Languages | Pad Patter 9.22.22

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

 

Kissed the frog!

 

I am fluent in English and Afrikaans, but can make do in German if I don't have to write anything.


Toad-ally speak frog and toad.

 

Kiss the frog!

 

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.

 

I speak English and Navajo.

 

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.