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This is kind of cool.
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This is kind of cool.


Jan 21, 2021, 6:30 AM

Do any of you guys speak a second language?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pouKIooZS8U

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I got a minor in Spanish at Clemson***


Jan 21, 2021, 6:49 AM



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Re: I got a minor in Spanish at Clemson***


Jan 21, 2021, 7:17 AM

That's great. Would you consider yourself fluent?

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No, not even close


Jan 21, 2021, 7:32 AM

I graduated 15 yrs ago and definitely have not kept it up

I’d love to pickup again with DuoLingo or something like that

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Both my brothers, at one time, were great at Spanish


Jan 21, 2021, 7:41 AM

but I think it is like your penis, if you don't use it, you lose it.

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Same boat here. Minored in Spanish


Jan 21, 2021, 7:44 AM [ in reply to No, not even close ]

It's odd though, because I can't speak it at all. BUT, I can understand probably 80-90% of it, so I can understand Spanish listening to someone else speaking it. Coming up with the words though escapes me.

I'm pretty sure if I spent 6 months in a place where only Spanish was spoken, I'd be fluent.

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Too beaucoup! Too beaucoup!!!!***


Jan 21, 2021, 7:19 AM



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I took ALOT of German in high school and some in college


Jan 21, 2021, 7:40 AM

and can now ask about the bathroom and the pencil sharpener and that is about it.

Ich bin ein Berliner.

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vos ist los ?***


Jan 21, 2021, 8:57 AM



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Du bist ein scheisse kopf


Jan 21, 2021, 9:02 AM

Esta Susanna en casa?

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You are a shi-thead?***


Jan 21, 2021, 9:12 AM



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That's about half of what I remember from 3 years of HS


Jan 21, 2021, 9:13 AM

german

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Alles gut***


Jan 21, 2021, 9:12 AM [ in reply to vos ist los ?*** ]



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I failed Latin in the 8th grade


Jan 21, 2021, 7:53 AM

Learned enough to kill the verbal section on the old SAT though

Friend of mine’s daughter (no pigs) can converse in Spanish and Japanese and can read Korean

She’s a high school senior- I’ve seen her zooming with friends in Japan and going back and forth between a phone call with her typical Spartanburg teen boyfriend in English and the computer in Japanese- amazing

She gets all the good stuff at the Tienda - freshest bread nicest cakes etc.

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Isaac Asimov


Re: I failed Latin in the 8th grade


Jan 21, 2021, 8:29 AM

Why do we even take Latin? I don't get it. Why is it useful? That's a serious question.

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It helped me figure out words I’d never seen before


Jan 21, 2021, 8:44 AM

When I took the SAT which I think is part of the reason they’ve changed it.

Science and medical folks find it useful for the same reason oh and I guess Latin Scholars still need it.

You’ve got to remember way back when I was in the 8th grade, there were still parts of the far flung empire speaking Latin on a daily basis.

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I don't get it either, since I had to take Latin in the 8th


Jan 21, 2021, 8:50 AM [ in reply to Re: I failed Latin in the 8th grade ]

and 9th grade taught by a woman who seemed to be in her 80s at the time, while my friends had Spanish with one of the hottest teachers around...

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2 Years of Latin.


Jan 21, 2021, 7:55 AM

Turned out it's useless in Latin America, so I took 2 years of Spanish. Now if I'm lost in the middle of Nicaragua, I can speak enough to get out, although I might accidentally call a Contra the son of a motherless rat.

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i speak fluent southern english, does that count?***


Jan 21, 2021, 8:05 AM



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ken u speek reel kuntry?


Jan 21, 2021, 8:43 AM

wife of Papa G has a problem understanding a very strong southern accent.

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Re: This is kind of cool.


Jan 21, 2021, 8:05 AM

I've encouraged my granddaughters to pursue Mandarin, since socialist fools like some on Tnet are going to cause the American experiment to succumb to the ChiComs! They need to be ready ...

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I'm actually fluent in a number of broken Englishes.


Jan 21, 2021, 8:13 PM

Back when I was in sales, I always got handed any account where the owner was a foreign-born and spoke broken English because I had an innate ability to understand them, and them me. I'm also fluent in New York/New Jersey, Chester, Lancaster, Orangeburg, Appalachian Mountain White Trash, and Minnesota.

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My German is a bit rusty


Jan 21, 2021, 8:49 AM

Use to get by with some Spanglish while in Messico
Knew about 10 words Shanghai-ese when in China
The dang Italians won’t slow down enough for me to learn when over there...

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how can a white girl


Jan 21, 2021, 9:01 AM

speak Mandarin? That is unpossible!

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


Re: how can a white girl


Jan 21, 2021, 9:08 AM

She is speaking it perfectly. That's more the point.

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Is it racist or misogynistic


Jan 21, 2021, 9:17 AM

To think a white girl can’t speak fluent Chinese?

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Re: Is it racist or misogynistic


Jan 21, 2021, 9:19 AM

Yes. It's both. How dare you!

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