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Started by national highway 1, December 10, 2014, 04:26:43 PM

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elsmere241

English (native), decent Italian from having lived there for two years - trouble finishing sentences without a dictionary, though.


vdeane

Pretty much just English, at least as far as languages I can actually use.  I took Spanish in high school, but don't remember enough to do anything with it.  I know a rather small amount of French from a combination of driving in Quebec and being an Alizée fangirl in high school, but not enough to be functional beyond reading road signs.  I also picked up the odd word/phrase of Japanese (such as "in the name of the moon I shall punish you") due to watching way too much Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura.

As for languages I want to learn, I wish I knew French, and Russian intrigues me for some reason.
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Pete from Boston

I took a semester of Russian.  I would imagine it could put one off learning languages forever if it was the first second language one attempted.

JakeFromNewEngland

I learned Spanish in elementary and middle school and know a decent amount. I recently started taking Latin this year.

kkt

I took Spanish in high school, but I don't remember enough to have a conversation.  With the aid of a dictionary, I can make out the romance languages and German in writing, but not fast enough to speak.

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Laura

I took French in high school and undergrad (and even got to use it in Quebec when I was 19) but have lost the majority of it from years of not speaking it. I was never fully fluent, but I did write and illustrate a storybook in French in my senior year of high school, so there's that. (I need to find it.)


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cpzilliacus

Quote from: riiga on December 11, 2014, 11:09:35 AM
Swedish is my native language, so I speak it fluently. I can also understand Norwegian and Danish. Apart from that I still remember a bit of my school French, but it's getting worse by the year.

I can read Norwegian and Danish pretty well.  I understand spoken Norwegian reasonably well, but have a pretty tough time with spoken Danish.
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vtk

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Quote from: Laura on December 12, 2014, 08:03:02 PM
I took French in high school and undergrad (and even got to use it in Quebec when I was 19) but have lost the majority of it from years of not speaking it. I was never fully fluent, but I did write and illustrate a storybook in French in my senior year of high school, so there's that. (I need to find it.)

That sounds a lot like me and Spanish.  I also wrote and illustrated a storybook, El Autopista.  How I managed to get so far thinking "autopista" is a masculine noun is a mystery.
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Roadrunner75

Thanks to Sesame Street, I can count to 10 in Spanish.  I can confidently order combination "cinco" at my local Mexican restaurant, getting eyes to roll in the process.

Four years of high school German didn't get me anywhere either.


CNGL-Leudimin

English is only a second language for me. My native language is Spanish from Spain, which is different from what is spoken in The Americas. I can also speak Catalan, which I haven't spoke for a long time due to that independence thing, and some French. I can also understand Portuguese and Italian.

Quote from: vtk on December 13, 2014, 06:33:56 AM
That sounds a lot like me and Spanish.  I also wrote and illustrated a storybook, El Autopista.  How I managed to get so far thinking "autopista" is a masculine noun is a mystery.

Which is wrong, 'autopista' is feminine (La autopista).
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Desert Man

My native language is American English from southern CA, also knows a good amount of Spanish I picked up, and some French I've learned from my French-born father and HS French class. I know a few Cherokee and Osage words like "O-si-yo" (hello) and "Wa-do" (thanks) which are Cherokee from my maternal grandfather who is part-American Indian from OK. I like to learn different languages which can be useful in world travels and business opportunities. I had a few relatives in northern France who spoke Flemish, a variant language of Dutch spoken in northern Belgium and nearby towns in France historically a part of the Flanders region.
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kphoger

My second language is Spanish, the Mexican variety. I used to use it daily a lot more than I do now. Back then, I had roommates and coworkers from Latin America; now, I have occasional, brief conversations with customers by phone, and they're all about cable.

I once spent ten minutes trying to figure out what language some tourists were speaking at a hot tub in Utah, then realized they were from New Zealand speaking English. I once spent fifteen minutes on Chicago's L trying to figure out what language the folks in front of me were speaking; they were from Asturias and had been speaking Spanish the whole time.

I can pronounce many written languages but don't understand the meaning of the words... including Polish, Russian, and Greek. I used to have the Arabic alphabet memorized, but I forgot it shortly thereafter.
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