how many languages can you speak/read/write?

[cityboy-stl]

^ Spitting what?

Spitting is gross.

Splitting the verb by inserting an adverb. For instance, splitting the infinitive "to go" by inserting "boldly", as in "to boldly go where no man has gone before", rather than "boldly to go". Another example is inserting the adverb "already" in "have gone", the present perfect form of "to go", as in "have already gone", rather than, "already have gone right out the window".

It is considered bad grammar to split verb infinitives, but everyone does it. Never mind.

 

[Araucaria]

I took a year of college Spanish, but I don't feel that I really understand the language; I can only catch an occasional word here and there when I hear the local Cubans speaking, and I don't usually get the gist of what is being said. I also took a semester of high school level French at the urging of my Mother, who taught conversational French, because she was afraid that not enough people would sign up for the class to make. I know even less of that language.

It's a shame, too, because it would be good to be fluent in several languages, and I feel that it would be great for expanding your mind, and to understand what speakers and writers are saying, rather than simply to rely on the translation programs. I've also thought it would be neat to learn German, Italian, and Portuguese.

 

[Peloso]

Spitting is gross.

Splitting the verb by inserting an adverb. For instance, splitting the infinitive "to go" by inserting "boldly", as in "to boldly go where no man has gone before", rather than "boldly to go". Another example is inserting the adverb "already" in "have gone", the present perfect form of "to go", as in "have already gone", rather than, "already have gone right out the window".

It is considered bad grammar to split verb infinitives, but everyone does it. Never mind.

The sad thing is that my grammar is probably super way better than most people's.

 

[unloadonme]

I only speak English. Haven't a clue about anything else.

 

[ShadowCat]

I can also say hello, pleased to meet you, Thank you and goodbye in Japanese As well as nipples but the latter was f4om fucking around on google translate!

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I only speak English. Haven't a clue about anything else.

To the surprise of no one.

 

[unloadonme]

To the surprise of no one.

One of my private correspondents told me you'd say something like that, so no surprises from you either!

 

[Reischfleger]

English & Spanish (Mother tongue/ American dad and Latino mother) German and Dutch (working and living in Germany for a Dutch/German company for over 15 years)

 

[Polacobienculito]

Why not? Spelling and grammar have already gone right out the window.

Imagine we would all just walk around naked and suck and fuck each other all day long with total strangers

 

[rareboy]

I now often walk around the house speaking frisian to our cats and myself. To be clear. My grandparents always spoke Frisian to us and we always mostly spoke in English when we were with them....but I can hear my grandparent's and mother's voices so clearly and had a 100% aural grasp of the language. For whatever reason now, Frisian words and expressions seem to express what I am really thinking or feeling than English

My conversational French, Italian and Spanish have gotten even rustier for lack of use, but if they are spoken without regional dialect or written as 'spoken word' I can manage well enough.

What does amaze me is that I can increasingly read and speak (moderately simple) German phrases without much difficulty even though I never studied it or worked or lived in Germany. I think it is something I have picked up along the way from the internet.