What's your language, other than English?

[therevjay]

Strictly American English I'm afraid. I did once manage to carry on a somewhat coherent conversation with a bunch of Lowland Scots. This was however after consuming a large amount of Malt beverage at the NCO club. I couldn't understand a bloody word they said sober. (well except for bloody, they said that a lot)

 

[ΣΙΓΜΑ]

I'm thinkin' that our younger members need to start learning to speak Mandarin.



You know? I actually started taking Mandarin classes last year just because I thought it would be challenging ..... Well, it was !! VERY hard at first, then I guess I got used to it and I can actually write the "characters" and make some sense of the grammar. Nothing like any of the Latin languages like French or Spanish, nor like English or German.....Not even close.

I will ALWAYS have a funky accent when speaking Chinese...... can't go undercover......

 

[PA Reb]

Ich spreche Deutsch ab und zu! ..

 

[THEWELSHM]

Welsh

thewelshm

 

[Mike McLellan]

I pretty much rely on hand gestures.

 

[Xtasy]

German and English for me, I always get strange looks from all types of people when they notice an African American speaking German.

Like my south African friend. If people ask where she is from she just responds that she is a white African American

 

[mkk41]

I pretty much rely on hand gestures.

So you speak Italian?

 

[Alnamvet68]

Spanish, Latin, French, and Russian.

 

[snubbyfan]

So you speak Italian?

That one made my Italian wife laugh. I went to an Italian wedding reception with an open bar. As they got drunker, they got louder and the hand gestures got bigger. I had to bob and weave while walking through them.

 

[joeintexas]

I have been studying jive at night school with Leslie Nielson. Chump dont want no help chump dont get no help.

 

[Ray]

As a Brazilian, portuguese of course !
Ragards, Ray

 

[Muddyboot]

I work in construction so I'm fluent in redneck, moron, DA, SFB,
slacker, and ne'er do well.

 

[Texas Star]

Like my south African friend. If people ask where she is from she just responds that she is a white African American

It often surprises people here that many South Africans are white. We have some Rhodesian refugees here, too. Some came into a liquor store where I'd been enjoying buying South African wine cheap after the distributor discontinued it and the store was discounting it. They knew what it was and bought the last few cases. I consoled myself by remembering what happened to their country, now black Marxist-ruled Zimbabwe. I think Wilbur Smith summed that up well in the title of one of his books set there: "The Angels Weep."

There are other white South Africans here. Victoria's Secret models Candice Swanepoel and Behani Prinsloo and CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan are from there. So is Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron. I like listening to them talk, but Theron worked hard to sound American, to get movie roles. Her mother lives here now, too, and they converse at home in Afrikaans. (Afrikaans is derived from Dutch, the Dutch being the first large scale white settlers there, from 1652.)

Some of you know that Greta Theron shot her husband after he became drunk and violent and threatened her and young Charlize. She let him have it with a pistol, through the bedroom door. The court ruled self defense. But I doubt that the court in the present famous murder trial there now will approve of Pistorious shooting his girlfriend through the door to the loo, where she was injured and sitting down and no threat. He'd apparently had at her with a cricket bat before shooting her. Interesting case, with an international following.

 

[morich53]

As a Mexican, I can speak, read, write(some), German. Not so much Spanish anymore.
As a child going to school in the late 50s and 60s, English was strictly enforced as the main language in public school system.

 

[bamacisa]

I am not fluent in Spanish, but I can get by in towns where no one speaks English. I can carry on a conversation on the telephone in Spanish. I studied Spanish in high school, college and I lived in Key West and lived on the Texas/Mexico border for a number of years.

 

[Texas Star]

I can sort of follow Spanish movies without referring to the subtitles.

I recommend, especially, "Crazy Love/Juana la Loca" and, "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down" and Red Shoes (?), directed by Pedro Almoldovar and starring such such talented actors as Antonio Banderas, who played Zorro here. Of course, they're in Castillian Spanish. You can get English or French subtitles.

I was glad to see Ray in Rio de Janeiro post. I knew that Brazilians speak Portuguese. Too many Americans think they speak Spanish.

My favorite Brazilian products are supermodels Ana Beatriz Barros and Alessandra Ambrosio. I think they're built better than Taurus guns...

 

[mkk41]

Anyone still talk "jive"?

 

[BearBio]

Well, American English is my native tongue. Grandfather spoke Dutch to me and I took 5 -6 years of German, plus some Spanish in school (and first wife was Hispanic and I had close Argentine friends==plus I grew up in Los Angeles). Still can read Dutch and some Afrikaans but can't speak it. Same with Friesien (a Dutch dialect).

Mom spoke something that I THINK was Irish (Gaelic and Irish are different). I'm learning Irish now and can understand some/most Gaelic.

A little Tagalog from a Chinese/Spanish girl I lived with.

Overall, conversant in Spanish, German and Irish.

 

[Thuer]

I speak Dutch. Ofcource I do live in Holland.

English with an acsent.

A bit German what will be better after a couple of whisky.

 

[Arik]

A bit German what will be better after a couple of whisky.

It always is! :beer:

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