What Languages Do You Know?

[dbslas]

::::::
let me guess...
on Saturday and Sunday you can speak 100% English?

by Friday, I am down to 60 % English and 40% sighs and shaking my head.

:::: I know a handful of Spanish, a little bit of sign language, and I am fluent in wh-i-i-i-n-i-n-g

[Meeko]

I speak English English and I have American English down pretty well now after 33 years here.....::

I also speak Toddler Gibberish fairly well.............

[Meeko]

I have an English friend who is married to a Frenchman and they live in France. IN their home they all only speak English. OUTSIDE their home they all only speak French. Their three kids grew up completely bi-lingual.

[daycare]

well my first language is Arabic. BUT I do not get many opportunities to speak it very much these days, that is unless I go back to my home country. DOn't even ask me to read it these days.....

I do speak English too but it's kind of bad.....

I speak a little bit of spanish, but also not too well. I do count in spanish every day and we sing songs in a few different languages, but that is all that I really know.

I have a pretty diverse group and I try to learn songs to teach everyone from their home country.

[Cradle2crayons]

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

[daycare]

this made me laugh....redneck english.....

[Angelsj]

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

I find that breaking out the Spanish works. They seem to respond better to Spanish orders... :: Bajate mijo!!

[Angelsj]

well my first language is Arabic. BUT I do not get many opportunities to speak it very much these days, that is unless I go back to my home country. DOn't even ask me to read it these days.....

I do speak English too but it's kind of bad.....

I speak a little bit of spanish, but also not too well. I do count in spanish every day and we sing songs in a few different languages, but that is all that I really know.

I have a pretty diverse group and I try to learn songs to teach everyone from their home country.

I would love to speak Arabic.

[Sunshine74]

I speak American English, but I do know some Spanish, due to taking it through middle and high school, and two semesters in college. I understand more then I can speak or read. It came in handy though when we had a DCG (2.5) who spoke fluent Spanish. She loved that I understood a lot of what she said, and could sometimes answer her in Spanish.

I also know a bit of ASL.

[Snapdragon]

I speak British and American English, used to speak Belgian French and some German. Sadly, my French and German are very rusty now.

[pandamom]

Korean was my first language but when we PCS'd back to the states (mid/late '80s) the kids made fun of me so my mom stopped speaking Korean to me and I lost it

I speak enough German to get around and order things. I include counting to 10 and singing the alphabet in German in circle time

We have some Spanish speaking children, so we include some Spanish vocab too.

I have had some tri and quad lingual children. I did notice in the 2 year olds that it may take them a minute to process what's being said because of all the languages in their head But I am sooo jealous of them!

[Fjordbak]

Lots :-)

My native language is Danish. Beside that I am also fluent in English and Spanish, and can speak Swedish, Norwegian, and German, and understand Dutch.

In the Danish school system there is a lot of focus on foreign languages, my oldest son (9 years) just started in 3rd grade and is learning English now. They will change the schedules so next year when my twins (aged 6) will be in 1st grade they will start having English lessons.

I am very grateful for the language proficiency that I have, it really means the world to me to be able to communicate with friends from all over the world, and I hope to pass that on to my kids

Rikke

[jenn]

English only.

[safechner]

My first language is Pidgin sign language. I am not full of American Sign language but my oldest daughter is. I speak second language English. I do know some speak Spanish and It was hard to learn because of accent.

[Michelle]

My native language is Danish. Beside that I am also fluent in English and Spanish, and can speak Swedish, Norwegian, and German, and understand Dutch.

In the Danish school system there is a lot of focus on foreign languages, my oldest son (9 years) just started in 3rd grade and is learning English now. They will change the schedules so next year when my twins (aged 6) will be in 1st grade they will start having English lessons.

I am very grateful for the language proficiency that I have, it really means the world to me to be able to communicate with friends from all over the world, and I hope to pass that on to my kids

Rikke

Awesome!