roadfix
Chef Extraordinaire
velochic......do you cycle on the track? Reason I ask is usernames similar to yours are seen in cycling forums. Just curious, that's all.
How many languages you can speak fluently?
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Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
I'm fairly fluent in English, lol. I know enough Spanish to get the gist of some conversations. Not so important now that I'm married, but I can say, "Are you married?" in Swedish, as well as "Yes, I am married," and "No, I am not married." 
Barbara
Barbara
CasperImproved
Sous Chef
Barbara - I speak English fluently (notice my posts elsewhere), but aside from having learned a few sayings in other languages (I tend to do that when I know I'm going to vist other countries), I have the ability of providing a large noisy stomach grumble if hungry enough that needs little interpretation
Bob
Bob
roadfix
Chef Extraordinaire
Yes, I used to race fixed gear. Too old now.
I'm old too, but I've been riding my fixed gear regularly on the streets (w/front brake) for at least 15 years.....way before all the hipsters wannabes came into the scene. I intend to keep riding at least til I'm 90. You might have noticed my addiction to FG from my username.
CasperImproved
Sous Chef
Does body language count?
Bob
Bob
katybar22
Senior Cook
I know how to say "Oooo, there's a snake in my bag!" in spanish. Other than that, I only massacre the english language. I should learn more spanish.
Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
My grandparents were from Sweden, and they were determined that their kids would only speak English (something I have always regretted). My mom said the only time they ever heard Swedish around the house was at Christmas and birthdays, and when my grandfather hit his thumb with the hammer.I speak English fluently and can swear pretty good in Italian too
Barbara
CasperImproved
Sous Chef
japanese & spanish are fine, but i've been out of the u.s. for so long that i have doubts about my english!
philso - You have been on here a while. I don't think it would bother you too much. But we can poke at you and laugh if you want it as a reminder
We'll do that if it makes you feel happy Otherwise, I'll just be quiet.
Bob
roadfix
Chef Extraordinaire
japanese & spanish are fine, but i've been out of the u.s. for so long that i have doubts about my english!
Here's a tongue twister for you:
Bozu ga byobu ni jyozu na bozu no e o kaita.
babetoo
Chef Extraordinaire
two, english and baby talk. lol
Claire
Master Chef
Barbara, my father's first language is French, my mom speaks it fluently, but they were determined to NOT have their kids suffer from the confusion of a second language at home (my father definitely did), so spoke it only when they didn't want us kids to know what they were talking about. (For our Canadian friends, my parents' families were what my husband jokingly refers to as "frost-backs"). I can pretty much read brochures and do about 1st or 2nd grade level things in French, but can't speak it or actually understand it at all when it is spoken at what is a normal speed. When I travelled in Quebec, one phrase I learned before I left (several of my friends are native speakers) was, "speak to me as if I was five years old!". It was a huge hit.
My sister married a Puerto Rican man. At one point she told me that everyone should learn Spanish, it is the future. I cracked up. She'd barely, and I do mean barely, passed her college requirements for foreign language. Spanish. When she was living with this man. They have definitely NOT taught their kids Spanish. Finally I told her, "XXXX, I have taken 4 years of French, one of German, and a semester of Spanish, which, I might add, I got an "A" in. I can say hello, good bye, please, thank you in a half dozen other languages. So give your lecture to someone who doesn't think a second language is important."
I do wish we offered second languages more consistently at a very early age. I think it trains your mind in different ways. And when you might, at an older age, need to learn another language, my experience is that it is easier to learn another language if you learned a second language as a child.
What little French I do know, in spite of a speech impediment (which isn't there in English, but prevents me from pronouncing a French "r" correctly) I have, in spite of not having gone to France since I was 3 years old, used to its ultmost. If nothing else, I entertained a French-speaking northern African man by telling him about my problem with "r" and then, to add to that, telling him that I can't even say my own name correctly (I have something like 5 Rs in my full, very French, name).
My sister married a Puerto Rican man. At one point she told me that everyone should learn Spanish, it is the future. I cracked up. She'd barely, and I do mean barely, passed her college requirements for foreign language. Spanish. When she was living with this man. They have definitely NOT taught their kids Spanish. Finally I told her, "XXXX, I have taken 4 years of French, one of German, and a semester of Spanish, which, I might add, I got an "A" in. I can say hello, good bye, please, thank you in a half dozen other languages. So give your lecture to someone who doesn't think a second language is important."
I do wish we offered second languages more consistently at a very early age. I think it trains your mind in different ways. And when you might, at an older age, need to learn another language, my experience is that it is easier to learn another language if you learned a second language as a child.
What little French I do know, in spite of a speech impediment (which isn't there in English, but prevents me from pronouncing a French "r" correctly) I have, in spite of not having gone to France since I was 3 years old, used to its ultmost. If nothing else, I entertained a French-speaking northern African man by telling him about my problem with "r" and then, to add to that, telling him that I can't even say my own name correctly (I have something like 5 Rs in my full, very French, name).
JoMama
Senior Cook
Two ... English ... and Blonde ... LOL!
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