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magnetic_poleVia alisanne, the week's prompt from ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thefridayfive and my answers.
1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
Monolingual English speaker here who'd love to know Spanish! So useful. It should be required in the US, IMHO, and started much, much earlier than our current system allows. (In the school system I attended as a child, we only started a language at 15, having had no grammar beforehand. Needless to say, most of us didn't get very far.)
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
No national second language in the US. In the city where I live, public documents are also translated into Spanish, Vietnamese, Amharic, and sometimes Chinese.
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
To ten in French, German, and Spanish. (And English, of course.) To five in Cantonese and Japanese, though with a bad accent.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
Hm. Does overseas simply mean foreign, crossing a border? In which case, US to the Mexican border. Leaving the continent, US to the UK.
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
So many places I'd like to go! China is high on my list right now because I'm interested in the pace of urbanization there and the sheer scale of the new cities. Never been there before. Malaysia is always up there, too, because we visit friends there every five years or so, and our stay is always filled with wonderful food and conversation and local travel.
alisanne, the week's prompt from thefridayfive and my answers. 1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
Monolingual English speaker here who'd love to know Spanish! So useful. It should be required in the US, IMHO, and started much, much earlier than our current system allows. (In the school system I attended as a child, we only started a language at 15, having had no grammar beforehand. Needless to say, most of us didn't get very far.)
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
No national second language in the US. In the city where I live, public documents are also translated into Spanish, Vietnamese, Amharic, and sometimes Chinese.
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
To ten in French, German, and Spanish. (And English, of course.) To five in Cantonese and Japanese, though with a bad accent.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
Hm. Does overseas simply mean foreign, crossing a border? In which case, US to the Mexican border. Leaving the continent, US to the UK.
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
So many places I'd like to go! China is high on my list right now because I'm interested in the pace of urbanization there and the sheer scale of the new cities. Never been there before. Malaysia is always up there, too, because we visit friends there every five years or so, and our stay is always filled with wonderful food and conversation and local travel.
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Date: 2018-01-30 03:16 pm (UTC)I agree about Spanish. I wish I could speak it. It would be very useful in my job.
Yes to China. Dumplings ahoy! <3
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Date: 2018-01-31 01:22 am (UTC)The Cantonese and Japanese are both down to the better half actually. Many years ago, when she was teaching bilingual Cantonese kindergarten, I tried to learn a few words along with her students. (She had a mixed class, some Cantonese speakers, some not. It's her parents' language.) I have an impressive command of about ten very simple words in Cantonese. :) Such a difficult language. And the better half, mischievous as she is, always mocks me by imitating my terrible accent. I keep telling her, whatever you do, DON'T SAY IT THE WRONG WAY! I'll never learn.
And the Japanese--I bet you know the first few, too! The Issei, Nisei, Sansei, etc. have helped us out there.
Hurrah, dumplings! I'll take that culinary tour with you, A. M.
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Date: 2018-02-01 04:16 am (UTC)Spanish would be so useful. Also? Vietnamese. I have had several Vietnamese patients I would love to have been able to communicate with.
What a cool way to learn another language! <3
LOL, I know like 2 words in Japanese. Domo arigato and kunichiwa. Or is that 3? :P
I'm ready to go on an eating tour of the world whenever you are! ♥
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Date: 2018-02-04 03:38 am (UTC)I would hop on an eating tour in an instant. Not a formally organized one--I saw advertisements for those in Cambodia last summer, and they were ridiculously expensive and patronizing (in both directions) guided tours of food carts. Just a good group of friends with lots of food knowledge who want to spend all their travel time eating (and occasionally seeing some architecture).
Or: my real life, but on the road, in more interesting places, now that I think about it. Hee! So yes: when I win the lottery, I'll let you know you should start planning! M.
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Date: 2018-02-04 09:55 pm (UTC)