English and Portuguese equally. Then, in order of how fluent I am, French, Italian and Spanish. I barely get by in German and know a couple of sentences in Polish, Russian and Japanese. And just one in Afrikaans.
Not really, I think. Apart from English and Portuguese (I was brought up between the US and Brazil during childhood) I just know those other languages enough to communicate in the countries where they are spoken!
Yes, it is a lot!!! I try hard (I love languages and studying them), but the truth is that I can only really understand those other languages when I'm speaking to people who are willing to slow down a bit to actually communicate with me. :)
I’d love to study them more if only I could pay attention more and remember better. It was always so difficult for me but I keep trying to learn something beyond english. Probably the reason I can get asl down is because it’s pretty much english without some wording, and of course seeing and doing the movement rather than repeating a word and trying to remember it. I always have to tell deaf people “again slow” they’re so fast it’s like they assume I’m also deaf.
I love talking to deaf people in this other language but it sucks when I don’t know enough to understand a lot I’ll have to resign what they did and say “means what” every other word pretty much, feel like such a burden with it. But it is a nice experience I was happy to learn what it was like. I’d take more classes on it if I could.
Languages are easier to acquire when you're exposed to them from a very young age or until the age of 16 or so. My kid students learn much more easily than the adult ones who have never tried before. (They're native Brazilian Portuguese speakers)
Years I got in a pickle once when I was jokingly communicating with my friends [who were inside a restaurant sitting by the window] by singing the song I mentioned. Someone came up to me and started signing... and I had to spell I couldn't. Funny but embarrassing :(
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English and Portuguese equally. Then, in order of how fluent I am, French, Italian and Spanish. I barely get by in German and know a couple of sentences in Polish, Russian and Japanese. And just one in Afrikaans.
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Damn that’s pretty impressive.
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Not really, I think. Apart from English and Portuguese (I was brought up between the US and Brazil during childhood) I just know those other languages enough to communicate in the countries where they are spoken!
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I guess if you put it that way. I was only brought up around English. Still a lot to understand even if you arn’t very fluent in them, to me at least.
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Yes, it is a lot!!! I try hard (I love languages and studying them), but the truth is that I can only really understand those other languages when I'm speaking to people who are willing to slow down a bit to actually communicate with me. :)
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I’d love to study them more if only I could pay attention more and remember better. It was always so difficult for me but I keep trying to learn something beyond english. Probably the reason I can get asl down is because it’s pretty much english without some wording, and of course seeing and doing the movement rather than repeating a word and trying to remember it. I always have to tell deaf people “again slow” they’re so fast it’s like they assume I’m also deaf.
I love talking to deaf people in this other language but it sucks when I don’t know enough to understand a lot I’ll have to resign what they did and say “means what” every other word pretty much, feel like such a burden with it. But it is a nice experience I was happy to learn what it was like. I’d take more classes on it if I could.
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Languages are easier to acquire when you're exposed to them from a very young age or until the age of 16 or so. My kid students learn much more easily than the adult ones who have never tried before. (They're native Brazilian Portuguese speakers)
Years I got in a pickle once when I was jokingly communicating with my friends [who were inside a restaurant sitting by the window] by singing the song I mentioned. Someone came up to me and started signing... and I had to spell I couldn't. Funny but embarrassing :(