Category: Safe Haven
Hi All, What languages do you speak? Is English your first language? Well, English is mine. I took a bit of German in fourth grade, my whole class did, because my teacher hired a German woman to teach us some. It was fun, and I learned a lot. Forgot it all now, though. But now I'm in French, this is my third year. Technically second, because two years iin middle school is equal to one high school year. But yeah. i love French. I'm so shocked at how much I can say in it now, though I'm far from fluent. So what's your story? Lol... Caitlin
I speak English (of course) and French. I took four years of it and finished up in sophemore year. I like the language, and might continue in college, or maybe go onto Spanish or Latin. Latin's so pretty.
Lucky for me, I'm in Chorus, so I sing in a bunch of different languages and I enjoy it. It's challenging but fun. I don't know how long I'll stay in French. I love it, but it is a challenge. I hope to stay with it for as long as I can, and as long as i enjoy it. Caitlin
Italian and broad Edinburgh Scots to understand my brother I'd love to learn Black Speech from Mordor.
I speak english as a first language. I know quite a bit of french, but being out of the class sorta is making me loose it. I also know a little bit of japanese as well, thanks to my friend and her trusty japanese/english dictionary
Strangely enough, English is my second language. I grew up speaking Spanish, 'til I started going to school, and that's where I learned my English. I speak, read, and write better in English now than I do in Spanish. How sad is that!
Like everyone else, English is my first language, too :) i've taken French throughout grade school, and I really enjoyed it. I thought about taking the immersion program in Junior High, but I changed my mind because I had this belief that I wasn't going to do well in it, lol! I know a lot of different words for different languages, and I've actually taken the time and patients to learn Hawaiian (which I am still not fluent in today). I know a bit of the native language too :)
I took about 3 years of french in high school, but I didn't learn a whole lot of it, and it was so long ago, I've forgotten it all now. I started taking German a few years ago on cassette tapes, but those tapes you buy in the store isn't a good way to learn another language, because there is very little, or even no english translation at all, and although I learned some, I just couldn't get my vocabulary up. I was listening to ashortwave broadcast station in German once, and I could only get a word here, a few words there. A man was talking about someone being put in the hospital, and my poor german translated it to, hisarm had been put in the hospital, lol, that's really bad. I just gave up on it, because there was no way I could build my vocabulary.
Wonderwoman
lol well, my first language is spanish even though sometimes it doesn't appear like, (since I don't talk it in the zone, unless for a few posts i have made on the boards) well my spelling in spanish is quite bad since it is dificult. Well and plan to learn the brazilian language... lol
Wonderwoman: German sounds like a really interesting language to learn. My uncle (through marriage) is German. He grew up there his whole life and he moved here about 3 years before I was born, lol! He and my aunt are no longer married though, but he taught me a few words.
Wow, you guys, this is so cool, reading about all these languages. Cool cool coolhlhlhlhlhlhlhlhlhl!
Caitlin
Oh, and keep them coming! Grin!
Caitlin
Hi Hawaiian heart, German is interesting, but very difficult, but so is French. I think they're difficult because the verbs and nouns are backwards from english. I had this wonderful idea, that I was going to take one language at a time, and when I had learned all I could of one language, I was going to tackle another, but it just didn't work that way, though the idea was wonderful while it lasted. Some of you ought to try Japanese for a challenge. It takes just about all day to say thank you. The reason I started trying the languages thing was, because I use to be in amateur radio, and I use to talk to a woman who is German, and she taught me a few words, and I could repeat them ok, so I just thought it would be neat, listening to a conversation in another language, and being able to understand what was being said, but it just didn't work.
wonderwoman
Hmm I took french at school for 2 years umm it got me no where. (I failed) and I've been learning American sign language out of school for almost 5 years and also take the ASL (American sign language) course at school. I know a little bit of Auslan (Australian sign lnaguage) and some BSL (brittish sign language) And I speak english (duhh) lol yea, that's it.
Ph yeah and I speak non fluent pig Latin. hehehe. Osay owhay reaay ouyay odaytay? Ehehehehay!
AitlinCay
My pig latin isn't good either. I might can say a word or 2 in pig latin, but not much more than that.
onderwa omanwa
Oh my, Jaws mangled that even worse than it was already mangled.
