All the time!
Todos los dias?
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Well … a lot, anyway, especially when it comes to food!
Romani ite domum.
Figure that one out!
No more Italian restaurants then? No way!!
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Actually, a very funny scene from The Life of Brian (though I realise that not many people on here like Monty Python films).
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This one. 
It is funny .
Yes.
Another very funny scene was the one where the senator with a lisp was trying to ask the plebs which of the convicts should be spared crucifixion (with No More Nails - er, no, sorry I’m confusing something else here).
Monty Python’s Life of Brian - I shall release Brian - YouTube
My husband’s Mum was German but she never taught the children any German and my husband says he regrets this.
I go to a Nail and foot salon and the owners are Vietnamese. I had my feet done yesterday and as it is school holiday time their little boy was there. He is 5 and a real livewire and spoke very good English. The Dad speaks no English at all and the Mum just a little bit. She managed to tell me the boy spoke Mandarin until he was 3, then picked up English at Nursery and now at school. He just slipped in and out of the two languages while I was there. very impressed.
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It’s always easier if the mother speaks to her children in her native language that why it’s called the mother tongue . What a pity your husbands mother didn’t do so . My husbands mother was Italian and she didn’t either .
For most of us…Well me anyway, if I didn’t learn to speak another language (or learn to play the piano) while I was young, it would be a waste of time now. I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast!. I can, however, recite my times table, and remember all the thread pitches and angles I cut on a lathe.
Oh! And the Lords Prayer…
I know exactly what you mean. I’m afraid that I annoy Marge sometimes (unwittingly) in that I can’t remember some things from a few years ago that are perfectly clear in her memory.
I think I can remember the Lord’s Prayer and, I think, at least bits of the Creed. Strange, because I don’t believe a word of it all now.
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learning a new skill keeps dementia at bay the mind needs excercise as well as the body .
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I can remember The Lord’s Prayer but none of The Creed. When I was learning it, no matter how hard I tried, The Creed never stuck in my brain.
I seem to remember there were (are) two or more. One is quite a simple affair; the other is much more wordy. I seem to remember that when saying the simple one, when you got to the words “and in Jesus Christ…” you had to make the sign of the cross. I though it was only Catlicks who did that!
If you guys were Catholic you would remember .
Nothing like a bit of indoctrination before you are seven .
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You’re absolutely right. Brainwashed!
The year before the pandemic hit I joined a Beginners Spanish group with the U3A. I studied Spanish at school but that was a long time ago and we had a dreadful teacher so none of us learned much. We go to Spain quite a bit and I recognise words and understand a fair bit of what people say.
Amazingly I remembered a few bits and pieces and quite enjoyed the classes at the beginning but when we got into the grammar side of things I struggled but so did most others. Then along came covid and everything stopped. I still have the book and some CDs so I may try again on my own.
Coming on here and finding your way around should do it!
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