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singleagain
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 8:14 pm
shaqued_almond wrote: | practice makes perfect. |
Yes, but the way ppl make fun of non native speakers, combined with my anxiety... It's way too scary to contemplate. So I just listen to my mom talk Hebrew/ watch Hebrew tv clips and asks her questions.
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amother
Ruby
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 8:41 pm
English
Russian
Hebrew (don't speak but understand most things)
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amother
Ruby
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 8:42 pm
Chickensoupprof wrote: | Dutch (native) English (kinda fluent) German (it's ok) Lubavitch Yiddish (good enough) I forgot all the French... Don't speak Ivrit, however every Israeli is always assuming that I speak it... In Chassidic neighborhoods they immediately start of in Yiddish with me even though I wear a fall... I can order things in yiddish though |
Lubavitch Yiddish- is that like Likkutei Sichos Yiddish?
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amother
OP
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 8:54 pm
amother [ Lime ] wrote: | Hey OP, are you a fellow Montrealer? You're proficient in the same 4 languages as many of us. English, French, Yiddish and Hebrew. |
Yup!
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amother
Chartreuse
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 8:56 pm
English
Hebrew- not fluent-I cannot read a newspaper with no nikudot, but I can navigate directions, order food, and watch srugim without subtitles.
Spanish-just enough to converse with my patients-I know food, body parts, family members and other basic things. I am less successful with my cleaning lady but I think she doesn't want to understand me.
I do not speak or understand a word of Yiddish. I speak/understanding about 20 words in German-mostly random nouns /food. My grandparents were Yekke and firmly felt that we are in America and we speak English.
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Saralle
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 9:22 pm
Yiddish and English
Hebrew I can read because I can do that at my own pace. I can understand American's speak Hebrew, and I can even understand my Hungarian grandmother speak Hebrew, but I get lost when Israelis speak Hebrew.
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watergirl
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 9:24 pm
singleagain wrote: | I'm jealous. I only speak English. I can understand some Hebrew. But not when it's too fast or too technical. And I'm way to embarrassed to speak it. |
Yup. Me too. I can understand spoken hebrew very very well but I cant speak it. Also some ASL.
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amother
Apricot
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 10:42 pm
Hey OP, are you a fellow Montrealer? You're proficient in the same 4 languages as many of us. English, French, Yiddish and Hebrew.
Yup! Hi[quote]
Bonsoir Montreal fellow Montrealer here
German, Swiss German, French, English, some Yiddiah. Some Italian
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crust
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 10:53 pm
English Yiddish
I can read Hebrew and German
I can have an off the boat Spanish conversation.
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amother
Jetblack
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 11:40 pm
Spanish - Mom's side
Austrian German - Dad's side
German
English
Hebrew
Russian
Took Chinese in college
Tiny bit of French and Armenian
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mazal555
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 11:44 pm
Fluent Hebrew English
Used to speak but very rusty Spanish, French
Somewhat proficient Ladino
Read Portuguese
A Little Arabic (Egyptian Arabic, Libyan, and some Darija (Moroccan))
I feel like I can understand some Yiddish though because it sounds a lot like English to me. And Italian because it's close to Spanish and Ladino. But maybe because I speak/spoke more than one romance language so that helps?
I'd really like to improve my Arabic and learn Turkish and Farsi
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amother
Gold
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 11:48 pm
cbg wrote: | English
Spanish
Portugués - but I only speak it |
me too,.plus Hebrew!
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Blessing1
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Sun, Jun 28 2020, 11:50 pm
Yiddish and English.
I understand a little Hungarian because my grandmothers from my mom's and dad's side still talk Hungarian to their kids.
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Zehava
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Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:02 am
amother [ Black ] wrote: | I think antwepians speak the most languages. We graduate school speaking 5 languages
1. Flemish / dutch
2. French
3 .english
4 . Hebrew
5. Yidish
I also learned Spanish in school but only remember a bit as I never really used it
And years ago they also taught German |
Girls maybe. But not even. Most Antwerp women I know don’t speak a word of French not much Hebrew.
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Zehava
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Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:05 am
Yiddish English Hebrew
Understand Dutch and German pretty well
A smattering of words in Spanish, russian, Arabic, Thai... probably some more that I forgot
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mommy3b2c
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Mon, Jun 29 2020, 12:30 am
penguin wrote: | Q. What do you call a person who speaks three languages?
A. Trilingual. (Or polyglot)
Q. What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A. Bilingual.
Q. What do you call a person who speaks one language?
A. British.(Or American… depends where the joke is being told.) |
That’s me. I only speak English.
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saltandvinegar
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Mon, Jun 29 2020, 1:27 am
english and hebrew. Speak to hubby and in laws in hebrew, and english to my parents
Wish I could speak arabic or italian! Sounds so cool to my ears
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amother
Dodgerblue
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Mon, Jun 29 2020, 3:06 am
I'm fluent in english Italian and hebrew. I know quite a few words in Yiddish and my friend speaks to her kids French so I've picked up alot on that also.
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Scotty
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Mon, Jun 29 2020, 3:10 am
Whoa I’m so jealous!
English (fluent)
Hebrew (can understand 75%, can speak fluent accent but limping vocabulary - but I don’t mind being corrected and if I’m lucky enough to be in Israel for over a week I start thinking in Hebrew, but I haven’t been for well over a decade so...)
Yiddish - can only understand my grandparents, and then never the punchline only the lead-up. And anything that’s not Galician (hello yekkishe accent) throws me off.
Other languages - just the accents. Somehow that comes first. A smattering of Spanish and Russian, some conceptual understanding of patterning in other languages.
I dream of speaking many, though evidently not passionately enough to keep at it until I do.
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amother
OP
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Mon, Jun 29 2020, 3:26 am
My mom speaks 7!! languages fluently.
Hebrew, English, Yiddish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Flemish.
She lived around the world while growing up, and she has a knack for languages.
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