Do you speak another language? Would you like to?

[Jorge]

Do you speak a language other than your mother tongue? If so, which ones? If not, is it something you'd like to do?

[tree_]

I only know French, Italian, Chinese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Navajo, Polish, and Turkish

[Jorge]

I'm only totally fluent in English and Spanish, but I can carry a conversation in French decently. I've always wanted to learn German, I really like that language

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[wease]

I used to be able to understand conversational Spanish fairly well but too many years away from it has all but obliterated it.

[Ms Harmless]

I've been learning Irish / Gaeilge for a couple of years, and have a tiny bit of Spanish from school

[bodysnatcher]

English and pig Latin

[E.H. Ruddock]

Good thread Jorge

I thought i was fairly fluent in German. Went to Austria last year and struggled heavily.

[wease]

I’d like to learn German, as well.

[epilogue]

I've been practicing RM for like 20 years but only gotten worse at it.

I was advancing in Spanish for a while. But that's more or less gone, too. Which is super embarrassing because my wife is fluent. So when we travel it's super awkward for me. I get made fun of a lot, and rightly so.

I would love to learn Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Irish.

[Ms Harmless]

I've been practicing RM for like 20 years but only gotten worse at it.

I was advancing in Spanish for a while. But that's more or less gone, too. Which is super embarrassing because my wife is fluent. So when we travel it's super awkward for me. I get made fun of a lot, and rightly so.

I would love to learn Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Irish.

if you want to pursue Irish hmu!

[VinylGuy]

thinking of learning Portuguese, French, Italian someday.

[Anders]

Norwegian is my mother tongue, and with it Danish and Swedish are easy.

I write in, speak and listen to English every day.

Have known some French and German through both schooling and travelling, but do not practice them, so my knowledge is fairly dormant, and probably slipping away. Have learnt some Romanian and Filipino (Tagalog and Hiligaynon) but not in school, and only remember a little at this time.

[bodysnatcher]

I’m barely good at English

[wease]

I have to say I’m quite impressed with our non-English speakers here on RM. All you guys are fucking great with English. And since he’s the only one I’ve spoken to and whose voice I’ve heard, bonus points to Jorge. If I didn’t already know English was a second language, I’d never have believed it.

[Ms Harmless]

definitely feel that about Jorge, I was the same years back

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I don't, and i'd love to, but there's no way I'd remember any of it if I didn't use it daily. I can barely remember things that were said or happened to me this morning.

I have mad respect for people like you who can. That's just one reason why you're the second greatest RMer of all time.

[Jorge]

but I can carry a conversation in French decently.

Actually I may be overstating my French skills. A full conversation would be pretty stilted. It's more like I can communicate with French people in case of a French emergency

[Jorge]

I have to say I’m quite impressed with our non-English speakers here on RM. All you guys are fucking great with English. And since he’s the only one I’ve spoken to and whose voice I’ve heard, bonus points to Jorge. If I didn’t already know English was a second language, I’d never have believed it.

definitely feel that about Jorge, I was the same years back

I have mad respect for people like you who can. That's just one reason why you're the second greatest RMer of all time.

Thanks... I am amazing

[The Argonaut]

man, I wish I spoke french any good