Re: Anybody speak a second language
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Spanish is the language spoken in my house. (Especially when I get spam calls).
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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Foreign languages are a perishable skill.
I took three years of Latin in high school thinking it would help in the scientific fields I was considering at the time. I sure wish I had that time back to study something useful.
I worked for many years for a Swiss/German engineering firm. Learned a ton of German words, and could read and create German engineering drawings. German newspapers were still Greek to me.
I worked for an Italian firm. Same deal as the German stated above.
I studied Spanish with the intent of retiring in South America. I think I might be able to get by if I were immersed in it, but, when I have the opportunity to converse in it now, my lag time in translating pretty much precludes any conversation.
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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Nope. I took three years of it in high school but my brain just wouldn't pick it up. I suppose it was because I thought it was useless. If I was even half way interested in a subject it stuck with me... foreign languages not so much. About all I know how to say is yo quiero Taco Bell y cervaza lol.
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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I have studied some foreign languages. Not enough. Wish I had taken more. French: 3 years in junior high school. Latin: 3 years in high school. 2 years in college.
Latin is foundational for French and Spanish. So the French and Latin allow me to fake my way a bit in Spanish. Old Western movies taught me important stuff in Spanish. Latin taught me a tremendous amount about English too. Latin helped me tremendously in my career.
I want to learn Swiss. My ancestor legally came here in 1717. More moved thru Germany to here. I would like to learn German too. Both for a trip that will probably never happen.
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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12/21/21 05:02 AM
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I have spoken cursive several times after drinking apple pie.
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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I want to learn Swiss. My ancestor legally came here in 1717. More moved thru Germany to here. I would like to learn German too. Both for a trip that will probably never happen.
So Switzerland has 3 languages- German, French and Italian and nearly everyone speaks fluent English.
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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My great grandmother taught me to read and speak Irish as a wee lad. We would sit at the holiday dinner table and converse back and forth. My grandfather, her son, would get so mad and tell us only English was to be spoken at the table. She'd then proceed to call him a bad name in Irish and giggle. He'd glare at her cause he knew just enough to understand she was cursing him out. I found out the hard way he knew a little when he did something and I called him one and he took the belt to me.
I haven't used it in over 30 years, so I've lost most of it. I can still pick some of it up in movies, but for the most part nothing.
A friend's 5 year old taught himself Russian and Chinese by watching YouTube videos. He can't converse in it, but knows enough to point to something and say it in either.
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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Once spoke 7 different languages when I went for a beer and found the receiver on my truck with both shins Redneck minefield!!! I hate when I do that!!!
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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I want to learn Swiss. My ancestor legally came here in 1717. More moved thru Germany to here. I would like to learn German too. Both for a trip that will probably never happen.
So Switzerland has 3 languages- German, French and Italian and nearly everyone speaks fluent English. Let me help you out. There are actually 4 and I don't know how many local dialects. No, not nearly everyone I have met ( and I have met a lot, mostly over 40)speaks fluent English Romansh is the fourth.
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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12/21/21 08:18 AM
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Japanese not quite fluent but can make and understand most none technical conversations , some Chinese and Korean, mostly from living there and picking up useful phrases and words, also high German which was spoken in my grandmothers house as much or more so then English
Also have a smattering of words and phrases in several other languages as well as most of the swear words in them, funny how those words are often among the first in any language you pick up outside of formal learning that is.
My kids are truly fluent in several languages and can converse at native speaker level just from our living there, it’s amazing how quickly kids pick up other languages when just exposed to them
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Re: Anybody speak a second language
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I speak hillbilly dose that count and it's a slow dialect.
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