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01-29-2013 at 9:44 PM
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Does anyone here speak another language fluently besides English?

What language would you love to learn?

 
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01-29-2013 at 9:45 PM
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I speak Hebrew pretty fluently. I did when I was younger, and I hardly use it so am losing words, and really sad about it.

I am dying to know how to speak Spanish. I am actually learning now, through Rosetta Stone. It is SO hard, but I am pretty dedicated!! 
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01-29-2013 at 9:55 PM
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I speak Polish. Would love to learn Italian and French!
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01-29-2013 at 10:04 PM
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lorirachel:

I speak Hebrew pretty fluently. I did when I was younger, and I hardly use it so am losing words, and really sad about it.

I am dying to know how to speak Spanish. I am actually learning now, through Rosetta Stone. It is SO hard, but I am pretty dedicated!! 

 

I speak a French Patois.

I'm learning Spanish through Rosetta Stone also!  My DH is half Italian and half Puerto Rican, and speaks Italian and Spanish.  He laughs at my accent but it's fun to practice on him when he gets home.

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01-29-2013 at 10:26 PM
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H's first language is Spanish. I learned some in high school but really want to pick it up again for when we do have kids. I understand a decent amount but have a hard time saying anything because I don't want to make a mistake. I also learned some French through school and a bit of Hebrew. 

 

Do you ladies like Rosetta Stone? There was a Groupon last month I was eyeing but didn't want to spend the money without more research.  
 
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01-29-2013 at 10:35 PM
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anamouse:

H's first language is Spanish. I learned some in high school but really want to pick it up again for when we do have kids. I understand a decent amount but have a hard time saying anything because I don't want to make a mistake. I also learned some French through school and a bit of Hebrew. 

 

Do you ladies like Rosetta Stone? There was a Groupon last month I was eyeing but didn't want to spend the money without more research.  

I do like it. I like learning through pictures...however I am really having a hard time with the grammar stuff and actually putting things in sentences. So far I am learning vocab and having an easy time with that...hoping that as it goes on I will grasp the grammar and conversions. I am still in the beginning stages
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01-29-2013 at 10:39 PM
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I speak french. I would love to learn German.
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I speak Spanish. I taught high school Spanish for three years and am currently working with the local YMCA to implement a free ESL class for our growing Latino community.

I'm too lazy to learn another language but I have always wanted to speak Finnish. My dad lived in Finland for several years and his stories about his experiences there have always fascinated me.
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01-29-2013 at 11:06 PM
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DH is fluent in American Sign Languge. I'm currently learning. I REALLY want to teach our children. 
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I'd like to learn Italian, as it is my husband's first language. I'd like to say I am diligently trying to learn, but by the time the end of the day comes around, we're usually so tired, we don't practice much. He's planning on speaking to our future children in Italian, though.
 
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01-30-2013 at 12:31 AM
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I attempted Spanish, but I never really picked it up even though I took three semesters of it.

I'm not a language person, However, sign language would be interesting. I found learning Spanish was very hard. I think sign language may be easier. 
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H and I are almost fluent in French. We just got back from a 6 month backpacking trip of Scandinavia and western Europe, where we were able to practice what we know of French and Spanish. We were able to pick up quite a but of Italian, and German(Swiss German too). We picked up a little Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. I'd love to get better at all those languages. Japanese is also a language I'd love to learn. H used to be basically fluent, but without practice he lost quite a bit of it.

ETA being in cities surrounded by the language with few English speaking people definitely helped us get better at those languages
 
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01-30-2013 at 12:47 AM
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I know a little Latin from school but the only thing I'm fluent in is English.

I would love to learn Gaelic. I learned a few words when we went to Ireland for our honeymoon but I've unfortunately forgotten all of them.

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01-30-2013 at 12:48 AM
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I'm not fluent in any other language, sadly. I know a little Italian (forgotten a lot of it) and American Sign Language, and a teensy bit in Japanese and Gaelic (written), but that's it.

 

I really want to be fluent in Gaelic, ASL, and Russian. 

 

 
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01-30-2013 at 2:28 AM
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I speak Swedish fluently. DH is Swedish and we live there right now. I learned it when I moved over here. I used to be almost fluent in Spanish, but have forgotten most of it. I would love to get back into it.

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01-30-2013 at 4:18 AM
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Nope. Unfortunately I know a little bit of lots of languages. I know the most French, but really not much of it. I can get by when I really need to and that's where it ends.

DH speaks Cantonese, as does most of his family. I'll definitely need to learn some since we plan to do the one parent one language method. (Or at least try to do it.) Plus, it'd be nice to know exactly what his mom is always saying since they never speak in English when I'm around!

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01-30-2013 at 5:59 AM
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I used to be almost fluent at German, but since my grandparents passed I have had no need to use it so have lost a lot. I would.love to take classes again though (minored in it in college)

 

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01-30-2013 at 6:01 AM
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I can read/write/speak french but it is definitely not as good as it used to be when I was a french major (before I switched to psychology). I can understand a tiny bit of spanish and can speak a bit too.


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01-30-2013 at 6:12 AM
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I speak Spanish (but don't consider myself fluent anymore). It was good to have when living in New Mexico.

