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What we speak here at BFM (Part 2 of 2)
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm by Ishmael Vasquez |
(source: pardeshi)
Last week we started a post regarding all the different languages that are spoken here at BFM. Here is part 2 of the series. Once again BFMers were asked:
Do you speak a foreign language? If so, which one?
How long have you studied this language?
Have you visited the country where this language is from?
Alhan | Director of Marketing
My first language was Italian because I grew up there until I was around 4 years old, but then quickly forgot that when my family moved to Turkey, where I subsequently learned Turkish. We then moved to Wisconsin, where I improved my English (I had been speaking English with my mom the whole time in Turkey – without knowing). Then at age 15, when we moved to France, I went to public high school and naturally learned French as I needed to pass the French Baccalauréat.
The two languages that I really want to learn now are Arabic and Spanish. Chinese would be awesome, but oh-so time consuming.
Tatyana | Designer
English is my foreign language. Originally, I’m from Uzbekistan, so my native language is Russian and Uzbek. I studied English in school with a tutor and has greatly improved since I now live here.
Mary Elise | Creative Lead
I speak un poquito Spanish and Italian. I studied Spanish for 4 years and Italian for the past 1.5 years. At this point, I’ve only visited Spain and Italy through photographs of gothic Spanish cathedrals and Caravaggio paintings but it’s calling me — I’ll get there soon!
P.S. To practice, I order my takeout orders in Spanish and greet my friends in Italian.
Eddie | Designer
Before going to school Korean was the only language I knew. It was the only language spoken at home. After a few years of elementary school I lost most of my Korean. I went to Korea almost every summer when I was younger for about a month. I would learn some more Korean then come back to New York and forget what I learned. At age 21, I decided to go to Korea to study the language for 6 months. Upon returning my Korean was not perfect but passable. Now after many years of not speaking Korean the language skills have digressed quite a bit. I am literate but only on like a 1st or 2nd grade level.
Michael | Creative Lead
I can read Hebrew and have been to Israel. But I cannot understand it or speak it well. I am a beginner in Spanish, although I would really like to learn to become fluent.
Irina | Designer
English is my foreign language. Like Tatyana my native language is Russian. I studied Spanish a bit, but only remember a few words. I would be glad to go to Spain some day!
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