I'm an American

[resqgeek]

My language meme entry reminded me of a joke I heard a couple of weeks ago:

If someone who speaks two languages is bilingual,
and someone who speaks three languages is trilingual,
and someone who speaks more than three language is multi-lingual,
then what do yo call someone who only speaks one language?


They would be called "Americans." (Ouch! The truth hurts sometimes...)

Comments

[skyring.livejournal.com]

I wish I was better at languages. Sure, English may be a univrsal second language (and what an awful language to have to learn!), but it's just manners to at least make an attempt when visiting. I could feel my French getting better every time I spoke with a fair dinkum French person. But maybe that was my high school stuff coming back. Certainly my blog entries were becoming more and more Frenchified.

And standing on a strasse corner learning German from a delightful junge fraulein, well, that was a highlight.

[elhamisabel.livejournal.com]

hehe. Only problem is that the word Fräulein doesn't really exist anymore. Not officially and not with people below the age of 60. ;-)