What foreign languages does CAF know?

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I’ve been getting so absorbed in Biblical Greek lately I feel like I’m forgetting English! So, anyone on CAF speak another language than just English? Were you raised with it, or did you learn it?
 
Just Spanish, for now. I majored in it in college, which gave me a foundation. Then through work and meeting my husband, who is originally from Mexico, it grew to being pretty fluent. I speak a lot of Spanish at home with my husband and at work with my supervisor, that I think a lot of days I speak more Spanish than English.

Would love to move into other languages though, such as French or Italian.
 
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It is goodness gracious; I’m sure it’s easier for native Japanese speakers to learn Korean, for instance, but us Germanic and Romance speakers have nothing in common with Korean. I love linguistics, though, so it’s worth it.
 
I can only imagine.

Greek words are easy to memorize since a lot of English has Greek roots. The verbs are frustrating sometimes though, they don’t even follow their own rules all of the time!
 
Well, Czech is my native language, so that’s one 🙂 But Czech and English are really the only two languages I’d say I can actually speak. Apart from that, I have some disorganised knowledge of Spanish gained by slacking in the Spanish classes for 5 years in high school, some remnants of German I gained in primary school, moderate grasp of Ancient & Modern Greek and reading knowledge of Old Church Slavonic. I’m mainly working on Greek and Latin at the time.
 
German is another I would like to learn since much of my family’s ancestry is German.
 
To varying degrees, I can speak German, which is my second language, Portuguese, Italian, and French, in addition to my native English. I’m pretty much only fluent in English, although I can have short conversations in Portuguese and German, working on French.
 
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I thought I was fluent in English until the first time I visited the UK. 🤣

I can get along quite well in Spanish, and fairly well in Greek.

I recently started studying Esperanto.
 
French by family, Spanish by school & a little Italian by means of friends.
 
Come on now Adam, we know you speak Southern too! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
 
Spanish… I was raised on it. I want to learn Portuguese and Arabic though. My hairdresser is Brazilian and sometimes I can more or less make out what she’s saying since Portuguese is similar to Spanish. She’ll talk to me in Portuguese and I’ll answer in Spanish, but she speaks Spanish too just in case I don’t catch it all. Some of the customers in my last job were teaching me words in Arabic but that is definitely much harder to learn.
 
I really like Portuguese. People tend to underestimate its importance. I guess a lot of people either aren’t aware of or purposely ignore, that Brazil has the largest population of any Latin American country.
 
I know, I’ve not been there but it is definitely on my places to visit list. Well, actually I’m sure many would love to go lol.
 
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