Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Max Weisenfeld wrote: > First language: English > Second: Spanish (Castilian, for what it is worth - my Venezuelan > friend laugh at my "lisp") > and a little bit of Hebrew. (French, and Italian, by virtue of > Spanish and a lot of arm waving, but I wouldn't count that as really > "having" a language). > > So, 2.20, I would say. > > Max > > > > Total, > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Kumagai" <tgif@mbi.nifty.com> > To: <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:48 AM > Subject: [Leica] OT:How many languages do you speak? > > >> Hello LUG, >> >> I came up with the question, how many varieties of languages we speak. >> >> My native language is (1) Japanese and I can speak (2) English almost >> without causing major misunderstandings, and poquitititito del (3) >> Espanol. (Me gusta que podemos ver unos usan esta idioma en LUG list.) >> I tried Korean too but I gave up, just not enough time... >> >> So, I'd say 2.5 (counting Spanish and Korean combined as 0.5) >> >> --- >> Tomoyuki Kumagai, a.k.a. "Tom" >> http://www.kumasite.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Max- I laughed at your reference to the Castillian 'lisp'! Here in NC we have an Hispanic community of some size, and I have tried to pick up some 'Spanish' but like trying to correctly pronounce 'pedo' and 'pero' so they don't either sound alike or each other, it can be difficult! The Venezualan seem to say caballo as "cabayjo", the Cuban speak machine gun fast and drop 's's all the time, And the words are different- Melocoton is peach in Spanish Spanish, but peach is durazno in Mexican Spanish, and I found that in South and Central America that there are about seven different words for ''stapler".... Then the educators here wonder why the Hispanic kids don't all seem to mix well when put together- after all, the DO speak a common language! :o) I am in agreement with Mark Twain- to paraphrase, I'd rather decline 3 or four drinks (of single malt, to stay on topic) than one irregular verb! Dan ( Ima gwine ter tote my poke fulla camera stuff wiff me, nex' time!) Post