2 posts tagged “foreign language”

Do you speak another language? If not, which language do you wish you spoke fluently?

seems like i've answered this question before, or one similar to it.  yup, here's the post.

anyway, i speak korean, though not fluently.  i've been making more of an effort to speak it around my mom or her friends so i can learn more of the language.  at some point i'd like to know enough where i can have longer conversations with our family in korea instead of the usual, "hi, how are you?  your voice sounds the same...oh, i'm doing well...no i'm not married...no i don't have kids....no i'm not dating...i miss you, too.  i love you."  all spoken in korean of course.  if i were fluent in the language, i'd have more control over the conversation topics.

How many languages can you speak?  Which languages can you read or understand?

I speak, read and understand English by default :)  Around my mom and her friends, I occasionally speak Korean but not fluently.  I understand it more than I can actually speak it but never learned to read or write it.  It's funny when I'm out at a Korean restaurant and respond to the server in Korean--people around us stare and get weirded out like "crap, was she listening in?"  Oh, and I studied Latin for years but it'll take me hours to translate a line or two of text =\