I speak fluent restuarant... ( I can decipher a menu and order in French, Portuguese, Brazilian, Spanish, Mexican, Italian, Japanese and probably a few others)
If a person talks slowly, and doesnt use slang, I can understand French and Spanish (6 years of Latin helped that a lot) As for speaking French, I make the mistake of thinking in English and translating to French - which makes me slow - and also causes me to screw up verbage a lot. (I was in a store in Brussels, talking to a woman in the store, in French, and mistakenly said my brother was a big dog, rather than he had a big dog)
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