How many here are bi or trilingual?

When considering this learning to speak Spanish it might be possible to understand or partly understand about 80% of the world population.
What are the Latin-based languages?


Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan (Provencal), Galician, Arpitan (Franco-Provençal), and Sardinian. But there are many, many more. Mirandese, Aragonese, Asturleonese. Sicilian, Piedmontese, Corsican.
 

As a musician, I was also a qualified linguist in German (as of 1990) when I was stationed in Germany. That helped during Reunification (die Wendung oder Wiedervereinigung) from 1989 though 1994 when I finally returned to the U.S. after almost 15 years of multiple assignments in Germany.

I like to practice my German, but there are infrequent opportunities to do so.
 
Eupher said:
As a musician, I was also a qualified linguist in German (as of 1990) when I was stationed in Germany. That helped during Reunification (die Wendung oder Wiedervereinigung) from 1989 though 1994 when I finally returned to the U.S. after almost 15 years of multiple assignments in Germany.

I like to practice my German, but there are infrequent opportunities to do so.
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That is the problem. Nobody to practice with. It happened to me with Romanian and Italian. The Italian Americans that I tried to converse with would revert back to English and some didn't remember some of the words until I reminded them. As for Romanians, just met two many years ago in Lancaster PA. Their language sounded very familiar due to its Latin foundation, and I asked them what they were speaking. They said it was Romanian. Strange as it might sound, I stopped practicing Romanian because I was starting to speak English with a Count Dracula accent as opposed to my New York accent and people kept asking me where I was from.

 
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Radrook said:
Did you find it hard to learn?
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A bit. But once you learn the alphabet it is helpful. I was never fluent, but could manage. Counting was easy to learn. But some letters are similar to each other and if you do not fingerspell often...that is spelling out the word rather than the sign for it, can be hard to remember. Had a friend who was fluent and she helped me out
 
Marie5656 said:
A bit. But once you learn the alphabet it is helpful. I was never fluent, but could manage. Counting was easy to learn. But some letters are similar to each other and if you do not fingerspell often...that is spelling out the word rather than the sign for it, can be hard to remember. Had a friend who was fluent and she helped me out
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I have a cousin who is deaf, So I very briefly tried a few words via sign language letters. It was definitely not easy for me either.
 
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Olivia said:
I lost my response when l had to leave for a few minutes. My mom and dad spoke Japanese, German and English. I only speak English. I'm too rushed right now to explain.
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My Mom spoke native German (Austria -like Arnold Schwarzenegger). My dad was born in Hawaii and was ethnically Japanese and grew up speaking Japanese within his family.

We were too busy moving around for me to learn anything but English. 🤪
 

How many here are bi or trilingual?​


Well, you all know that I'm not the type to boast, but, I can talk Double Dutch, Total Gibberish, and on occasion, pure Bulls*it. 😊
 
When I started high school, I asked for Spanish, they gave me French. I used it haltingly on two trips to Quebec.

Years later I would go to Miami every other week and decided it would be useful to learn some Spanish. I bought some language lesson tapes and played in the car on when I flew on airlines. This was useful in Mexico and Costa Rica for buying meals, gas and t-shirts. In Martinique we did not encounter anyone that did not speak good English.
 
I can only speak English now. In my youth I was fluent in Spanish if spoken with a Puerto Rican accent. I used to be able to understand and speak Swiss German when I lived in Zurich, but that was a long time ago.

My language skills in English are getting worse. Maybe I'll end up not speaking at all. Gabbed enough in life.
 
Olivia said:
My Mom spoke native German (Austria -like Arnold Schwarzenegger). My dad was born in Hawaii and was ethnically Japanese and grew up speaking Japanese within his family.

We were too busy moving around for me to learn anything but English. 🤪
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Did your mom pronounce English like Arnold does?
 

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