What languages do you speak?

[bunchanumbers]

cosmic_drift said:

bunchanumbers said:
English and Dakota. Well I'm nowhere near fluent anymore. I grew up speaking it but it was forgotten because no one else spoke it.

Interesting that you know how to speak an indigenous language; they're dying out quick though, sad to say.

Yeah during the Mission days they would take the kids and punish them if they spoke the indigenous tongue. Favorites were washing out the mouth with soap, beatings, and starving them until they finally proved willing to speak english. It was a direct attack on culture and it was pretty effective. We were pretty much beaten into submission after they took the children.