My parents lived in Mexico while my dad was in Art school, but moved back to the US before having kids. I've always felt like I missed out not being born and spending part of my childhood there. I have recently started with the duolingo app, to start learning Spanish.
My answer to the question of what would I choose for a superpower has been to be fluent in every language, so it feels inadequate to be only able to speak English.
Who's able to function in other languages?
English
Spanish
French
I speak English and Profanity.
In addition to English, I retain un peu of my high school French.
A 5 year olds understanding and vocabulary of German.
American Sign Language...ASL
American and some English
I used to be fully bilingual in English and French. Now I'm rusty in French, but it's still there.
Spanish like a toddler (which really developed after traveling to Spain and Mexico).
Some French.
I'd love to learn more. I've used Duolingo, too, and it helps, but being thrown in a foreign land with the only language being something else than English forces you to learn rapidly. I like that method.
Learning other languages has also helped my writing in English. It makes me question why I place words where I do - which is a good thing.
American and English. I can find weed beer and bathrooms in English, Spanish, French, and German though.
English and half assed Spanish.
Lo siento, mi Español es muy malo. No recuerdo mucho.
English + southern.
I'm fixin' to make breakfast.
Datsun310Guy said:English + southern.
I'm fixin' to make breakfast.
When I lived in NC, I would say that I was fixin to get ready. Nobody else got the joke, but that part of it was normal.
English and bad English. In Spanish I can count to 15, order beer and tell you you have beautiful eyes.
English, Appalachian, bland American, and what little remains of the Italian studied in college and the German learned in high school.
Depressing how fast you lose fluency when you don't use it.
I'm bilingual in English and German, although my German is getting rusty from non-use and is throwing the occasional check engine light.
Some French, but that is rustier than a Le Car parked by the ocean for a decade.
English only. Since I don't plan on leaving the country, that's good enough.
I took French in HS from a lady that was worse at teaching than I was at being a student. I've had zero interest in foreign languages ever since.
English, American, redneck and moron are my specialties. I tried spanish but my brain don't work like that.
We had mandatory French in school because Canada.
Not useful French but the kind they use in Quebec.
J've managed to retain none of it but I seem to remember that it sounded like gargling with air.
ShawnG said:We had mandatory French in school because Canada.
Not useful French but the kind they use in Quebec.
J've managed to retain none of it but I seem to remember that it sounded like gargling with air.
The foundation of my French was high school in Ontario; French was a pretty easy grade when I already spoke Spanish. Found out that the French language they teach in school does not work in Quebec. It does however ,work in France, and a bit of immersion time there helped a lot.
English and a little Spanish. Plus like others have said, Appalachian, correctly pronounced app-uh-latch-uh. No, you're pronouncing it wrong, not me.
ShawnG said:Not useful French but the kind they use in Quebec.
There isn't really useful French unless you live in France.
French literature sucks.
travellering said:English, Appalachian, bland American, and what little remains of the Italian studied in college and the German learned in high school.
Depressing how fast you lose fluency when you don't use it.
Just the opposite. I'm consistently stunned how much I remember.
In reply to Duke :
Compared to Russian? While most "literature" ponders the complex questions of the human condition, Russian literature seems to accept the premise that the human condition does, and always will, suck. Pass the Vodka.
Voltaire on the other hand, is kind of funny if you ask me.
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