What languages do you speak?

[rainbabies]

and take a small dog named Tobia for a walk, since it is a beautiful day.

So far, I can identify a couch and take a small dog named Tobia for a walk, since it is a beautiful day. Otherwise, I'm out of luck in Italy! .

For some reason this reminded me of my surley high school days. I thought it was hillarious to learn how to swear (specifically the Queen Mother of 'em all) in other languages. At one point I proudly walked around telling people I could either get laid, or get kicked out of 19 different countries.

I can't remember all of the languages that I knew nastiness in, but Serbian, Polish, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Spanish, French, German were all on the list. I could say the most AWFUL stuff in Serbian.

[alison]

German and Japanese (except for reading and writing - I'm at a 6th grade level) fluently.

French (reading). I can get by in French-speaking countries, but I find that raising my voice and repeating "I KNOW YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!" In France works better than trying to speak French.

[MrsC]

Well, besides English, I speak fluent Irish (Gaelic) and some French. I'm trying to brush up on my French since DH speaks fluently. His Mom speaks to them in French. I also studied Italian and Spanish for a while.

[Malpka]

English... with a drawl. Also passable "Spanglish" (a must for living in FLA) and enough Polish to threaten my children in public wihtout seeming lie a shrew. I really want to take a Polish class and findout what my in-laws have been saying about me all this time

I really want to take a Polish class and findout what my in-laws have been saying about me all this time

that is KEY! that's why I learned some Gujarati! It's SO much fun to catch them!!

I speak Japanese fluently, and a smattering of French. I'm a freelance Japanese-English translator now, but was a teacher in the BC (Before Child) era.

DH and I met while I was living in Japan. Now we live back in Australia and we're trying to raise DD as a bilingual.

[Amiens]

I can speak French, well I am starting to get a bit rusty- my written and reading skills have always been stronger than the oral. I have a BA in French, and mom is French Canadian.

Dh is fluent in Dutch, and knows some German. I know a smattering of Dutch phrases.

Also took Spanish in high school, but Emma speaks more Spanish than I do because of the class she takes at preschool.

Crystal

[rainbabies]

im with tara. i can understand anything baby or toddler. i took spanish in HS but sucked. i can understand a very tiny bit of hebrew.

dh is fluent in french. he knows some hebrew and can understand a little flemish.

im with tara. i can understand anything baby or toddler. .

This makes me think of that new baby sign language. Anyone using it? I met a surgery resident mom who was using it with her baby and it was quite amazing.

[Stella]

There's actually a whole thread on that somewhere in parenting...