DEFINITIVE LANGUAGE BARRIER POLL

[Bassi and Zainab 1]

I wanted to choose USC bilingual basic and SO bilingual Adv. But that wasn't an option. Oh well....

[Nessa 23]

Blue Bell Anniversary Cake it's my favorite lately

Flavorful almond ice cream with delicious white cake pieces and a swirl of rich amaretto cream cheese icing.

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bi-adv, both

[Ladylethal 12]

Luis speaks Spanish and English and can understand but not speak Portuguese. I speak Portuguese, English and now Spanish as well.

When we met we used to speak to each other in English until we got married. I didn't speak Spanish then and he didn't speak Portuguese.

[~krakatoa~ 27]

My husband and I communicate best in English, no problem at all but my husband (the USC) can derive what is being said in Filipino's Tagalog also. The only way he can't catch up with the Tagalog conversation is to totally omit his so-called "key words" which are in English. Some of my folks speak mixed English and Fil.

[Amby 490]

when neil & I first met he understood me and even though we're both from english speaking countries his accent is so strong I said huh or what to about every other sentence he said. we've been in the US together for almost a year now and my family can finally understand him but a few have said that they can understand him when he talks to them but if we're talking to each other he talks faster or doesn't try to slow down and then they can't understand him

adding on....my business partner can't understand him at all and he just laughs at everything neil says. it's so funny cos he has no clue what neil is talking about

Edited November 6, 2007 by Amber&Neil

[sarah and hicham 3]

no USC speaking SO language when they met?

I speak English and French. When we met, Hicham spoke Arabic and French. He now speaks English but we still speak in French- it's just easier and I dont' want to lose my French.

[✿Ice Rain✿ 0]

Hagen.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Do you speak English/SO language?

*We both speak each other's native languages. My husband's English is better than my German, but my German is OK. I just have a terrible accent.

Could you understand Each other when you met?

*Yeah, at that time, his English was far superior to my German. Though it was a learning curve for him because they don't teach Northern Midlands American English in their high schools. I remember though the first night we were together very drunk on the beach and he asked me how I spoke English all the time because it was harrrrddd. ROFLAMO!

Which ice cream do you prefer, Hagen Dasz or Ben & Jerrys?

*

You know, I have never had Ben and Jerry's.

[przy 0]

I'm fluent in English, German, French and Spanish and my husband is fluent in German and he has very basic English skills. He can understand English a lot better than he can reply back. He just needs to learn more vocabulary. I understand how difficult it can be learning a language though!

Edited June 2, 2008 by przy

[MIDUVIL 34]

I speak fluently french and an intermediate english.

My us husband talks english and studied french there are long years ago.

We communicate in english, but in his desire to learn french he mixes english, french and others latino-languages.

So i'm afraid to have one day a mixed false english

Edited June 10, 2008 by MIDUVIL

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1,1,1

[o0pink0o 3]

i am bilingual. i can speak our native language tagalog and i can speak english. hubby speaks english and a bit of german

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Haha, I like the answer 'kinda (we're both from English speaking countries)'

Alex and I can understand each other just fine. Neither of our accents are that thick. He only asks me to repeat myself when he wants to make fun of me.

And Ben & Jerry's! I don't know if it's just in the UK but their chocolate ice-cream has a higher cocoa content and is generally richer than even Haagan's Belgian Chocolate flavour. Plus their UK-exclusive flavour, Chocolate Therapy, is simply heavenly. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) it's also really hard to find.

Actually, I just checked their website and they no longer sell it.

[HighwayStar 0]

I am bilingual (Adv.), and besides Italian and English I also speak French, German, Finnish and some Spanish. My SO (the USC) only speaks English, though he's trying to learn Italian, and can sort of understand both the written and the spoken language.

As for the ice-cream... Ben and Jerry's ROCKS!!!! Though of course Haagen-Dasz is not half bad either.