Watching the Pope, as with other Popes, it amazes me the multi-lingual capabilities of some people.

I took French in high school and college, but struggled with it. On the other hand, I loved English, diagramming sentences, and feel I'm fairly articulate using it.

What languages other than English can you read/understand/speak?

p.s. I wish sign language had been offered when I was in school. I think it would have been a great thing to learn.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Watching the Pope, as with other Popes, it amazes me the multi-lingual capabilities of some people.

I took French in high school and college, but struggled with it. On the other hand, I loved English, diagramming sentences, and feel I'm fairly articulate using it.

What languages other than English can you read/understand/speak?

p.s. I wish sign language had been offered when I was in school. I think it would have been a great thing to learn.

I had a try at French in high school, many years ago.
It amazes me still, having done that and failed, that some can somehow process in their minds more than one language.
I applaud those that are so able.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I've always thought starting the process in an immersive way when we're kids is how to create fluency, but I had friends in high school and college who picked French up, nonetheless. I can sort of watch a French movie and get some of it, if they're not talking too fast, and I can comprehend written French at a very basic level.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I know 3 languages without schooling.
Swedish, Danish and Norwegian:)
English is very easy to learn to us because it's a Germanic language.
The Vikings talked very much the same language in Britain as the British did 1200 years ago.

However the Sami language is very difficult.
Only word I know is Oddasat that means News and Lappsi that means Child.

I've always thought starting the process in an immersive way when we're kids is how to create fluency, but I had friends in high school and college who picked French up, nonetheless. I can sort of watch a French movie and get some of it, if they're not talking too fast, and I can comprehend written French at a very basic level.

In Denmark they want danish speaking movies subtitled:)
Especially the serie Bron!
I tried to see the first episod without subtitles and I was lost:)

I studied English as a student.
I'll get it one of these days!

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Fluent in German and English

French and Dutch is buried somewhere in my brain.

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Since my mother is hungarian we are grown with more than One language.
I think this helps

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Since my mother is hungarian we are grown with more than One language.
I think this helps

Finno-Ugric languages:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages
Now that is a VERY hard language to learn.
The sami people and the Finn immigrants speaks that here.
The most famous Finno-Ugric languages is Hungarian (13.6 million speakers ), Finnish (5.2 million ) and Estonian (1.1 million ).

Hyvä Päivi and Kippis:)

I took classes in Latin, French and Spanish in high school and one of the English teachers who was German taught German to a small group of us at lunch time. I also learned finger spelling. In college it was technical German, French and Russian. And since I spent time in Italy, I learned a little Italian. Bottom line: I am fluent in English. I flounder in the other languages. Do you want to count computer languages?

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Do you want to count computer languages?

There is only one computer language. English:)
However the US dont understand this.
A BIG problem is that the IT buisness have to understand what localization! is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localization

I read Der Spiegel, every week, at the local library. Not a perfect read, but
gets easier, every year. Not much practice listening to or speaking German,
as most German-speakers are either in Pennsylvania, or the upper Midwest.

I used to love to hear my grandparents spar at each other in fluent German.
They always spoke English until one of them got a bit perturbed about something or other.
I know it's not a love language, considered by some to be in the gutter.\\\\

But, it is quite a wonderful, expressive language.
I am a man of the earth, as are most German immigrants.

I took a try at it once, failed miserably at it, as I did at French.

Picked up more German at home than I did French at school.....LOL

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

German English fluent.... Latin French would need some freshen up and then there is russian and polish but those prolly would take a couple month before i could get around with it again ...

for a while i got pretty good with japanese since the phone i had was an import and only had one language haha so had to learn to read that but it was a pain in my a** and i dropped that real quick

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

Gramdpa could yodel, like so.........

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

almost sounds like this

https://youtu.be/sTSA_sWGM44

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

And the Germans at times idolized the Swiss, who, rather than the Germans; kinda invented the yodel from one peak to the other.

And little Tyler Ware nailed it one fine day...............LOL...my favorite.

The Mod crew, if I may say so, just shits their drawers upon the first braak voice she does.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

i dunno how that can be so popular here in the US nobody in their right mind would voluntarily listen to that over there unless they like 90-150 years old haha

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

i dunno how that can be so popular here in the US nobody in their right mind would voluntarily listen to that over there unless they like 90-150 years old haha

I am 58, dude.
You are stepping in it,.

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I would not say it is 'popular' here in the states.
Yodelling is not 'popular' anywhere except maybe in the Swiss alps region, and even there, I suspect it is a regional treat, not an every day ocurrence.

One of my links stored is given to a wonderful lady name of Jewel, who also has not forgotten her roots.

Chime Bells...............wait for it.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster