World Languages
Dear little Pandas,
As you may know, it is possible to play Panfu in many languages. You chat with your friends here in .com in English, but other Pandas from Germany, Spain and other countries chat with their friends in their own languages.
Today, I want to talk to you all about languages. Each language has an alphabet, most European languages are written with the so-called Latin alphabet, this is the alphabet we use, it begins with ‘a’ and ends with ‘z’. Languages like Chinese, Greek, Hebrew and Russian have their own alphabet, for example in Russian, the word “Panda” in written as: панда, and in Chinese: 熊猫 That looks far more difficult than writing with our letters doesn’t it!
There are more than 6800 languages spoken around the world! Out of these, 2261 languages are also written languages. Most languages are ‘living languages’, meaning they are still spoken today. There are also ‘dead languages’ like Latin, these languages are not spoken, but may still be used in specific areas, medical sciences for example. The world’s most spoken language is Mandarin, spoken in China! Then comes Spanish and English is third. Within Europe, German is the most commonly spoken language.
There are also very small languages. “Udihe” is spoken in Siberia by only one hundred people. Some countries have lots of different languages, Papua New Guinea has 832 alone! There are also new languages being created, such as Esperanto which has been developed by scientists so it’s easy for everyone to learn.
The word Panda is almost the same in many languages,
I want you to learn the word “friend” in a number of languages:
Friend in German: Freund
Friend in Spanish: Amigo
Friend in French: Ami
Friend in Finnish: Ystävä
Friend in Turkish: Arkadaş
Some languages are more similar than others. You can see that English and German are alike; this is because both of these are “Germanic” languages. Spanish and French are also similar; these languages belong to the group of languages called “Romance” languages or “Roman Languages”.
There are people in this world who are able to speak 7 or 8 languages fluently. This may be because they have lived in several different countries. Our Pandas often speak the language of the country where they were born. If your parents are from a different country to where you are living now, it is likely that they will teach you’re their language. The language you are taught by your parents is often called your ‘mother tongue’ language.
Do you learn a language at school? Most children that are not living in an English speaking country tend to learn English from a young age at school. When people from all around the world come together, they often speak different languages. As most people have learnt English, they can almost always use this as the way to communicate so it is an important language to learn.
Older Pandas tend to learn German, French or Spanish. Sometimes it can seem boring at school to learn another language, but Panda’s…I can assure you that later on you will be more than happy when you can communicate in another language! You can use another language when you go on holiday and of course when you meet people from other countries!
All week we have been talking about all of your different countries and all the languages all of you clever Pandas can speak! Now my only question is how have you managed to learn to speak so many? At school, from your parents, from playing Panfu? Let me know in the comments!
Love and Peace
Kamaria
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Hello Kamaria!I am from Ukraine and I can speak Russian,Ukrainian and English.
Thanks for a gold package!
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:24 pm
ok… I speek ovr 9 laungueges
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:46 pm
I’m from Russia!=)
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:08 pm
in hindi friend called DOST or MITRA/MAITRIN
i know English,Marathi,Hindi ,Marathi is my mother tongue and Hindi is national language,i learn English in school
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:29 pm
I know only English and Bulgarian for now,but I wanna learn more languages when I grow up a little bit and I come from Bulgaria.
P.S.-Did you know that friend on bulgarian is ”приятел”. ;D
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Hi.
I can speak 3 diffrent languages.
Which are:French,Spanish and English.
I’m from Englend.
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I know how to speak in Russian. I come from there and it is not more difficult I find some hard and saying hello is very long. You say hello similar to this : 3grabcmbyume lol
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Hello!
I learn English at school, from my mum (she teaches English to children), from computer games and from FRIENDS!!!
Friend in Hungarian is : BARÁT!!!
Your “barát”, Pandamaci
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:33 pm
i from ukraine!!!!!!
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:41 pm
I speak Japanese, Finnish, English, next year I start to study swedish and little bit German.
I learned Japanese from TV, the writing is’t that hard that you might think. I speak Finnish because I live in Finland, and my friend teach German to me.
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:59 pm
hiya max and ella id luv it if u visited my tree house!! and i really wanna see u on panfu. bye x Amzziiieeee
December 2nd, 2010 at 7:18 pm
I can speak
english,french,spanish and japanese i’m from england and i can’t speak the others too fluently
December 2nd, 2010 at 7:50 pm
I know two languages the language i speak most is english and i know a bit of spanish and dont normally speak it. I learned spanish from panfu
December 2nd, 2010 at 7:53 pm
ok I have learned a bit of Spanish from Panfu because in the city there was a girl speaking Spanish so i translated it to find out what it meant, It meant: Hi I really Have to go, (wich is In Spanish: Hola Tengo que ir.) and i know the langage irish too and a bit of italian. And my Friend in Irish is: mo Chara
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Hi Kamaria.
I can speak in French and English.
I know French because a teacher comes in to teach us it at school.
Bye
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:05 pm
different languages are hard
but i speak english a bit french and learning spanish 
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:09 pm
i can do smilies now
im crying with joy
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Wow, i didn’t know most people leart english at school! I’m English myself and we learn french at school, mostly because it’s the nearest country to England.
