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Ataahua
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May 6 2018, 10:35pm
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Do you know a second (or third, etc) language?
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Today is sign language week in NZ (one of three official languages in NZ), which made me wonder how many polyglots we have on the boards. 
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Otaku-sempai
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May 7 2018, 12:36am
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I've forgotten most of my two years of high-school Spanish. Also I know a few (spoken) phrases of Japanese and can recognize a handful of kanji.
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Attalus
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May 7 2018, 12:51am
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My gf is the real polyglot, though. She speaks French like a Parisian (I am told. I wouldn't know myself) and Spanish like a Mexican because she grew up next to a immigrant Mexican family.
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Elberbeth
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May 7 2018, 1:23pm
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Less and less as the years go by
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A little French that I learned in school, but never used; a little Spanish, enough to get me a cervesa or mas; bits of Swahili, mostly nouns, from time spent in Africa when I was a teen. My English is pretty good though!
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Darkstone
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May 7 2018, 5:56pm
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Primary language is Texan. (On a good day I can squeeze four syllables out of the word “red”.)
Secondary language is English.
Wifey and I and some friends sometimes converse in Latin just for fun.
I can (or used to) speak French and German well enough to get mistaken not for a native, but at least for a non-American. (I could recite The Jabberwocky in French or German which had people in stitches. Whether it was because of the poem or my pronunciation is another story.)
Also a bit of Vietnamese and Thai but that was way back in the 70s.
In high school belonged to a Tolkien club where we only spoke Sindarin during the socializing part of the meetings.
I also remember an Esperanto club but not much.
I know enough Hebrew and Koine Greek for Bible studies.
My recent attempts to learn Classical Arabic and Modern Japanese were both abject failures.
So 2.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 9 2018, 9:20pm
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I read better than I speak or listen
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in fact, I read "El Senor de los Anillos" (LotR in Spanish) at the height of the movie madness about 15 years ago. I also read "El Hobbit". It was interesting because it was Castillian Spanish, not the Mexican Spanish I had studied. Strider (Trancos) was so sexy in Spanish!
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Annael
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May 10 2018, 3:38pm
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at one point I was fluent in French, even dreamt in it, and I usually understand when people speak it; sometimes I still think in it. Have been planning to get Duolingo and brush up on it again as I think it would come back toute suite.
I've also studied German and Italian for one year each; I've forgotten most of what I learned, but it's been helpful in my singing as we sing a lot in both languages (as well as Latin, which I know nothing about except that people fight a lot over how it's pronounced, as no one actually knows).
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Attalus
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May 10 2018, 10:32pm
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Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin novels, they get to criticize one another's Latin pronunciation. Stephen, as usual, is insufferable about things like that: "barbaric English way of Latin pronunciation." I hasten to add that Jack is a total monoglot who thinks adding "a" to English words makes them intelligible Spanish.
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swordwhale
Tol Eressea
May 13 2018, 6:01pm
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in the US.
I learned a tiny bit from some neighbors, but they are now far away in KY and I've lost the language. Memorable moment: at a fast food place with some of the family outside, signing through the windows about what they wanted to order...
Should be taught in all schools.
I discovered it was easier to remember certain things if I Signed them. A physical movement connected to an idea makes it easier to remember.
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Ataahua
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May 13 2018, 6:58pm
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I discovered it was easier to remember certain things if I Signed them. A physical movement connected to an idea makes it easier to remember.
Perhaps then I'd remember whether I'd locked the door or not on the way to work.
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Attalus
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May 15 2018, 5:34am
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turned off the darned stove!
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swordwhale
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May 16 2018, 7:59pm
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how many times I have turned around a mile down the road...
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sparrowruth
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Apr 5 2019, 10:49pm
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i am in the process of learning korean but as of yet my vocabulary is pretty limited
i know just enough french to get myself in trouble as a consequence of mandatory middle school classes (hurrah for having two official languages but only really learning one of them)
i tried teaching myself greek for a bit but never really got farther than the alphabet
aaand there is the language(s) my sister and i have invented. does being semi-fluent in a language exactly one other person has any comprehension of count?
oh! upon reading through the other posts i remembered that i had forgotten to add that i know the asl finger-spelling alphabet and a small smattering of other signs. not enough to be remotely fluent but i could eventually make myself understood
(This post was edited by sparrowruth on Apr 5 2019, 10:53pm)
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Ioreth
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Oct 30 2020, 1:10pm
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grew up with both swedish and german.
am rather fluent in English.
Did study french in College - but have forgotten lots ...
Did take a course on Quenya in our Stockholm Tolkien Society ;O
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