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re: Can you speak any languages besides English?
Posted on 7/12/21 at 8:24 am to thedrumdoctor
Posted on 7/12/21 at 8:24 am to thedrumdoctor
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I could not disagree with your statement any more. Learning a new language isn't a waste of time. It's a portal into another culture. Learning a new language literally changes the way you think. Your statement is quite the spicy meatball and I'm basically mad at you for making it.
Totally agree. Being able to speak the language of an area you're visiting unlocks so much possibility that it's like a new world. Half of my wife's family doesn't speak English so it's really nice to be able to speak to them in their native language when we visit without someone interpreting.
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Posted on 7/12/21 at 8:36 am to Ingeniero
I can speak liberal, but the language just sounds like a bunch of bitchy whining
Posted on 7/12/21 at 8:41 am to Ingeniero
I took German for 3 years total in high school, as well as a semester in college.
I probably know a total of about 35 German words.
I probably know a total of about 35 German words.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 8:42 am to Ingeniero
Semi-Ebonics, tiny bit of French, Italian and German. 
Posted on 7/12/21 at 9:31 am to Ingeniero
Studied German and Russian in college and have built and maintained fluency over the past thirty years. Working in commercial construction has kind of forced me to learn Spanish. It's a lot easier than you could imagine. Been fluent in Spanish for about twenty years.
I got tired of folks at church saying, "In the original Greek this means..." Usually this was said when trying to convince others that Jesus turned water into grape juice rather than alcoholic wine. So I figured why not learn another language and read the original Koine Greek from the New Testament and know for myself without relying on someone else's biased opinion for a translation. So now, add reading Koine Greek to that list. (And yes, according to the original Greek, that wine at the wedding in Cana was pretty potent when it came to alcohol content.)
Apart from those, I speak fluent hill-billy, redneckese, and can understand coon-arse but don't speak it as well as I'd like.
I got tired of folks at church saying, "In the original Greek this means..." Usually this was said when trying to convince others that Jesus turned water into grape juice rather than alcoholic wine. So I figured why not learn another language and read the original Koine Greek from the New Testament and know for myself without relying on someone else's biased opinion for a translation. So now, add reading Koine Greek to that list. (And yes, according to the original Greek, that wine at the wedding in Cana was pretty potent when it came to alcohol content.)
Apart from those, I speak fluent hill-billy, redneckese, and can understand coon-arse but don't speak it as well as I'd like.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 9:33 am to Ingeniero
Italian
Learning Russian
Learning Russian
Posted on 7/12/21 at 10:38 am to Ingeniero
I felt ignorant on occasion due to my extremely limited vocabulary in other languages.
It has stunned me to be exposed to people who are multilingual. I mentioned here before that I once met an incredibly beautiful 29 year old woman at a party and was conversing with her in English and could detect a slight accent. Another woman who I knew was native Russian, a violinist in the Houston Symphony, joined in and the beautiful young woman proceeded to respond to her fluently in Russian. A second woman came into the group who was obviously Chinese, and the young woman spoke with her in that language. Turned out that she is fluent in seven languages.
I have also found it a bit disorienting when a couple teenagers I have only ever heard speak very fluent English revert to their native German or Norwegian. It's like suddenly you feel as though you don't know them at all, an alien took over their body.
It has stunned me to be exposed to people who are multilingual. I mentioned here before that I once met an incredibly beautiful 29 year old woman at a party and was conversing with her in English and could detect a slight accent. Another woman who I knew was native Russian, a violinist in the Houston Symphony, joined in and the beautiful young woman proceeded to respond to her fluently in Russian. A second woman came into the group who was obviously Chinese, and the young woman spoke with her in that language. Turned out that she is fluent in seven languages.