I also know a bit of spanish. Hola!
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:43 pm
I can speak
1. English
2. French (Is what i am learning at school!)
3. Spanish
Peace out!
AndrewJr-boy!
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:46 pm
oh! i speak icelandic english and a little spanish like
ola amigo uno adios
December 2nd, 2010 at 9:00 pm
I speak Russian. I born in Russia in Moscow the capital city. I moved to England.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:02 pm
bonjur madam ella,teeeteeeeteeeetetetetetetettete amigo awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
December 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 am
hi pandas,
i’m living in Canada rite now but i always lived here.
im guessing that u prob know that im english is u said yes u r right!
and i am also lerning spanish!?
be good pandas, love and peece, from smokeybone
December 3rd, 2010 at 12:46 am
I know Russian and English
December 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 am
I want Russian pandas to came to my blog in mail ru.
December 3rd, 2010 at 3:58 am
I speak Spanish, English, British, Pig Latin, Latin, Chinese, Japenese, French, Dutch, and Euoropen. ifay youay dontay believeay meay, thatsay youray problemay (that was piglatin)
December 3rd, 2010 at 4:00 am
blah blah blah
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:04 am
a: Ola! comotiliamas?-hello what is your name?
b: Meyamo, b,comotiliamas?-my name is b what is yours?
a:Meyamo a-my name is a
b:vivo en, England-i live in England
a:realmente lo hacen i!-so do I!
b:Me gustan las narajas pero no me gustan las patatas fritas:I like oranges, but i dont like crisps.
a:Me gusta el pan, y no me gustan las salchichas: I like bread but I dont like sausages
I know a lot more but this took me a long time to remember and type up, I learnt it all at school, but also my dad lived in Spain for 8 years.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:10 am
I speak 3 Languages: English,Megaton and Polish!
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:34 am
I can speak Polish because I was born there, Spanish from playing panfu, English because I moved to England when I was 6, and French because I learn it at school.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:35 am
And still friends on Russian translates-друзья,приятели=)
I am from Russia!=))
December 3rd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I’m from Brazil, I speak English and Portuguese and I also speak some Spanish because the Portuguese is a bit like the Spanish. friend is called in Portuguese amigo
December 3rd, 2010 at 4:48 pm
i speak english sinhala and tamil from sinhala you say friend like this “yahaluva’
December 4th, 2010 at 1:18 am
i came from florda where there is paridis.
December 4th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I know how to speak and write a little bit of chinese
December 4th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I can speak: Romanian,Hungarian,English and a little Swedish
December 5th, 2010 at 8:24 am
I can english, finish, swedish (five words)
HI,HEI, HELLO,MOI. I`FOM FINLAND 
PANFU IS BEST. 
December 5th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
i can speak: English, French (learning at school), and Mandarin Chinese! its not as hard as it seems.
December 5th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I can speak Spanish and English (:
December 6th, 2010 at 10:02 am
I Russian panda! I from Russian Panfu also hope that you it soon open. So long! your panda lelaaa1
December 6th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
I from Russia, Moscow. The capital of Russia Moscow me from there.
December 6th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
I moved to england.
December 6th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
I speak Russian & English
December 7th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
please reply back to this but why are u doing all this just for us it is abit STUPID !!!
December 7th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
IT IS NOT STUPID
December 7th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I’m from Finland so Finnish is my mother tongue
And with that I can speak very well English and French. I can speak Swedish and German too, but only some random words (: I love speak other languages! It sounds great when somebody really can speak something language well 
December 7th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
hello
December 7th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
:Rolleyes:
evil: B) :Embarresed: :Mellow:
December 9th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Hey hey! I Russian and my native land Russia. And I do transfer.
December 18th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
I speak Portugese and enlish a tiny french
Portugese my mum comes from brazil so sje tought me
enlish i was born here
French learn it at school
January 24th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
I can speak many languages!
English
Spanish
German
French
Sign Language
Italian
Chinese
February 7th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Hi! I live in Brazil and my father is from the USA! I know how to speak portuguese and english!
March 11th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
i can speak a few languages i can speak bangla bangla is my mother language english and irish kind of spanish and kind of french slawn woops why did i say slawn well why doesn’t anyone here know bangla oh yea i also know arabec nobody really here knows arabec either
March 11th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
that slawn i said was kind of embaressing
March 11th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
flopsy i have friend in school her name amealia and she is from poland to so she speaks polish to
March 14th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
i can speak nepalese english french spanish and romainian
March 27th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
i can speak english,polish and arabic.i can speak a bit of german,french,spanish. i learn irish at school and i can speak a bit of irish. hi in polish is czesc.hello in arabic is marhaban. hi in irish is dia duit.:smile:
March 27th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
and i know a few words in chinese and japanese.
