RQOTD-do you speak any other languages than your native language?

weaselwatchr

weaselwatchr

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I know some of you do, but I was curious about the rest if you. My parents are from Slovenia and they moved to the States a year before I was born. So my native language is Slovenian. I also speak English and I took three years of French in high school. I am really thinking I should have taken Spanish which would have been more useful. But I went to an all girls school and the boys came over to take French. So I guess that was my motivation. hehe. Ah to be a teen. Lol.

How many languages do you speak?
 
I speak English and Drunkense. LOL...

Seriously though, when my DH and his buddies indulge, I seem to be the only wife that understands them! LOL
 
Just English here. I did take two years of high school German but I don't know that I recall more than a handful of words, if that!
 
I speak English and German; and can order coffee in several languages. :D
* update: Oh and my native language is Hungarian.
 
English. I took several years of Spanish and used to be able to speak it pretty well when I was teaching school. However, since I don't use it, I've lost most of it.
When we were in Italy and France...I got by.
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Only English... :( I have always wanted to learn another language but I never stick with it along enough to really learn much.
 
Native is English but my mom is from Germany so I speak a bastardized dialect of German mixed with some Yiddish, which is pretty much all my grandparents spoke. Growing up in Maine really close to the Quebec border I learned enough French to be able to converse and read and I still can do fairly well with that, but not fluent in anything besides English.
 
I took French because a boy I liked was going to take it. Then I fell in love- with the language, not the boy- and took four years. I took a couple of semesters of Spanish in college but it didn't stick well. I'd translate everything from English to French then to Spanish. Living in South FL, I wish I'd done more Spanish. I understand food words and all the mean things people used to say about me at work, but that's about it :P
 
Only English. I took 6 years of Spanish in school, so I can understand enough to get by, but I don't speak it. I also took 2 years of German in school because my heritage is German so I thought it would be cool, but since NOBODY around here speaks German I don't remember much.
My husband is fluent in Spanish and I wish he had taught our kids.
 
I speak 3 Indian languages (Tamil my mother tongue, Bengali my husbands language and Hindi the national language). Obviously I speak English and I get by in French. People often assume that Indian languages are like dialects and knowing one makes it easy to learn others. But actually they are all very different. Tamil and Hindi dont even have a common root language.- it's as different as Russian and English.
 
I can totally relate, Suja! In the Philippines, there are many dialects, I know the main one- Tagalog. But I know a few words in other dialects, too. I took many years of Spanish in HS, I can get by...lol.
 
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