Originally Posted By chickendumpling I wish I did. I have a friend who speaks Japanese, one who speaks French and German, lots who speak Spanish and one who knows sign language. I've always been fascinated by people who are multi-lingual like that and was just wondering about if any of you all were. If you are, what do you speak? Why did you learn that language? How did you learn it? How often do you speak it? To whom do you speak it? I can't wait to find out!
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Our house is multi-lingual. English, gibberish, and Ewok. I took a lot of French, but I can read it a lot better than I can speak it.
Originally Posted By mickeymeg I have been learning Sign Language over the last year or so, I really enjoy it. I know some french, and will have to pick up a lot more soon as I am going to a primarily french speaking country for 3 months starting in January for my university practicum. yikes.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I can speak a small amount of japanese but I can write it alot better. I took it for 4 years in High School but I really didnt retain anything about it.
Originally Posted By tink2680 I can understand and read french pretty well, coming up with the words to speak it is another story. Thankfully my husband is fluent in french so I just let him do all the talking.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Whale. ROTF! Very funny, Mr. SmartyPants. hahaha. If we had an edit button, I'd go into post #1 and add this to the question.... If you could speak any language, what would it be and why?
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I apparently do speak another language, because I often ask my daughter to do (or not do) things and she looks at me as though I were speaking Martian. Then her actions show that she didn't understand me at all.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling English, Gibberish, Ewok and Ubbi Dubbi, and some Spanish (words like enchilada and taquito) are spoken at my house. Oh! And if "Valley Girl" qualifies than I am like so totally all over that action. LOL. I took 2 yrs of French in high school, and a semester in college but the only French I really still remember is from that song (Voulez vous...umm...nevermind. LOL) Sign language is fascinating to me. (All languages are.) DS is learning it in school right now and he just loves it. My friend who knows it has only learned it in the last 2 years but is very fluent. Your news is way cool, mickeymeg! Very exciting! Congratulations!
Originally Posted By chickendumpling LOL @ Tom Sawyer. I get that sometimes too. Must be some sort of situational translation issue. LOL.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ ^ Hey, we must speak the same language because my son has the same comprehension problem! I took 3 years of French. Can't speak more than a few phrases anymore. I've lived in California my whole life, half of it in Southern California, but I know only a few phrases in Spanish. Worst of all... my husband is a first generation American. He is bilingual in Hungarian. His entire family speaks the language. We've been together 20 years, and all I know is hello, good-bye, cheers and a few choice swear words. I'm the only non-Hungarian in the entire family. My son and I are the only ones that don't speak the language. However, I have ALWAYS been able to tell when they are talking about me
Originally Posted By Lisann22 English obviously - though my spelling and grammar suck. Spanish - I'm a semi-fluent speaker, 100% understander. ;> Mutsun (Calif Indian) - I'm a functional speaker - means I have a large vocabulary of words and can spit out some sentences and phrases. We are working currently on improving our conversation abilities.
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch Non-techies tell me that I'm speaking a different language when I start talking to them about computers. I took German in high school but haven't used it since. I can remember a few words. I learned a bit of sign language years ago but don't remember any of it. I think it would be useful to learn Spanish; especially when I move to Tucson some day.
Originally Posted By alexbook English is the only language I'm fluent in. I took a bunch of languages in school. I can understand a bit of written or spoken Spanish, French, and German, but I never try to speak them any more. My Yiddish, Russian, and Hebrew are pretty much totally gone.
Originally Posted By Ursula Donde es las banos las damas, por favor. Un cervesa, por favor. Living in LA has its advantages!
Originally Posted By Travaria I'm learning Sing Language in school right now, I'm on my third semester. It's getting hard... I'm not as good at understanding it as I'd like to be, I'll often find myself just watching the signs and then realize that I haven't even been bothering to try and translate them...
