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 :(
It makes sense, like the saying “you can’t teach a old dog new tricks”. I’ve proven that wrong it’s just not as easy. Somewhere in my family tree I have some portugese so I have thought about learning it or looking more into it maybe learn some history. Theirs so much I’d like to learn but I need to have a huge passion and desire to put the long time and focus to get anything out of it without forgetting. I tend to lose my passions because I stop trying. For me It’s hard to stay interested and keep learning something. For years I’ve been into dog grooming and have some experience on a few dogs I cut every few months or so. But am just now putting more focus onto it I just hope if I chose to persue this I can put the time into it and focus to improve my skills. If only younger me tried harder too.
That would embarrass me too. At least they may have some appreciation seeing someone wanting to learn their language. Times I’ve signed with deaf people it’s at a moment noone else knows how to talk to them, I was like the translator. It always feels nice to see them happy to have someone to talk to. And seeing a hearing person put interest in their culture. I had to learn some songs as a assignment in my classes. I learned sorry by buckcherry and broken by seether. It was fun to learn but awkward to present.
The grooming thing is something to keep working on, it can eventually become a business! The languages seem to be just for fun for you. I can relate to the starting and giving up on things, I get really interested in something, devote all of my free time and spend some money on it and after about 4 to 6 months I'm done - even though I still like those things, they're not my main focus anymore. I've had so many phases, like origami, sewing, gardening, etc. But those are all just hobbies, I make a living out of teaching English and that is the only constant because, well, there has to be at least one constant! Lol
I just remembered something that was really cool. When I lived in Rio de Janeiro, on my drive to work I used to pass by a school for the deaf. I was always happy to see the students outside, waiting for their parents to pick them up, talking to each other and sometimes even arguing. It was their own world and in a way they had their relationships on show for us passersby.
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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 :(
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It makes sense, like the saying “you can’t teach a old dog new tricks”. I’ve proven that wrong it’s just not as easy. Somewhere in my family tree I have some portugese so I have thought about learning it or looking more into it maybe learn some history. Theirs so much I’d like to learn but I need to have a huge passion and desire to put the long time and focus to get anything out of it without forgetting. I tend to lose my passions because I stop trying. For me It’s hard to stay interested and keep learning something. For years I’ve been into dog grooming and have some experience on a few dogs I cut every few months or so. But am just now putting more focus onto it I just hope if I chose to persue this I can put the time into it and focus to improve my skills. If only younger me tried harder too.
That would embarrass me too. At least they may have some appreciation seeing someone wanting to learn their language. Times I’ve signed with deaf people it’s at a moment noone else knows how to talk to them, I was like the translator. It always feels nice to see them happy to have someone to talk to. And seeing a hearing person put interest in their culture. I had to learn some songs as a assignment in my classes. I learned sorry by buckcherry and broken by seether. It was fun to learn but awkward to present.
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The grooming thing is something to keep working on, it can eventually become a business! The languages seem to be just for fun for you. I can relate to the starting and giving up on things, I get really interested in something, devote all of my free time and spend some money on it and after about 4 to 6 months I'm done - even though I still like those things, they're not my main focus anymore. I've had so many phases, like origami, sewing, gardening, etc. But those are all just hobbies, I make a living out of teaching English and that is the only constant because, well, there has to be at least one constant! Lol
I just remembered something that was really cool. When I lived in Rio de Janeiro, on my drive to work I used to pass by a school for the deaf. I was always happy to see the students outside, waiting for their parents to pick them up, talking to each other and sometimes even arguing. It was their own world and in a way they had their relationships on show for us passersby.