What Languages Do You Know?

[ColorfulSunburst]

fluent Russian, poor English (try to imрrove)

[playground1]

Wow, what an interesting thread!

[daycare]

fluent Russian, poor English (try to imрrove)

come here you will improve....I have. or at least I am being told I have.

It's one thing to speak english verbally, its a whole different thing when you have to do it by typing it out. I still have a hard time sometimes with jokes and things that happened before I come here, but I am getting it.......

keep on here and you will get it too

[SignMeUp]

I speak English only, and know only a smattering of words in other languages: German, Spanish, a bit more French.
I've had kids who spoke only Swedish, only German, and only Espanol at home. They separate out the languages amazingly well at an early age. One of my fellows who spoke only Spanish at home taught me a few words, starting when he was 18 months old. He knew he was teaching me too ::
Another (4 yrs old when he began) got playfully upset with me for speaking Spanish to him, once he had his English in place fairly well.
My kids who spoke only Swedish lived in Sweden for a year in the middle of their time at my childcare, and attended Swedish school and preschool. They came back and went right back into English without missing a beat.
And one little fellow who went to Guatemala with his dad every summer, couldn't speak at all when he came back - lasted about three weeks. He was in language shock, apparently. And then everything was fine.
Language is so interesting, even how kids acquire their primary language. They do it in so many different ways.

[Michelle]

I now speak Pig Latin
When discussing with my dh where we are going to take them on a field trip and they can pick up on it in a heartbeat!

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[Chellieleanne]

Fluent:
English.
Sarcasm.
Pig Latin.

Enough to have a short convo:
Spanish
ASL alphabet and a handful of signs.

DH speaks Spanish but won't speak to our kids I have to know some to converse with his family. It is funny how me and his mom communicate mix of my broken Spanish and English with her Spanish and using simple words but we make it work happyface

[debbiedoeszip]

English and some French.

When I was a kid, I was fluent in French (I was in the French Immersion program at school), but it's gotten rusty. I can understand French that is spoken to me, but attempting a French response is somewhat difficult. I wish that I could move somewhere that is predominantly French speaking so that I could regain my fluency.

[KidGrind]

I speak English.

I know some Arabic, thanks to my Egyptian best friend and an ex. I comprehend Spanish and speak a little due to a life in California, Rosetta Stone and family.

[sahm1225]

I speak English and Spanish and redneck English haha.

I speak English and Spanish with my kids and the daycare kids. My own two kids can speak both fluently but this group of daycare kids aren't fluent in Spanish yet. We are still working on single words at a time . If I get me as infants, by the time they start school, they are fluent though.

We have a HUGE Mexican population here due to the chicken plant and other factory and construction jobs so when I need Simone adult to speak Spanish with, it's not hard to find. I have a few friends that are married to Spanish speaking guys and they are fluent also.

It was DEFINATELY easier for my own kids to learn both English and Spanish at the same time than it was for ME to learn it. I learned it fluently in jr high, high school, and college. Bt it took me a lot more time than it did my own kids.

But of course, when the kids get into trouble, instead of breaking into Spanish, I break into redneck English

How do you get the daycare kids to learn Spanish? We do Spanish Monday where we do classes and learn new words. The kids have some phrases memorized but that's it.

I speak Spanish fluently (and can read & write it). My husband only speaks English & has no desire to learn Spanish (he's crazy!). I know that being fluent in Spanish opened a lot of doors for me with employers and I would love to have my kids know Spanish.

[llpa]

Fluent in English but it is sloooowly degrading into toddler gibberish :: I can count in English Spanish French and Taiwanese. I know some words inTaiwanese and Spanish. Can carry on a conversation in French. And when I was growing up, I said my prayers every night in Russian. My Dad's parents came to America from Russia also, my husband's family came here from Scotland and I can speak a pretty good Scottish accent lassies

[Michelle]

I speak English.

I know some Arabic, thanks to my Egyptian best friend and an ex. I comprehend Spanish and speak a little due to a life in California, Rosetta Stone and family.

that's so cute!
I know some spanish due to my life in California!!!
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my own kids are learning German