I have also found it a bit disorienting when a couple teenagers I have only ever heard speak very fluent English revert to their native German or Norwegian. It's like suddenly you feel as though you don't know them at all, an alien took over their body.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 10:52 am to PhantomMenace
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I once met an incredibly beautiful 29 year old woman at a party
try that again, pics aren't uploading
Posted on 7/12/21 at 10:52 am to Ingeniero
Spanish. Some Swedish and Portuguese. A lil Japanese
Posted on 7/12/21 at 11:03 am to Ingeniero
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speak any languages besides English?
Does CoonAss count??
Posted on 7/12/21 at 11:08 am to Ingeniero
Does shorthand gibberish and expletives count
Posted on 7/12/21 at 12:45 pm to thedrumdoctor
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I speak fluent French as well as conversational Spanish. I can also read a little Italian and am planning to learn some basic Russian.
I could not disagree with your statement any more. Learning a new language isn't a waste of time. It's a portal into another culture. Learning a new language literally changes the way you think. Your statement is quite the spicy meatball and I'm basically mad at you for making it.
I have been to France, Spain and Italy, so I have had a good look at their culture.
If you like learning languages that much, knock yourself out. But it's hours and hours and hours of practice for something that's not really even that useful unless you're just dying to sit at a park bench with a local and have a conversation in their native tongue just for the hell of it. And odds are that person sitting at the bench speaks better English than whatever language you just started learning when you booked the trip.
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Totally agree. Being able to speak the language of an area you're visiting unlocks so much possibility that it's like a new world.
I'm not saying it wouldn't cool to speak the local language. I'm just saying it isn't worth it from a time standpoint, and it's not even realistically possible if you travel to a lot of places like I do.
You're gonna speak Arabic in the UAE in March and then turn around and speak Hindi in India and Nepali in Nepal in May? Good luck with that shite.
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Half of my wife's family doesn't speak English so it's really nice to be able to speak to them in their native language when we visit without someone interpreting.
Well, that's a little bit different, isn't it? I would say you have a more significant reason to learn a foreign language than the average American.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 1:17 pm to Ingeniero
English
Posted on 7/12/21 at 1:21 pm to cable
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Jive
dying language was down to you and Mrs. Cleaver, now it's just you
Posted on 7/12/21 at 1:22 pm to Ingeniero
I can understand/speak spanish well enough to get along.
Took 8 total years worth of Latin through high school and college but I can just read that, it isn't conversational.
I've been thinking of attempting to learn another.
Took 8 total years worth of Latin through high school and college but I can just read that, it isn't conversational.
I've been thinking of attempting to learn another.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 1:23 pm to Ingeniero
does sign language count?
Posted on 7/12/21 at 1:40 pm to Swamp Angel
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Studied German and Russian in college and have built and maintained fluency over the past thirty years. Working in commercial construction has kind of forced me to learn Spanish. It's a lot easier than you could imagine. Been fluent in Spanish for about twenty years.
I call bullshite on you getting actually fluent in Spanish simply from picking it up on construction sites. You may know a lot of the construction type vocabulary, ways to describe the weather, maybe how to talk about women, other tangential things, and basic present tense grammar. But no way you picked up all the verb endings much less the different past tenses, future tenses, conditional, subjunctive, etc just by being around Spanish speaking day laborers a lot. Also more abstract and theoretical type terms and scientific terms, a lot of other vocabulary etc. simply aren’t feasible to pick up by ear especially when they aren’t used often or at all around you.
This post was edited on 7/12/21 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 7/12/21 at 1:45 pm to Ingeniero
I’m conversationally fluent in Spanish. Took an online course and lived in Mexico for a year where I was exposed to it every day, dated women who could only speak Spanish, had Latino roommates, etc.
Used to be pretty good at French. Took it in college and high school. And went to France a few different times spending like 3 months total there. Having the French background really helped when I was learning Spanish.
Used to be pretty good at French. Took it in college and high school. And went to France a few different times spending like 3 months total there. Having the French background really helped when I was learning Spanish.
This post was edited on 7/12/21 at 1:47 pm
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