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How many here are currently trying to learn another language? I've been reading German almost on a daily basis so I've re-acquired most of those skills that I lost after I graduated from college but my spoken German has lagged behind. Watching movies and shows in German definitely helps but needless to say, I don't get to practice my spoken German very much where I live. 
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An auf hinter in neben uber unter vor und zwichen. Als bei mit nach von zu.  It is still there. Not currently learning though. Have been thinking of refreshing my french. Could be useful. We did english, german and french in school. I did some training in Paris in the 90`s and could discuss soccer with a taxi driver during the world championships. That was fun. 
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When I started Engineering College, one Foreign Language was Required. I picked German because I respected the intellect of German Engineers. I thought I might learn something reading their work. Two weeks into it, I determined my memory was garbage. If I kept studying the German language it would cost me too much time and hurt my grades. So, I quit -- hoping the "requirement" would go away. Thankfully, it did (for me). By the time I graduated, learning a computer language "counted" as a foreign language. I learned FORTRAN in school -- and a few more after graduation before I was done.
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I took a German course 20+ years ago.... I can now count to 5 in German.... that's about all I remember.
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I took a few years of French in junior high and high school, and French was spoken as much as English in the town I grew up in. I remember very, very little of it, and it sure would come in handy where I am now. Several times I’ve had to go fix a broken-down truck in areas with no cell service and the driver was from Québec and didn’t speak English. They’ll start speaking it machine-gun fast, I’ll put up a hand and say “je ne parlai pas le français depuis mille neuf cent quatre-vingt trois” (I haven’t spoken French since 1983) and get a funny look and a laugh. But our pickups all have 2-way radios and my boss is Québécois so I just put the driver on with him and get the translation.
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I took a few years of French in junior high and high school, and French was spoken as much as English in the town I grew up in. I remember very, very little of it, and it sure would come in handy where I am now. Several times I’ve had to go fix a broken-down truck in areas with no cell service and the driver was from Québec and didn’t speak English. They’ll start speaking it machine-gun fast, I’ll put up a hand and say “je ne parlai pas le français depuis mille neuf cent quatre-vingt trois” (I haven’t spoken French since 1983) and get a funny look and a laugh. But our pickups all have 2-way radios and my boss is Québécois so I just put the driver on with him and get the translation. In Switzerland of Maine maybe german would be convenient?
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I think French-speaking places get very nervous when they have German-speaking neighbors!
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"The abbot says we should be grateful to you for a number of things. He said it was thanks to you that we rediscovered the whole moral universe that we had been in danger of forgetting—courage, sacrifice, faith . . .” — From a forgotten Man-Kzin Wars book
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I think French-speaking places get very nervous when they have German-speaking neighbors! The irony there is that the French have lost a lot more territory to English speakers than to German speakers during their history!
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How many here are currently trying to learn another language? I've been reading German almost on a daily basis so I've re-acquired most of those skills that I lost after I graduated from college but my spoken German has lagged behind. Watching movies and shows in German definitely helps but needless to say, I don't get to practice my spoken German very much where I live. I'm learning Portuguese and Greek. I've also just started (like a couple of months ago or so) to start reading Arabic. I tried to learn some Arabic in the past but it's brutal. However what made me give it up was speaking to an arab dude (in English lol) and finding out that a lot of the stuff I learned was simply wrong.
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“je ne parlai pas le français depuis mille neuf cent quatre-vingt trois” I think it's actually "Je n'ai pas parlé francais..." but either way the point got across! I am speaking/studying French, Spanish, Polish, and Tagalog in that order on a fairly regular basis. I hear Polish everyday. So if I pay attention enough I can understand if I'm being talked about hahaha! v6, boNes
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Yeah, the 1st person of “avoir” should have probably been in there. I think “parlai” translates as “did speak” and not “spoke/spoken”, if Monsieur had heard me make that mistake I’d have been conjugating every tense of 10 “-er” verbs 5X each as part of my homework that night LOL
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