OT Poll - do you speak any languages besides English?

poet_kelly
on 5/26/12 11:11 pm - OH

If so, which ones?

How fluent are you?

Do you ever dream in another language?

I am reasonably fluent in sign language (ASL). I took both French and Spanish in school but that was many years ago and I don't remember much.

I occasionally dream in sign, and that's actually what prompted me to post this poll. When my cat woke me up this morning, rudely demanding her breakfast, I was in the middle of a dream in which some people were speaking and others were signing. The only person in the dream I recognized was my sister, I have no clue who the others were. But I love it when I dream in sign.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

Gail S.
on 5/26/12 11:17 pm - New York, NY

RNY on 06/30/10

I only speak Engli****ook Spanish for 4 years in HS and 2 semesters in college. On Saturdays, I teach an English class to the Spanish speaking parents of my middle school students. Alas, I'm still not a Spanish speaker...

Solio
on 5/26/12 11:28 pm - China

RNY on 08/03/11

I speak Mandarin Chinese and the local dialect. I'm not quite fluent, but I know enough to get me through daily life and most conversations. I also speak enough Spanish to get by. I occasionally dream in Chinese and I used to dream in Spanish. They're always interesting dreams!

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 5/26/12 11:34 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

I speak just enough Italian to get around while traveling, but my vocabulary is VERY limited and I always have to ask them to speak slowly, LOL. I can read Latin farily well (I have both undergrad and grad degrees in Classics which required reading both Latin and ancient Greek, but my Greek is long gone!)

I have never dreamt in another language, but did have dreams about doing Latin vocabularly and verb conjugation drills when I first started taking Latin (in college, I jumped into Latin 102 without taking Latin 101 first, so during the first month of the class, ALL of my spare time was spent doing Latin drills of one kind or another)!

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Dee.spunk
on 5/27/12 12:21 am - Sacramento, CA

RNY on 11/30/11

I am fluent in Spanish, but I've never dreamt in Spanish. I know a little French, very little. I took 3 ASL classes with my husband in college and I wouldn't say I'm fluent, but I know enough that I can carry on conversations with people from the Deaf community without much problems. I have dreamt in ASL (especially when I was taking classes & when we were asked to help in an ASL church. Theyn needed Spanish speakers who also knew how to sign ). But for the most part, when I dream, it's in English, and a lot of times they're completely silent, no one talks, but somehow I understand what's going in. Weird huh?

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Dagne Tripplehorn
on 5/27/12 1:52 am - OR

RNY on 04/06/12

I don't know your employment situation, but an English-Spanish-ASL interpreter should be a hot commodity!

april89love
on 5/27/12 12:25 am - NC

RNY on 03/16/11

My daughter did a 6 month missions trip to the philippines and picked up tagalog very quickly. She talks in her sleep and would wake the other girls up speaking tagalog.

Sandy

HW 225, SW 219, GW 140, CW 124

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!

j_dizzy03
on 5/27/12 12:47 am - VA

I am fluent in Tagalog, as I was born and raised there (my dad was military) but I'm more fluent in my province's dialect which is kapampangan.

I have dreamt in my dialect but mostly my dreams are in english.

(deactivated member)
on 5/27/12 12:48 am - waukesha, WI

I am fluent in German.......1st language.
I am also fluent in French, Italian, Greek and Spanish.
I speak some chinese and some english.

poet_kelly
on 5/27/12 2:41 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

I'm so impressed by people that speak multiple languages. I'd love to be able to do that. When I was in high school, I was really good at languages, picked up French and Spanish pretty easily, but never learned enough to be fluent in it because high school language classes just don't seem geared for that. I've thought of taking a Spanish class now, as an adult, but I wouldn't have much opportunity to use it so I don't think I'd do that well with it. When I learned ASL, I was doing volunteer work with kids with disabilities, including deaf children, and I think that's the best way to learn. I learned it because I had to, because I spent the entire day with people that could only communicate that way.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

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