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My parents made me take Latin in 7th and 8th grade. I hated it so much that they switched me to French in 9th grade. I hated that as well.
How many of you spoke a 2nd language.
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My parents made me take Latin in 7th and 8th grade. I hated it so much that they switched me to French in 9th grade. I hated that as well.
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I can swear in 5 different languages...
Don't tell me but in the severity of the situation sometimes in rapid succession?
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Ability to speak multiple languages was in my gene pool, but didn't make it down to me. I took German from high school through college, and never became proficient. My biological father was proficient in the language, so much so that he attended medical school in Germany to stretch his GI bill bucks further, before completing his education in the U.S. My biological grandfather spoke fluent English by the age of eight, after emigrating to Hawaii from Korea. A piece he wrote on Korean history while attending college in Philadelphia has better English usage than most students today.
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When younger, French.
Now, American and German.
I can say "yes Dear", "Whatever you say Dear" without thinking.
I can order 2 beers in several languages.
Now, American and German.
I can say "yes Dear", "Whatever you say Dear" without thinking.
I can order 2 beers in several languages.
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I had to take French in High School. Everybody is bi-lingual in Canada, eh (not really). It's a weird country. We have to have French on all products sold in Canada. There are a lot of products sold in U.S.A. that we don't get up here because the manufacturers can't be bothered to put French labelling on their stuff. All federal highway signage is English/French. Meanwhile, Quebec province passes more and more laws to eliminate English on signage, business/company names, etc.
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I speak American!!! English that is. I also speak French, Latin, some Castilian Spanish, and some German. I can also include Japanese and Tagalog. French and Latin I learned in grade school and high school, although my Dad was insistent that we kids all learn some Latin as it is the root of all romance and European languages. I enjoy the challenge of trying to learn more about them daily in both my readings and encounters. Being conversive is this day and age is a great tool to have. Plus my translator iPhone app also adds depth to using the languages...cr8crshr/Bill
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Looking for the Spanish translation
I speak the important one. English ! The fastest way to get someone to straighten up is start talking money and you can watch heads turn and ears pay attention. Works every time. I live in Midwest I grew up speaking it and will die speaking it . If I go to a foreign country I must speak their language ... why the hell do they not speak ours ? Lazy lazy
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I speak English and trucker 10-4
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My mother was German, my brother & both sisters are fluent in German.... I can struggle to converse in German..
We spent a couple years living in Madrid Spain... I learned some Spanish... Then we moved to Turkey... Lived there for a couple years... Took Turkish for two years... At some point my brain melted & whatever Spanish & Turkish I had learned was lost and has never been found again... And I'm 100% fine with that...
We spent a couple years living in Madrid Spain... I learned some Spanish... Then we moved to Turkey... Lived there for a couple years... Took Turkish for two years... At some point my brain melted & whatever Spanish & Turkish I had learned was lost and has never been found again... And I'm 100% fine with that...
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I dated a German girl who I thought was beautiful. When I told her that she was a ten, she’ d counter and say nein.
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I speak murican English
And for those of you familiar with the baltimore area I can speak fluid Essex hon
And for those of you familiar with the baltimore area I can speak fluid Essex hon
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Most of rural Wisconsin was settled by Germans and scandinavians. The random Polish town here and there. 40 years ago quite a few churches still held German services.
My Great Grandparents spoke it fluently. My Grandparents did, but were out of practice, and on my Ma's side my Grandmother was Swedish so some of that was there too....
My parents generation spoke English and really didn't bother to pick up the language of their parents. Mostly because this is America and that is the language spoken here. So my home growing up didn't have any other languages in it.
Every school in the area taught German. Not sure anymore, the last few years public schools have gotten on a weird track with that type of thing.
So, of course I took Spanish in high school. Got to the point i could read books in that language, but was terrible at speaking it using proper tense.
Why did I opt for that?
Because we had (2) teachers for that language. And one was a 27 year old waist length blonde hair hourglass type. And she wasn;t all that smart. As an example, one class where we were having "study time" for the last 20 minutes one of the guys got talking with her and told her it's impossible to touch your elbows behind your back while sitting.
Now imagine him trying. Now imagine a skinny blonde with D cups trying, in front of the entire class, for like 5 minutes in a thin silk shirt.
Anyway, I regret not taking German.
My Great Grandparents spoke it fluently. My Grandparents did, but were out of practice, and on my Ma's side my Grandmother was Swedish so some of that was there too....
My parents generation spoke English and really didn't bother to pick up the language of their parents. Mostly because this is America and that is the language spoken here. So my home growing up didn't have any other languages in it.
Every school in the area taught German. Not sure anymore, the last few years public schools have gotten on a weird track with that type of thing.
So, of course I took Spanish in high school. Got to the point i could read books in that language, but was terrible at speaking it using proper tense.
Why did I opt for that?
Because we had (2) teachers for that language. And one was a 27 year old waist length blonde hair hourglass type. And she wasn;t all that smart. As an example, one class where we were having "study time" for the last 20 minutes one of the guys got talking with her and told her it's impossible to touch your elbows behind your back while sitting.
Now imagine him trying. Now imagine a skinny blonde with D cups trying, in front of the entire class, for like 5 minutes in a thin silk shirt.
Anyway, I regret not taking German.
Read my story....?..
Well my first and my second language is both Italian and English, let me explain.... my parents came here as poor imigrants in the late 50s from poverty struck region of north east Italy, eating cats was indeed an option at that time over there, tasted like chicken they say...
They came here in 58 on a long boat ride like most at that time, I was born in 61, poor *** as we where, my dad worked his *** off to provide.
They spoke no English at alll.... my dad worked with other Italian imigrants and my mom went shopping with Italians...
In our houses to his day we only speak Italian! And damn proud of it!
So I can say Italiano e la mia prima lingua!
My wife...well I met her at my cousens wedding when I was in Italy back in 93, was crazy enoughf to ask her to marry me, brought her here on a fiance visa and we have been married for 30 years now
besides Italian and english I also speak Friulano, thats my moms native language from the small area she grew up in.
Unless you are native American, your people came from somewhere else!
You only think your American!
Well my first and my second language is both Italian and English, let me explain.... my parents came here as poor imigrants in the late 50s from poverty struck region of north east Italy, eating cats was indeed an option at that time over there, tasted like chicken they say...
They came here in 58 on a long boat ride like most at that time, I was born in 61, poor *** as we where, my dad worked his *** off to provide.
They spoke no English at alll.... my dad worked with other Italian imigrants and my mom went shopping with Italians...
In our houses to his day we only speak Italian! And damn proud of it!
So I can say Italiano e la mia prima lingua!
My wife...well I met her at my cousens wedding when I was in Italy back in 93, was crazy enoughf to ask her to marry me, brought her here on a fiance visa and we have been married for 30 years now
besides Italian and english I also speak Friulano, thats my moms native language from the small area she grew up in.
Unless you are native American, your people came from somewhere else!
You only think your American!
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