QOTD-Monday

JenCrabbe13

Do you know any other languages? What would like to be fluent in?

chinchilla fiesta

I wish I knew Spanish well. It would be so helpful at work.

jodippls

chinchilla fiesta:

I wish I knew Spanish well. It would be so helpful at work.

Me too.

I don't know any other languages.

Soon2BMrsSikes

No. I took 4 years of high school Spanish, but it didn't really stick with me. If I had to pick one language, I would pick Spanish because it would make me more marketable. So many jobs now require that you are fluent in Spanish.

ashleemw

I took 4 years of German in HS and 2 semesters in college. I can have a generic conversation and still remember a lot of vocab, but my tenses, verb conjugation and all of that are awful.

If I could be fluent in any language, I think I'd choose French or Italian, they're so pretty!  

Mrs_Link

I took three years of French in high school, and I still remember a good deal of vocab, but I can't have anything resembling  a conversation.

I wish I was fluent in Spanish; it would be incredibly helpful at work. There are a lot of times that parents who don't speak English at home will bring a child to daycare for the first time, and for the first few months, communication is incredibly difficult.

luckyinlove11902

No. I wish I spoke Spanish. My father is the only one of his siblings that doesn't speak Spanish so we never learned. I took 5 years in high school and it still didn't stick.

jenhappy

I took and LOVED french.. I had 6 years total between HS and the 2 year requirement in college. I wouldn't say I was fluent, but I was getting to the point where I could watch the french news and at least get an idea of what they were talking about, and I was starting to be able to read books more difficult than "see Pierre run". Aside from the ability to "phlegm" my Rs, most of it is gone, sadly!

Kristin&Adam

I took 2 years of Spanish, but I don't remember a lot of it.  I can read some Spanish but I can't carry on a conversation.

mon.petit.chou

I speak pretty decent French. I took 4 years in high school, minored in it in college, and did a study abroad living with a french family and took non-language classes taught in french. I know I'm not as good as I was then, but I was surprised how well I did in Morocco where a lot of people speak french.

I have also learned bits and pieces of Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Just some basics to help get around in foreign countries and read menus. But I've already forgotten a bunch of it, and a lot of times rely on my french to make educated guesses.

i would love to be fluent in multiple languages. I find other languages to be quite beautiful and even musical, and really enjoy studying and learning them.

Kristin&Kelly09

I took 3 years of spanish in high school but I wouldnt say I was fluent in it.  I know just enough to understand what someone is saying (most of the time) but trying to speak to someone with all the correct conjugations is not my strong point.

I do wish that I knew Spanish better and maybe German so that I could talk to my grandmother a bit better.  My brother is fluent in Italian.  He studied it all through college and did a semester over in Florence.  It's fun to talk to him b/c he will sometimes just start mixing his english and italian together when we talk.

dollfinn19

I do not speak any other languages fluently.  I took 1 year of German and 3 years of Spanish in high school.  I can understand more Spanish than speak it.  German, I pretty much just remember the basics.

brittjoy84

I speak LOLDOG fluently.

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My Spanish is very limited, but I am very fluent in ASL. I took 4 ASL classes as electives at UNF.

KappaUCF20

I only took the required 2 years of Spanish in high school and CLEPed out of it in college, but I understand enough that I could get by pretty easily when I was overseas (it even proved helpful at times when I had to read signs and menus in French, Italian, etc.). I can read Spanish much better than I can speak it. 

My maternal great grandparents immigrated from eastern Europe so they primarily spoke Slovak and Russian.  After they came to America, I guess they didn't care about passing on those languages to their children and grandchildren, but I really wish they had.  I actually visited the small village in Slovakia where they're from, and I think it would have been a more meaningful experience if I at least had a basic understanding of their native tongue (I've tried learning on my own, but it's so difficult).  Same with Welsh which my paternal grandmother could speak.  DH and I would like our future child to learn at least one foreign language, starting from a young age (preferably a useful one like Spanish).       

 

LXLX

brittjoy84:

I speak LOLDOG fluently.

Ohai.

Really, I wish I spoke Spanish sometimes just because I feel like it would help me make more money in the long run.