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Recently, at the Publix check out in Miami, the cashier was just chattering away at me in Spanish. I looked at her and said "Mam, I don't habla a word of that chit".
She was fairly subdued after that exchange. No, I'm not bilingual at all, and have no intentions of ever being so.

Lucky for most of us, make that some of us, in North America, English is the language of business.

I'll tip my cap to anyone swift enough to learn a second tongue. Even if it is a stark necessity.

English first. Spanish second...I hold my own with it.

I grew up in a Gulf, Carib, and Atlantic / Pacific tramp freighter environment,....DIDN"T have much choice about becoming reason ably fluent in Español.

Funny,....these days I read about how cool the diving or fishing is here and there,.....at these plastic resorts and scam operations.

Sorry you missed diving the coast of British Honduras, Costa Rica, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Hispañola, ....and others, well over 50 years ago, boys,....WHATEVER lingo you favor, or loathe.....cuz' it's now GONE, and ain't comin' back
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A mi me' gusta mas recordir esos tiempos, amigos.

GTC

We all speak more than you know......Hallelujah is the same in all languages THAT have the word in their language!....so now, you can say that you speak most languages in the world...sometimes the "H" is dropped.

I know enough German and French to communicate. Fluent? No, don't get enough practice.

fixed. Cerveza is a feminine noun, as in muchA serveza..

Muy importante, Señor!

Mi gusta cervesa. Tu? Nada!

Language police, GUSTA...

3... English, Spanish, and Cussin' in Cowboy.

I knew that. Typo in this case. However, that is close to maxing out my Spanish.

Same here Hatati

I used to be pretty fair with the Muskoegean Mobilian dialect. But ya don't use it, ya loose it.

Basic german as a survival skill with the inlaws. Mother in law is German, whole family is fluent. Father in law is a 25 year air force vet, spent many years stationed in Germany, My wife lived in Germany and Holland most of her childhood, they lived off base, went to German schools.

All my inlaws speak to each other is German, so understanding it is helpful :-)

1st Spanish, 2nd English (British and American). I could speak French in high school. I can read and make sense of portuguese if spoken slowly.

Me esposa es muy mucho enuohada.

I don't spell in Mexican too good!!!

English either!!

I always thought that bilingual had something to do with the location of a hernia.

Which is when?

When I was small, I thought that people who spoke something other than English must think in English, then translate it to another language in their heads before speaking. Likewise, when hearing, I assumed that they had to translate it into English before it made sense.

English and Redneck.