessi (Ralessi)
Junior Member Username: Ralessi Post Number: 145 Registered: 5-2002 |
1/2 Italian 1/4 Bohemian/Syrian Italian when asked 100% American though, for sure, and love it. I speak english, and high school level spanish 3 (woop-dee). I would like to learn spanish, italian, and maybe arabic though at some point. | ||
| Dan 360 (Dan360)
Junior Member Username: Dan360 Post Number: 52 Registered: 2-2003 |
50% Welsh 50% English Lived in Hong Kong, Japan, and Switzerland and now live in Boston. I can direct taxis and order food in Cantonese, Japanese, French and German. The only amongst those I could claim to speak would be Japanese (other than Inn-Gerr-Lish) I do also know some Indian curse words, from attending an India vs England cricket match with a british born Indian friend :-). A phrase that sounds suprising like a man's name [Ben ****], was announced of the intercom... "Would Mr Ben *** please come to the front gate, your friend has lost you". Cue half of the crowd in tears of laughter. I must say when I asked my friend why he was laughing I was quite impressed with the sheer rudeness of this expression - much worse than "See you next tuesday". Apogies in advance for offending anyone here, but this is "Off Topic", I thought I'd go "Off Color" also... :-) | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 4506 Registered: 8-2002 |
i'm still struggling with English; once i master that, i'll move on to another language... English language has something like 500k - 600k words in it - and thanks to Bill Gates, they're adding more and more each day... As far as ethnic origin, well... i'm a being... i won't classify myself as white or male or even caucasian; i won't classify myself as an american; i'm equal to others who aren't american, so then i'm left with earthling... i can't classify myself as an earthling, though, since there is life beyond this planet and i'm not above anyone... So, i'll just say that i'm a being... Not a human being; just a being... | ||
| Drstranglove (Drstranglove)
Member Username: Drstranglove Post Number: 534 Registered: 4-2003 |
German by blood.. American by birth.... Southerner by the Grace of God.... (And thus, drinking is not only a tradition, it is a legacy!!!) DrS | ||
| Mr. Doody (Doody)
Intermediate Member Username: Doody Post Number: 1175 Registered: 11-2001 |
amusing thread :-) 25% Irish 25% French Canadian 25% Italian 25% Sicilian - it's different than "Italian" :-) me speak inglesh good. je parle francais un petit peu. doody! | ||
| Jason Williams (Pristines4)
Member Username: Pristines4 Post Number: 356 Registered: 12-2002 |
German, Italian and Irish. Can speak English, and a very small bit of German. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 1811 Registered: 8-2002 |
Born in Southern California (German/Irish/Cherokee) Father was from Arkansas, mother from Missouri Speak: 1. English (obviously) 2. Korean (Yes, I studied Korean for two years here in the States before moving to Korea where I lived and worked for two years as well.) | ||
| M.J. Callie (Dream_cars)
New member Username: Dream_cars Post Number: 19 Registered: 5-2003 |
100% American speak- english british can read some - spanish german Italian | ||
| Crusing (Crusing)
Junior Member Username: Crusing Post Number: 96 Registered: 10-2002 |
American - 100% Speak: English; and in strange tongues after a few adult beverages. | ||
| William Huber (Solipsist)
Intermediate Member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 1028 Registered: 9-2001 |
I am Jambi!  Meck a lecka high mecka hidy ho! I also speak Texican | ||
| Tyler (Bahiaau)
Member Username: Bahiaau Post Number: 760 Registered: 12-2001 |
100% AMERICAN! Speak English and some Spanish. | ||
| Nika (Racernika)
Member Username: Racernika Post Number: 993 Registered: 12-2001 |
100% Canadian - parents from Eastern Europe Speak: English Italian some Polish/Ukranian Enough french & russian to order food deaf sign language | ||
| Bart Boonacker (Sharky666)
Member Username: Sharky666 Post Number: 398 Registered: 9-2002 |
100% Dutch I speak Dutch, German, English, a bit French, South african (well that's just Dutch and English combined) and a bit Russian (well, A real tiny bit ) We need to speak other languages since nobody will ever learn Dutch "This is what's great about America, diversity." Hehe, then you must come to Holland, diversity is the main capital over here | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 5184 Registered: 12-2000 |
