What languages do you speak?

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peaygolf said:
Used to play golf at the old Goodyear course.
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I never did play there. Played a bunch at the country club though. I used to go to church at the little Methodist church at the back side. One Sunday I got up early, went down to play a round, pulled the cart up beside the building and went in for services.

I played more often at the country club in Clinton KY though because it was cheaper. Pond on #1 was my nemesis. I got to where I would just walk up to it and throw in 3 brand new balls, then go tee up.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
English...kind of. And while I would stuggle in a fluent conversation I know enough Spanish that if I was in a Spanish only place I could probably get around enough.
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Yup, this about how much Spanish I speak, and a little more than that in French.

Having said that, my favorite cuss words are the Greek ones I learned while working at Sam n Andy's in K-town. šŸ˜
 
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Not fluent, but I travelled a lot to Korea and learned fast that most taxi drivers did not speak English. So, once I got a ride in a cab where the driver was very fluent in English. And we made arrangements for him to be by driver when ever I came to Seoul. Then he started teaching me phrases I needed to go place to place, or how to negotiate prices at a shopping area. I got pretty good at it, and could direct a cab driver to my point of interest. And even got a few dollars off the price of crap I was buying in Itewan.
I learned to count in Japanese... and used that to order sushi...one, two, three or four of a certain type of sushi. That paid dividends in Tokyo.

In Japan... I would get in the cab and call the local office and give the phone to the driver and someone would give him directions. That made it so easy.
 
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English, medical lingo, redneck southern, and enough Spanish to get through a sick visit and most of a well-check. I go through spells with Duolingo and Language Transfer, as I'd love to become fluent, but I find it very hard to retain. Would be very open to suggestions. I have a sizeable Hispanic patient population and it would be a great help to be fluent.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
English, medical lingo, redneck southern, and enough Spanish to get through a sick visit and most of a well-check. I go through spells with Duolingo and Language Transfer, as I'd love to become fluent, but I find it very hard to retain. Would be very open to suggestions. I have a sizeable Hispanic patient population and it would be a great help to be fluent.
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Best way to learn is to speak the language. Make friends with someone who speaks Spanish. Iā€™m learning Portuguese at a accelerated rate due to my fiancĆ©e being Brazilian. I watch Brazilian movies with English subs, watching English movies with subs of the language you want to learn helps too but actually speaking it is by far the best way
 
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Berry4Heisman14 said:
Best way to learn is to speak the language. Make friends with someone who speaks Spanish. Iā€™m learning Portuguese at a accelerated rate due to my fiancĆ©e being Brazilian. I watch Brazilian movies with English subs, watching English movies with subs of the language you want to learn helps too but actually speaking it is by far the best way
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I do, some, with my patients and my Hispanic nurse. I should commit to doing that more often, but it takes time and I don't like to slow our work flow. Thanks for the encouragement!
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I do, some, with my patients and my Hispanic nurse. I should commit to doing that more often, but it takes time and I don't like to slow our work flow. Thanks for the encouragement!
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Mexican friend of mine showed me an app just yesterday. You can speak English into it, and it'll pull the sentence up in Spanish, or the opposite. It was pretty cool, and I wanna download it, but I'll have to ask what it was again.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
English, medical lingo, redneck southern, and enough Spanish to get through a sick visit and most of a well-check. I go through spells with Duolingo and Language Transfer, as I'd love to become fluent, but I find it very hard to retain. Would be very open to suggestions. I have a sizeable Hispanic patient population and it would be a great help to be fluent.
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Go to Spanish speaking restaurants and order food en espanol. That requires you to draw up immediate knowledge. It helps you retain it longer. Ofcourse try and converse after ordering.
 
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Berry4Heisman14 said:
Best way to learn is to speak the language. Make friends with someone who speaks Spanish. Iā€™m learning Portuguese at a accelerated rate due to my fiancĆ©e being Brazilian. I watch Brazilian movies with English subs, watching English movies with subs of the language you want to learn helps too but actually speaking it is by far the best way
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Minha esposa e brasileira e filipina. Ja estive no Rio de Janeiro, BrasĆ­lia e Fortaleza. Have you been there yet? No Brasil? (Brazeo) lol
 
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LittleVol said:
Minha esposa e brasileira e filipina. Ja estive no Rio de Janeiro, BrasĆ­lia e Fortaleza. Have you been there yet? No Brasil? (Brazeo) lol
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Hahaha I want to go but Covid is preventing that! Isnā€™t Brazilian food freaking amazing? My woman is Brazilian Japanese, but born in Parana, Brazil.
 
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Bumping this, I speak practically fluent Portuguese now over a year later. If anyone wants to learn Spanish I recommend Portuguese since you practically kill two birds with one stone with the understanding part at least!
 
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Berry4Heisman14 said:
Bumping this, I speak practically fluent Portuguese now over a year later. If anyone wants to learn Spanish I recommend Portuguese since you practically kill two birds with one stone with the understanding part at least!
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Thereā€™s a lot of crossover between all the Romance languages. I barely know any French but know a lot of Spanish, and while the spoken versions sound nothing alike, the times Iā€™ve been in Paris Iā€™ve found I was able to reverse engineer reading a lot of signage because a lot of the written words look very similar.
 
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Never took up the art of a second language. Took one spanish class in HS. Can make out a few words. Spent two summers in Manila in college. Learned a little Tagalig, but has since flown out the window

I do southern english and can also converse with yanks if I need to.
 
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I speak enough German to tell you I donā€™t speak it very well in German. I can also order a beer and ask if the fish is fresh.
 
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