Asked number of languages I speak as a linguist. We are required only one, native. Polyglots are the naturals, and they can be rare and fascinating to watch as I saw with Richard Ishida at W3C amazing, and Charo (who knew?) blew my mind live. Seen any or are you one? Tell, tell!
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I am one. I speak English, French, Russian, Spanish, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Polish, Manx Gaelic. I want to learn several more.
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Amazing! Does it come naturally, with ease? Not for me. English and Spanish fluency, Ladino w/o speech as who speaks it? Lots of spoken Yiddish. I can read and write Hebrew with or without vowels. Lost meaning with time. Reading comprehension mostly w germanic/latin rooted langs.
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For me, yes it does come pretty easily. My wife and I watch a lot of overseas programming and after a while, I stop using the translation at the bottom of the screen. I would love to learn Ladino. I studied Yiddish, but never could practise
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Replying to @trdunsworth
You can always practice Yiddish with me but I mostly use it four jokes cursing exclamations blessings and the like not conversation. My grandmother would read the newspapers every day. She only had a sixth-grade education. if you know Spanish ladino will be easy for you.

Feb 10, 2022 · 4:05 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I'll take you up on the Yiddish y el Ladino. I'm honored you'd share. As for English accents, I tease a friend of mine I can sound more English than he does. I used to help Ren Faire actors with dialect. It's not that difficult really.
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I have to laugh at that regarding the accents I made a quip to a friend recently that English actors can do Americans so well but Americans really suck at playing English characters. So funny.
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