Can you speak more than one language?

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Strict, pretty French mistress at an all boys school for 5 years (Mrs Cooley, thank you).
Not much more that University could teach me after that other than getting me to France to get comfortable living it.
She drilled us well (if only!)

 

[peoffrey]

I’ve found a hundred words can get you through in most languages. French, Spanish etc.

I did both Berlin and Aarhus this weekend. I changed at Stockholm to come back. Deeply embarrassed not to be able to speak a word of German and Danish. I know some Swedish. It’s ignorant to be somewhere for a while and not learn any.

Nobody in Malaga was trying when I was last there. They just assumed the employees would understand them.

 

[Manchester33]

Thought I'd bump this thread. Have any of you learnt a language over the past couple of years? I'm around A2/B1 in Greek but thinking about learning something new. Undecided on which language to go for.

I'm really into history at the minute, so thinking Latin, or even a Celtic language like Scots, Welsh, Manx. They do seem a bit pointless though. But I enjoy it.

 

[DiscoSteve]

I can ask for beer and the bill in many languages. This is sufficient for European aways!

 

[Marklr]

Japanese is a good one. My daughter learnt the basics. マンチェスターシティ

 

[Marklr]

I can speak Backslang?

 

[Protein Junkie]

Good luck! My goodness is Welsh a strange language.

I’d say every other Spaniard I met in Seville and Malaga didn’t speak much English. Waiting staff, bars, shops, cabbies etc. Eastern Europe is a completely different story as most were competent.

I visit Germany and Denmark this weekend and expect English will be understood pretty much everywhere.

Yes Welsh language can be weird inasmuch it struggles with modernity.
It is the oldest language on these shores however albeit a derivative of Brythonic which was also spoken in the Scottish lowlands at one time.
As for the Gogs (North Walians) weird bunch.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Nine

 

[Manchester33]

Nine

I can't tell if this is a serious post or a typo in a German-themed joke.

 

[Manchester33]

Japanese is a good one. My daughter learnt the basics. マンチェスターシティ

Through learning Greek I've taught myself a different alphabet. I'm interested in something like Japanese because it's completely different and more challenging. It just discourages me because I know it would be years before I'd get to a decent level.