I speak English, Ebonics, my friend is teachin' me French, I new Spanish, I failed it.
Cortney
Lol Tortor, you're awesome with French!
And wonderwoman eheheh about Jaws! That was funny how it mangled that.
AitlinCay
I could have sworn I posted here already? Anyway, I took a year of Spanish and was horrible at it. I failed.
BugBug, I highly doubt that! Hehehe!
Caitlin
Also, if you do badly in a class for languages, doesn't mean you're bad at the language. Because sometimes the tests and work etc don't really reflect how well you do at a language. So even if you didn't do well in the class doesn't matter, becausey ou coudl be great at the language tiself. Just something I learned/figured out / was told.
Caitlin
I got D's and F's in that class. I wasn't very interested in learning Spanish.
I speak English, Some spanish, and even a little Hebrew. I love Spanish. It's my fave class. I have a friend who is from Colombia, and she says that she forgets how to spell in Spanish also. It's cool.
I love languages! I took French, Spanish and Latin in high school, and have continued french and spanish in college. I know a tiny bit of german, and a bit of Gaelic. I want to learn as many languages as i can.
Yeah, Bugga, if you're not into the languag,e then obviously I suppose you wouldn't do as well in it. But that doesn't mean you're not good at it hehehe! Anyway I applaud you for stickin' with it as long as you could. Cool IC, I sing some Hebrew songs in Choir and i love the language. And Megan, whoa, that's a lot of languages. Hehehe!
Caitlin
Megan, how'd I know you'd post on this topic lol? I don't know if Braille counts as a language but I know grades 1 and 2, musical braille, the Nemeth code for math and science, French braille, chemestry braille, and am learning Grade 3 braiile in a course from the Hadley School.
I've taken french and spanish for 5 years and am not bad at it, I also started learning german last year and now have a german girlfriend, that helps my German quite a bit, what a hell of an insentive! Lol also I speak jamaican patois, which isn't really a language but if I did a post in it ya wouldn't understand it. Finally, I'm learning a small, amount of thai.
MJ
Ooh I know french braille too, well, with the accents, and stuff? Grade one French though. And I know like three symbols in comptuer braille! Lol!
Caitlin
And, of course, regular Grades one and two braille, and slate and stylus, though very slowly. Lol! I think we can all cook up languages here. Oh and also my friend and i used to make up languages. Rotfl.
Caitlin
I'm really bad at slate and stylus. In fact, I have a sighted friend who's better than me at it.
lol guys. from my writing, you guys can easily know that English is not my first language lol. yes my first language is chinese. i can speake up to four languages in chinese. i'm from Malaysia, Malay language is our country first language and i can speak but slowly have already forgotten lots of malay words though. hmmm have return it back to teacher hahaha. now i'm learning German from some of the zoners here. still can't speak it out just just can say hello in german lol. English? hmmm of course still the way to learn but i thank for all the zoners here. you guys really hope me up to improve my Poor and Bad English spelling lol. ones again thanks alot. cause of that, recently, i found out one thing. my Chinese is getting worse than before though. is a good sigh for me. that means i really improve in my English writing. oops, i've write and spell lots of rong word. hahaha. sorry!
That's likely what i'm going to major in... i think...
Heheh I'm really bad at slate and stylus, I've heard many good people go on it and it sounds like popcorn hehehe!
Caitlin
P.S. All of you know so many languages. I feel dumb. Hehehe jkjk! Lol!
You probably know what language I speak from my username. I learned to speak english when I started going to school, now I speak both turkish and english
Greek is my first language and i can speak English as well.
Hi everyone.
My first language is--obviously--English, you guessed it! My second language is Spanish. I'm not very good at it, however. My best friend's brother speaks it, that is also his second language. He's extremely excellent!!!
Macy
Hi everyone, my first Language is English. I did French at hi school but have forgoten most of it now. I did Spanish at college. But have forgot some that to. I want to go back and improve my Spanish. I tried teaching myself Italian but found it simular to Spanish.
Oh and my friend is from Ukraine, and a US citizen. He can speak Russian. He goes to my school.
English is not my first language, unfortunately, hell my real name isn't even in English. My first language is Cantonese Chinese. I am a first generation here, but I am rather americanized, speak
English with very little trace of an accent, and live mostly like an american.