I don't speak anything fluently (other than gibberish English)... but my Romanian is enough to get me by in the capital... it probably needs brushing up quite a bit before I can go into the wilds by myself... but a tour where I can speak to people a lot will help me loads!!... I speak enough French to get by too (I did OK in my exams as a16 year old) and I still remember a moderate amount of the German I learned in school... and I can follow some Welsh (all my Uni friends were Welsh speakers, so I can follow conversations even though I can't speak very much!)... and to top it off I started trying to learn Belorussian this year... I've got as far as being able to pronounce cyrillic words, but that's about it!!
Every time I go to the Chinese takeaway I wish I knew a few words so I knew what they were chatting about so I could at least say thank you!
I had a lovely chat with a Japanese girl who was visiting a work friend once... I spoke no Japanese, she spoke only a tiny bit of English... so we talked in pictures which we drew on a large napkin!!... I may still have it somewhere... I can still remember how to pronounce her name!
I think languages are great... I just wish I could speak more of them!!
I have a Belorussian LJ friend and a Czech friend... they both write in cyrillic and I can read about 0.00001% of their entries ;-) .... one day I'l get there!!
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Date: 2006-04-14 01:55 am (UTC)gibberishEnglish)... but my Romanian is enough to get me by in the capital... it probably needs brushing up quite a bit before I can go into the wilds by myself... but a tour where I can speak to people a lot will help me loads!!... I speak enough French to get by too (I did OK in my exams as a16 year old) and I still remember a moderate amount of the German I learned in school... and I can follow some Welsh (all my Uni friends were Welsh speakers, so I can follow conversations even though I can't speak very much!)... and to top it off I started trying to learn Belorussian this year... I've got as far as being able to pronounce cyrillic words, but that's about it!!Every time I go to the Chinese takeaway I wish I knew a few words
so I knew what they were chatting aboutso I could at least say thank you!I had a lovely chat with a Japanese girl who was visiting a work friend once... I spoke no Japanese, she spoke only a tiny bit of English... so we talked in pictures which we drew on a large napkin!!... I may still have it somewhere... I can still remember how to pronounce her name!
I think languages are great... I just wish I could speak more of them!!
I have a Belorussian LJ friend and a Czech friend... they both write in cyrillic and I can read about 0.00001% of their entries ;-) .... one day I'l get there!!