An International Family Of Languages

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Welcome To My World

Languages are Communication for the Soul

 

Since I was very young, I always wanted to learn how to speak foreign languages. I can remember as far back as my parents taking me to restaurants and we would sit at a table and the people in the next booth or table would be talking in a language that I could never understand.

 

As growing up people always thought that when someone around you would speak in their native tongue that person or people was talking ill about you. This made me curious to the fact that if or when that person and I would connect by looking at each other they would either nod, smile, or say hello so I didn't find negativity in not knowing what someone was saying around me.

 

As I grew older and started working I landed my first job at an downtown health insurance company. This massive building had several floors and great views as the elevator climbed to its highest level. Every morning I would go to the little restaurant downstairs and would purchase my coffee then proceed to the elevator.

 

Once I would get on the elevator and press for the floor I was getting off I would always meet a group of Asian  men. Okay we all know these stories all to well about how you are the only one inside the elevator and people are speaking in their native tongue, well its not just in the movies this happens in real life and to me. Once again fascination gets me and they smile or say hello and I exit.

 

Later in life I finally went to a hospital based school to become and Radiology Technician aka X-ray tech. This was another reasurrance that I needed to learn another language. People come into hospitals from all walks of life and needing the proper medical attention so they have to be understood. I found it difficult to have to sometimes wait for an interpreter to assist you with a patient.

 

The lack of available interpreters could leave a patient waiting for a long time and sometimes we would use a telephone to dial a company of interpreters and to me that was a pain. Most jobs would make sure you had some sort of certification even if it was your native language to be able to help people.

 

The nail in the coffin came when I finally decided to get married. I met a man who's mom introduced me to because at the time I was trying to save women's lives as a Mammographer. She explained to me that if I didn't hurt her (and women who get this procedure done know what I'm talking about) that she would hook me up with her son that just got back to America after being in Germany for over 20 years. The rest is history of course, now married for 13 years with a man that speaks fluent German so I had to finally learn and have fun talking to him in a foreign tongue.

 

As my title says international national family well here it goes. My small family consist of multiple ethnic backgrounds. This is all or mostly due to moving to the Caribbean. Let's start with myself learning German thanks to my husband and his boys also speak fluent Spanish from Spain thanks to their mother and her heritage. Then came the locals that live in the Virgin Islands of the United States of America. 

 

With all the different backgrounds of people that migrated to these islands or born here, I was more intrigued and fascinated about learning languages such as French Creole, Spanish , and Dutch just to name a few. So lets just say I was determined to know what was being said at the dinner tables and gatherings that we shared. Then in 2015 my husband and I along with my daughter moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands to start our retirement as Digital Nomads and to travel the Caribbean that we fell in love with.

 

I was unaware how many dialects and languages were on these islands so I felt the need to learn multiple foreign languages just to navigate through my life and learning how to communicate, learn customs, and to sharpen my memory with using rhythm and sounds with certain accents. This will be an absolute joy for me and the locals will love that you are trying to adjust to their cultures and languages.

 

This is why I created Rhythm Languages to be able to help people feel comfortable and not ashamed that they can't understand what someone is saying to them. It also lowers the frustration and tempers that seem to show up when people feel like their language is better than someone else's.

 

"Each one Teach one" is the motto I now go by and it has helped me gain respect, gratitude, and thankfulness that I don't have to become frustrated when I don't know what someone is saying to me or think that someone is saying something negative just because I don't understand what they are talking about. With this website you can learn and appreciate the expansion of your mind through learning languages from all over this beautiful world.

 

 

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