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Llkoolaid

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
English only but can cuss you out in several languages.

Costacat

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
English is my first language. I had years of Espanol but have forgotten most of it (although I can still sorta converse in Spanish when I've been in Mexico for any length of time).

I'm also a tech writer, so my writing skills get a workout pretty much every day! <grin>

Twiggyish

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
English for me, and a bit of Spanish. I understand it, but I don't speak it well.

Auntiemike

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first language was Dutch but am now very proficient in "English" or American, as my mother calls it. I know sign language for the hearing impaired but get by with trying to communicate with English, albeit a very inconsistent, difficult language (the rules are always different!)

Hang in there with learning English, however, as it is universal.

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
English with some court-enforced Latin interlaced therewith. Unfortunately, I have a language barrier in my own home as my cat, Julio, only speaks Spanish. As a matter of self defense and to better serve my interests in the ongoing battle for control, I've been forced to learn key Spanish phrases like "Dejar, p*ssy malo!" and "Puedo tu friggin' dejar?!" Not useful outside the abode, I'm afraid, unless at some point I intend to seek employment in a Mexican humiliatrix den. Which I don't.

Alib

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nimue - Bonne chance. Do you work for the government, too? Are you on language training? or are you doing it on your own? I have done it both ways. Attended weekend classes at Algonquin College in May & June and then had a wonderful tutor for the last three evenings before my test. My best advice is talk, talk, talk!

Strkaholic

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG Goddess..that's twice now my monitor has been drenched in Diet Coke...I will henceforth refrain from drinking anytime I read this thread!

Squaredsc

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rotflmao goddess....i speak fluent american slang, english, and ebonics.

Gusto

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 06:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
first language?

Baby talk

;-)

Tisha90029

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 06:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
English is my first language, but I also speak French fluently (too much time there studying) and Spanish with a few spots. In fact, like Chiparock, I have had to do some translations that got really screwed up....when I was visiting England, the hotel clerk could not speak Spanish (or "Spaaaaaaaan-eeesh" as she called it) and a friend insisted I translate for her. I tried to get out of it because I had drunk a few beers and hadn't spoken Spanish in a couple years, but my friend insisted. The long and the short of it is that I solved the woman's problem, but when we left the elevators on our way to our rooms, she asked me if I was French. I was appalled that I spoke Spanish with a French accent....and then all my friends teased me about being cosmopolitan. LOL.

Buttercup

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 07:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Norwegian is my first language. Have spoken English fluently for the last 10 years or so--okay, semi-fluently I also speak Danish, German and Swedish.

Buttercup

Abbynormal

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
First language would be Southern and then everyone elses English. :)

Lobster

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I speak Bostonese. Oh, and occasionally English.

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Buttercup, I thought Swedish was your first language and you also speak Norwegian?

Jeg vil gerne have en cosmo.

Kaili

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 07:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first language is plain old American. Midwestern American.

I can just see the cringe on everyones face as you all realize how happy you are that you can't hear me talk... :)

Seamonkey

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Baby babble
English
Spanish in HS
French at university.. could actually read it well back then.

computer languages

Feline

smilies, acronyms andodd abbreviations used online, including coinage of a few new words like
"confustigation".

Buttercup

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 08:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Juju teach Juju

Jeg vil gjerne ha en cosmo cosmo

I am starting to get the hang of the southern language as well, ya'll. QZ, also says that I'm fixin' to speak like a hillbillie 'cause I'm gittin' iiit--and I luuv piiiiiiie.

Buttercup

Surini

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 08:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Abbynormal!

Dmarcomb

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 08:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
English first. Know some Spanish. Fluent in Pig Latin and Valley Girl.

Draheid

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 08:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Abbynormal (I second that) but I have a question...didn't I see in the movie Young Frankenstein that it was YOUR brain they put into the 'Monster'? Seems that's what Igor (pronounced Eye-gore according to the movie) said the name on the jar was in that movie, Abby Normal....:)

Sunni

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 08:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with ya Abbynormal, then Spanish(read and understand well), and Italian in college. My little sister is in the 11th grade and she is fluent in Spanish and I answer her in Italian. It's quite the convo. Lol.
I was going to an Italian university this summer, but had a change of plans. Hopefully next year :)

Chyang

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 08:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nankingnese(Raised by grandma)
Mandarin(Official)
Taiwanese(where I grew up)
Assortment of Chinese dialects(relatives & friends)
English
I won't usually mention those HS Italian and not-enough-to-say-so German, but since it's the topic...(once upon a time, I thought it'd be a wonderful idea to pass the German efficiency test and go study there)

So, it's been hard work trying to keep up with you guys. But I really like to come here, imagine how fun it is to discover sentiments, reactions or plain thoughts from all these people with different backgrounds than mine! Just please, please give me a lot of room for miss-spelled words and ilconstructed grammar. Thanks for good times!

Sunni

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 08:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Chyang- I would love to speak Mandarin. :) I think you are doing a great job with the English. I'm surprised at how many people are from different parts of the world and type in English very well. :) I can't say that I could do that in the Languages I have studied.

Tootseug

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 09:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
English would be my primary. However raising two kids, I am adept at teenage slacker-slang as well. Took spanish in HS, but got an "F" cause my teacher didn't like the fact that my friend and I would constantly speak silently to one another across the room, by reading each others lips. So, lip reading ...does that count?

Makeitstop

Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 09:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
English is my first language but I've just started learning Spanish by watching a Mexican soap opera! It's a great way to learn and if I miss somethining I can play a tape back and read the closed captioning. I also tried to visit message boards about my show, but I didn't get a very warm welcome. Oh, well.