Language Poll

christar2000

Do you speak another language fluently, and if so how/when did you learn?

I really wish I spoke another language.  I know enough Spanish to be able to survive if I were in a Spanish speaking country, but that is it.  H and I have talked about taking classes together, but have just never got around to it.  

The Grandmother of my babies speaks Mandarin, and is always trying to teach me words so I can teach the kids.  So far though I have only retained how to count to ten, and hello....ehhh. 

jackieo1309

I wish I did too. DH speaks spanish pretty well because his mother is Cuban and he learned it growing up but I only picked up a little but while I was living with my ILs. DH and I wanted to learn a language together b/c he has access to a bunch of rosetta stone programs but we haven't gotten around to it. I'm considering trying to teach myself spanish with it so our future kids can be bilingual but I heard the language butchered so much while living in the bronx that I kind of hate the language now haha

Rock-n-Voll

I speak Cantonese, but not fluently.  Enough to do well on a day-to-day basis but it's a pretty complex language.  I learned growing up, and I think having my non-English-speaking grandparents around helped a lot with learning too.

Rynna

I speak German relatively well- a foreign language was required in high school, and I thought spanish was stupid and french was stupid lol!  My parents have German ancestry all around (I'm almost 100% German), so I decided to take German.  I continued with the classes after I fulfilled my requirement, because it was better than taking shop and gym.  I liked it so much that I minored in it in college.  I have the Rosetta Stone software to keep up on it since I have no real use for it right now, but I love the language.  And if you're going to learn, Rosetta Stone is fantastic.  I'd like my FI to learn it as well, because I would love our kids to be bilingual.

Lvneveryminuteofit

I love languages! I speak French well, used to be fairly fluent but its been a few years so I'm a little rusty. I wish I knew Spanish, it would help in my job. DH and I are learning Japanese together (not very far at all, it's tough!) And I've been learning Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic for a couple years now. I haven't retained as much as I wish I had though.

daisy055202

I can get by in a French country, and I can say greetings in Spanish, and I'm picking up on Brazilian Portuguese (I can recognize the bad words) but I can't speak it.  It's one of my new years resolutions to be able to speak Portuguese this year; would really help in my job.

melpfaff

I took French for 7 years, but have never been able to use it. I am trying to brush up on it for a possible anniversary trip to France.I also took latin in high school.  Real helpgul, huh?   I know conversational Spanish. I took one term in high school, and picked up on more when I worked in restaurants and when I went to DR.

One of my goals is to improve my Spnaish speaking skills.  3 of the co-workers I sit next to daily speak Spanish, so they are teaching me a phrase a day.

wamozart12

I used to speak passable Spanish and German (I'm sure with a huge American accent), but I've mostly forgotten, it's been years since I studied either.?

DH can write/speak a little of a large number of languages, he loves linguistics. He's really good with pronunciation, which he's taught me a lot about. He often writes stuff and speaks sentences/phrases in Sanskrit for party tricks (among our nerdier friends). We really want to get Rosetta Stone, we're hoping to learn some Scandinavian languages, because we hope to travel to Scandanavia often- Iceland and Norway will be our next trip abroad.

LadyRivelin

I can speak Spanish pretty well...but I've lost a lot of it too since I don't use it regularly...

 I am a linguistics junkie.  I love studying languages, accents, colloquialisms, etc.  I know some conversational French and Italian...and recently I learned some basic Russian and Hungarian.  I have these language CDs at home with like 50 languages or something...  When I was younger, I studied Japanese, but I've lost most of it over the years...just remember a few basic words here and there...would love to re-learn some of it though... 

I can also speak with a pretty good Northern English accent haha...my husband is from the UK and myself and my family are endlessly making fun of his accent (as he does with our Boston accents).  The accents around different regions of the UK are amazing, as it's such a small country to have such a wide range of accents/dialects. 

jCamsquared

I really wish I could speak Spanish fluently. I retained a lot of words, but that's about it. Now when I listen to people speak Spanish I can pick out every few words. Whenever we go to Mexico it helps, but I would love to be able to speak fluently.

I would also like to learn German. If that had been an option in HS I would have taken it.