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Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 12:50 Member (2003) Spanish to English + ...
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Aug 20, 2017
Outside the US, I have only actually lived in Mexico. I spoke Spanish except at home, where I spoke Portuguese with my husband. Found myself forgetting English.
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I lived in Belgium for 30 years (1986-2016), besides French (language I used everyday), German and Flemish are also national official languages. I do regret not having the time to learn at least one of them...
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Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 20:50 Russian to English + ...
In memoriam
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Aug 20, 2017
I lived in Sweden for about six months in 1973. I found my knowledge of German enabled me to get the gist of newspaper articles. I learned very little Swedish. I could never understand anything said to me in Swedish, though I could make myself understood using the few words I knew. Fortunately most Swedes speak English. I spent over two years in Hong Kong in the early fifties, but that was in the RAF, so in an English-speaking community. I can count from one to ten in Chinese, but know har... See more
I lived in Sweden for about six months in 1973. I found my knowledge of German enabled me to get the gist of newspaper articles. I learned very little Swedish. I could never understand anything said to me in Swedish, though I could make myself understood using the few words I knew. Fortunately most Swedes speak English. I spent over two years in Hong Kong in the early fifties, but that was in the RAF, so in an English-speaking community. I can count from one to ten in Chinese, but know hardly anything apart from that. But for over-persistent beggars and people trying to sell something, I learned a rude way of telling them to go away in Chinese. ▲ Collapse
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Mario Chavez (X) Local time: 15:50 English to Spanish + ...
Portugal
Aug 20, 2017
I spent 3 months in Aveiro (2016) and 3 months in Lisbon (2017) to attend first and second semester classes for my PhD program. I can speak fluent basic Portuguese now... and I hope not to lose it.
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Yetta Jensen Bogarde Denmark Local time: 21:50 Member (2012) English to Danish + ...
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Aug 20, 2017
I lived for 2 years in Germany and speak quite good German. I also lived for 11 years in France and speak French, but not perfectly, (we spoke English at home and I was an English teacher).
I rarely use German or French professionally, but they are nice to know and sometimes come in handy.
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