Fluent in sarcasm...

Pretty fluent in Pig Latin.

Trying to pick up PA Dutch a bit at a time.

I remember a bit of German from classes in high school and college. Got to visit southern Germany back in 2006 for a couple weeks, man that was amazing. Beautiful country, great food and drinks, and generally nice people.

Yes, I can speak and read German, but not very well.

Ja?

I should add, that where I grew up in the north of Germany we spoke Platt at home. Some call it a heavy dialect, ut it is actually its own language and very close to Dutch. I used to speak Dutch as well but lost most of it by not having had much use for it . I can still read it and when I was in PA I found out that I could understand the Amish there. I never let on with that one when a friend was haggling with them about some metal roofing that they made for him. I was able to translate what they were on about sort of behind his back that gave us an advantage they never figured out. On the island in Germany where I grew up, we had 3 Dutch TV programs and one German one as we were closer to Holland than Germany . The Island is called Borkum if anyone wants to look it up on Google earth. Part of a group of 7 along the north western coast of Germany in the north sea.

Well, I can see where the boating started! I spent some time up that way in Hamburg and a small town east of Bremen, Schneverdingen...Beautiful area, northern Germany...Moin..

French when I hit the 6 joule wires.

After living there a bit more than a year, then being married to one for several years, I can get by in Russian (the informal bush variety).

Tried to learn a bit of Mongolian, but didn't stay over there long enough. Picked up a few phrases and wildlife words.

Jack

Jack, was there something special about Russian women? You and Bart followed the same path there!

Redknot. I have not heard someone say "Moin" in a really long time

I do speak some now but trying to learn proper Japanese, 4 years taking the duolingo course. Was in Okinawa with the army and made real good friends with an old man there. I built a boat there and he helped a lot. He is now gone, was in their military from 1934 on till Nam was over. His family is scattered all over the place and several of his kids almost my age went to college here in the US. They kept telling me to learn more proper Japanese. So 4 years ago I started with this course, I am only 2/3 the way through it. It is time consuming.......jk

Sarcasm.

And a smattering of Æld Englisc... Mainly what I learned from YouTube videos. Not quite ready to read Beowulf as originally written yet.

A smattering of German... A very small smattering. I do a little better with reading it than hearing it spoken... More time to think about it I guess.

Took French in high school. Don't remember much about speaking it, but again , if I read it I can somewhat dope out the general jist of what's being said.

My great aunt Carol was very fluent in Dutch... She had Dutch books in her house and would read them when the notion struck her. I remember looking through the books and recognizing some of the words.

According to the State Department, Norwegian is about the easiest language for diplomatic staff to learn... Frisian is about the closest to English... But it's kind of a dying language and fewer and fewer people are speaking it now.

English is a funny language... When you start studying the Germanic languages you start to realize how much we dumbed it down and simplified it so various peoples could understand each other.

Mike

I pic up foreign languages surprisingly easy, not sure why. I speak enough spanish to get by, just from visiting spanish speaking countries such as Mexico, Peru and Spain. I remember a lot of spanish words, but putting them together into a sentence is challenging for me.

Yes. Amazing the parallels. Bart and I were very close, as were our wife/girlfriend.

Went to language school in the army for Arabic and had to use it quite a bit for years - still trying to forget it..

I learned how to cuss in German by osmosis, from being around my dad. Guess he thought if I couldn’t understand it, it wouldn’t be a problem! I went to a Lutheran school, and found out that some of the teachers knew German too! lol

Forgot about Romansh, thanks!

Ja! Ich habe vergessen das Ich kann ein bischen geschreiben also.

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