What do you speak at home?

[clickerish]

The post on proposals (and the one about the funny phrasing in English got me to thinking?

So, what languages do you speak at home? Does it depend?

[centralperk]

We speak English, with the occasional Swedish word or phrase thrown in there.

[dulcemariamar]

95% of the time Spanish.

[allibally]

We speak English. Any German is usually started by me trying to say a sentence and holding a conversation.

[GilliC]

At home I speak English and pidgin English to the cats (you know, stuff like "Who's da schweetest widdle kitty ever?!"

DBF and I speak English with a few romantic phrase of Portuguese mixed in. Especially for those great things that English doesn't have the right words for like cafuné, and saudade.

[vela]

german with a lot of english and on ocassion italian

[elenetxu]

99% Spanish unless we're in the States with my parents.

[clickerish]

Hm, should answer my own poll. We speak 95% Spanish, and I am the full 5% who speaks English sometimes when really annoyed or sick.

[crimsonandclover]

99% German, although I'm trying to make an effort to speak more English with him while we're here in the States. He's complaining that his English isn't getting as good as he'd hoped because we're still speaking German with each other while we're here. And since DD I've been speaking more English since that's what I speak with her.

[travelingturtle]

We speak English.

[popcorn]

Almost exclusively English, a bit more Spanish now that we've moved, and the odd word of German since we're trying to learn.

I'm hoping to speak more Spanish with him now that we aren't in Spain because I am scared of losing my fluency. :/

I speak only English to Kernel and DH speaks only Spanish to her.

[blushing]

70% English, 25% Gibberish aka James' made up language/words and 5% Afrikaans.

[clogged]

Mostly English- it's the one language we are all fluent in so it's the default language. He speaks Dutch to the kids, I speak English to them.

[expatjen]

English. With some Indian Tamil or Kannada mixed in.

[Deleted]

100% Italian.

[trotamundos]

A pretty pure mix of Spanglish... when he's on holiday from university we use more Spanish

[potatopie]

oh I'm so glad you asked this....I need to ask you ladies a favor soon. I'm doing my Masters dissertation on bilingual couples. I'm going to need a few volunteers at some point. no time soon, though, I'm a procrastinator .

[statlerwaldorf]

Mostly English. DH sometimes speaks German when he's messing around, but I can't speak any German. DH is originally from Germany.

Edit: Somehow I ended up on this board. Oops.

[frlcb]

According to my dh I speak American and he speaks English

[Shreddingbetty]

Pretty much English 95% of the time. I'm trying to get back into French and speak French to DD a fair amount. I am a bad Dutch person and not really putting much effort into teaching DD Dutch. We do listen to some Dutch kids music though and she can now sing "zo gaat de molen"... It's very cute. She knows a lot more French though. My sister was just here for a week so now she also says "Doei" and "dus.....". She already knew "drop" (dutch black licorice) and loves it and kept asking her auntie for drop and got a lot of that over the past week!

Teaching DD Dutch here in the US is a bit tough. I have been here so long that my Dutch isn't great (lots of translating directly from English to Dutch) and there are pretty much no resources here, not even online. I also don't know any other Dutch people here (no luck on any Dutch stuff on meetup.com in the state). And I must admit I don't find it a pretty language (sorry fellow Dutchies) and pretty much everyone there speaks English (including my family).

[ktkl09]

85% english

[ktkl09]

Sorry, 85% english, 15% french. I am usually tired of speaking French by the end of the day.

[Cheesecake]

About 90 percent Dutch and 5 percent English and 5 percent Italian - or something like that. As soon as we have a child we hope to change this (or I hope) to 33/33/33 I guess (wanting to raise our children tri-lingual.)

[clogged]

May 28, 2012 14:46:10 GMT -5 Shreddingbetty said:

And I must admit I don't find it a pretty language (sorry fellow Dutchies).

ZOMGWTF!?!?!?

HOW CAN YOU NOT FIND HACKING UP HAIRBALLS EVERY OTHER SYLLABLE NOT PRETTY!?!?

;D

[bugabean]

DH and I speak English to each other. I speak English to the girls. DH speaks Danish to the girls. Bean speaks Danglish and Bug speaks Buggish.

[Cheesecake]

May 28, 2012 14:46:10 GMT -5 Shreddingbetty said:

Pretty much English 95% of the time. I'm trying to get back into French and speak French to DD a fair amount. I am a bad Dutch person and not really putting much effort into teaching DD Dutch. We do listen to some Dutch kids music though and she can now sing "zo gaat de molen"... It's very cute. She knows a lot more French though. My sister was just here for a week so now she also says "Doei" and "dus.....". She already knew "drop" (dutch black licorice) and loves it and kept asking her auntie for drop and got a lot of that over the past week!

