Being able to speak and/or understand a couple of lingos could be helpful in TSHTF senerios. I speak and read spanish and portuguse and also Am. Sign Lang. ASL. That is very helpfull if anyone else can. Has helped me at various jobs I have held? Yeppers, just not any more $. Sheesh, being multi lingual aughta pay more huh? My wife and I were at a resturant (chineese) with my sis speaking spanish, the only one that understud us wooda been the cook. Thoughts? snowbyrd
When Colonel Klink rolls in wearing a blue helmet, I will play dumb.... It could be helpful when listening on the radios if we were ever in an "occupied" state of UN control after a collapse.
I have a video iPod set up with 100s of survival videos courtesy of Bear. I also included the complete Pimsleur set of Spanish. You can find language CDs at the library. I rip them. Good idea and I was thinking the same way. Spanish is more than likely the first we will need. At least learn how to say "The pretty girls carrying Ganga ran that way."
My wife teaches sign language. She has been teaching me and some of my friends signs that we can use to communicate silently. Her and my daughter communicate across the room. I can see where it would be a very useful skill to have.
survival spanish uno mas cervaza porfavor. donde esta el bano. comede, carne, papas o freholes. one more beer please where is the bathroom food, meat,potatos or beans what more do you need?
My daughter is a medical assistant and Phelobotomist for a group of doctors who are paying for her college level spanish classes. None of the 4 doctors in the practice speak the language and they are getting more and more spanish speaking patients
My spanish is rather broken, not that great and kindof rusty by have had enouph jobs where it was the language spoken by most or all of my co-workers that I have learned enouph that if they speak as much English as I do Spanish then we can generaly comunicate fairly well. I definatly know enouph to get slaped, something to drink and to tell someone off even if they only speak spanish. lol Then I also speak a VERY little bit of German, French, Latin, Lakota (almost exclusively woman speak since the males and females each have their own distinctive dialects but a few words/phrases of man speak as well), and Cherokee.