What languages do you speak?

Eleven011 · Feb 27, 2017

I only speak English and know very basic spanish. I took two years of it in high school, but that was a lifetime ago. So no conversations, but I pick up enough words that I can usually tell what they are at least referencing. We only have a couple spanish families that go to my school, and the older kids speak english well and will help translate for the younger ones. We also have two staff members who speak it fluently and will make phone calls home for me if needed. I have been using duolingo to brush up on my spanish, but when you don't use it very much, its hard to really remember alot.

WineRN · Feb 27, 2017

Basic Spanish and ASL, but I feel like both are getting rusty since I haven't used them in years.

tamarae1 · Feb 27, 2017

Basic Spanish (Tex-Mex) with some medical lingo tossed in. I understand more than I can speak. In fact I sound very, how do I put it, southern white girl when I try to speak. :roflmao:

NanaPoo · Feb 27, 2017

I got a BA in Spanish before I went to nursing school. I was very fluent when I graduated back in '93. I used it a lot in some nursing jobs, depending on the location. Other nurses abused the heck out of me rather than calling for a translator so I began to hide the fact that I could fluently speak it because it would slow down my own patient care.

I'm definitely not as fluent these days. I use it mostly to help my daughter or other kids here at school with their homework :)

LikeTheDeadSea, MSN, RN · Feb 27, 2017

I specialize in special education (every student I've ever worked with has an IEP), so I know enough ASL to help an assessment to some extent. Once I'm done my MSN I plan to take some evening ASL classes at the local school for the hard of hearing.

OyWithThePoodles, RN · Feb 27, 2017

English and ASL, I used to interpret for church. (Try fingerspelling Hebrew words...)

I took two years of Spanish, but nothing retained. I wish it did, it would be most helpful.

ohiobobcat · Feb 28, 2017

I took 4 years of Spanish from 7-10th grade. I can pick up enough words to get the gist of a conversation. I can also read enough to get the gist of what is written. "Donde esta el bano?" "Mas cerveza por favor." "No me gusta lavar platos." Those are the only phrases I feel comfortable speaking.

I know a little bit of ASL. And I mean a little bit. I would love to be able to sign fluently, but I don't work with that population enough to expand on what little I already know.

We do not have a lot of native foreign language speakers in my school. We did have a refugee family from Tanzia who spoke Swahili. I learned a couple of phrases, and I think Swahili is a beautiful language. I was actually watching videos on how to conjugate verbs in Swahili. (I might have gotten a little carried away. :bag: )

Flare, ASN, BSN · Feb 28, 2017

I speak enough Spanish to get my point across when I am trying to communicate - however it's that dangerous amount that makes the listener think that I can understand them when they speak back to me very fast. I have a fairly wide vocab in ASL and was lucky enough to use it regularly with a student pretty recently - a very sweet, patient student who would indulge me :inlove: ...

I still do plug away with trying to learn more fluency with Spanish, as that's the greatest need around here. Duolingo app is awesome for that. I've even started trying to learn Gaelic from it. But that's just for personal enrichment

MHDNURSE · Feb 28, 2017

I got a BA in Spanish before I went to nursing school. I was very fluent when I graduated back in '93. I used it a lot in some nursing jobs, depending on the location. Other nurses abused the heck out of me rather than calling for a translator so I began to hide the fact that I could fluently speak it because it would slow down my own patient care.
I'm definitely not as fluent these days. I use it mostly to help my daughter or other kids here at school with their homework :)

Funny b/c when the teachers here found out I was fluent, they started emailing me documents to translate all the time. I was too nice to say no and it got really stressful and overwhelming for me. I finally stopped saying yes and this year I have yet to translate a single document. I taught them all how to use Google Translate :yes:

Amethya · Feb 28, 2017

English and Spanish. Small amount of French and Japanese, but not enough for conversation, yet.

JerseyTomatoMDCrab, BSN · Feb 28, 2017

Klingon.