(October 18, 2024 at 11:11 am)europeanatheist Wrote: Hi all
how many foreign languages can you use?
I see sometime that in the anglosaxon world it is not too common to speak more than 1-2 languages, whereas from not anglosaxon especially living in the EU where you work here and there in the end we end up speaking more than 1-2
I speak fluently Spanish, English, Italian, German and I can use some Dutch, French and Portuguese. I also can read and hear some Latin but since we learnt it as a "dead language" I cannot really talk it.
My wife the same as me and at home we use a kind of funny pidgin language borrowing words and expression from the different ones we know
I speak English and Irish. I’m functional in French and Maori (meaning I can order a meal, pay a bill, things like that). I’ve memorized emergency phrases in a half dozen languages, such as:
-Can you direct me to the train station?
-Please get me a policeman.
-Where is the hotel [name]?
-Please let me out of this taxi, you maniac.
-Thank you for stopping the bleeding.
Boru
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