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Johns Hopkins’ attracts some of the most unique and diverse employees to its institution, so it’s no surprise that our employees speak many languages. Do you speak one language, or are you fluent in several? Cast Your Vote on today’s Hopkins Happenings and share in the comments section below the languages you are versed in.
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I speak English, Italian, Spanish, Ibo, and Efik /ibibio
I really only speak English, but I'm trying to learn Spanish (my church offers an opportunity to travel to Cuba each year as part of their mission focus and I've been able to travel there 3 times now - I hope to go again in the future to visit my dear friends there). And, thanks to my daughter who speaks 5 or 6 languages (I've lost count), I now can say "I don't know" in at least 4 languages (besides English)!
I was born in Peru, my mother was from Europe so we spoke German at home and I went to a German school, in 4th grade I started learning English. I know three languages Spanish, English and German.
I speak French and "kitchen" Greek!
I speak Hindi which is my National language, punjabi, urdu and english.
i speak 5 languages : franch is my first language ,my second is shahili many country speaks shahili ,lingala is the language from my country congo(drc)and the congo brazaville, kirundu that is the( Burundi country national language), and kinyarwanda( RWANDA country national language), and english .
I speak Bosnian,Serbian,Croatian,German and English!
I grew up bilingual here in the U.S. speaking English and Arabic. In high school and college I learned Spanish... not fluent, but intermediate, and it has come in very handy in my work here at JHH!
i speaks english and farsi
I speak English and Spanish. I also speak some French.
English speaking, and grew up in the signing deaf community. Working on improving my ASL.
I speak Burmese, English, Chinese (Hakkanese, Cantonese, Mandarin)
John,
That's amazing you speak so many languages.Are the three Chinese languages a part of your house hold languages and can you read and write in all of these languages as well?
Thank you. Merci. شكرًا. Tanmirt