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I don't swing that way, so stop trying!

Anyways, not bilingual, but I speak enough of a few languages to get along, I can have a conversation in Korean, Spanish and some other languages are starting to come to me. For example, I can say "Are you a ladyboy?" "Do not want" and "can you bring me a beer, a chicken and some lubricant" in Thai!
 
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OCBucksFan;1956977; said:
I don't swing that way, so stop trying!

Anyways, not bilingual, but I speak enough of a few languages to get along, I can have a conversation in Korean, Spanish and some other languages are starting to come to me. For example, I can say "Are you a ladyboy?" "Do not want" and "can you bring me a beer, a chicken and some lubricant" in Thai!
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To be fair, I think that that counts for "fluent" in Thai.
 
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I'm OK at English and feel pretty comfortable with my Spanish. Although I did learn basic Spanish in high school the majority of my learnin' has come from immersion into the culture, the music, the people and media. I probably have more conversations in Spanish during the week than I do in English.
 
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I know about 50 words in Italian and Russian. I have had conversations in German but they were badly broken. I have had conversations in French, but again, very little actual knowledge of the language. I understand Spanish, and I can follow along with conversations I hear, but I cannot truly speak Spanish.

If I learned one other language just for fun it would be French. If I learned another language for utility it would be Spanish.
 
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I have gotten pretty good at UK English, I live in a former british commonwealth, so I say stuff like Mate, pub, loo, toilet, bin, rubbish, etc... there's a few others, but apparently, I have been told I speak shitty american :( On another note, I also really like rugby, so I am worried that when I return to the US for holiday next week they are going to revoke my passport.
 
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By the way, since I am dating an Argentinian with Spanish speaking friends, who lives in a Spanish speaking neighborhood to which I am moving, where I have to conduct everything in Spanish, it is interesting to me now. I only speak English and Spanish, and a little Castellano (or Argentinean Spanish).

I am probably at 2/3 English and 1/3 Spanish now. It is a little weird. Things get muddled very easily, for instance. I say the wrong thing in the wrong language at the wrong times. I also talk with my hands and with noises (like "ta da!") much more.

I couldn't imagine living overseas.
 
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kinch;1956994; said:
By the way, since I am dating an Argentinian with Spanish speaking friends, who lives in a Spanish speaking neighborhood to which I am moving, where I have to conduct everything in Spanish, it is interesting to me now. I only speak English and Spanish, and a little Castellano (or Argentinean Spanish).

I am probably at 2/3 English and 1/3 Spanish now. It is a little weird. Things get muddled very easily, for instance. I say the wrong thing in the wrong language at the wrong times. I also talk with my hands and with noises (like "ta da!") much more.

I couldn't imagine living overseas.
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I'm always aware with whom I'm speaking and which language they speak but I'll occasionally forget certain nouns, only being able to remember the name for something in the other language. It's only a brief brain fart though, after a few seconds it always comes to me.
 
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kinch;1956994; said:
By the way, since I am dating an Argentinian with Spanish speaking friends, who lives in a Spanish speaking neighborhood to which I am moving, where I have to conduct everything in Spanish, it is interesting to me now. I only speak English and Spanish, and a little Castellano (or Argentinean Spanish).

I am probably at 2/3 English and 1/3 Spanish now. It is a little weird. Things get muddled very easily, for instance. I say the wrong thing in the wrong language at the wrong times. I also talk with my hands and with noises (like "ta da!") much more.

I couldn't imagine living overseas.
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Living overseas actually isn't that bad, Korea was a little tough, but that's because I didn't actually understand the whole expat thing. Once I figured that out, I knew where to go to hang out with people who spoke english and made friends, I had a lot of Korean friends as well, but for the most part I hung out in pubs with other expats and got pissed drunk all the time.

Singapore is actually really easy, since they speak English here.
 
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