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I speak English and am quite fluent in a***hole

Some people have that as a job requirement - have you considered a teaching career?

I can speak two languages fluently and I can somewhat understand the romance languages (French/Portuguese/Italian) when spoken. I have no trouble reading and writing them. I also learned to recognize some words in Cyrillic and can write my name.

Ha ha no way. Kids today are so nasty to teachers they'd give me a breakdown in a week.

Not kids, mate, they could probably teach you a thing or two

Old farts like me who, even after working for 30 years in big corpo are barely articulate in a**hole

And now I'm ashamed

Thats not something you should be ashamed of, I think not being able to talk as*hole is an admirable quality - yeah it maybe seen as a weakness and you might get s**t for it but your generally a nicer person.

...Aaaviez-vous le chat ? Do you have the cat ?
That's , plus the concept of masculine and feminine phrases , all I took away .
(Spelling from memory/rushed out , so.)
I was conceived while my father was working for his American company's office in Quebec and they were living there !

...You've read it ? What languages is/was it in ?
Did you read it (first , anyway) in an academic/school situation ?



quote="kraftiekortie"]Unless you're a multilinguist, "Finnegan's Wake" would be incomprehensible.[/quote]

...What are your languages and in what order did you pick them up ?

...As I said , I would have to order a Welsh (likely a " more conventional " language - Spanish , French , German , hey) course by Amazon I'd think - and the amount of money it would cost aside I would have to have a card again to order it from , and I had my card stolen , remember , and I can hardly , really , spare the $ to buy and load a new one with all the other " need/could use/want "/etcetra things that my money situation ~ That I get my money in weekly , smaller , slices and that , with no account or card , i have no " practical " way to save money for anything " bigger ":-(.
In my situation (Oh , and I'd need an audio-carrier player to play such a thing) , how else would a learn the new language ?

Of course we have to be good in English - our languages are pretty regional (even French or German are not that common over the world) and English is more like the Earth language than national/regional language. We are taught it since we are very young kids and if someone is very interested in anything he will get specialist level of English language at least in that field (which improves his English overall too) because not everything is translated.
Even in order to play most games you have to know English. We need it - so we learn it.

You don't have to learn different languages unless you are interested in specific culture or regional stuff (for example otaku's will learn Japanesse because they want to understand anime and manga without subs/without waiting for translation and might want to visit Japan one day).

English is needed in pretty much every part of daily life in Europe. For example some imported food in shops has name/taste specified in English and only has a tiny Polish translation in the back. Knowing what "Onion and cheese", "Cookies", "Speaker", "Player" etc. mean makes shopping a lot faster.
Europe is pretty much like US with their states (as far I know every state has different laws and stuff, am I wrong?). The official "language of Europe" is English and we have "states"(our countries are small, US state size) with regional languages. In order to communicate with other "states" you need to either know English(which makes you able to communicate with any "state") or the language used in that "state"(which isn't so universal).

It wasn't like this a while ago so older people still have problems with English but every since Poland joined EU we are being educated in English more and more and even before that English was getting more and more important.
People my age still had a delayed start - I started learning English at school at age 12 or so (better than my parents though - they learned Russian and French, not Polish).
Now kids start to learn it at school when they are about 8 and there are even preschool lessons. There are also English educational toys. Actually I know a 2,5 year old boy that can name colors in English but not in Polish which drives his grandparents crazy.
Them: Co to za kolor? ("What color is that?")
He: Yellow. (correctly)
Them: Nie, nie yellow. Żółty. ("No, not yellow. <Polish name for yellow, hard to write but not that hard to say so it isn't the issue, he does so with other colors too anyway>.")
He: Yellow! Yellow! (throwing tantrum)

I know a bit of Spanish that I learned in school, but I am in no way fluent.

In the US, we have state law, and we have Federal law.

Each state has different laws--but, most of the time, they are quite similar to each other. There are pretty big differences in such things as gun ownership and the legality of marijuana (for "harder drugs," the laws are almost identical with each other). And in Criminal Law in general.

Federal law covers all of the United States.

I know some words in Russian and German only because they're easier to say than the English words. I have a Russian lady who helps take care of me and she will from time to time teach me some words to better communicate.

Yeah. In Europe we have similar thing, at least within EU(which isn't whole Europe, for example UK left EU recently - its funny since it was the only country in EU with national English language ).
Every country can have their own laws(for example for the marijuana thing) but there are some general laws that every country in EU must respect(for example open borders for EU citizens within EU) - or leave the EU if they disagree.

I am terrible with other languages. I can only speak English.