I has a proud
Dec. 2nd, 2008 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzski(and also a forgetful, since I meant to post this last week)
I studied some French in jr high and high school, which has mostly prepared me to misunderstand Canadians and notice when the subtitles of foreign films are wrong.
I also sang classical music for many years, allowing me to sight-sing in languages I don't speak.
I know a fair number of latin root words and some "grocery-store Spanish" (meaning I can understand signs and labels in the grocery store because I've seen them written so often).
Last week I had a double handful of quarters at the laundromat and I dropped a couple of them while setting them on top of the washer. The woman at the next machine offered me her spare plastic grocery bag to put my change in, but I said "No, thank you".
It wasn't until I turned back to loading my machine that I realized that she had spoken in Spanish! With one recognizable word (dinero = money) and her gestures, I had actually understood her without thinking about it. Go me!
I studied some French in jr high and high school, which has mostly prepared me to misunderstand Canadians and notice when the subtitles of foreign films are wrong.
I also sang classical music for many years, allowing me to sight-sing in languages I don't speak.
I know a fair number of latin root words and some "grocery-store Spanish" (meaning I can understand signs and labels in the grocery store because I've seen them written so often).
Last week I had a double handful of quarters at the laundromat and I dropped a couple of them while setting them on top of the washer. The woman at the next machine offered me her spare plastic grocery bag to put my change in, but I said "No, thank you".
It wasn't until I turned back to loading my machine that I realized that she had spoken in Spanish! With one recognizable word (dinero = money) and her gestures, I had actually understood her without thinking about it. Go me!
