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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Do you speak another language?
What language(s)? Are you fluent? How did you learn it? Can you also read and write in that language?
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Re: Do you speak another language?
I used to be! I started taking French in 6th grade and studied it all the way through college. I never really had anyone to speak it with after graduation and I have lost most of it. I was surprised at how well I did last year in Quebec, though. That was a nice surprise.
I am thinking about doing a Rosetta Stone for Italian so I can keep in touch with our family over there now that my grandmother isn't here to do it anymore.
I learned to speak Norwegian as a small child. I went to a school where it was taught and had Norwegian babysitters. My knowledge was mainly conversational, as I started picking it up at 2, but I was learning to read and write before we moved. Sadly, I'm a case of use it or lose it. My parents never learned and there was little opportunity to speak it in south Texas.
Unfortunately it didn't help me pick up languages. In college, I had a professor give me a "C" if I promised to never take another French class. DH was told the same thing in college too. Hopefully our children will have better luck!
I also studied french in school. (All of jr. high and high school, but dropped it in college)
I remember a lot of it, but I never have a reason to use it. And someone speaking french would have to speak very slowly for me to pick any of it up! lol
I understand a fair amount of spanish and can say a few sentences. I always wish I would have studied spanish. It would be so helpful.
i know several computer programming languages.....
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I used to be fluent in Spanish. I studied it starting in high school, minored in it in college and grad school, then spent a summer in Guatemala where I earned my Foreign Service Proficiency. I can still read/write but my spoken and aural proficiency are rusty.
After earning my college minor in Spanish, I then minored in Japanese. Studied abroad just outside of Tokyo while living with a Japanese family. Unfortunately, they wanted to speak English so it was tough to stay "immersed" but I came away with conversational level ability; I could also read/write. Then I did a summer at the Monterey Institute in Japanese which really furthered my writing/reading skills. I haven't used Japanese with much consistency in over 10 years so I wouldn't say I speak it anymore but I can still understand some.
This. And add I was president of the French club and actually earned my HS letter jacket for placing in several competitions at the Texas French Symposium. Francophile nerd here, party of one! I can still say and read a lot but comprehending someone else's words is really difficult. I am also mostly comfortable with the Provencal accent and have difficulty understanding Canadian French.
I also speak Mandarin like a 1.5-2 year old but have forgotten most of that. I learned it when I went to Taiwan for 6 weeks on an 8 month consulting project through my Master's program. I studied for 4 months with a really crappy teacher and learned much more in country. But I can basically ask for food items like egg fried rice, pearl milk tea with pudding, and used to remember how to say chicken with rice or pork with rice. Also where is the train station, "do you think I look fat?" (this was lesson 2 in our class - awesomeness), big boobies, Professor white, white rat (I embarassingly confused the two because the only difference is tone... Dr. White said it was not the first time and a young woman said he IS a rat... yikes!). Also, "I am American," and "Chinese?"
Very limited. I'd like to do a rosetta stone in Mandarin. It'll be super handy to be able to speak the language of the country that owns us. And a lot of the foreign nationals that are sponsored by my department are Chinese from Mandarin speaking areas of China and Taiwan (there are some Cantonese speakers but they often speak a little Mandarin too). I only learned how to read the number 1 in Chinese, and that was because of a Karaoke version of U2's "One" sang in Mandarin with the writing scrolling across the bottom of the screen.
ETA - oh yeah I speak a lot of broken spanish that I've picked up waiting tables (kitchen staff) and spending my summers in a Latino-dominated area of NM. Enough to get around, and I learn more from Maddie every day. I tried to study Spanish in the 5th grade but couldn't get it. However after learning French it was easier to pick it up.
I can ask for a beer and say the equivalent of "cheers" in: Spanish, French, German, Polish, and Mandarin. Seems like there were more languages but those are all that are coming to mind. My dad wanted to teach me languages when I was growing up so after dinner he'd settle into his recliner and ask me to go get him a beer out of the fridge. When I backpacked around Europe I learned the Polish when I stayed with a friend in Warsaw.
And I can curse like a hooker in Vietnamese.
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sad, those totally count! You are only a nerd if you start to leave notes for people in binary. Yes, I work with someone like this.
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I speak Spanish though not as fluently as my sisters. I chose to dive into Latin in high school and college
I can also speak Patios fairly well but that only helps with a very small percent of the population in a very small country.
I keep looking at Rosetta Stone too. Maybe we all get one country and rotate them.
What language(s)? Spanish
Are you fluent? Yes
How did you learn it? Growing up this was the only language we spoke in our home, I learned English in school. (I was born here, my family is from Argentina/Colombia) - Even now with grandparents & older aunt/uncles we speak only in Spanish.
Can you also read and write in that language? Yes - funny thing is that when I read in Spanish out loud, I sound like a Univision/Telemundo reporter or something. It comes out all newscaster like. I dont even know why.. lol.
i can get them for free. beau is downloading spanish onto my ipad today :-)
Help a sista (or Nesties) out there d.
Pretty much this since we are sisters... except for the last one. I read and write, when I read out loud... I have a mixture of Colombian/Argentinean and Mexican spanish.
Oooh, yes! I have been thinking about Rosette Stone to refresh my skills, plus DH wants to learn Spanish. I was going to start withthat and if it seems good, do either Japanese or something totally different like Chinese (Mandarin) or something fun like French or Italian.
What language(s)? Korean
Are you fluent? More conversational. I don't speak it much now so I am out of practice
How did you learn it? My mom is Korean so that's all she would speak to me in
Can you also read and write in that language? very very little
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Yes! I know sign language but I'm not fluent (I wish I was). I started out taking spanish in h.s. but changed my mind and switched over to sign language because they started offering it. I'm really glad I did because I have a friend who is deaf so it helped with communicating with him. I've also used it on several other ocassions out in public. I like teaching my students sign language as well because studies have shown that knowing sign language increases a childs vocabulary by a huge percentage.
I would LOVE to take some refresher classes and become certified as an interpreter.
i wish they'd offered sign language - that's what id have taken!
I took German for a couple years and dated a guy who spoke it fluently while I did. So he helped me alot. I still know the alphabet and numbers and basic other things to hold a friendly conversation. i can read it alot better than i write or speak tho.
I can read Spanish pretty well, I know tons of vocabulary words in Spanish.
I can take a Spanish speaking patient and do fine with caring for them
I speak broken Spanish and it's horrible, but my patients understand what I'm trying to get across to them.
I speak Spanish to my son, so he understands some words. (precioso, mi amor, que paso, leche, agua).
My DH knows sign language very well. He dated a girl who was hard of hearing for 7 years, and he knows French. He is clueless with Spanish.
I am fluent in Sarcasm. Does that count?