I can think of one, but not sure if you are asking for an answer or not, and also not sure if the spoiler tag works here
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And we only pronounce the consonant?
Itās just a riddle, so feel free to post an answer. I was planning to post the answer if no one got it after a few days. Here is how you add a spoiler
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Queue?
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thatās the exact one I was thinking
Thank you.
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Nice, a thread to brag about my favourite thingā¦
I am a native Swiss German speaker; I can write and converse quite well in French, English and Rumantsch, the 4th national language; I can follow a conversation in Italian but my Rumantsch gets in the way there; I can read Spanish and probably most other Romance languages except for Romanian. I have a good grasp of Serbobosnocroatomontenegrine via my girlfriendās family and by extension some very basic common Slavic vocabulary. I study Latin and Ancient Greek to become a teacher; my Master thesis is about a Latin renaissance translation of Homerās Odyssey. I guess I can read a modern Greek newspaper and understand most of it. I know some words and phrases in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, Georgian and Sanskrit. I can read hiragana and katakana and a handful of kanji and know a few words in japanese. Also, some Hangul, but I donāt know any Korean words. I also can read Arabic and Hebrew letters, but wonāt understand it, except a word or two here and there. Oh, and I recently learnt a bit of Coptic (late Egyptian written with Greek letters) and now Iām learning some hieroglyphs. I also understand other Germanic languages and historical language stages such as Dutch or Platt or Scandinavian or Middle High German. to an extent, but only when I read it. I know how to say āgood dayā in Khoekhoegowab.
Did I mention Quenya? I know some very basic Quenya, too.
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Now, BoJo knowing Greek quite surprises me. At us, itās only geeks and bookworms who learn Classics, sometimes theologians. The elite and politicians even seem to see it as āuselessā because it neither produces cheese and watches, nor can it be used to stay out of the EU. If one of our politicians were heard reciting Greek, the general public will probably think itās Chinese.
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I feel like youāre the main game character and Iām an NPC. Iām jealous 
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Obligatory poll:
How many languages can you claim a relationship with? (from drinks once in a while to first text when you wake up)
- Only my native language
- 2
- 3-5
- 6-9
- 10-12
- Iām a super secret spy who retired as a university professor
- Iām a linguist
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I think someone voted as I was editing, sorry, please vote again. 
Feel like this is too loose of a termā¦ Iām āacquaintedā with most of the main languages on Earthā¦ so even 12 is probably low balling itā¦
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@BHydden better? 
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BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 
oh my 
well that makes it harderā¦
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Donāt be, mate. Growing up in Switzerland is playing in easy mode. Iām impressed by Americans or Brits or Japanese who actually went out of their monoculture to learn two other languages.
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Native Spanish speaker. Fluent in English. Learning Russian (should be somewhere between A1 and A2 level).
ŠÆ Š¶ŠµŠ»Š°Ń ŃŠ“Š°ŃŠø Š²ŃŠµŠ¼, Ń Š²Š°ŃŠøŠ¼Šø ŠøŠ½Š¾ŃŃŃŠ°Š½Š½ŃŠ¼Šø ŃŠ·ŃŠŗŠ°Š¼Šø!
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Let me add another poll just to select strictly the main target language aimed by everyone. Except for your mother tongue and English (that I suppose is well known by anyone here), which is the next target language you would like to learn at conversational or fluent level? Only one target please andā¦ no matter if you are already fluent in other non-native languages. I am interested in the next language you would like to concentrate on.
- Ancient Greek
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latin
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Polish
- Other
- None
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English and Esperanto!
Iām still an Esperanto student, not quite conversant yet, but I keep composing in my head a lecture about Go that I want to give at an Esperanto gathering (in Esperanto, obviously). The community supposedly has a long-standing tradition with Chess, and I want to add to it. 
I actually keep OGS in Esperantoā¦ which has sometimes meant that I made a game with nonsensical settings because I mis-understood a word.
If I can ever get conversant in Esperanto, German is my next pick.
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So anyone wants to set up Japanese club here? We would read go materials such as news, commentated games and so on.
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I donāt know why youāre surprised. Boris Johnson studied Classics at Oxford, which is arguably the best education in the subject that can be had anywhere in the world. David Cameron had a similar education and you would be mistaken to assume that he wasnāt also well versed in Greek and Latin.
The majority of our Members of Parliament, in fact, are educated either at private schools or grammar schools, and I would expect that almost all of them studied Latin to some level. Furthermore, Boris is well known as a classicist: he represented Ancient Greece against the Roman Empire in a TV debate against Mary Beard. I disagree with both your assessment of our politicians and of our public (which reads, with your comment on the EU, like a rather bitter character attackā¦)
@bugcat I think youāve misunderstood. @Sanonius was talking about the situation in Switzerland and not at all making an assessment of UK politicians or public.
And I think things that are well known about Boris in the UK address not that likely to be in the rest of the world. I suspect only the buffoon aspect of Borisās persona is really seen elsewhere.
I certainly know nothing about the education of other countriesā leaders.
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