who here speaks more than 1 language?

[rugerceltics13]

so being that i speak viet and english, i wonder about who here speaks multiple languages.


here's my reason: i was talking to my lil cuz on the phone and he and his sister don't speak viet at all any more. what's worse is they can't even read vietnamese. now i grew up speaking reading writing it. i had to learn. my parents told me that it was the last connection i had with my culture if i lose everything else. i'm proud that i know vietnamese and that i will teach my kids one day when i have some. my wife was adopted from korea as a baby by white folks. she doesn't know anything about her culture other than kimchi.

here's my question? should we (people who are not of american descent) speak our native tongue? i don't often speak except when i talk to my relatives or the occasional trip down to buford hwy to the markets.

 

[TacticalTaco]

I speak English.

 

[Daniel]

I speak English, French, Spanish,

 

[ATLEMT]

English and Ebonics.

 

[jlcnuke]

I speak English, geek, and internet. I used to be "okay" at French but it's been a long time since I could consider having a conversation in it. I plan to re-learn French and learn Spanish someday.

 

[StateLine]

My mother is a naturalized American citizen born in west Germany. When I was born, she didn't speak English. Since she and my dad were both fluent in German, its all they spoke then and so German was my first language. Unfortunately, as I got older, and as she learned English, I stopped speaking German. So now, I can understand a good bit of German and I could probably get by in Germany if I had to, but I'm definitely not fluent anymore.

I also speak Jive.

 

[LockRod]

English,Spanish.

 

[jeffrey]

i wish i coulld speak another lang. My wife can but hardly does. I use to always want her to teach me. i even bought rosetta stone but it just takes so much time i just didnt have the time to commit to it.

 

[CostaRicaBound]

English, Spanish, and Sign Language. My daughter says I'm flatulent in 5 languages, though.

 

[ne ga pappy]

When I hit my finger with that 2 lb hammer, I spoke some kind of foreign language, but I wasn't sure what it was. I speak English, Redneck and Southernese. I can understand a fair amount of Spanish, but not really fluent.