HearPeers Heroes Mary Beth Posted February 3, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Cara and Ivana, I am envious of your multi-lingual skills. In am fluent in English and American Sign Language. My heritage is Italian so that is my next venture. I have Rosetta Stone. Fingers crossed. I can read pretty much Spanish and have novels in Spanish to practice, but my listening skills are not good in Spanish. Now that I can hear again, and have access to the full range of phonemes, I have great hope that I can expand my language skills. It is a great weakness in the US educational system that we do not teach multiple languages to children while their brains are ripe for language learning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Mary Beth Posted February 3, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Ivana , Thanks for the translation! That campaign sounds amazing! Such a unified support of CIs for children. Croatia should be proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted February 3, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Cara and Ivana, I am envious of your multi-lingual skills. In am fluent in English and American Sign Language. My heritage is Italian so that is my next venture. I have Rosetta Stone. Fingers crossed. I can read pretty much Spanish and have novels in Spanish to practice, but my listening skills are not good in Spanish. Now that I can hear again, and have access to the full range of phonemes, I have great hope that I can expand my language skills. It is a great weakness in the US educational system that we do not teach multiple languages to children while their brains are ripe for language learning. A tip for you Mary Beth - Spanish is not similar at all to Croatian, but Croatian housewives actually learnt Spanish through numerous soap-operas on TV. Similarly, while I was a kid - we used to watch American and British movies and learnt English in the school for foreign languages. For a start, just try to listen - Italian is not complicated at all. Just: Practice, Patience & Perseverance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted February 3, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Ivana , Thanks for the translation! That campaign sounds amazing! Such a unified support of CIs for children. Croatia should be proud. Croatian people are very proud at that campaign because it was first of that kind. This year we will have great anniversary - 20 years of cochlear implantation. It will be held in Split. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Mary Beth Posted February 3, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Split! That's the town that we visited! It's wonderful to celebrate such an event. I will start watching Spanish soap operas on TV and see if my Spanish skills improve. Smile. My household is really going to start worrying about me. Smile. Italian doesn't seem too complicated. It's all that conjugating of verbs! Funny story - a few years back I met a gentleman from Montreal at an event. He saw my last name and began speaking to me in Italian. I understood him (since it is similar to Spanish) and responded in Spanish (since I do not know Italian). We continued to have this very unusual conversation. He spoke in Italian. I spoke in Spanish. It was cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted February 3, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Yes - beautiful city... It`s same group of languages - like Cara and I understand each other: Russian - Croatian. When I was in college we went to celebrate New Year in Barcelona - a host was a Spanish lady who didn`t speak any language except Spanish. Well, we said... My friend knew Italian, I spoke English and we bought the Spanish-English dictionary. My friend understood what lady talked but then we looked into dictionary and I have translated everything to English and finally - at Croatian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Mary Beth Posted February 3, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 I love it! It's like that old whisper down the line game! One kids starts by whispering a message to the next kid. Then the next kids whispers the same message to the following kid. Etc. then at the end you see if the message stayed intact or changed! Like language dominoes. Sure hope your messages stayed intact! Smile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Kara of Canada Posted February 3, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Broken telephone we called it!! Well that's really our life now!! Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted February 4, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 I love it! It's like that old whisper down the line game! One kids starts by whispering a message to the next kid. Then the next kids whispers the same message to the following kid. Etc. then at the end you see if the message stayed intact or changed! Like language dominoes. Sure hope your messages stayed intact! Smile. Broken telephone we called it!! Well that's really our life now!! Lol Yes! :D - it's my game of childhood which I didn't like because I couldn't hear the word but I liked the concept.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Kara of Canada Posted February 4, 2016 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 Me either. I was always "the broken" one. The concept was fun though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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