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which foreign language would you like to speak as well as your first language?
ifyoucantfixit:
Me personally I would like to speak Chinese or Japanese, but I think in all practicality
Spanish is a better choice, simply because of the growth of people that speak that language..It is not going to be very long until we will have about 1/3 of our citizens speaking spanish..
I know enough of it to get the jist of a conversation, and i can read a bit more, but I need to be more fluent myself. My grandaughter has an affinity for language. She speaks french and she knows latin, and is now teaching herself spanish..Of course as well as english..
It will always be a help in whatever line of work she finally settles on..
dot-matrix:
--- Quote from: Dagi on October 14, 2007, 07:16:48 am ---Hey Dottie, das habe ich gar nicht gewusst! Ich werde in Zukunft ein bisschen Deutsch mit Dir sprechen, okay? I love Spanish, too, but I think I lost it. Yesterday a Latinamerican friend replied to a message I had sent him in 2002, and I had difficulties reading my own letter from back then... :(
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OK, I got the part that said you're going to speak German to me in future. Aller, den ich zu dem sagen kann, ist ich versucht aber keine Versprechungen und kein Lachen an meiner schrecklichen Grammatik und Rechtschreibung. ;) :laugh: I tried to write an e-mail to Sharon using the translation software on my husbands computer to help me and it was a disaster ::) we both laughed.
ednbarby:
For me, it's Spanish. I live in South Florida and work with many Spanish-speaking people. I'd love to know what they're talking about in the break room. It's probably just the same mundane stuff we talk about in English, but it sounds so much more exotic coming from them. I always marvel at how well they've mastered both languages, too. English is so difficult to learn - having a five-year-old and teaching him to read and write will tell you that like nothing else.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on October 15, 2007, 10:23:06 pm ---For me, it's Spanish. I live in South Florida and work with many Spanish-speaking people. I'd love to know what they're talking about in the break room. It's probably just the same mundane stuff we talk about in English, but it sounds so much more exotic coming from them. I always marvel at how well they've mastered both languages, too. English is so difficult to learn - having a five-year-old and teaching him to read and write will tell you that like nothing else.
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It's so good to see you back again Barb! I miss you like hell when you're not here! :)
Lynne:
I'm going to pick Gaelic...because it's a language of my ancestors and it's used less and less frequently as I understand it - I hate to think of how quickly so many languages are dying, daily from what I read.
Besides, it's romantic and I like the words I already know like a ghra and Shanachie and Slainte. ;)
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