“I wouldn’t say I know one. I took two years of French in college, and it did no good.”
“No. I took a second language in school, but I don’t know one.”
“I know small phrases of Spanish.”
“I don’t speak a second language, but I took Spanish in high school, and I know poquito.”
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Comments
jane_doe 10 months, 1 week ago
I speak Russian when I've had lots of bourbon. Not sure how that works, I would have thought it would be vodka?
Mike Ford 10 months, 1 week ago
Choctaw, a bit of Cherokee, Lakota, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Munsee, and little bits of Biloxi.
CWGOKU 10 months, 1 week ago
Klingon and double talk
Andini 10 months, 1 week ago
No.
grammaddy 10 months, 1 week ago
Does sarcasm or profanity count?
Bill Lee 10 months, 2 weeks ago
I lived in Germany for five years when I was young, and I studied French in school, but I'm not fluent in either language. Years ago a friend and I tried to see how many languages we knew at least one word in. Our total was 64, but we cheated a little by counting food names.
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