DP Daily Prompt: Take That Rosetta!
If you could wake up tomorrow and be fluent in any language you don’t currently speak which would it be?Why? What’s the first thing you do with your linguistic skills?
My preference would be French, I’d love to speak it fluently. My daughter and I take yearly trips to Montreal, it would be thrilling to be able to speak it with the locals.
It helps if one can speak the language of the locals, on the bus , at the store, in the restaurant, I wouldn’t have to say,”Can you please speak English, I do not understand your language?”
My ability to speak the language opens new doors for me, I can listen to songs, read stories, watch a movie. These are some of the things I miss the fun when I visit a place and am unable to speak the language of the native.
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French is a tough language (not to learn) to speak with the locals. I used to be fluent and french speakers looked down at me. I speak gutter Spanish and Ukrainian and both of those cultures welcome my feeble attempts.
Thank you Leslie, the French grammar is difficult, I did learn to read and understand, but
I was unable to speak. 🙂
Dear Ranu,
Thank you for this post which is about one of my favorites subjects: languages. I too would like to learn French, mainly because there are many ancient Islamic texts which are transllated into French, and as yet not into English.
I taught myself (with the help of a Pimsleur program) to speak Pashto. I have no one locally, however, with whom I can carry on a conversation 🙂
All good wishes,
robert
Good for you Robert, thank you for stopping by. 🙂
Pashto? And self-taught as well. That is a very unusual Robert. What made you want to learn it?
I would be happy if I could understand Urdu and also Punjabi. So much poetry and so many lyrics I read but something gets lost in translation.
Fortunately we have Ranu to help us with Bengali 🙂
Thank you Sonya.:)
Dear Sonya,
I have a special love for Afghanistan, her people, and the ancient Islamic culture which characterizes that area. I wish to go there soon. Perhaps I’ll be able to converse with Pashto.
All good wishes,
robert
Way to go Robert,we had a maid servant who spoke Pashto, we were young we asked her to teach the swear words and she did.Terrible isn’t it? 🙂
That is a wonderful wish you have, may it be fulfilled soon Ameen. Hope you will write about your travels and experiences.
Dear Sonya,
Thank you. 🙂
Dear Ranu,
What you share is funny :-). When I studied the Polish language for an entire year back in my youthful military days, we too found a certain amusement in the colorful words of the language we were studying :-).
All good wishes,
robert
I love learning languages, you know quite a few languages, good for you Robert.:)