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Chris
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| | Subject: How useful is it to know a second language? Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:10 am | |
| For all you people that studied a foreign language, how often do you put the language into practice now? | |
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Tony Marino
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| | Subject: Re: How useful is it to know a second language? Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:27 am | |
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Nystyle709
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| | Subject: Re: How useful is it to know a second language? Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:34 am | |
| I know it's a great thing to learn another language, but I never had the patience to do so. I wish I was fluent in Spanish. I can understand Spanish a bit if you speak it slowly and I can say some things in Spanish....but I wish I was more diligent in learning it. And I've always wanted to learn French. | |
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Marc™
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| | Subject: Re: How useful is it to know a second language? Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:36 pm | |
| I took Spanish and French in HS....and have never used them outside of the classroom. | |
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| | Subject: Re: How useful is it to know a second language? Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:05 am | |
| I'd love to know Spanish as I sponsor children in several Latin American countries. Also, French would be handy if I want a government job. | |
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Cheaps
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| | Subject: Re: How useful is it to know a second language? Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:35 am | |
| At my current job, Spanish would be very useful, at least then I could communicate with our housekeepers. | |
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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: How useful is it to know a second language? Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:36 pm | |
| I was able to use my HS German on a trip back in '73. It was pretty cool communicating in another language. Of course, everyone I spoke with spoke better English than I did. Use it or lose it. | |
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Shale
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| | Subject: Re: How useful is it to know a second language? Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:41 pm | |
| I never formally studied another language. Guess I took English classes instead.
I have picked up some Spanish in my travels and living here. I know travel Spanish but not conversant in it.
(Altho, at a Greyhound Station in Alabama they asked of a translator because of some borracho campesino. After the 3rd page I volunteered and was able to communicate whether he had any mas bolsas on the bus that they were kicking him off of.)
There are a lot of jobs in S. FL that require bi-lingual in Spanish/English. It would be nice if I knew the language better. | |
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