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lil  ·  4165 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What languages do you speak?

I can speak English.

It took a while, but I can speak baseball almost fluently.

I used to speak academia, but I've lost it.

I have lots and lots of French and might have been fluentish once. Now I can only answer NYT's crossword puzzle questions like "hot days in Nice" and so on. Was stuck in a traffic jam driving into Paris a few years ago. The only words from the French radio traffic report that I could understand was "escargot" and I figured he was talking about the pace of traffic, not dinner.

I can read menus pretty well in French restaurants.

Two years of university Spanish and all I remember is "A donde es la bibliotecha?" - which did come in handy when I visited Bilbao.

I can read Hebrew and understand lots of what I read.

I am sad that I will likely be unilingual, and forever be French kissing in a tongue now forgotten (to paraphrase humanodon's poem.