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i woke up thinking and speaking in Hebrew (to myself and G-d), as per usual, this is the first language i use every morning...
walked downstairs and spoke English with hubby, while he got ready for school... kissed him and swapped i-love-yous.... then spent the day listening to (and dutifully "conversing" with) the Pimsleur "Icelandic" CD playing on my computer, while i sewed one of my embroidery samplers...
spent about 2 hrs. in the sewing and thinking/speaking Icelandic, but i took breaks (hitting the pause button!) and writing/reading English posts that used random Latin/Greek words (while talking to or about school)....
hubby came home from work, and i shut off the Icelandic CD... was back in full-English mode while we talked about our days (although i did point to myself and say: "ég er Bandarísk" and pointed at him and said "þú er Bandarískur!" ;)
have been mostly in English-mode for the rest of the day, except when i posted foto-compliments in a Greenland-group at Facebook (in Danish), and have been reading a botany book i have (written in German)...
so the tally is:
1 - Hebrew
2 - English
3 - Iceandic
4 & 5 - Greek, Latin
6 - Danish
7 - German
so i worked with / used 7 languages today, but as far as weird this is completely normal of most of the people i interact with, from other countries, EXCEPT for Americans... i wouldn't be surprised if this is very common to other English speaking countries... the only way that English speakers do work with other languages seems to be related to their being educated (giving them more use for Greek/Latin) and/or have contacts with a great amount of their communities (i.e. a New Yorker who does a lot of shopping in a local China Town, or an Australian who has Aborigine words in their English-dialect, etc.)
i bet that this has a lot to do with English being such a lingua-franca ... native speakers of English have much less peer pressure to learn other languages.....
such a waste.
shalom! - Ulla/e. & co.
walked downstairs and spoke English with hubby, while he got ready for school... kissed him and swapped i-love-yous.... then spent the day listening to (and dutifully "conversing" with) the Pimsleur "Icelandic" CD playing on my computer, while i sewed one of my embroidery samplers...
spent about 2 hrs. in the sewing and thinking/speaking Icelandic, but i took breaks (hitting the pause button!) and writing/reading English posts that used random Latin/Greek words (while talking to or about school)....
hubby came home from work, and i shut off the Icelandic CD... was back in full-English mode while we talked about our days (although i did point to myself and say: "ég er Bandarísk" and pointed at him and said "þú er Bandarískur!" ;)
have been mostly in English-mode for the rest of the day, except when i posted foto-compliments in a Greenland-group at Facebook (in Danish), and have been reading a botany book i have (written in German)...
so the tally is:
1 - Hebrew
2 - English
3 - Iceandic
4 & 5 - Greek, Latin
6 - Danish
7 - German
so i worked with / used 7 languages today, but as far as weird this is completely normal of most of the people i interact with, from other countries, EXCEPT for Americans... i wouldn't be surprised if this is very common to other English speaking countries... the only way that English speakers do work with other languages seems to be related to their being educated (giving them more use for Greek/Latin) and/or have contacts with a great amount of their communities (i.e. a New Yorker who does a lot of shopping in a local China Town, or an Australian who has Aborigine words in their English-dialect, etc.)
i bet that this has a lot to do with English being such a lingua-franca ... native speakers of English have much less peer pressure to learn other languages.....
such a waste.
shalom! - Ulla/e. & co.
