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HOW MANY LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK? How many languages do you speak? Do you get to use most or all of them? I only speak English. I took French in school but that was a long time ago. What about you? Elaine Shuel |
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Just English but I am like you, I took French in high school but I it was also a long time ago and I only remember a little bit of words.
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I wanted to take Latin in high school, but they quit offering it a few years before I got there and the only foreign language available was Spanish. I took two years of it, but remember very little. Joe also took Spanish, and he remembers a little more of it than I do, but his mother was from Italy and his father spoke Italian, so he learned that at a young age. He doesn't use it very much, so he has lost a lot of it............ use it or lose it is really true. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I speak Italian, English, Filipino, Ilocano languages and I speak a little in Spanish. I learned Spanish when I was in college. I took two years but I don't remember much of it. I am glad I did. I speak ILOCANO language too. Our dialect. I can understand some in Spanish but I can't speak very well. Maybe if I live in Mexico I can learn more. I speak Italian with my children in Italy always even in the phone. With my Filipino friends we talk in our language when we are together. And I speak Ilocano with my friends who knows how to speak our dialect. Sometimes it's very confusing to me. I have to know whom I am talking to know what language I have to speak with them. But I love it. "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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I ALSO DID FRENCH BUT DONT REMEMBER A LOT.sOi AM FLUENT ONLY IN english and australian !  Thanks for your comment. Elaine Shuel
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Just English but I am like you, I took French in high school but I it was also a long time ago and I only remember a little bit of words. Yes. but it did help when I had to pass a french exam to be able to get my designation. In France, it helped un peu (a little). It does stay with you a bit. You never know when it may help.Elaine Shuel
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I wanted to take Latin in high school, but they quit offering it a few years before I got there and the only foreign language available was Spanish. I took two years of it, but remember very little. Joe also took Spanish, and he remembers a little more of it than I do, but his mother was from Italy and his father spoke Italian, so he learned that at a young age. He doesn't use it very much, so he has lost a lot of it............ use it or lose it is really true.  Spanish is a beautiful language. I never took it but I heard it in Barcelona. Italian is another sexy language. No matter what you say in either language sounds great even if you are telling someone to go fly a kite. Elaine Shuel
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They should have hired a sexy French teacher.  Thanks Ranger. Elaine Shuel
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In addition to English, my Japanese can get me around in Tokyo, My German can get me around Munich, my Spanish can get me around Nuevo Laredo, and my French keeps me from going to many parts Canada. Well, there is also the matter of outstanding arrest warrants in Quebec and several places in the Northwest territories.  Fossil Thanks Fossil.Elaine Shuel
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I speak Italian, English, Filipino, Ilocano languages and I speak a little in Spanish. I learned Spanish when I was in college. I took two years but I don't remember much of it. I am glad I did. I speak ILOCANO language too. Our dialect. I can understand some in Spanish but I can't speak very well. Maybe if I live in Mexico I can learn more. I speak Italian with my children in Italy always even in the phone. With my Filipino friends we talk in our language when we are together. And I speak Ilocano with my friends who knows how to speak our dialect. Sometimes it's very confusing to me. I have to know whom I am talking to know what language I have to speak with them. But I love it. It is great to speak different languages. Thank you.Elaine Shuel
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I think I am staying away from the South. Thanks Maisie for an entertaining response. Elaine Shuel
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In Quebec, as an anglophone, I was lucky it was number 2. If it were up to some, it never would have made the list. Thanks _JKH54. Elaine Shuel
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It's never too late, Puzzles. Don't they offer those courses on CD these days? Thanks. Elaine Shuel
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English, French, Italian, German (although the latter two I don't get to speak much of lately).
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In addition to English, my Japanese can get me around in Tokyo, My German can get me around Munich, my Spanish can get me around Nuevo Laredo, and my French keeps me from going to many parts Canada. Well, there is also the matter of outstanding arrest warrants in Quebec and several places in the Northwest territories. Fossil
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Dutch & English; Dutch was my first language. Also spoke a sprinkling of Bahasa Indonesia [born in Indonesia, immigrated to Australia after WWII].
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Thanks Alpha. I love you is nice to hear in any language. Elaine Shuel
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English, French, Italian, German (although the latter two I don't get to speak much of lately). Thank you.Elaine Shuel
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Dutch & English; Dutch was my first language. Also spoke a sprinkling of Bahasa Indonesia [born in Indonesia, immigrated to Australia after WWII]. Thanks for sharing, Lilium. Elaine Shuel
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Well, if someone wants to practice Spanish, here I am! Please contact me. It's free! Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)
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Well, if someone wants to practice Spanish, here I am! Please contact me. It's free! Thanks for your comment.Elaine Shuel
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