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[Luvsun]

Can you speak a foreign language? If so, how fluent are you??
If you don't speak a foreign language, would you like to?

[DebiDebiDebi]

I wish that I did, but, no, I do not.

[MayraLR]

I'd love to learn French and Italian.

[Ashli]

No. I took German for 5 yrs in hs/college though, so I was able to read signs and get around the few times I've been there. I'm just usually too insecure to try to speak it. I would like to take classes again and become fluent.

[Teresa]

I am barely passable in French and know enough Italian and German to get around, asking where the toilet is and ordering food.
My 2 youngest are fluent in both French and Spanish (with English as their first language).
I wish I were more fluent. Right now, Burmese would be the best language to know! We have a ton of Burmese patients, followed by Punjabi and then Hispanic.

[chezp]

I have qualifications in French, German, Italian and Spanish, but sadly I'm not particularly fluent in any of them, just because I don't use them often enough. I also learnt a smattering of Japanese when we visited the country five years ago.

[JackieB]

I speak great sarcasm. But seriously...I don't speak any other languages. At times I think it would be fun to learn.

[KMB733]

I know a little French and Spanish. I took Spanish in HS, so I can read it, but since I don't speak it every day, I would never try to converse with someone. It would be pretty embarrassing. I also know a few words in Russian after studying Russian History in college.

[MayraLR]

I must add that I do speak Spanish but I don't consider it to be a foreign language, as it's our main language here in Puerto Rico.

[Tabitha34]

This is not a foreign language but I know a handful (no pun intended ) of signs in sign language. We have all been learning as a family to help our daughter communicate. She learns it very slowly so we all are learning it slowly. I took 2 years of spanish in high school but really know very little. My DS is learning latin in school. He is in his second year of Latin and he loves it. I'm learning a little as he learns. He also knows a little bit of Japanese but very little.

[clio]

I took Spanish in high school and college. I can read signs but I can't speak it well.
Liz

[B.M.]

I took French in High School, but I didn't retain any of it....

I would love, love, love to speak Spanish and Sign Language fluently....

I am very, very seriously considering spending a summer in Mexico to help with the Spanish... We have plans over the next three summers.... but I am attentively planning to spend about a month in Mexico summer of 2018....

[Danidurph]

I do not, wish I at least spoke spanish, we see many spanish only speaking patients and I know they don't always understand despite attempts to communicate. I would also love to learn sign language. We have a boy on our football team who is deaf and its great watching the other boys making sure he knows whats going on

[JoanneS]

I studied French in grade school and high school. I can read it and understand a lot, but I don't speak it very well. In college I took a year of Italian, but all I remember is, "I like spaghetti." My mothers family spoke Portuguese so I know some salty phrases that my uncle taught me and a few words. I wish I could speak Spanish.

[joelsmom]

I know a few words here and there in Spanish, but I don't really speak it. Just English, really.