Teaching DD Dutch here in the US is a bit tough. I have been here so long that my Dutch isn't great (lots of translating directly from English to Dutch) and there are pretty much no resources here, not even online. I also don't know any other Dutch people here (no luck on any Dutch stuff on meetup.com in the state). And I must admit I don't find it a pretty language (sorry fellow Dutchies) and pretty much everyone there speaks English (including my family).

I think you're pretty far away from the Denver metro area right? I know there's actually a Dutch school (after school, it's all o-fishul and extra credits and stuff though) close to Boulder. Also the Netherlands-American Society of the Rockies is pretty darn active (I've been to a bunch of events when I visit my parents. It's always fun. They have bitterballen at the new years reception and they do a rijsttafel potluck and celebrate Queen's Day and drink Oranjebitter (yuck) and watch soccer together at the cheeky monk. Stuff like that. Half the people there speak Dutch okay to fluent, the other half suck at Dutch or don't even speak it at all.
If at all doable, you should check it out. It truly is a fun group!

I know they've had events in Parker, Boulder, Denver and Arvada ('cause that's where I've been).

Sorry to hijack post - just figured I'd get this out there :-)

[fernane]

May 28, 2012 13:35:06 GMT -5 frlcb said:

According to my dh I speak American and he speaks English

:Y: we have a good British friend here and we joke about this with each other all the time!

[dutchgirl678]

95% English. I am trying to speak Dutch to the kids but the oldest is almost 4 and goes to daycare where they speak English (we're in the US) so it's sometimes hard for me to maintain. I do read her Dutch books and try to sing Dutch songs whenever I can and we Skype with my parents once a week who speak Dutch to them.

[Shreddingbetty]

May 28, 2012 15:54:34 GMT -5 clogged said:

May 28, 2012 14:46:10 GMT -5 Shreddingbetty said:

And I must admit I don't find it a pretty language (sorry fellow Dutchies).

ZOMGWTF!?!?!?

HOW CAN YOU NOT FIND HACKING UP HAIRBALLS EVERY OTHER SYLLABLE NOT PRETTY!?!?

;D

:Y: and I am a "Brabo" (that's what my sister's BF calls us) so not quite as many hair balls

[Shreddingbetty]

May 28, 2012 17:43:23 GMT -5 Cheesecake said:

May 28, 2012 14:46:10 GMT -5 Shreddingbetty said:

Pretty much English 95% of the time. I'm trying to get back into French and speak French to DD a fair amount. I am a bad Dutch person and not really putting much effort into teaching DD Dutch. We do listen to some Dutch kids music though and she can now sing "zo gaat de molen"... It's very cute. She knows a lot more French though. My sister was just here for a week so now she also says "Doei" and "dus.....". She already knew "drop" (dutch black licorice) and loves it and kept asking her auntie for drop and got a lot of that over the past week!

Teaching DD Dutch here in the US is a bit tough. I have been here so long that my Dutch isn't great (lots of translating directly from English to Dutch) and there are pretty much no resources here, not even online. I also don't know any other Dutch people here (no luck on any Dutch stuff on meetup.com in the state). And I must admit I don't find it a pretty language (sorry fellow Dutchies) and pretty much everyone there speaks English (including my family).

I think you're pretty far away from the Denver metro area right? I know there's actually a Dutch school (after school, it's all o-fishul and extra credits and stuff though) close to Boulder. Also the Netherlands-American Society of the Rockies is pretty darn active (I've been to a bunch of events when I visit my parents. It's always fun. They have bitterballen at the new years reception and they do a rijsttafel potluck and celebrate Queen's Day and drink Oranjebitter (yuck) and watch soccer together at the cheeky monk. Stuff like that. Half the people there speak Dutch okay to fluent, the other half suck at Dutch or don't even speak it at all.
If at all doable, you should check it out. It truly is a fun group!

I know they've had events in Parker, Boulder, Denver and Arvada ('cause that's where I've been).

Sorry to hijack post - just figured I'd get this out there :-)

Yeah, I actually know about the Dutch school but I believe it is in Louisville and I'm in Pueblo....I don't mind driving to Denver (like Parker) but getting through Denver to get up North is a bit much. Up North there is apparently quite a Dutch contingent. When I went to the pilot program in Denver to get DD's passport this past November there were quite a few people and most of them from North Denver.

I will check out the NASR. Just looked at their website and there isn't too much going on the next few months but I will keep it in mind!

For now we will stick with Dutch songs and Nijntje books so she will at least get some exposure.