Almost anyone can learn another language well enough to get by with people who have a sense of humor and a willingness to be helpful. But I’m with her: I’ve “learned” a tiny bit of Español, even less Deutsch, and a few words or phrases in another half-dozen languages. And any time I try to speak one of them, out comes a gawdawful mix of all those langages. It’s like I have a bin for “talking” and another for “foreign talking”.
Almost anyone can learn another language well enough to get by with people who have a sense of humor and a willingness to be helpful. But I’m with her: I’ve “learned” a tiny bit of Español, even less Deutsch, and a few words or phrases in another half-dozen languages. And any time I try to speak one of them, out comes a gawdawful mix of all those langages. It’s like I have a bin for “talking” and another for “foreign talking”.