Students with language skills

You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.

Bengali

Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07

Aroop Mukharji

Auyon Mukharji

Ronit Bhattacharyya '07

Rowena Ahsan

Catalán

David Rodriguez (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)

Chinese

Cantonese

Jason Law '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).

Mandarin

Jason Law '06 can get by.

Lauren Johnson

Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07

Morgan Goodwin

Kim Fassler '06

French

David Rodriguez (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)

Diana Davis '07 is still pretty good at French.

Samantha Peterson is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.

Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.

German

Steve Hunter '07

Jono Dowse '06

Greek

Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)

Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.

So do Classics majors.

Hebrew

Robert Streicker '07

Zachary Ulman '06

Danny Fischler '06

Davida Kutscher '03

Elissa Brown '09

Daniel Gross '07

Hindi

Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07

Ananda V. Burra '07

Nikhar Gaikwad

Rahul Shah

Ridhima Raina

Ronit Bhattacharyya '07

Sandy Nandagopal

IPA

is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also Phonetics.

Jono Dowse '06 is to the International Phonetic Alphabet as Al Gore is to the Internet.

David Rodriguez learned the IPA alphabet incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111

Italian

Lucy Cox-Chapman '06 spent a semester in Italy

Japanese

Amanda Van Rhyn now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."

Diana Davis '07 frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.

Leah Weintraub '06 spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.

Charlotte White rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.

Pig Latin

Seth Brown taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.

Oppish

Alden Robinson '06 whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?

Polish

Jonathan Landsman '05 can say "What's up, sweetheart?"

Jono Dowse '06 knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of Peter Ladefoged.

Russian

Michael Gallagher

Emily Button '07 can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!"

Ilya Khodosh does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.

Suzanne C. Walsh '05 can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."

Daniel Gross '07

Spanish

David Rodriguez (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)

Jonathan Landsman '05 (budding bachatero)

Alan Cordova '06

Bernard Yaros

Sofia Torres (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)

Paulette Rodriguez can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)

Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.

Tamil

Rachel Winch

Turkish

Dave Senft can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.