How many languages ​​can you speak?

Ti kanis :3

Good movie, but why does the texan have to be the bad guy.

Aller Anfang ist schwer :)

Oh and fuck all of you who can speak 3, 4, etc languages.

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Europe is roughly the size of the U.S.A (if ya throw in Eastern Europe and a portion of Russia). You are never more than a three hour drive from another country with a different language in Europe. In the USA that's only true for those bordering Mexico and those bordering Quebec.

Many of us were required to learn a language in school, but unless you took Spanish you had ZERO opportunity to retain it. I took German and imagine how often I got to use that? I can recognize some words now, but speak it or write it? Hell no, der ist nicht Deutsche sprechst... ah, whatever, there's no German speakers around me.

So really, knowing 3 or 4 languages is all about having 3 or 4 languages used regularly around you.

I was fortunate enough to be placed in the French Immersion program by my parents (basically, normal education, but the spoken language in all academic subjects other than English was French) right from kindergarten. I could've chosen to switch at any time, but I decided to stay with it. Learning a second language alongside my first helped make it a lot easier to learn a third language.

Learning another language makes you learn how to analyze and question your native language rather than just taking it entirely for granted. Especially a similar language like French (yes, French is a Romance language, and English originated from Anglo-Saxon, but contemporary English was heavily shaped by the Norman occupation), where you learn the twists and turns of translating between similar-but-not-identical words, and the pitfalls of words that LOOK similar but translate into entirely different concepts.

For example, you should be at once relieved and somewhat concerned if you go to Canada and a container of yogurt advertises "No Preservatives / Pas de Préservatifs". Because in French, food preservatives are "agents de conservation." A préservatif is birth control. It's a damn good thing that the container of yogurt doesn't contain condoms, but did you have to specify?