Thread: Foreign Languages

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How many and what languages can you speak??

I took 4 years of German in HS. I remember a little of it.

I took French from 7th grade to 12th grade. I can read it better than speak it.

Though fat lotta good it did me when I was in the car with a French-speaking friend & couldn't remember the French word for "deer" when I was trying to get him to stop in time so he wouldn't hit the big buck that was barreling outta the field at us.

I could remember the words for pig (cochon), horse (cheval), cat (chat), dog (chien), fish (poisson), cow (vache, though to be fair I learned that word from Monty Python's Holy Grail), goat (chevre), almost every other animal out there, but not deer.

I got him to stop in time though it scared the merde outta him coming that close!!

Then someone pointed out I could've said "chere" or "cherie" which is "dear." So for future reference, if any of you are in a car with a French speaking person & you suddenly see a deer hurtling at your car at breakneck speed, the work is "cerf" or "biche" if it's a female, much like we have buck if it's a male w/a rack & doe if it's a female.

I speak Croatian (it's my materna language), English, German, Spanish and a bit of Swedish.... At the moment I'm learning Spanish, German and Swedish.... I have Spanish classe on Mondays and Wednesdays, and German classes on Sathurdays.... and for Swedish I got a book, called "Beginner's Swedish", so I'm using "self.study" method It's much easier to learn Swedish, because I also speak English and German. I also enjoy in learning new languages....

I speak English and Southern.

Originally Posted by creeepycathy

I speak English and Southern.

lol... I hear that Southern is the language of the future

I took 6 years of Spanish and 3 years of latin... Got As in every class.... Won a medal for latin... and now I can't write/speak/read either language.

I am thinking about doing the Rosetta Stone Program but I am not sure it is worth the $800.

Speak french (maternal language ) english and this winter i would love to learn german .

Frenchy

Just English but my most used curse word is French Canadian. The rest and I use many, are in good old English.

Oh I would love to learn to speak Croatian, my Mom's family is from Yugoslavia. I took spanish in high school for 3 yrs., can read it quit well. Just recently pulled out my high school spanish books to start studying it again. Took 1 yr. of russian in college. I wanted to be an exchange student there.

Originally Posted by Muffy

Oh I would love to learn to speak Croatian, my Mom's family is from Yugoslavia. I took spanish in high school for 3 yrs., can read it quit well. Just recently pulled out my high school spanish books to start studying it again. Took 1 yr. of russian in college. I wanted to be an exchange student there.

Really...I wouldn't recommend you to learn Croatian. It's just too hard. It's one of the hardest languages in Europe, believe me. I have a friend, that lives in Hungary, and he tries to learn Croatian, but he can't pronounce some sounds well, even if we have similar pronounciation.


P.S. yugoslavia is dead for two decades. so where does your family come from??? Croatia, or???