Learned a lot french in school as a kid. I can't really speak it outside of maybe being able to get around a town with it, but my reading and comprehension is much better. I can listen to conversations in French and understand the general meaning, even if I don't get all the details, to the point where I can watch some movies in French.
Did a semester of Russian in high school, but only really learned how to curse bc my teacher passed around a "book of Russian swear words" expecting us not even to be able to read Cyrillic yet, but my friends and I took pictures of the pages and translated everything we could over the weekend. Got in trouble for that which killed my motivation to do well in that class, but to be fair I did call the teacher a "Мудак" to his face which is probably as close as I could get to posting PPB at him at the time.
Currently trying to learn mandarin (like 4 days into it, I know literally nothing), and I want to learn Spanish, Mi'kmaq, and Vietnamese. A lot of my co-workers are from the Philippines, so I'd like to learn some, but I haven't committed to sitting down and studying it. At my last job, there were two guys from India and one from Bangladesh, so I figured out a few words in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Bengali just from overhearing conversations and with context, and managed to surprise them with my pronunciation. I used to know how to say "behind" "sharp" and "heard" in Shona from working with a guy from Zimbabwe but I've long forgotten them.
Every time I meet someone who speaks another language I want to learn how to speak it, which means I tend to jump around with which language I'm "learning" but realistically I can't learn them all, so you see my dilemma
Learned a lot french in school as a kid. I can't really speak it outside of maybe being able to get around a town with it, but my reading and comprehension is much better. I can listen to conversations in French and understand the general meaning, even if I don't get all the details, to the point where I can watch some movies in French.
Did a semester of Russian in high school, but only really learned how to curse bc my teacher passed around a "book of Russian swear words" expecting us not even to be able to read Cyrillic yet, but my friends and I took pictures of the pages and translated everything we could over the weekend. Got in trouble for that which killed my motivation to do well in that class, but to be fair I did call the teacher a "Мудак" to his face which is probably as close as I could get to posting PPB at him at the time.
Currently trying to learn mandarin (like 4 days into it, I know literally nothing), and I want to learn Spanish, Mi'kmaq, and Vietnamese. A lot of my co-workers are from the Philippines, so I'd like to learn some, but I haven't committed to sitting down and studying it. At my last job, there were two guys from India and one from Bangladesh, so I figured out a few words in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Bengali just from overhearing conversations and with context, and managed to surprise them with my pronunciation. I used to know how to say "behind" "sharp" and "heard" in Shona from working with a guy from Zimbabwe but I've long forgotten them.
Every time I meet someone who speaks another language I want to learn how to speak it, which means I tend to jump around with which language I'm "learning" but realistically I can't learn them all, so you see my dilemma