Do you speak a foreign language that shocks people ?

I'm Caucasian and speak fluent Spanish. Why not? I first learned it when I was 12, and in the past 47 years there was only a period of one year when I never heard the language spoken. Seems strange that I WOULDN'T be able to speak it. Yet, sure enough, every time I say something in Spanish I get asked something stupid. The best was when someone asked if I was adopted. I don't even speak to that person anymore.

 

That wouldn't suprise anyone in Texas.

I speak a bit of Khmer, and that one will understandably, throw people off.

 

Ich sprache Deustch.

Hablo Espanol tambien.

 

I took 3 years of Spanish in high school but can't remember a bit of it. A shame too, lots of hispanics have moved here in the last 3 decades...there are times it would have been helpful if I could have communicated with them better.

 

Latin

 

I took German in college but I never get it right. I was going to ask Haben Sie Deutsche gesprochen? but instead I asked Haben sie Deutsche gespracht. The first phrase is asking if you spoke German, the second phrase (what I was going to say) means nothing but gibberish.

 

I took French in college and probably could get by if I were a tourist in France. I want to learn Arabic, now.

 

Did you ever claim to be a jelly doughnut?

Ich bin ein Berliner - Wikipedia

 

people never expect me to be as fluent in ebonics as i am.

i took a bit of spanish in high school and college. i would never say i was fluent, but i was pretty good at it for a while there. but, i didn't encounter any spanish speakers for the next ten years so i've forgotten most of it. i can still get the general gist of most things written in spanish, but that's about the extent of it.

 

I mumble a lot...

 

No Spanish or Portuguese wouldn't shock anyone

But a friend of mine married a Chinese girl and their son speaks fluent Mandarin, it the strangest thing watching this 10 year old black kid speak Chinese


Kinda like………

 

that's funny to read about!

 

any language that was not forign would shock most people in the u.s. who think american english is native.

(unfortunately i don't know more then a word or two in any of the 574 of them)

cajwej mati?

 

Oui Oui

 

I'm French Canadian, did all my school in English. I had a Portugese girlfriend and it is very much like Spanish. Later on I learned some Romanian and I know a few words in Russian. Currently, I have a Chinese girlfriend and have been studying it with a great app for about 8 months!

 

Uau, casi igual, lo felicito! Comencé a los quince y tengo 45 años de hablarlo. A veces comienzo una conversa con un desconocido con "hablo un poco", "sé una palabra que otra", o "voy aprendiendo" y dentro de poco se quedan asombrado y me avisan que hablo lo más bien. Hablo de todo, cosas técnicas incluso. Trabajé como intérprete médico. Pero es verdad, reto aprender cosas nuevas continuamente.

Nunca me preguntaron si fuera adoptado. Pero si fuese, no me ofendería.
Saludos!

 

Narrow-minded ones. One of the persons in question was a Korean woman who clearly speaks English as a second language. I asked her if she would be shocked if she had met a Chinese person who spoke Korean. She was confused by the question. Oh well...

 

Thats good. Very good to know more than one language.

Just don't speak it to anyone that looks Spanish if not spoken to in Spanish first. I don't like to point out race, but black guy..think he may have been half white or just very light,started talking to my Hispanic father in Spanish.
My dad is fluent in English and uses English about 75% of the time. I was offended. End rant.

 

I speak a lot of common sense

Its hard to have a conversation in it lately though..its getting harder each year to find other people who speak it

 

What's your problem?