this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
20 points (95.5% liked)

Ask The World

962 readers
1 users here now

A general community for asking and answering questions about other countries and cultures.

Please state which country you're answering for when you answer a post.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
20
What language do you wish you could speak (and/or read)? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I wish I could speak Finnish. But, actually, there are tons of languages I wish I could speak. All of them, really, but Finnish is the first one I thought of just now.

I'm in the US and English is my my primary language. I studied Russian but have forgotten a lot of it. I know a few words of German and French, but very few.

Edited to add: Please tell me what your primary language is. It would also be interesting to know what other languages you speak, if any, and where you currently live.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My family's language, Gujarati. I'm a third gen immigrant (UK/US) and for Reasons, I didn't get taught the language as a kid. It's not one of those languages you find on Duolingo or at the community college or anything either. It's a real bummer not being able to connect with your elders.

In the meanwhile, I studied Chinese in college and Spanish in high school, both in the US. I know (or knew, at one point) just enough to get myself around while traveling.