I am a woman of many, many languages. I love all kinds of music and I have to say that I love the sounds of my own language. I’ve tried to learn Spanish, but it has been a struggle. I have learned how to read and write Spanish and I’ve tried to learn some of the accent that is still stuck in my head.
I am always learning something new. I can’t tell you how many languages I have, but I can tell you that I have a lot of experience with a lot of languages, and I’ve made some good friends in a lot of different ones, too.
The language barrier is a real issue when it comes to learning a second language. I can remember when I first started learning Japanese, I had no idea what a word was when I first started. Now I have learned so many words, I can remember when I first started learning English. I think it can be a real challenge to learn a second language when you are used to speaking it. I think that’s why many people still don’t learn a second language.
I would agree with that. Learning a second language can be really easy if you have a good base of vocabulary, but if you dont have a good base of vocabulary, you might end up learning a lot more than you expected. I always keep a book of vocabulary phrases in a folder of every new language I learn.
Nowadays, I always have a dictionary handy in my language app. The other day, I decided to google my new favorite phrase. It was an expression that people in the language I spoke would use to ask each other what they were talking about. I was so happy I could finally say it, but it was a little difficult to remember the next time I saw someone I knew.
Like I said, my own vocabulary is so vast that it’s sometimes difficult to remember the next time I see someone I know. We are all bilingual in different ways (though our language of choice may be English) so it’s impossible for us to memorize all the idiomatic expressions we use to request information from each other. You probably use the same phrase to ask the same question.
This is where I started to get confused because I thought I heard my Spanish phrase. But I couldn’t be sure because I had never heard my Spanish phrase before.
I’m sorry, but for those of you who’re bilingual, you might not know your language of choice, or what that phrase means. But for those of you who have both a Spanish and English phrase memorized you’ll notice I still had a problem. I couldn’t figure out what I was hearing. And so I took to Google Translate to get another opinion.
Well, the obvious choice is to do what the Spanish-speaking world is doing and ask your Spanish-speaking friends to translate what youre hearing for you. I was having a little trouble with that because I couldnt find a Spanish phrase that made sense to me. The other possibility is to simply learn my language. So I decided to go one step further and look for the phrase in my native tongue.
So I searched for the phrase in my native tongue, and found an answer. It’s “por favor”, and my Spanish-speaking friends translated it as “please”.I decided to go with the first option because I wanted to make myself understood. Also, I wanted to make myself feel better because that was the direction I was headed.
