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Foreign Languages
In talking to Ames about languages we learned in school, I feel inspired!
Do you know any other language(s) other than English?
How did you come about learning said language(s)?
Do you find yourself needing/using other languages in your daily life?
Is there a foreign language you with you knew?
Re: Foreign Languages
I took French and Latin in school. I can still speak/understand some French. It doesn't come up very often, though.
In social work, it would be very helpful in my area to know Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, or Cambodian Khmer. I know a little Spanish, and would love to become fluent. I also would love to learn Vietnamese.
Do you know any other language(s) other than English? Spanish
How did you come about learning said language(s)? I started taking Spanish in 7th grade and continued through my first year of college, AP courses and all. I was going to minor in the language if I had actually majored in something...
Do you find yourself needing/using other languages in your daily life? I only find myself pulling out my knowledge of Spanish on a more novelty level. If someone is asking about saying something in Spanish, I can still remember my vocab, but other than that, not usually. The only time I ever NEEDED to use it was when we were in Puerto Rico with my MIL and SIL and we were lost and we had to pull over and ask these guys at a garage for directions... good thing I still remembered my derecha from my izquierda!
Is there a foreign language you with you knew? Japanese, hands down. I tried learning on my own years ago when I was in my anime phase, but it's HARD. One of these days I want to take a course at the Language Institute in Boston, or dish out the cash for Rosetta Stone.
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I didn't take a foreign language in HS because I was homeschooled and I didn't have to. I took a french course in college but I don't remember much.
I really wish I knew Spanish because there are a TON of Spanish speaking people here and it would be veeery helpful
Do you know any other language(s) other than English? French
How did you come about learning said language(s)? high school and college- about 8 years total. I studied in France while traveling for a month when I was 16
Do you find yourself needing/using other languages in your daily life? once in a while- Mark has friends that are French so I will practice on them once in a while.
Is there a foreign language you with you knew? Spanish would be helpful but our high school teacher was sh*t so I opted for french.
I know Spanish. I started taking classes in 8th grade, ended up taking IB classes in Spanish, and then ended up majoring in Spanish (because I was going to be a biology major until I realized how much I hate chemistry).
Unfortunately most of my vocabulary that I remember is very academic (from writing 20 page papers analyzing 17th century Spanish literature, etc.). I don't know much medical Spanish so I am of virtually no use to my patients. I've thought about taking a Spanish for health care professionals class one day so I can be of more use.
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I know quite a bit of french, but not like I used to. I took 3 years of French in HS, then another 1.5 years in college. I was pretty fluent at one point. I don't remember a ton of it now, but I can still read or understand a lot French if someone else is speaking it, I can at least get the gist of what they are saying.
I'd make a LOT more money at my job if I knew Spanish. I'd use it almost daily. But oh well, what can you do.
I wish I could speak Italian. I understand a lot of Italian, because of the similarities to French. But I wish I was fluent in Italian. Bad. assss.
I sort of know German, which I took three years of in high school. But its more that I can understand it, but can't speak it. I also took a semester of Latin in college, but I only remember words.
Working with translations and linguists every day, I really wish I was more fluent in a couple languages. Mostly so I could talk to the linguists in their own language, which I think they'd appreciate.
I wish I knew Japanese too. Also, I really wish I had continued Latin. It sounds really cool, and more practically I'd have a strong base for all the romantic languages.
I took Spanish in middle and high school and German in college. I'm really rusty in both, but I think if I tried to pick it up again it wouldn't be too hard. I know bits of other languages from singing them, like French, Italian and Latin.
I don't really need to know other languages in my daily life, but Clint is really interested in linguistics and other languages so he makes me want to learn more. We both read a lot, and currently he's reading a book of Finnish grammar the way I would read a novel.
I'd love to speak Icelandic. It's pretty likely we'll try together to learn Swedish, which would pretty much mean we could mostly understand Norwegian and Danish, since they're all basically just dialects of the same thing, and then maybe it'd be easier to learn Icelandic. Icelandic is a little more distant because it's very close to what the Vikings spoke (isolated island community and all that). I think I could do ok learning Swedish because there are some similarities between it and German. We watch a lot of Swedish movies with the volume turned way up, haha. I also think Icelandic is cool because they have separate letters to represent TH sounds- like THe vs. THought, etc. English apparently used to have them too but the stupid Norman French conquerors 1000 years ago didn't understand the letters so English dropped them.
Clint, on the other hand, speaks a little Spanish and a little Russian from high school and college, and on his own has learned a little of: Finnish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Portuguese, German, Italian and some of the African clicky languages (I have no clue what they're called or how many he knows). Adult Ed around here has language classes, and they offer some asian language I've never heard of and he wants to take that class, simply because he's never heard of anywhere else offering a class in it.
I speak Portuguese and French.
I was brought up in a Portuguese household and took French in HS and college. I did take 1 year of German in college too, but that didn't go over too well. I took a short course in Flemish when I studied abroad, but that was only remedial "where is the bathroom/bank/bar" Flemish. After college I took a semester of Russian before a trip to Ukraine. I really wish I stuck with it. I've always been interested in different languages and cultures.
I do use Portuguese pretty much everyday. Some of my FB friends post in Portuguese. Also, now that my cousin works with me we use it to talk about our family.
I wish I'd continued learning Russian.
Spanish is my first language. I started learning English when I was a toddler and would watch Winnie the Pooh and Dumbo's Circus on the Disney Channel. I learned to read both languages at the same time.
I also took French in High School and can remember very little, but with its similarities to Spanish, i can figure it out if reading or speaking very very slowly.
I really wish I knew more French, but I have no need for it.
MB-- Of course you got lost in Puerto Rico! It is impossible to find your way around there!
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Do you know any other language(s) other than English?
Spanish, although not fluently.
How did you come about learning said language(s)?
Started taking it in 7th grade, took it every year after that (usually for both semesters) through to my last semester of college, and studied abroad in Argentina. I am still, shamefully, not really fluent, although I can definitely communicate pretty much anything I need to.
Do you find yourself needing/using other languages in your daily life?
Not really, no.
Is there a foreign language you with you knew?
I'd like to learn Italian and Portuguese. If I were to really pursue learning them, I would learn from Spanish books. I think it'd be easier than trying to learn them through English. D really wants to learn Russian, and has tried a few times. If he learned that, I'd probably learn it with him.
Do you know any other language(s) other than English?
I speak French.
How did you come about learning said language(s)?
I learned in school (7th grade- college).
Do you find yourself needing/using other languages in your daily life?
Rarely, sometimes it helps because it is a romance language and there are oodles of latin based law terms.
Is there a foreign language you with you knew?
Umm, I'd like to speak Spanish, I used to want to more when I was working in a restaurant, but now I just think it'd be convenient.
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Do you know any other language(s) other than English?
German.
How did you come about learning said language(s)?
I took a full year elective class from 9-12 grade in high school, and took 4 courses in college.
Do you find yourself needing/using other languages in your daily life? Not really. I actually remember very little because I don't/didn't use it much. I was REALLLY good and almost fluent while I was taking the courses, but now all I can really remember is "Ich bin eine lila affa geschirspueller" Which means "I am a purple monkey dishwasher." That comes from 9th grade; we had to create nonsense sentences that were grammatically correct and one of the boys in my class came up with that little gem.
Is there a foreign language you with you knew? I would love to learn Italian. I think it's a pretty language and I have a lot of family letters on my dad's side from Italy that I'd love to translate and read.