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    Post by Chris Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:33 pm

    Do you know and/or have a close personal relationship with anyone whose first language isn't English? If so, how much of a barrier is it when you speak to them?
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    Post by Alan Smithee Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:33 pm

    Nope
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    Post by Cheaps Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:35 pm

    No
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    Post by RedBedroom Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:03 am

    Just in Mexico.
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    Post by Nystyle709 Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:51 am

    Nobody close, no.
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    Post by Tony Marino Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:10 am

    I have cousins that came over from Italy whom I cannot communicate with. I use hand gestures LOL
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    Post by Shale Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:39 am

    Tony Marino wrote:... I use hand gestures LOL

    RIGHT ON!

    Your Italian - of course you do!

    I am not conversant in Spanish so I get left out of stuff my Hispanic friends are doing.

    At least love is international. My Turkish GF and I couldn't carry on deep conversations but we made out OK. Same with a few Hispanic guys I have been with whose English was as poor as my Spanish. Still had fun tho.
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    Post by Marc™ Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:58 am

    Not close. At one of my old jobs, they had a cleaning crew that was comprised of mostly Mexicans....and a few of they didn't speak English very well, or at all. Trying to communicate with them was a task. A few of them I think understood what was being said, but tried to play dumb.
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    Post by RobbieFTW Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:17 pm

    Not CLOSE to any of them but I got relatives on my moms side from Italy that speak Italian and very little English and on my dads side that speak Arabic. I dont see them often so its not a problem for the most part. The few times I have, they usually come with people who can speak at least SOME english and are able to communicate.
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    Post by Nystyle709 Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:37 pm

    Marc™ wrote:Not close. At one of my old jobs, they had a cleaning crew that was comprised of mostly Mexicans....and a few of they didn't speak English very well, or at all. Trying to communicate with them was a task. A few of them I think understood what was being said, but tried to play dumb.

    They always do that. They understand you fully fucking well, but play dumb when they get in trouble or about to get their ass whipped.
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    Post by Suzi Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:16 pm

    My mother was a deaf mute and I learned sign language and was fluent very young. She left when I was 5 and my grandmother worried about what people were saying to me when we went places where there were friends of my mother. Much later she said she was sorry she let me forget it, but I am not sorry I understand why she did it and have no problem with it. I would have done the same given the same set of circumstances.
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    Post by Shale Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:46 pm

    I worked with hearing impaired kids for a while and took a class in sign language 'AmSlan' I even have a certificate in dactylology, yet I can barely sign good morning any more. Use it or lose it applies to language.

    I had a 200 word vocabulary in Russian when I was in the Air Force. Now, I can curse you in Russian but that is about it.
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    Post by Suzi Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:43 pm

    Thats sort of like my memory of sign language, I still know how to say ice cream, lollypop, chewing gum and I love you! Thats the total.
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