Do You Speak Any Foreign Languages?

[K and L 27]

I took Spanish from the age of 11 to 18, but am no longer fluent, testing into & finishing the junior-level conversation course (which is the 6th or 7th course in the Spanish program) my freshman year. I was just a literature course away from minoring in Spanish. I remember enough to be able to eavesdrop in conversations and more-or-less follow, but hard to speak. Reading and writing pose less problems. L studied Spanish in high school, but didn't really put any effort in it and has more or less forgotten it.

In college, I studied abroad in France, kicking it off with an intensive French program, where I had a month long intensive program (and I'm talking 7 hours a day, 6 days a week, plus homework at night), passed the DELF B1 level, and took a bunch of engineering courses in French (with a 18,9 average, which amused me given my level of comprehension of French). I can still read Le Monde, but that's about all the practice I get. L is studying for the the DELF B2 right now, and is hoping to get DALF certification. (But if we ever move to France, I'll need to take another month of French before sitting for the DELF B2.)

L studied English (not his native language) in elementary school, and kept it up with the interwebs. He actually didn't speak much of it in the time after his course ended and before we started dating, but his accent has cleaned up a bit. He scored really well in the TOEFL.

I started studying Portuguese a few months after L and I started dating, and because of scheduling conflicts, it's mostly moved to DIY studying these days.

[Nikita2Charles 32]

Creole, French, Russian, Tagalo

Growing up in Brooklyn Coney island, Went to Lafayette High School, there were a lot of Russians there besides Lincoln High School which was right on Ocean Parkway not too far from Brighton Beach, and I had a very good friend name Dimitry, we made a deal back in 11th Grade. I'll teach him French, and he'll teach me Russian. So by Senior year i would speak to him in Russian and he would answer in French.

I took one cycle of Spanish, I wish i had stick around longer, but i was getting frustrated with the Class. IT was what you call

FREE HOUR- French speaking kids take French classes- Spanish kids take Spanish classes, so for us American kids who's not familiar with the language. It's supposed to be Beginner Spanish, and the teacher was speaking spanish to most of the spanish kids in the class so others feel alienated, needless to say the next cycle I jumped back to French.

For my Russian Graduation, he had his cousins that came from Moscow, they didn't know much english, So I had to take them around town, it was fun since they couldn't understand any english even if i tried. What was interesting they could read english, they had very good grammar, they were just shy of talking.

Picked up tagalo in College, and went to the PI for a 3 months summer vacation, Stayed mostly in Cebu, was in Manila and some other places. nice pumsit, halo halo, adobo, I had a great time there practicing.

Edited January 28, 2010 by Nikita2Charles

[Pinay Wife 47]

Creole, French, Russian, Tagalo

Picked up tagalo in College, and went to the PI for a 3 months summer vacation, Stayed mostly in Cebu, was in Manila and some other places. nice pumsit, halo halo, adobo, I had a great time there practicing.

The Philippine language is called "Tagalog" and the Philippine noodles is "pansit". You did not mention "lumpia". Do you like it? I miss halo-halo.

Salamat po!

Edited January 28, 2010 by Pinay Wife

[DanielParul 50]

Daniel speaks Spanish, German, Albanian, Serbian and ofcourse English.

I speak English, Hindi, French and Punjabi. I learned French for a few years from Alliance Fraincaise. Daniel learned all languages by being in different countries for long times.

Edited January 28, 2010 by DanielParul

[Nikita2Charles 32]

Salut Daniel, Comment ca va?

The little one is getting big. Beside Russian most of the languages i learned them from traveling around.

Kamusta ka na Pinay wife, I like Lumpia, Hallo Hallo so many other different flavor stuff, blood meat, the only thing i never tried, and couldn't stand is the egg with the chicken inside i forgot how they called it. Ingat!

Edited January 28, 2010 by Nikita2Charles

[GabiandVi 34]

Well, if we are including languages we speak only a little:

Me-English, French, Mandarin, Greek, Czech, Japanese (in order of proficiency, from native to smattering)

Husband-Fongbe, Yoruba, Gangbe, French, English, Madarin (quite proficient in all, but particularly in the first 4)

[Saska+Tim 7]

Born and grow up in Serbia(so Serbian is my native language), on the border with Romania (understand but cant speak Romanian). In high school had English, Latin and French. Worked over 3 years for Duch company - understand a lot, but can't speak, and right now, trying to learn Spanish.

Tim, except English, know a little bit of Spanish

[Pinay Wife 47]

Kamusta ka na Pinay wife, I like Lumpia, Hallo Hallo so many other different flavor stuff, blood meat, the only thing i never tried, and couldn't stand is the egg with the chicken inside i forgot how they called it. Ingat!

Mabuti naman ako (I'm well). The blood meat is "dinuguan", and the duck embryo is called "balut".

I speak English, Tagalog, Visayan, Ilonggo, a smattering of Spanish, Australian English and British English!

Husband speaks only American English.

My son speaks Tagalog, English, and animal language like grunts, growls and scowls when he doesn't feel like talking to me.

Edited January 29, 2010 by Pinay Wife

[Señora Bonita 0]

Además de inglés y filipino, también hablo la lengua de Cervantes.

[RebeccaAndPhil 5]

I don't really speak anything except English...maybe a little Spanish but I probably couldn't hold a conversation. My husband is fluent in French & English

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

German and Swedish since birth . . . English and Danish later, Latin in High School, then French, Spanish in College, some Italian when I lived there, minimal Turkish, learned some Sanskrit when I was in India.

Now I'm getting old and forgot much of what I haven't used in a long time.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Studied French in public school, Latin in High School and University, Latin, German and Classical Greek in University. I've forgotten much of what I've learned although I can still pretty well decipher written German, French and Latin comments - just can't really respond anymore. (Did my degree in Classical studies, thus the Latin and Greek).

My husband spent several years in Germany with the army and speaks German, and also speaks some Spanish.

[Ladylethal 12]

I'm fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, and I studied Japanese and French through private courses (English and Spanish too before I lived in US and here in PR to become fluent) but can't remember much of it. I plan to go back to Japanese when possible.

My husband is fluent in English and Spanish and fully understands Portuguese but doesn't speak it too well.

[Jason-Sasha 1]

What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages???

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Trilingual

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What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages???

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Bilingual

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What do you call someone who speaks just 1 language???

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American.

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I was told that joke in Amsterdam one year and at the time I thought it was insulting to me. But after thinking about it for a while, it was actually pretty true. And I learned to laugh at it. Well when you speak the world's most common language, schools just have no need to make other languages mandatory. Hopefully our son will be multilingual.

[M.O 6]

russian,french,english and romanian here...