Besides English, What Languages Do You Speak?

[Widebrim]

I don't think that we've asked this question before of our Loungers, so here goes...

Besides English (which all of us have to know to a certain degree in order to participate here...), what other languages are you at least somewhat proficient at? (By somewhat proficient, I mean able to say a bit more than just "Where is the restroom?")

For myself, I speak Spanish (particularly Castilian, Cuban, and north-west Mexican dialects). I can understand quite a bit of Italian (which I studied a little in college) and European Portuguese, but am not nearly proficient in either. Can speak small amounts of Arabic, Armenian, and Tagalog...

 

[Mr. Hallack]

I'm learning Mainah, but my wife says since I'm from away I'll never speak like a local!!

Otherwise no other languages, studied spanish, but not good at it. But something you said Widebrim reminded me of my father. He spoke fluent Spanish, but spoke it with an American accent.

 

[Widebrim]

^^Well, here in L.A. there are quite a few people who share your father's trait! And good luck with Mainah...lol

 

[Pompidou]

I took enough years of French - four courses in college, two in high school and one in junior high - to be able to read and write it well, but time has eroded my ability to speak it very fluently. To be more specific, it takes me a while to remember the vocabulary, because I graduated college in 03 and haven't spoken it since.

 

[Widebrim]

^^Well, with a monicker like Pompidou, I would hope that you'd know some French...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Imay uentflay inay igpay atinlay.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

English, French, 'Chilean' Spanish. Uselessly used to speak some ancient Latin (think Cicero), because my school forced me to.

 

[Tomasso]

Imay uentflay inay igpay atinlay.

Now don't you get piggy.......

 

[Harp]

I took enough years of French- to be able to read and write it well, but time has eroded my ability to speak it very fluently.

I haven't spoken French since the Army-except when I flirt with a certain lovely Irish colleen at the office-
and my college German is also rusted from neglect. Toiling at a PhD now, which requires renewed acquaintance with both languages, and ancient Greek, which I have never studied.
Looking into evening classes at a local community college to correct time's lapse.
Schoolboy Latin; some Vietnamese and modern Greek from peripatetic youth.

 

[Widebrim]

Imay uentflay inay igpay atinlay.

Orrysay orfay otnay incluidingay itay...

 

[Tomasso]

Spanish, French, Armenian and Latin in order of current proficiency. French and Armenian from my mother's side and Spanish and Latin from school. Oh, and thanks to my father's side I know just enough Gaelic insults to start a brawl in Galway.

 

[sheeplady]

I took Spanish in high school (it was the only language offered).

I know some foods and swear words in Polish. So I can insult a person or name foods. Although my grandparents were fluent in Polish, they didn't want their children or grandchildren to learn it for various reasons.

 

[Flipped Lid]

I wouldn't say I'm exactly fluent, but I speak passable Spanish. I struggle with my verb tenses somewhat and my vocabulary isn't what it once was. I had four years of Spanish in high school and three in college. I had to resurrect it when I got back into law enforcement nine years ago. I use it virtually every day.

 

[TCMfan25]

Ich spreche ziemlich viel Deutsch..... but I still can't master the ungodly amount of complicated punctuation!

I guess you could say I speak 3/4 English and 1/4 Austrian, because I am 3/4 English and 1/4 Austrian.

 

[C-dot]

Je prenais le cours de Français pendant l'école secondaire jusqu'a le douxième année, alors, je le parle, lire, et écrit couramment

Other than that, nothing. I wish I spoke more.

I hear my boyfriend speak Arabic quite often - Its scary sounding!

 

[Mr. Hallack]

^^Well, here in L.A. there are quite a few people who share your father's trait! And good luck with Mainah...lol

He was born in West Hollywood and grew up in Westchester near LAX, so that would make sense!!

 

[Harp]

I hear my boyfriend speak Arabic quite often - Its scary sounding!

He should whisper, "tu belle fleur" a vous, le matin et le soir.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Je prenais le cours de Français pendant l'école secondaire jusqu'a le douxième année, alors, je le parle, lire, et écrit couramment

Other than that, nothing. I wish I spoke more.

I hear my boyfriend speak Arabic quite often - Its scary sounding!

كنت على حق، فإنه مخيف الصوت.
(You're right, it does sound scary.)

lol

 

[Gray Ghost]

Fluent in Redneck with a smattering of French, German, Spanish, Cherokee and still working on Scots Gaelic. Have more french than the others but that was over 25 years ago and have only spoken a little since then so I am definetley losing it.

=GG=

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I'm fluent in M'waukee, and Merrimac.