I find that I can understand conversations easily still, but sometimes when I try to speak it, I forget words since I don't use it daily like I used to. Oh and I have a total white girl accent. I can't roll my tounge for the "ere."

I think I picked it up pretty easily since my grandparents are from Italy - Italian and Spanish are REALLY similar. They spoke Italian to my sister and I our whole lives. If you can pick up one, you can generally pick up the other. When I speak to my relatives that live in Italy, we can generally hold a conversation because there are so many words/phrases that are similar.

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01-30-2013 at 6:21 AM
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I wish I could speak Spanish fluently. When I was growing up, my grandparents spoke Spanish around us,but stopped when we started to understand it - it couldn't be their secret language anymore. 

I can usually figure out what is being said if it is spoken slowly enough, and I can usually figure out what things are about if they are written, but I cannot speak. I've been in situations where I've been spoken to in Spanish, and actually understand but have to pretend 'no hablo espanol' because there is no way I can answer in Spanish. 

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Unfortunately, I only speak English.  I took 3 years of Latin in high school and a year of Italian in college. I really want to learn Spanish!
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01-30-2013 at 6:31 AM
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Cindal:

I know a little Latin from school but the only thing I'm fluent in is English.

I would love to learn Gaelic. I learned a few words when we went to Ireland for our honeymoon but I've unfortunately forgotten all of them.

 

I studied abroad in Ireland and took an "Irish" class (they call it Irish, go figure) while I was there.  It was a lot of fun, and I still remember some phrases.  It's a very difficult language because its not phonetic.  Everything sounds completely different than it looks! 
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01-30-2013 at 6:44 AM
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I know a tiny bit of Spanish but would love to know it fluently. I knew sight language as a kid but list a lot of my words so I'm relearning that right now :
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I speak fluent Spanish, and basic Mandarin Chinese. 

I can (and have) worked in an exclusively Spanish atmosphere, and though they can tell I'm not a native speaker, people typically don't slow down sentences or use simpler words simply because I'm American. My accent is good, and I've been told it sounds like I'm the child of a Spaniard, which I'll take as a compliment with my super gringo parents.

With Chinese, I can give directions, order in a restaurant, negotiate/bargain, explain why I know Chinese (studied in Shanghai for 4 months), discuss places I've lived/traveled, and that's about it!  It's sad how much I've lost - I would love to get more of what I had learned back and learn more.

I really want my husband to get stationed overseas in Germany or Japan so I can learn another language. I really wish South Korea was an accompanied post (meaning spouses could go) because that would have been my first choice.  I'd love if DH could be a legal attache to an embassy one day in Europe or Asia - I just love to travel, I'm not super picky!




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01-30-2013 at 6:50 AM
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I took 3 semesters of American Sign Language in college - unfortunately I have forgotten the majority of it since then. I still know the alphabet and the basics. Would love to be almost fluent in it again.
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01-30-2013 at 7:17 AM
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I minored in Spanish in college. I used to consider myself fluent, but I haven't had any chances to speak in the last 6 years, so I'm maybe conversational now, but definitely not fluent anymore :(.

I am learning Mandarin. I actually took two classes of Mandarin before I met DH. DH is Chinese, and speaks Mandarin at home. MIL speaks very little English, so if I could improve my Mandarin more, I could boost my communication wth her.

 A funny side note: apparently (forgot where I heard this) when you are young, and learning your first language, it's stored on one side of your brain. When you learn a language when you are older, it's stored on the other side. Which totally makes sense because if I'm speaking in Mandrin, and I forget a word, I will think of the word in Spanish before I think of it in English. It's so weird that I get Mandarin and Spanish confused - I have to pay attention, if DH starts looking at me weird (or if it's all of a sudden a lot easier to talk) - I'm probably speaking Spanish.

 

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anamouse:
Do you ladies like Rosetta Stone? There was a Groupon last month I was eyeing but didn't want to spend the money without more research.

I have the Mandarin Rosetta Stone. I thought it was OK - not the worst way to learn a language, but they used such WEIRD phrases that I didn't think it was really helping. I can say "the young boy is standing on the yellow airplane" in Mandarin, but it's probably never gonna be much use in every day conversation.  On the positive side, you do remember the phrases a lot easier than just reading/listening.

One thing I really didn't like about Rosetta Stone is that they dont' teach just one word at a time, they teach a phrase. I.E. "that car is blue" "that car is red" "that car is yellow". But when I verified what I was learning with DH, I thought I was saying "this car" and I was actually saying "that car". Also the word I thought was "car" was actually part of the phrase, and wasn't the actual word for car.

Does that make sense? I haven't had my coffee yet....


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Portuguese is my first language and I can communicate in Spanish.

My next language will either be Italian or French. I also would love to learn Norwegian!
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I can muddle my way through conversational Japanese.  DH is much better at it and can read hiragana and katakana.  

I would love to be able to speak, read, and write Japanese fluently.  Would also love to learn Gaelic.

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I'm pretty fluent in Spanish.  (It was my first language but I stopped speaking it around 3 when my family moved from TX to NJ and my dad left.)  I work at a Spanish immersion school right now so half my day is in Spanish and its helping me get it back.
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