100% Texan. Only speak Texan. | ||
| Matthew J Germane (Mjgermane)
Junior Member Username: Mjgermane Post Number: 83 Registered: 1-2003 |
25% Italian 25% Croatian 50% Euro Mix Dad's parents from Italy and Croatia Mom's parents from all over Europe When people ask, I claim Italian. I speak English and some Spanish. | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 397 Registered: 5-2002 |
Indeed, the big melting pot. A lot of the models at hotimportsnight.com has very mixed heritages as well. It sometimes amazes me how all those different cultures and ethnicities come together. This is what's great about America, diversity. | ||
| Dom Vitarella (Dom)
Junior Member Username: Dom Post Number: 199 Registered: 11-2002 |
100% American, First Generation, born in the Bronx (NY). Parents are both 100% Italian, right off the boat. But they are now American Citizens. I speak English, and some Italian, Spanish. My daugher is also 100% american, but her roots are 50% Italian, 25% Filippino, 25% Euro Mix. God Bless America Dom | ||
| Mark (Markg)
Member Username: Markg Post Number: 508 Registered: 2-2001 |
100% American - Dad family from Scotland, mother from Cornwall, England Speak: American with some English | ||
| Jens Haller (Jh280774)
Member Username: Jh280774 Post Number: 772 Registered: 9-2001 |
100% German My dads parents come from around Berlin and the Ruhrgebiet My moms parents come from east Prussia Rest of the family comes from everywhere up to the Netherlands and Greece! Speak: German English French a little bit Italian since I have learned latin in high school Con saluti cordialissimi, Jens Haller | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 395 Registered: 5-2002 |
Got it! You are amazing! | ||
| Bruce Wellington (Bws88tr)
Intermediate Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 1949 Registered: 4-2002 |
PETER CHECK YOUR EMAIL BRUCE | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 392 Registered: 5-2002 |
This is fun! I will look you up Bruce if I happen to be in your area. Don't know when that's going to happen though... Veering off to the side for a minute, how's your TR btw, Bruce? It's been sort of sidelined during your recovery. | ||
| Bruce Wellington (Bws88tr)
Intermediate Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 1948 Registered: 4-2002 |
HO HO PETER..YOW NIGH.... | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 391 Registered: 5-2002 |
WOW, Bruce! That's very good! Gei ho la! Ne le? | ||
| DJParks (Djparks)
Member Username: Djparks Post Number: 286 Registered: 2-2003 |
50% German, 50% Irish, English, Scotch (and a little Gin). 100% American (NY & D.C.) I speak English and Explicative Frustrato DJ | ||
| Bruce Wellington (Bws88tr)
Intermediate Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 1946 Registered: 4-2002 |
NEE HO E MAH.... | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 390 Registered: 5-2002 |
Thank you, Bruce! Me too! | ||
| Bruce Wellington (Bws88tr)
Intermediate Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 1945 Registered: 4-2002 |
LOVE YA TOO PETER | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 389 Registered: 5-2002 |
 Nice one Bruce! | ||
| Ernesto (T88power)
Intermediate Member Username: T88power Post Number: 1523 Registered: 2-2001 |
50% Puerto Rican 50% Sicilian 100% American Speak: Spanish English some Italian | ||
| Bruce Wellington (Bws88tr)
Intermediate Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 1942 Registered: 4-2002 |
WACKO THREAD BUT ILL RESPOND TO IT..ITS ATTRACTS WEIRDOS 100% AMERICAN DADS PARENTS FROM ARGENTINA MOMS FROM BROOKLYN, NY I SPEAK CANTONESE CHINESE I SPEAK SPANISH AND A LITTLE ENGLISH NICE WEEKEND PETER BRUCE | ||
| Peter (Bubba)
Member Username: Bubba Post Number: 388 Registered: 5-2002 |
I know this is a very diverse forum with members from all kinds of backgrounds, but I am curious as to who we are exactly. I will start first. 100% Chinese dude Can speak Mandarin, 2 other Chinese dialects (Taiwanese and Cantonese), English Used to speak some Japanese and Spanish, but after many years of neglect, kinda gone.... |