To wonder why foreign langage chat threads don't really happen on MN?

[lazylinguist]

There must be tons of MNers who are bilingual/learning a language/want to brush up their rusty French or Spanish etc. Occasionally there's an attempt at starting a thread, but they always peter out really quickly.

I speak (and teach) French and German and would happily join in with threads in those languages (and help out anyone on the thread who was learning). But I'm also learning Spanish and would most of all love to be able to do MN chat in Spanish! I know there are FB groups etc for that sort of thing, but I'd much rather chat on a forum where I'm already comfortable and feel like I know the atmosphere/tone iyswim!

AIBU isn't really the best place for them. I thought there were specific forums within MN for this sort of thing (or I think there used to be?).

There was a Francais one that ran for les weeks et les weeks.

Ich wuerde gerne deutsch sprechen, aber denke ich habe viel vergessen!

Lockhart - I wasn't suggesting actually starting one on AIBU . I just wondered whether I was being unreasonable to wonder why having foreign chats on MN wasn't more popular - hence my asking on AIBU.

Was there, Dinosaur? Must have missed that!

Mais oui!

Kein Problem, gruntley! Ich vergesse oft Wörter auf Spanisch, aber ich will trotzdem sprechen!

Hola ,como estas?

No idea how right that is, but I'll give anything a go,even my rusty spanish.

There used to be loads of silly threads with Spanglish, Franglais and Italish stuff, but they peter out as it's a jokey thing that can only run for so long I suppose.
The Cunning Linguists threads were cool, but went tumbleweed. And Pedants' Corner was great until posters decided to use it for poking fun at other people's mistakes making their "teeth itch".

¡Hola! Estoy muy bien gracias, ¿y tu? Me gusta mucho el español.

J’apprends le français et j’adorerais parler avec autre Mumsnetters en français 😁

S’il vous plaît - dites moi de mon mistakes 😁

Níl a fhios agam.

Maybe because of autocorrect.

Me gusta tambien el Español, lo estudio por A-level.

Pero dovrei fare pratica di Italiano perché la mia grammatica é terribile e lo voglio insegnare a DS!

d'autres Mumsnetters
mes erreurs

Mercy - je vais commencer un fil sur 'Chat'!

Jag kan prata lite svenska om det finns någon som vill?

Tyvärr, jag kan inte tala något svenska!

Ik spreek een kleine beitje Nederland maar 'k ben heel slecht. Hallo iederen wie spreekt het ook, sorry tevoren!

Als, kan jullie vertellen mij waar ik ga fout, alsjeblieft!

А что, тут русских нет?

Habar n-am ce se intampla aici

I'm an MFL teacher so I also like chatting in my other languages. However, I find things set up specifically "to speak X language" a little awkward. What are we supposed to talk about?

I prefer lurking on forums from other countries and discovering the slag all the natives use!

The slang !
This is why we need an edit button

I would love a thread like this. J’ai besoin de pratiquer le français. It would make my mumsnetting feel more wholesome...

Surely there must be a policy that this board only uses English, since it would be impossible to moderate threads if you don't understand the language?

Aye any other MFL twcahers here

Yup, French and Spanish teacher here. Looking forward to doing European Day of Languages and a spelling bee for KS3 next week!