March 28th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
I know little francais and Spanish I want to learn more can you help me kamaria you are the best
March 30th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Hi! I’m Collette, but seriously, that’s not my real name
I speak 5 languages : Indonesian, Chinese, English and a bit of France and Spanish. I love reading books and I study different languages from the books. Sometimes I learn from the internet or my dear friend, Chloe and it’s not her real name either :p We go to the same school, Pelangi Kasih, in English its Rainbow Care, which I know, sounds weird in English 
That’s all I can say. Love you PANFU! <3
April 4th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
I Know hebrew, english, french, italian, russian, arabic, ukrainian, germany, and chinese. =) Oh! and japanese! xP
April 10th, 2011 at 9:24 am
Hi!
I’m Itallian but I can only speak
Mexican, Spanish and English
April 15th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
hi im from ireland i speak irish and english and Kenyan i can speak english most but i love speaking Kenyan launge i will say hello in kenya ok Jambo now i will say how are you Habri sana and now i will sing a swahli song from Kenya Jambo Jabmo bwana habri gana mzuri sana wageni mzcubriswa kenya yetu a haukna muta . Most of you should know the moive Called the Lion King well this is a Big fact about it the lion is from Kenya and the charcters were made in america but you have heared the song Baba Yetu in 1 of them well you most have heard the word Simba which is the name of the Lion cub they called him Simba because he is a lion and Simba means Lion in swahli the Monkey or the Chimpenze is Called Rafki and Rafki means friend Kwehri everybody Kwehri means goodbye and b sure to vist kenya but not in 2012 because there well b elections for the Presdint in December because there well b alot of killing going on bye or Kwehri
April 29th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
I will speak my owne languange danish
hej jeg er dansk venner friends are on danish venner
May 8th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
I come from Croatia. I speak several languages:
Croatian
Spanish
English
German
A bit of Latin
Oh and another thing: could you please investigate about the household pollution. I need it for my project.
May 10th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Since I’m from dog island, I speak 3 languages there.
English,French, and Spanish
I go to Russia,China, Mexico, Iceland,and Italy
so i speak Russian,Chinese,Japanese,Mexican,Icelandic,and Italian! Isn’t that great?!
June 1st, 2011 at 12:08 pm
i can speak…
english
arabic
german
french
somalian
chinese
bye Xx Demi sweetie
June 1st, 2011 at 12:12 pm
hi im from dubai, i can speak
arabic
chinese
french
kenyan
german
somalian
english
thanks Xx
Demi sweetie
June 6th, 2011 at 9:34 am
الباندا is Arabic for panda
熊猫 is Chinese for panda
panda is English for panda
i know English because i live in Australia 
i learn many different languages at school but my key-bored doesn’t do that much languages O–O
June 6th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
I LOVVVVVVVVVE SPEAKING EGILISH
June 6th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
June 11th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I CAN SPEACK ALL THE LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD.
June 26th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
i am from england my mother and father r from bangladesh i know how to speak :english,spanish,bengali, and french
though my main language is english and bengali
bye for now
June 27th, 2011 at 10:03 am
hi i am tsetsuukhei i can speak Englesh and Mongolia i can speak litle more Japan
June 30th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
i barley even speak bangla cause i mostly learnt english cause i was here in ireland for seven years and in bangladesh for three months big difference eh?:cool:
June 30th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
wait why did i say flopsy in one of my comments maybe i wrote it by mistake
June 30th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
oh now i know why i wrote flopsy yeh ok see ya lter
July 23rd, 2011 at 10:34 pm
i dont speak many languages just english and a little arabic but i hope to learn more!Languages represent also a little bit of peoples culture so by all means respect it!
July 26th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
i come from england i can speak some french because i go to french class after school well its a club
August 4th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Hi Kamaria i speeak serbian.
August 13th, 2011 at 3:51 am
Hi Kamaria, I know english and a little bit of spanish ( thanks Toy Story 3 ) but i come from australia
September 11th, 2011 at 9:04 am
i can speak spanish japanish mongolia and english
November 6th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
i can speak english
November 6th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
hi ella and max this is just a test to show my mum the smileys
December 3rd, 2011 at 2:43 pm
I can speak Finnish, English and some Japanese.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 am
Hello Kamaria!
I from in Ukraine i can speak Ukrain,Russian and English!
Please create Russian Panfu!
Your Ashley708!
January 24th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
to say freind in bengali is easy Bondu its not spelt like that since it is meant to be written in bengali oh well and panda not so sure…………
January 29th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
ok i speek 7 launges it will turn 8 in secondry school well that is in a long time
January 29th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
they are
those and
greek
i can hers hello
yasso
or hi
ya
February 10th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Hello!
I’m from Poland. It’s country in Europe. I have a account on polish version.
February 25th, 2012 at 10:13 am
ENGLISH
May 8th, 2012 at 9:57 am
that is cool
i like it 
August 16th, 2012 at 9:44 am
Im from Bulgaria and know bulgarian,russian,english,small bit german(I learn in school)and some words on spanish!
November 14th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Im from Turkey and i speak turkish and english
November 16th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
thank you Kamaria ! i’m English ,but i know some Spanish from school
and from some help from panfu ive got better at it !!! 
March 7th, 2013 at 9:35 am
Im from Turkey and i speak turkish
I love Panfu ! Im Play English Panfu 