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Well, I have conversational skill of 3 languages (Swedish, English, German). I can read French, but I cannot speak it (because I cannot hear it). I read and hear Norwegian, because it is similar to Swedish. I can read Danish but I cannot hear it. I learnt some Russian many years ago. I met...

How can that be spam? What do you mean?

I admit that I am partly shy. Or I was. I am rather introvert now. Think of it this way. A hearing person has a large social network and meets many people. An HOH/deaf person has a small social network and does not meet many people. Larger network = fewer matches. Correction: smaller network...

What computer languages?

Welcome Katie. We all hope that you will enjoy yourself here at this forum. It is a great place to be. And good luck with your project.

I have been to both the UK and America. I speak some blend of various English accents. I do not have any particular 'deaf accent' that I am aware. People tell me that I speak perfectly normal irrespective of language (English, Swedish). I do have a slight Swedish accent when speaking German...

I come from Sweden. We could test me. :wave: It would be interesting to perform some kind of blind test for detecting accents and dialects. I think that HOH peopl are more sensitive to particular patterns than hearing people. For example, instead of focusing on frequencies, perhaps HOH people...

Thx! I thrive here.

You are very much welcome to this forum. I hope that you will enjoy it.

America is across the ocean, but I hear various American dialects on TV occasionally. My list of hard-to-hear languages is Danish, French, Dutch and possibly Swiss-German.

Yes, people should do what feels right for them to do. Now I understand why it merits the definition of language. I do not know SL in any language but I have learnt many foreign languages (3) in school, so I know what that involves. I have come across the concept of deaf culture in the...

My tinnitus is very mild and does not cause any discomfort. I have had it all my life. As a child, I sometimes experienced periods of annoyingly high levels of tinnitus and bad hearing. It came and went away repeatedly. It still happens to me, but not very frequently, once every 2-5 years...

I have no personal experience from what you have experienced, but it feels hard to read what you have been going through. I have been to two weddings in my life. At the first one, a friend was getting married. I knew some people there and at the post-wedding party dinner, I was sitting...

Yes, I admit it. Hearing aids are not bad, but they have limited usefulness. For some people, they are invaluable, and to others, not particularly useful. It sounded odd to me first that you mentioned the word 'bilingual'. Are you saying that SL is a language? You are right in a cultural...

I would like to mention the 'hearability' of languages (I do not think that there is a single word to describe it). American English is the best thing that I know of. Americans speak clearly, they make pauses between words, they have a nice rhythm, etc. Before anyone says a word, it is not a...

Hello Dave!!! Nice to meet you too. I am HOH but no epilepsy yet for me. Instead, fate gave me diabetes. I have constant tinnitus but it is not bothering me. It used to be worse as a child, but progressively it faded. Today, I abstain from any kind of activity that raises my stress above a...

I come from Sweden. There, TV channels put text on all foreign speech except for children's programs. Take a look here: Subtitle (captioning) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hello Kim!!! :P Welcome to this forum for the deaf and HOH. :wave: I am new too and committed the mistake by assuming that all deaf and HOH are striving for hearing by getting hearing aids and cochlear implants. That was a big mistake. Some people prefer sign language (SL) and not bothered...

Me too. I have never had a relationship, in part because of work and in part (both now and before working) because of 'not understanding' the importance of communication (50% hearing in one ear only, my world is just silence, and that is normal to me).

I remember reading the parody of Conan in Mad Magazine. It was called "Conehead the Barbiturate". Conehead is self-explanatory. Barbiturate is probably to do with the slow character of the film.