Do You Speak More Than One Language Fluently?
By Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
United States
December 14, 2015 10:40am CST
I know bits and pieces of many different languages, but do not speak any of them fluently.
I have been wanting to take some classes to learn to speak Spanish, but have not done so.
What I have done is to try to learn at least some GREETINGS in other languages and how to say THANK YOU. I can count to ten in 7 different languages and I am currently learning to do that in Chinese, along with a couple greetings.
I have a great nephew who is married to a Chinese woman and he speaks fluent Chinese. I will be seeing them when I go to North Carolina in a few days. In fact, I will be going to their anniversary party while I'm there, so I need to practice.
I'm looking forward to seeing them again.
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4 responses
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
15 Dec 15
The "Romance" languages are very similar. Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish. I have a friend who speaks Spanish and English but she also understands Italian.
I wish I knew them all.
@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
16 Dec 15
I speak Hebrew fluently; I read Aramaic and Greek.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
17 Dec 15
That would be so wonderful to be able to read the Bible in those original languages. Are you a Bible reader?
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@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
17 Dec 15
@IreneVincent yes, and for most of my life I've had the Bible in it's original languages with no translation.
@babaraimc (1310)
• Pakistan
18 Dec 15
@IreneVincent i speak English, Urdu, punjabi and a little Arabic
@RonElFran (1214)
• Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
14 Dec 15
I speak some Spanish, but not fluently. I keep working on it sporadically, because I'd like to get better. But it's tough.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
15 Dec 15
You sound like me. I keep trying to learn Spanish on my own, but I think I really need to take some classes. It's the verbs that puzzle me. I have a fairly good vocabulary in Spanish but I never get the sentence structure of the verbs right, unless I just learn complete sentences from a book and memorize them.
