Languages!
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ofearthandstars.
1. How many languages do you speak?
Fluently? Two - English and Spanish
Know Enough to Understand Simple Conversations? Two more - German and Hebrew
Learned but forgotten? I studied a LOT of French in high school and college. I can still read it fairly well but it would take me a while to regain speaking and understanding vocabulary.
Can read their alphabet/pronounce their words, understand a few that occur a lot in folk songs? Bulgarian, Georgian, Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian
2. What is your mother tongue?
It's complicated. I learned Spanish first from my parents, but I was born in the US and educated in English. I sing a lot in other languages, and I find other pronunciations and accents sliding into my English these days.
3. What is a language that you would like to learn and why?
See above for the many I know bits of and want to sing well.
4. Does it bother you when people speak a language you don't know in front of you? Why or why not?
I love hearing other languages. It makes me feel safe and at home. I have relatives across the world and visiting them meant hearing a welter of languages. I like being able to identify the language even if I don't know it.
5. Speak to me.
Shalom. Hello. Bonjour. Straveite! Gamarjos. Guten tag. Hola.
A side effect of having bits of so many languages is that sometimes I feel like I'm rummaging through a trunk throwing out first one language and then another when I'm trying to remember a particular word in a particular language.
ofearthandstars.1. How many languages do you speak?
Fluently? Two - English and Spanish
Know Enough to Understand Simple Conversations? Two more - German and Hebrew
Learned but forgotten? I studied a LOT of French in high school and college. I can still read it fairly well but it would take me a while to regain speaking and understanding vocabulary.
Can read their alphabet/pronounce their words, understand a few that occur a lot in folk songs? Bulgarian, Georgian, Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian
2. What is your mother tongue?
It's complicated. I learned Spanish first from my parents, but I was born in the US and educated in English. I sing a lot in other languages, and I find other pronunciations and accents sliding into my English these days.
3. What is a language that you would like to learn and why?
See above for the many I know bits of and want to sing well.
4. Does it bother you when people speak a language you don't know in front of you? Why or why not?
I love hearing other languages. It makes me feel safe and at home. I have relatives across the world and visiting them meant hearing a welter of languages. I like being able to identify the language even if I don't know it.
5. Speak to me.
Shalom. Hello. Bonjour. Straveite! Gamarjos. Guten tag. Hola.
A side effect of having bits of so many languages is that sometimes I feel like I'm rummaging through a trunk throwing out first one language and then another when I'm trying to remember a particular word in a particular language.