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126coupe 05-15-2008 01:49 PM

Who speaks more than one Language?
 
English being my only language I decided to learn Italian. My wife is going to Italy with a girlfriend and we decided after 50 years on this earth its time to do it.
We started in January using the "Pimsleur" method. Highly recommended. We just finished Italian I (16 cd's, thirty 20-30 minute lessons) We have been doing it about an hour a day 6 days a week.
Pimsleur has Italian II and III. When you finish with Italian III you are a 2- on a scale of 5, 5 being fluent.
Its quite challenging, but fun too.
I have always felt that people that speak more than one language are,should I say superior?

This method is conversational, so you can get around other countries easily and converse with the locals.

azasadny 05-15-2008 01:54 PM

English and Arabic here...

Tobra 05-15-2008 01:59 PM

English, Spanish, French, Japanese, pretty rusty on French and Japanese

NY65912 05-15-2008 02:10 PM

English, Italian (spoken in the house) and Spanish and Brooklynese.

Believe me it does'nt make you superior. But it's great when you travel to a country and you speak the language. I have found that the locals treat you somewhat different if you know their language.

daepp 05-15-2008 02:15 PM

Does Latin count?

stomachmonkey 05-15-2008 02:30 PM

In order of learning,

German, (hoch unt swabisch) English , Spanish, Italian.

RPKESQ 05-15-2008 02:33 PM

English, Latin, French, some German, some Italian, some Gaelic, some Japanese, some Swahili, some Spanish. Always hoping to add more.

jyl 05-15-2008 02:38 PM

English, French, some Chinese

Oh, and a teeny bit of German.

126coupe 05-15-2008 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daepp (Post 3944731)
Does Latin count?

Sure it does, is Latin close to Italian?

sammyg2 05-15-2008 02:51 PM

I know a little spanish:
"four by four" means please, "adidas" means good bye, and "fleas on my dog" means merry christmas.

My 9 year old son can converse well in Russian and Spanish.

jriera 05-15-2008 03:07 PM

Fluent in Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and English

Can ask for the bathroom and order a beer in Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Japanese, Bahasa, Endebele, Russian, Latin and Texan

imcarthur 05-15-2008 03:16 PM

Canadian, American, some real English, and enough French to be dangerous.

Ian

rdrr 05-15-2008 03:28 PM

English, German, some Mandarin, some Cantonese
forgotten all the Latin and French

slodave 05-15-2008 04:06 PM

German, English - I have been known to speak drunk on occasion as well.

WolfeMacleod 05-15-2008 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RPKESQ (Post 3944775)
.... some Gaelic,.

Scots or Irish?

Keep it alive!

m21sniper 05-15-2008 04:19 PM

English and broken self-taught spanish. Heh.

Hugh R 05-15-2008 04:31 PM

As an ugly American, I just speak slowly and loudly.

Buckterrier 05-15-2008 04:48 PM

English & Gibberish here.

Zef 05-15-2008 04:57 PM

Fluent in French... in English...in Spanish...And it's enough.

efhughes3 05-15-2008 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minkoff (Post 3944789)
Sure it does, is Latin close to Italian?

Isn't Latin the original Italian? :D


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