Do you speak a second language?

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Kreyol is the haitian spelling. Creole is a term that also has a much broader cultural meaning.
 
Fluent: Romanian, English

Semi-fluent: Spanish

Just started learning: Mandarin!!!!
 
Arabic is great. Once you learn it, it makes learning other Middle Eastern languages a lot easier. I'm starting to learn some Farsi, and it is really helpful to already know the alphabet.
 
Yoruba (Nigerian language). But sometimes it sounds funny when I'm speaking because my Texan English accent tends to come out a bit.
 
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I'm terrible at languages

I've taken years and years of Mandarin, Spanish, and French... the only one I still remember much at all of is Mandarin... and thats because I'm Chinese :laugh:.

I forget languages really quickly if I don't use them. If I end up in an area with lots of spanish patients, I'll probably crack open my spanish books again and relearn it all. Hola senor, donde esta el dolor? Oh man I suck at spanish but hmmm no accents makes me happy.
 
English & Bajan (1st) French (2nd)

Learning Kiswahili now, and Spanish when I move to the States and have access to Spanish TV 🙂

Lys
 
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I speak fluent French (since I live in Canada) fluent Arabic (my major), and currently learning Spanish. Bueno!
 
Moshe Rabbenu said:
For some reason I want to learn both of those languages. They offer Hindi at my school; I'm thinking of taking it over the summer.
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You know Penn has a great program to teach these languages. I wish I could have fit it into my schedule while I was a PB here but there just wasn't any way for me to get it in since it always fell on days that I had a requirement to take. Not sure where you're from but a big state university and diverse university may offer classes.
 
I'm in South Jersey. I'm taking a lot of classes this semester as well as working and doing research, so unless it's at my school, I probably don't have time to do it. :laugh:
 
bodonid said:
How fun!! Be patient with it, learning Chinese is quite different than the European languages.
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Most definately! I started learning while I was in china last summer..and let's just say it took a while to make sure you were saying the right thing to the taxi driver so you wouldn't end up on the other side of town. 😛
 
Fluent in Spanish and English..I understand French and Portuguese fluently but I'm too shy to speak either of them.
 
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It is amazing how incredibly similar the romance languages are. I can actually understand nearly everything you guys said though I've never studied French. Of course if you were saying it it would be much more difficult for me.
 
😳 un jour, un jour... sans doute.

(Mon Français est devenu très rouillé...)
 
Drogba said:
It is amazing how incredibly similar the romance languages are. I can actually understand nearly everything you guys said though I've never studied French. Of course if you were saying it it would be much more difficult for me.
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Yeah, that does help when learning. Unfortunately, I don't understand the language when spoken quickly/fluently / can't reply effectively in real-time quite that well, but ... un jour, je suppose.
 
exi said:
Yeah, that does help when learning. Unfortunately, I don't understand the language when spoken quickly/fluently / can't reply effectively in real-time quite that well, but ... un jour, je suppose.
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i think reading is the easiest part. you can make out parts that are familiar and go at your own pace.

listening to French people talk on tv is a whole other story. i'm used to the sing-song African French. I find French French kinda monotone and French people tend to mumble.
 
First Language: Portuguese

read/write/speak fluent : Spanish, French, Italian

Learning: Russian
 
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10ftsurf said:
First Language: Portuguese

read/write/speak fluent : Spanish, French, Italian

Learning: Russian
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See what I am talking about? My goal is to be conversational in all the romance languages except romanian. I think it's definitely feasible. 🙂
 
I agree. I think with a few months of immersion and I'll be set. I think even with rigorous studying and some creative ways of exposing myself to the spoken form and finding some people to talk with I would be able to pick them up fairly well.
 
Sorta conversational in spanish... doing a medical outreach trip for two weeks soon.


me llamo brownie786. Yo quiero mas horas en el dia.🙄
 
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Grew up in a family of Urdu poets and studied it for 12 years and once was a writer for my college's annual magazine. Can also speak punjabi, and seraiki. Have just started to learn english.
 
I know (Ki)swahili... lakini ni ngumu kupata wa2 kuongea nao. But it's difficult to find people who speak it.

jeff
 
It seems the least similar to the rest of the romance languages (thought this might be incorrect). Mostly its not nearly as widely spoken as the others.
 
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