Inspired by Arabella: What languages do you know?

[NMAmy]

I can get by in Spanish and can understand French but have a hard time speaking it. I know elementary German to speak it (lived there--I can get food and find the bathroom!).

I also know a few words of Navajo after living near the reservation for many years. Just enough to be polite! But I sure can't spell those words!

 

[acepepper]

English and American.

 

[TheBellhop]

English, duh!

 

[Planogirl]

English, at least the Texas version , and Dutch. I can understand most Dutch and speak it too but I'm more on a child's level since I've had no need to use it since I was a child.

 

[Galahad]

English and German. DW also speaks German so we try to do it at home from time to time but we are pretty rusty. DS "collects" languages and is pretty strong in Spanish and German, dabbles in Scandinavian languages and is taking Japanese this summer.

 

[DanceBabe16]

I'm pretty good at reading and speaking French - I took 4 years of it in school.

 

[monarchsfan16]

English
I've had 3 years of Latin in school and still can't read the stuff (and we translated the Aenied this year, you'd think I would have learned something ).
Dad wants to teach me Spanish, and for us to learn Italian, but this language thing is hard.

 

[Kitty 34]

I can only speak English tho I got to know a bit of French during our French exchange program when we had a student come over for a few weeks and then sent our son over there. Two years later the French mother came over with a friend and the friend knew no English so it's amazing how easy you start speaking a few words here and there in order to communicate.

In college I took Greek and could speak that fairly well for awhile. Maybe some of that will come back to me during the Greek Olympics!!!

 

[ShuisFan584]

Besides English, I only know a little Italian and Spanish. I took Italian for 3 years in high school, and Spanish for one semester in college. I know a few words here and there, but I would never be able to speak either language.

 

[Talking Hands]

Originally posted by meandtheguys2
TH, did you learn those when you were young from family or in school, if I may ask. I've seen you post about the languages before and have always been curious.

Except for Spanish and Russian I learned them before I was 18. My father was in the military and we moved frequently. I attended military dependent schools and was required to take the language of the country we lived in. Russian I took specifically for reading scientific journals when I was doing cancer research. Less expensive than having them translated. Spanish I started to learn when I moved to Miami. Most of my neighbors are Spanish speaking. I went back to American Sign Language in 1992 when I was being asked to substitute for deaf classes and for the interpreter. I'm now turning it into a career.

 

[Phrebert]

English / Spanish / Russian & Gibberish

 

[Crankyshank]

English
Enough Spanish to get by
some Italian. can understand if spoken very slowly to me LOL
I used to be practically fluent in ASL but I am very out of practice and problem sign on a 5yr old level now.
I can read some latin

for my future profession, I'll need to be able to read and write in 2 foreign languages - most likely it will be Spanish and French

 

[Robinrs]

English, Spanish, Latin.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

English, French and Latin. My daughter is in a Spanish Immersion school and she is teaching us Spanish.

Lori