“Lady! I only speak two langueges! English and bad english1” Bruce Willis, The Five Elements.
Truthfully I have had a little exposure to all of the Latin languages but can speak none of them.
Spanish is spoken more around me due to having some Nicaraguan roots as well. Most of the family fled Nicaragua and ended up here so I hear more Spanish than the Italian that ppl identify me with. My dad likes to speak it more to me now than when I was a kid and all the Italian in my family live in Chicago so I only really hear it from him and Mobster movies…
I have also been around French speakers so I can pidgen with that as well…
But I cannot have a real conversation in any of them.
Whats worse is that italian I do know is a slang version of it…
