• Question: do you speak another language? If so, what language?

    Asked by anon-294522 on 20 May 2021. This question was also asked by anon-294539.
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      Jennifer Graham answered on 20 May 2021:


      Bonjour, Oui!
      I live in France, so I know some French. To be honest, my French is not as good as it should be so I go to class twice a week and even though I live here I don’t actually meet that many French people in my day to day life because of the pandemic so I don’t get much opportunity to practice. But now things are opening up hopefully that will all change.
      At school I didn’t do French, I took German instead and I was pretty good at it but wish I had taken French now!

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      Dhruti Devshi answered on 20 May 2021:


      My family are from Gujarat, India and I can speak Gujarati relatively well. I did learn French in school but it was one of the subjects I was not great at. I wish I knew the importance of learning at least one other European language for when you’re older as it makes things easier. Then, I would have tried a little harder at it

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      John Grasmeder answered on 20 May 2021: last edited 20 May 2021 7:24 am


      Ja, natürlich! Schðn guten Morgen! I lived in Germany for a number of years so I had to learn to do science and manage a laboratory team in German. That was 20 years ago but I still speak, read and write it! Einen schðnen Tag wünsche ich dir!

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      Jamil Jubrail answered on 20 May 2021:


      Oui bien sûr! I spent 4 years in Paris and picked up French very well!

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      Philip Drake answered on 20 May 2021:


      I lived in Taiwan for 12 years so speak a little Chinese (Mandarin)!

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      Emma Yhnell answered on 20 May 2021:


      I don’t really speak any other languages.
      I have tried but languages aren’t really my thing. I am trying to learn Welsh though.
      There is a region of the brain called Broca’s area which is associated with languages – maybe I need to work on this area!

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