Which languages do you speak and how did that impact your life?
I speak the language of love. Que? Si. Parlo la lingua dell’amore. Well, I have studied Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and can understand a bit, but can’t speak any of them with assurance I will be understood. Evidently I put the accent on the wrong syllable. You have to be there to understand my difficulties.
It is embarrassing that people around the globe can speak English but we can’t even speak it properly.
It impacted my life in broadening my world view. I studied Indonesian before a trip to Bali. It’s gone now.
Latin in high school really helped with the Romance languages. It’s still easy to see the similarities, but pronouncing those words is a different story. I keep trying! But they probably speak Latin in heaven, so I got that covered.
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