Who here is multilingual

The languages I speak fluently are English and Body

i'm so-so at spanish

 

Anglais, mais je parle en peu francais.

(written is stronger then spoken tho...also I feel that sentence may be off...ah meh)

 

I've let my Spanish lapse quite a bit. My wife is a native speaker, though, and one of the things we definitely plan to do with the child we have due in July is to give them the gift of learning both English and Spanish. I'm sure I'll get my Spanish back and then some when we start teaching our kid that language.

jag

 

J'ai parlais francais pour 10 annees.


I've been speaking french for 10 years.

 

7 years of French here. I CANNOT wait to take a trip to France for a few months and work on my fluency

 

I once lost 30 points on a test purely b/c of misplaced accent marks

 

Totally, too bad I hear the racism has gotten pretty bad in France. Moroccans are moving in and the Frenchmen are not happy.

 

Its that all over western europe. When I grew up in belguim, it was horrible. Honestly, I havent seen that much racism firsthand.

 

I'm happy I managed to read and understand the French in this thread.

 

Do Ebonics count? Please say no.

 

I speak binary...


no i don't...

 

Eh, ever since I moved away from belgium, I have only spoken a bastardized version of slang french, so my spelling/grammer has gone downhill.

Also, I hated accents on tests. I would take science and history in french, and teachers would take off points on tests even in those classes for accents. Guh...

 

I'm pretty light-skinned and dating a white girl. Maybe they'll go easy on me?

 

I took about 4 years of Spanish, but I can barely recall any of it. I'd like to pick that back up. There are a lot of languages I'd like to at least learn the basics of.

 

i can translate spanish better when its written than when it is spoken. i had the worst accent in the class but the highest gpa.

i can also r3ad l33t

 

Excellent. I'm re-learning it after not having taken it for about 8 years. I don't mind the conjugation so much(just hard to remember), but the pronouns (whether to use aux, des, a la, etc) just kill me.

 

I'll have to learn a heap of French or they'll hate you for dating an American who can't speak French lol. I want to learn though.

 

Depends on where you go. Anywhere in France you will go, almost no matter what, they will know you are american. In the north, however, its not a big deal, and most of the people there are totally awesome. Southern france, however, is where you will have some trouble.

 

I had the most fun of my life learning Mandarin. Its easy for me to learn languages, however. When I was a kid, I was pretty good in spanish and dutch, but now its gone. I was able to go thru 2 years of Mandarin in one, but that was while living in Shanghai.

If you have a chance, try picking it up. Great fun.

 

Le and la are the worst things EVER

Snooty southerners eh? I just need to get my deriere over there.

 

I enjoy Mandarin as well. My teacher wasn't helpful at all though, so I think I'll have better luck studying with a Rosetta Stone program. I've already forgotten how to write a heap of characters

 

You in the military, on the run from the Yakuza, or what? Haha, sounds like you've traveled a bit.