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Languages | Pad Patter 9.22.22

michelepixels said:
I grew up in San Diego so when it came time to choose a language for high school, I picked Spanish. I took it for all four years, plus one more semester in college. It has been useful, even a little here in Virginia. At my peak, after high school, I described my fluency as that of a preschool child (plus I could write short essays!) but now the thing I say the most is "Hablo pocito español" and single words like pointing out the color "verde" to a kindergartener.

I think it's awful that we don't learn second and third languages from young childhood in school here in the U.S. and admire people who are multilingual.
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You were smart to pick Spanish. I wish I had!
 
i can understand more italian than i speak or read but it's also mostly a northern dialect, not sure what bart speaks - he's more the silent type
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I am fluent in English and Afrikaans, but can make do in German if I don't have to write anything.

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Toad-ally speak frog and toad.
 
I'm afraid it's only English for me. I took Spanish in Junior High, but all we did was conjugate verbs. Wasn't a fun time. Then I took Swedish in college, and from then on when I want to think of a Swedish word, I think of the Spanish word instead, and vice versa. The alphabets are extremely similar, which doesn't help. My Swedish professor even asked me if I could please pronounce my Swedish without a Spanish accent!
 
My parents are from Gujarat, India. So I can speak Gujarati. Although I only use it to speak with my mum (even that is half english half Gujarat) or older family members. My sisters barely use it and say I am the best out of the 4 of us.
 
Slovenian is my first language. I am first generation and they didn’t know English when they came here to the states. I took three years of French in high school. I would love to learn Spanish but I also want to learn Arabic because many of my customers speak it.
 
I'm French so I speak French. At school, I had to choose a first language when I was 11 years (I don't know the name of your class at the same age) and I choose German. Mummy was a German teacher so not really a choice, lol. Two years later, I needed to choose an other langage and this time no choice because as German was my first language I had to learn English. I admit, I was not good, my accent is horrible (almost true today). Later in the studies I had to stop German after 7 years because this language wasn't available. And I keep English for my last studies years.
I learned lot when I was at the university. I listened news from the BBC and I listened English songs. I had the English (American) sound in head.
Today, I'm not fluent. I can read English, I can write it (I hope, you always understand me here) but I'm very very bad to speak. I have no opportunity to speak so it's hard to progress and I hate listening my accent, it doesn't help.
I'm surprised to read that many of you have learned French at school. I didn't thought that this language is "popular" in US.
 
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