What languages can you speak?

[hodge]

English. Learned German, know the basics, but don't have a good vocabulary in German.

 

[Friday]

Also I wont be the first one to admit we are f*cked, but we are f*cked, in LookTalk.

LMFAO... There are a few phrases, I’ve found, doesn’t matter what language they’re spoken in, like LookTalk, they translate juuuuuuuuust fine.

Get up and say that to my face!
Let’s get him boys!
We’re f*cked.
Run!
Stop! Silence!
Phew! That was close.

It sometimes comforts me to know that people have been getting in trouble for so many thousands of years that the words we use don’t. even. matter. :roflmao:

Aside from English, what languages can you speak?

Bits and pieces of around half a dozen, that I’m not fluent in anymore -if I ever was- although I sometimes still dream in them (in perfect fluency / I can understand and speak in the dream, but wake up and have no freaking idea what anyone was saying), plus a couple pidgins.

I’d like fluency in Arabic, Russian, & ASL... but the way I learn language is by living them. A few days to a week be very basically conversational, a few weeks to a month or three be about half to mostly fluent (depending on how much I’m around people)... versus I’ve spent years attempting to learn languages academically and failing miserably. :wtf: So, as I’m not likely to be kicking it in Malta or Moscow any time soon? Prolly not gonna happen.

English is the only language I can spell with even vague accuracy. Almost everything else is pure phonetics.

Snicker... the bits & pieces thing? Aren’t always in the same dialect / style / or accent. My brother who IS fluent in German (lives and works there) peridocically threatens to throttle me if I don’t stop using High & Low German in the same sentence. He says listening to me “speak” German is like listening to Monty Python imitating John Wayne having high tea. It makes his brain hurt.

 

[Fadeaway]

Me, none, for anyone who has seen my typing. Hubby? Latin, ancient Greek, Italian, German, conversational Spanish, some Icelandic and a little irish gaelic.

 

[bellbird]

Hubby? Latin, ancient Greek, Italian, German, conversational Spanish, some Icelandic and a little irish gaelic.

Woah! Impressive.

 

[Fadeaway]

It's what he does for a living. He is a forigen language and ESL teacher.

 

[shatter eyes]

English
Chinglish
Chinese
Vietnamese

Neanderthal grunts and groans
Big bad wolf huff n puff

 

[bellbird]

Neanderthal grunts and groans

lol

 

[shatter eyes]

lol

That language is common amongst those who have a Post Traumatic Speech Degree from the Univeristy of Trauma.

 

[ladee]

@shatter eyes , thank you for making me laugh first thing this morning...which in Texas speak, is pronounced... Thaaank uuu !!!

 

[Chris-duck]

I speak English and Brazilian Portuguese. I can read Spanish but can never think of the words of I'm trying to write it, ha. I can do some French cos my mum and brother speak it and I'm learning BSL (British sign language).

 

[Sweetleaf]

English is my native language. I have a BA in international studies and German with a minor in history, and still have my German skills up to fluent levels. I took a semester of Russian in university, but have forgotten most of it. I took a couple years of Spanish in university as well, and I've retained my skills for the most part, but I'm nowhere near fluent lol. Just can get by.

I have a lot of interest in languages, and foreign cultures - if not for my abuser coming along into my life, I probably would have done something like teach English in another country. I'd still love to do that, but now I have all the damage my trauma has done to me holding me back. I'm really qualified for doing it, and I'm free to go and do it if I want, but I have my PTSD holding me back. I can't even work here, yet. I hope I can get to that point with time.

 

[Friday]

I'm really qualified for doing it, and I'm free to go and do it if I want, but I have my PTSD holding me back. I can't even work here, yet

You know... that’s a really cool idea when you’re ready to start transitioning. (Either from part time to full time, or working at all). Because while most programs are a year commitment, there are some that are much shorter / gig work of a few weeks to a quarter. So it would be a literal “working vacation”, where you go to work for a few weeks/months with a very clear end-date, and come home and not work for a spell.

Or the similar, teaching the local language to native English speakers. Whether it’s a university semester abroad program, or teaching aid workers, or even volunteering with an NGO like habitat for humanity, but where your primary activity with them is language skills.

Anyhow, just a couple thoughts :)