What languages do you speak or would you like to learn?

[mommaU4]

That is one of the few regrets that I currently have, that I never learned another language.

I know I still could and maybe I will. I would also love to learn sign-language, I used to want to be an interpreter.

So, what about you?

 

[Susan-Storm]

I am American..Part iris/italian/german..would love to learn french

 

[Michie]

I know some French, enough Spanish to get me by. Am going to take a class next month to learn more.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

I would have loved to learn Polish....I could shoot myself for not "wanting" to learn when I was little and that is all my parents/grandparents would speak to with eachother....I would just "get mad"....and want them to speak English!

 

[mrFDNY]

Hi all,
actually i always wanted to learn to speak sign language if that counts.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

I took 2 years of French. I can hear it and answer in English, but only know enough French myself for the basics. I'm also learning Hebrew! A hard language, but I'm so glad I'm getting it!

 

[Cindyluwho]

I kinda speak Spanglish, but we're learning Russian right now. It's sooo hard when you're old!

 

[Monte Cristo]

I speak fluent spanish. Dwife is from the Dominican Repbulic so if I didn't speak spanish, I wouldn't be able to talk with any of her relatives as they all speak spanish and only a small bit of english. The coincidence is that I had spanish as a minor in college, before I met wife, so I was all set!

 

[Aidensmom]

I could speak Spanish pretty good in HS and college when I was around a lot of people who spoke it. I can still read it, but can't really catch it in conversation anymore, it is just too fast. I also know a little Italian. I would love to have the time to "refresh" myself on those languages.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I speak a little Spanish, but I'd love to learn to speak it fluently.

TOV

 

[robinb]

I only speak English and I am terrible at other languages. I have tried and tried since I was a teenager: Spanish, then German and finally French. I can only learn the bare minimum for getting around in another country.

My DH's cousins who grew up in Montreal. They are Jewish (so the family at home speaks English) but their parents choose to send them to a French school where all the curriculum is in French and they learn English as a second language. In Quebec, being fluent in French is paramount. Before I had my DD I thought they were NUTS! How dare they throw their kids into a school like that?!!? Now that I am older, wiser, and have a child of my own I now see the wisdom of their decision. Both girls are fluently bilingual and I wish that for my own DD

I want to enroll my DD in a language course, but between swim team and ballet there is very little time left over. Her school makes no priority for other languages . I know that I have to make the time for her, or the short time where language is acquired easily is gone. We Americans live in such an insular society. It is shameful that our kids are not multilingual like the rest of the world.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

I want to learn Mandarian Chinese. I work with alot of kids who parents moved here from China, and it would be great be able to speak the basics! But like Robinb, I am terrible at learning languages, too! I took French in high school but was no class brain or anything. I doubt I could learn much at my age!

 

[Lemonv1]

I only speak English.
But I tried learning Swedish on the internet, and it looks a nice one to learn. Maybe I'll try it properly one day.

 

[olena]

French and some Spanish. I have dabbled in German and Italian, too.

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Having always lived in So. CA, I've just kind of picked up a decent amount of Spanish. I know enough French to keep me out of trouble and actually got to test that thoery in France last Spring! I'd like to be much more adept at both though! The two places I've been that I would love to know the languages of are Wales (pronunciation alone is a huge challenge!)and Hawaii!!

 

[Freyja]

I speak Icelandic, English, Danish, German and a little Spanish. Would love to speak Spanish fluently and learn Arabic. I lived in Kuwait for 4 years when I was a kid and would have loved to learn the language. However I went to an English school so there weren´t many opportunities to learn Arabic. I would also love to learn to sign.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

A little Spanish. I would like to speak it well.
My older dd is taking it and I try and talk to her and don't do very well...
She wants to learn Japanese over the summer.

 

[LeCras]

Fluent in Swedish and French, reasonable in German, Danish and Norwegian and know some basic Italian and Spanish. (I used to translate books for a living, and also worked as an interpretor for a short period of time.)

We moved a lot when I was little.

I'd like to learn Russian and Japanese, but I doubt I'll ever get around to it.

Charlotte

 

[grlpwrd]

I know ASL, French, Hawaiian, and Japanese and I am now learning Spanish, Portuguese, and Cantonese. I have an easy time with languages because I grew up in Hawaii and people around me spoke all kinds of languages. Cantonese is the hardest for me, though.

My 2 oldest dds are learning French at school and sometimes I will only speak to them in French.

 

[mainewmn]

Since I was born in Poland and raised in Italy I speak both fairly well. But my entire thought process and such is strictly in English. Sometimes tough when I’m really concentrating on something I been known to blared out a word or two in another language.