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
The problem with ladino is conversation. the crypto-jews of New Mexico speak it and are culturally replicas of how sephardim were before assimilated or exiled. A fascinating results of Iberian Jews who stayed pretended to assimilate into Catholicism but kept practicing covertly.

Feb 10, 2022 · 4:10 AM UTC
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