My foreign language involvement consists of watching Spanish shows on Netflix

Oct 8, 2024
2:03:43pm

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

And trying to translate what they're saying and then checking it against the subtitles. I'm solidly in the "mostly gets the gist" level of Spanish fluency.

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Indy Coug

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POLL: Do you still speak and/or practice and/or work on a foreing language while living

Archaea

1:58pm

Switched to a new language to learn

md7Coug

2:02pm

What did you learn?

Archaea

2:05pm

Spanish

md7Coug

3:03pm

I'm surprised foreign language missionaries don't teach their kids more often.

rtNelson

2:03pm

They weren't interested. That is, until they took a foreign language class in

paulb

2:05pm

Just speak with them in that language when they're babies. No "classes".

rtNelson

2:09pm

That requires a lot of dedication it helps if both spouses understand the lan-

Archaea

2:12pm

It is not at all effortless for the child to learn, no.

OrsoNero

2:57pm

Unless you are persistent with at least one parent ONLY speaking the foreign

Archaea

2:06pm

That's definitely fair. The people I know who grew up with more than one

rtNelson

2:12pm

Yes. We tried with our children, and even had one attend school in Spanish

Archaea

2:14pm

That's a large part of why it wasn't consistent with me. I was communicative in

paulb

2:19pm

the people I have seen do that have been weirdos

Turd Ferguson

3:06pm

My foreign language involvement consists of watching Spanish shows on Netflix

Indy Coug

2:03pm

With all your time in the Kingdom, you never learned Gulf Arabic?

Archaea

2:10pm

Why? That wasn’t going to travel with me later in life. Learn something useful, like French or Spanish.

Indy Coug

2:13pm

You could have worked for the CIA or oil and petroleum companies.

Archaea

2:14pm

Why would that have been appealing? I already lived there way too long as it was.

Indy Coug

2:16pm

I often wanted to be a spy or a rich oil magnate. You could have learned the

Archaea

2:18pm

I feel yes, still decent enough would be my answer. So I picked the lowest yes.

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