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Poll: Foreign Language

What language(s) do you speak?

Do you know enough to get by or is it a 2nd(or more) language for you?

Did you learn it from family, school or on your own (audio tapes/computer program)?

 

Re: Poll: Foreign Language

  • French and German, although both are now much less than I used to.

    I can get by in either country with what I know.  And I learned them from school.  I also did a term abroad to Germany while in college where all my classes, etc.... were in German so that helped, too.

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  • I used to be really good in Spanish, but I haven't used it in a while, so it is probably pretty rusty.  I can understand some French, but can't speak much.
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  • Just Spanish for me. I can read and understand a fair amount. When I was on our honeymoon, I used it to communicate with the cab driver. I think my self-counsciousness prevents me from speaking more than I do, but I would say I am at a basic/beginner level. I could get by living in a Spanish-speaking coutry (I think!).

    I took 4 years of Spanish in HS, and I love languages in general. I think, being an English teacher, that I have a knack for languages much more than I do for math or science.

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  • French and Gaelic - French from 4 years of high school and Gaelic from my semester abroad in Ireland... Gaelic is sooo hard. I never really use either, and I only know enough to get very very basically by.

  • What language(s) do you speak? Spanish and Italian

    Do you know enough to get by or is it a 2nd(or more) language for you? Just enough to get by, lol. 

    Did you learn it from family, school or on your own (audio tapes/computer program)? 
    Spanish - 4 years in high school- Didn't retain much, but will relearn, via Rosetta Stone

    Italian - Still learning, via Rosetta Stone

     

  • I know enough Spanish to get around a Spanish speaking country. I was able to get myself around Spain alone while visiting when studying abroad. I also know a handful of Polish phrases thanks to my grandpa.
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  • Spanish and Italian, little bit of French and German

    All enough to get by and communicate

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  • Spanish, though I used to be much better!  I can definitely get by on it, and I can read and understand a lot more than I can say.  I wish I hadn't lost so much of it.  I took Spanish from K-6 and then again all four years of HS.  The school I went to Jr High for didn't offer languages.  :( 

     

    I took a semester of Italian in college, and loved it, but I didn't learn very much!

     

    J - how do you like Rosetta Stone?  I've always been interested in it! 

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  • I speak and teach French and Spanish pretty fluently. I lived in France for a while, but I'm fluent enough to call them both second and third languages.

    I started both at school and fell in LOVE with french took that from 7th-12th grade, majored in it in college, lived in France and picked up Spanish while in college.

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